Saturday Night Live

DC's hottest new club is K Street's FNKK. It's got everything: Chandra Levy dancers, a dwarf dressed as a flat tax proposal, gary hart selling pubic wigs in the men's room...

xxp

sry 2 custos

haha

feel like stefon bits have to be the most fun to write for

stefon works behind the desk in front of an audience doing that particular schtick over and over -- can't see it retaining that in any context

i didn't love the macgruber movie but there was a certain kind of sense about them totally bucking the sketch formula w/ that movie

loved macgruber with the force of 1000 gales

but its success was def from not being like the sketch (how could it have been)

i just want hader to have a leading role in something, he's too funny not to

yeah i dunno -- i love him but he's such a 'character' guy, it might be my lack of imagination but i feel like he'll only ever star in something high concept w/ him playing something wacky, or playing it straight in supporting roles like in super bad/sarah marshall etc.

Hader's first starring role.

Someone watch that clip and tell me if it's actually funny or Tim & Eric "funny" please.

i think that soul train thing was like the perfect little gel cap of everything i hate about the show, j0rd4n. the fact that it was sort of clumsily put together, and it was fucking COMEDY SONG PARODIES. i guess i could forgive that but the material just felt sort of hackneyed, and it felt like there was no particular investment in the premise or whatever.

soul train disco comedy song parodies. fuck.

i think stefon is really funny.

yeah, that soul train thing was bad.

Season premiere: Alec Baldwin/Radiohead. FYI.

Also, Lorne sez all cast members are returning.

what an improbable victory for the paul brittain preservation society

I actually wasn't sure at first if the comment extended to "featured players," but it seems like that's how people are treating it.

Brittain is the nephew of actor Bob Newhart, who hosted Saturday Night Live in its fifth (1979–1980) and 20th (1994–1995) seasons, making Brittain the second SNL cast member to be the nephew of a celebrity who hosted SNL more than once (after Jason Sudeikis, whose uncle is semi-frequent 1990s host George Wendt).

I just found out about the Sudeikis/Wendt thing last week on WTF, and now I read the Newhart thing. Weirdness.

Also, seems like a greater funny disparity between Brittain and Newhart than with Sudeikis and Wendt.

well i love Wendt but Newhart obviously has bigger comedy shoes to fill

I dunno man, "pussy cancer" ftw

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/broadway-video-enterprises-and-ben-jerrys-unveil-new-saturday-night-live-inspired-ice-cream-2011-09-07

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zomg that looks amazing

gtfo

would eat

ate tonight. would recommend.

;_;

ate tonight. would recommend.

― Gukbe, Thursday, September 8, 2011 12:06 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a punless post is not really in the spirit of the ice cream tbh

season premiere tonight! excited

Kinda feels like an extension of last season with a long break in the middle. NO new cast at all to look out for peels away a little bit of the anticipation.

Pretty sure someone at Jezebel is already typing out a screed on the "Red Flag" commercial bit.

I think I only listened to The King of Limbs twice and barely remember any of it...which song did Radiohead just play? Because that was great.

First one was "Lotus Flower," right? Sounded better than the album version.

Second one was Staircase (not on the album).

the tony bennett thing was a-mazing

Yeah! This was a pretty good episode. Red Flag!

Kinda feels like an extension of last season with a long break in the middle. NO new cast at all to look out for peels away a little bit of the anticipation.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, September 24, 2011 11:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

although i welcome new blood, it's not like new cast members ever really do much in their first episodes, they usually take a while to get some shine. so imo season premieres of SNL are usually more about "aww i miss (whoever left/got fired over the summer)" than anything else, which there was none of this year.

They could've at least bumped Vanessa Bayer and Taran Killam up to regular status, but I guess that won't happen until Wiig and Sudeikis leave.

kinda laughed @ the last 'dying wish' foxhole sketch but this ep was p dire

"The cast remained the same as in Season 36, although Nasim Pedrad was promoted from featured player to repertory player.[3]"

Well, that was long overdue (even though I didn't realize it when the opening was happening).

I thought it was a pretty funny episode! xpost

man, alec as tony bennett slayed me

this episode is hilarious front to back

the only dud was the buffalo/costa rica sketch

loved the susan lucci one

who's on top was like the first funny game show they've done in 3 years

top gun screen tests had me rolling

i liked the buffalo/costa rica sketch, but i get a real kick out of really bad puppetry

I guffawed at wiig getting swallowed up by the giant snake

who's on top was ok, my favorite recent game show sketch was what's my name
i laughed a lot watching this episode but looking over the sketches now, i think i must have been pretty drunk.

"The Comments Section" is a great premise for a sketch. Hope it comes back.

It was great.

First guy..meme guy..there are lots of fun options for that sketch!

Not having seen Bridesmaids (yet), this is my first real exposure to Melissa McCarthy as a no fear-style comedian. Great imo!