Saturday Night Live

lol totally wrong thread, what the hell is wrong with me today

Okay, so Drunk Uncle killed it last night. And the opening sketch with Fox & Friends/Mitt Romney videos was outstanding. Moynihan as Kilmeade is always great.

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okay this is great so far

Yeah Moynihan ruled Thursday night's show.

can we drop an anvil on Mumford and Sons

although I bet they paid their horn players without getting shamed into it by the internet

Carey Mulligan-Mumford baked them cupcakes!

oh damn this Ann Romney impression is amazing

Yes great turn from McKinnon

omg The Finer Things

okay this Evelyn skit is the type of thing you watch going "WTF is this" and then 4 days later you are calling your friends and singing "we present this to yoooooooooooooooou" and laughing your ass off

wow strong episode imo

also kinda hilarious listening to seth myers on the bs report and then so much of the episode almost pandering to simmons' suggestions

bless you, children of the Internet

http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferson/every-gif-of-joseph-gordon-levitt-doing-magic-mik

he is one buff li'l twink.

And it fits in with SNL, cuz no jokes.

Just FYI, Morbs, because I know you haven't tuned in for a while, but this thread is about a different SNL than the Cosell show that you're familiar with.

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Kate McKinnon is the new Julia Sweeney, right?

jay is miles better than armisen

so, this thursday night thing.

i kinda like these things. needs more biden tho.

"girl from a party" = great

yeah that was fantastic

is SNL airing somewhere on thursdays? I've bene out the last few.

they've been airing live 30-minute "thursday election specials" in one of the sitcom timeslots, mostly update desk w/ a political sketch here and there. did the same thing in '08.

ah, I remember the 08 ones. Nice! I'll seek them out and catch up.

love girl from a party

what was it?

"seth. seth. close your eyes. ok, now open them. ok, do you get it?"

can i use the n-word real quick?

excellent use of purse prop too

"I'm going to give you this website. I met this guy the other day, and it was like, my brain, exploded. I have to go to Croatia."

kind of a spin on armisen's topical comedian character

can i use the n-word real quick?

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haha yesss

Given that it was just a week and change away with no announcement, I suspected that they were having trouble pinning down a host for the post-Daniel Craig episode. Bruno Mars pulling double duty would seem to confirm my suspicions.

yeah BM as host is worrying, i'm sure HE thinks he's funny but who knows

glad Christina Applegate is finally hosting again, which she hasn't done since way back in the Married With Children days

Oh, I didn't see that bit. Totally okay with Applegate.

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AV Club looks back at '85-'86 season. And holy shit, I don't remember this sketch at all:

this season’s Christmas episode opens with Wayans and Vance performing the “Wrapper Rap,” a Christmas wrap-themed rap song that’s maybe the most racist thing ever, and that includes Jim Crow laws, the political careers of Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, and the founding of the Ku Klux Klan. I suspect that if the heads of the American Nazi Party were to watch the sketch, even they’d say, “Jeez, we would never insult the dignity of human beings that way.”

We are more than due for another weird failure of a season like that one. I'd say the cast changes have been so gradual, there hasn't been an awkward season like that since the mid-90s.

Well yeah, you only wind up with a season like that when an entire cast gets sacked and a new one comes in. 1980. 1985. 1995.

Speaking of 1995, I never knew about this:

The season was also home to the Rage Against the Machine incident. On April 13, 1996, the band was the musical guest, and was scheduled to perform two songs. The show was hosted that night by ex-Republican presidential candidate and billionaire Steve Forbes. According to RATM guitarist Tom Morello, "RATM wanted to stand in sharp juxtaposition to a billionaire telling jokes and promoting his flat tax by making our own statement."[2] To this end, the band hung two upside-down American flags from their amplifiers. Seconds before they took the stage to perform "Bulls on Parade", SNL and NBC sent stagehands in to pull the flags down.[3] Following the removal of the flags during the first performance, the band was approached by SNL and NBC officials and ordered to immediately leave the building. Upon hearing this, bassist Tim Commerford reportedly stormed Forbes' dressing room, throwing shreds from one of the torn down flags. Morello noted that members of the Saturday Night Live cast and crew, whom he declined to name, "expressed solidarity with our actions, and a sense of shame that their show had censored the performance."[2]

i remember that episode, i think i taped it

So, wait. Is there really a clip somewhere out there of Steve Forbes saying, "Ladies and Gentlemen, Rage Against the Machine!"

Drunk Uncle was particularly good. "You are not a genius. You are in a t-shirt."

is michaels more ruthless about getting rid of & replacing people one by one now than in the past? jenny slate, paul brittan, the 'bitch please' woman. dunno how it was in the past.

I'm still sore about Michaela Watkins getting released. (Casey Wilson too, but that turned out alright thanks to Happy Endings.)

I don't feel like he ever had any qualms about getting rid of featured players. Main cast is another story.

xp Fever OTM. Watkins was great, had so much potential. Genuinely surprised that she was let go, considering who they held onto that year.

And when whole casts were replaced, it was because there was a new producer. So the only years with 100% turnover were the Doumanian season, and when Lorne replaced Ebersol.