Saturday Night Live

lol i think of "tear n kill em" every time i see killam

Same. Probably aided by the fact that dude is so totally thug.

Armisen Hammer

Moynihandgrenade

btw jadakiss's first name is actually jason for real

hahaha

So Abby Elliott's network show officially didn't get picked up? I guess I haven't been following closely. She'll be back on SNL for sure. She's starting to win me over with things like her Zooey character, Fur Coat Rhonda and the girl hosting that "What Is This?" gameshow on Eli Manning's episode.

Nasim, Taran, Bobby, Vanessa and Bill will all be plenty capable of carrying the show's weight on their shoulders while newer hires find their footing. Kenan and Fred are sort of like scenery at this point...still funny, but they've given all they can give. Jay Pharaoh and Kate McKinnon are question marks going forward.

i dunno AE did recently break up with another cast member who's definitely not leaving. would rather she stay and FA leave, though.

lol i think of "tear n kill em" every time i see killam

his kid with cobie smulders is named Shaolin...or rather, Shaelyn. but still.

Watching HIMYM recently, I realized that I would reeeeeally like to see Taran and Cobie do a project together.

they did, its called parenthood

Oh, weird, I thought that was Nate Fisher and Lorelai Gilmore on that show.

i dunno if sudekis was upset or not at not getting a sendoff since it wasn't official or anything (it'd look bad to get a goodbye and then show up again, like you couldn't make it outside of snl), but i haven't seen anyone look so completely devastated as he did since irene got married on real world s2 and left the show and jon was totally crushed. it just looked like he was going to miss his buddy and couldn't deal with it enough for the singing and dancing. i could be wrong; just my impression.

also, sudekis is/was often the best part of skits where he was just a secondary character reacting to whatever foolishness was going on, like fist fight in the parking lot, lord wyndemere, that jim carrey channeler who was just doing impressions of famous people, what's up with that?, and so on. like, jimmy fallon levels of enthusiasm for just being there and getting to do this thing, but without the need to interrupt the proceedings to let everyone know about it. he just seems more comfortable always standing at the back of the stage during closings, not so much an up-front mugging type of guy.

Yeah, he'll hopefully go down in SNL history as an A+ utility guy. AFAIC, he's just a few shades shy of Phil Hartman inasmuch as he's someone with the juice to be a star but the humility to fit effortlessly into an ensemble. Which is why I give him the benefit of the doubt re: his supposedly throwing a hissy fit over Wiig's send-off.

i suspect it was something else that will be chronicled in some bitter SNL writer's memoir... you do have to wonder what wiig said to him during their hug though

but i haven't seen anyone look so completely devastated as he did since irene got married on real world s2 and left the show and jon was totally crushed.

lol

there are some reports that he may still be back in the fall, although who knows really: http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-05-22/news/31816786_1_jason-sudeikis-kristen-wiig-snl

Wait, so now Sudeikis is dating Olivia Wilde? He's like SNL's in-house MVP, where the P stands for playa.

They've been dating for a minute now. Who else has he dated besides January Jones since his divorce?

really? Sudeikis? these SNL playas always surprise me

This is a new development. I don't remember Adam Sandler or Kevin Nealon or Joe Piscopo jumping around from starlet to starlet.

i think sudeikis might have gotten some heartthrob status from playing the only liz lemon boyfriend who wasn't a crazy dummy

Floyd ended up being the worst, though.

Nah, there's no logic to it. Remember David Spade?

Oh yeah, sometimes I forget David Spade was even on SNL. But he sure did get around (for some reason).

I just realized that if Seth comes back next year, he'll be the longest running update host in history!

I couldn't even imagine who on this cast could replace him. Though I would wager they're grooming Mulaney for the job.

Seth on WU is consistently funny and rly overlooked imo
still can't resist norm, but who has been better?

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From what I understand, they've been bouncing that possibility around for a while. Might help ease the theoretical transition if he started making appearances again.

kill this fucking show

Seth on WU is consistently funny and rly overlooked imo
still can't resist norm, but who has been better?
--he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison)

Seth is great, but Norm really is the gold standard, and i doubt anyone here would disagree

oh I don't, I'm saying norm is best but besides him, who's been better than Seth?

fey & fallon were about as good as seth imo

seth is good tho

i don't think his contract is up tho

http://s22.theawl.com/sid/up/2012/05/Season37Chart.jpg

Dennis Miller was a good Update chair imo. He can eat shit now, but I found him really funny at the time.

What? How is Fred Armisen not 50% of that pie?

eh, never cottoned to Seth as a WE host. something about his face.

The only actively terrible Update anchor I can think of is Colin Quinn. He wasn't in the most enviable position, though.

Nealon wasn't much to speak of, either. I didn't remember until looking at wikipedia that he held the chair for three years.

I remember Nealon being OK, but I know that's the childhood nostalgia

I'm very surprised Booby Moynihan was on the show this year more than Bayer or Pedrad. I barely remember him doing anything.

The difference between 5.13% and 7.56% is probably about three or four sketches.

btw, did anyone else see Hader's appearance on Jimmy Fallon last Friday night? When he walked out, The Roots played "Trouble" by Lindsey Buckingham.

where is Jon Hamm in that breakdown

lol, he probably does have a registrable percentage.

I thought Kate McKinnon did a pretty great job being thrown right into it all. Her skit as the Swedish Chelsea Handler a few weeks back was pretty funny.

kill this fucking show
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 May 2012 05:52 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

For some reason I really crack up thinking of Morbius eagerly staring at his computer, desperately re-clicking on this thread to see if anybody bit at his troll bait.

well nobody did until you went for it, now we'll all be sorry

I was maybe being a bit facetious w/ Joan Cusack but srsly I thought Billy Madison was a lot bigger than $26m at the box office!

that's still quite a good number for the early '90s

Both Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore were HUGE on home video.