http://lawyer4musicians.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/jon-bovi.jpg
this always makes me laugh, but i dunno if it would be as funny if the mustache was on sudeikis.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
i learned all about ben stiller leaving snl because of his ambitions to direct from that surprisingly good ORAL HISTORY OF REALITY BITES that we talked about on some thread a few months ago
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not sure when the turn was, but I've gone from really liking to really hating Ben Stiller.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
lol wasn't that same 'jon bovi' pic at the top of i think a da croupier thread about worst cast members?
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
the guy's done alot of stuff i love - ben stiller show, flirting w/ disaster, heavyweights, zoolander, greenberg, always game to appear on a great show that can use the ratings boost a ben stiller appearance can provide - but god his walter mitty sounds awful, every problem i had w/ tropic thunder blown up to the nth degree. kept thinking of alan alda in crimes and misdemeanors when i read it.
otm
― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
it was not a da croup thread
― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
has anyone ever even seen the MTV version of The Ben Stiller Show? it was a little before my time, but i watched the Fox show when it was on the air -- when the later was released on DVD a few years ago, i don't think there was even much mention of the MTV one in the commentaries or any clips in the extras or anything. i suppose there might be clips online but i haven't looked, don't know how hard it'd be to google and not get a bunch of results from the fox show.
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Wednesday, October 3, 2012 7:09 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
whoa, i gotta read that
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
Defend the Indefensible: "Reality Bites"
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
i vaguely remember seeing (and enjoying) some of the mtv stuff as a kid. The stuff I recall was him trying to get the straight-man character to do some wacky musical business. One involved them in front of a row of synthesizers, another had them traipsing around in some "i still haven't found what i'm looking for" parody.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
julia louis dreyfus most successful post snl career for a woman
― balls, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 5:06 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, but. Joan Cusack, one-season wonder, does have two Oscar nominations and I bet those two Toy Story movies made her made cash.
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
JLD was only on a single season too, right? Maybe two, but I don't feel like factchecking.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
She may have been on for three.
― pplains, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
She was on at least two seasons. She, Gary Kroeger, Mary Gross, and Jim Belushi were the only holdovers from the '83-'84 season to the '84-'85 "ringers" season.
(Fucking Gary Kroeger...dude was on THREE seasons?! Yeesh.)
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
re: Farrell as Caray, a friend of mine thought Harry Caray was some bizarre fictional character Ferrell had come up with. When I showed her some Cubs clips, she completely lost her shit.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
I had no idea she was on the show for so long. I was mostly too young to watch then, but I'd see it every once in a while. I really only know her time on the show from just a few sketches I've seen.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
Oh for the days when people only had "basic cable" and everyone grew up watching WGN.
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
Surely Tina Fey has had a better post-SNL career than J L-D.
― nickn, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
tarfumes that is awesome
― goole, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
haha listen i love 30 Rock but Seinfeld is a heavy trump card
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
argument could definitely be made! seinfeld ridiculously more successful than 30 rock but fey obv more central to 30 rock's success. gave it to jl-d cuz i remember hearing she's the first actress to win best comedy actress emmy for 3 different shows, extent to which old christine can be called a hit is arguable and it's too soon to call veep an unqualified triumph too imo. otoh fey does have a movie career of sorts (did jl-d even attempt this? only thing i can think of is deconstructing harry. how did jason alexander and michael richards get movie vehicles but not jl-d???), big bestselling book, more 'iconic' or something. in any case wiig will be the clear winner in a few years.
― balls, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
own personal ws rankings may be unintentionally swaying me here
― balls, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
mean girls, bossy pants, date night and 30 rock, plus people actually know her from snl, dreyfus can settle for most successful seinfeld vet
― da croupier, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
that's larry david pretty easy
― balls, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
loved the 30 Rock live episode where J L-D played Liz Lemon in flashbacks -- "Why are you better looking in your memory?" "Because my memory has Seinfeld money."
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
No other SNL cast member has a big financial firm named after her.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/Dreyfuscorp.jpg
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
boooooo
― da croupier, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
OK i guess technically she's named after the firm but still.. she's probably the only one who could have Lorne Michaels killed.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
i know right (xpost)
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
now i'm wondering where larry david ranks on wealthiest snl employees
― balls, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
prob top 20 but not top 10? there are quite a few gigantic movie stars on that list y'know
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
would actually love to see that list, find out whether house of blues secretly puts danny in the top 10, find out whether denny dillon has a good eye for a land deal, etc
― da croupier, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
New Adventures of Old Christine did pretty well for awhile....did Veep get renewed?
― farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 October 2012 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
New Adventures is in syndication, which is usually some mark of "success"...but then again, so is According To Jim, so never mind.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 4 October 2012 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah syndication money is insane and as hobbies go curb is pretty lucrative. apparently he's worth around $800 million. for comparison tom hanks is worth around $250 million. i'm guessing lorne is wealthier than david but not will ferrell and probably not eddie murphy (i know eddie's produced alot i can't remember if any huge hits though). o and actual wealthiest is obv, again, jl-d but that's from her billionaire dad. fuck brad hall.
― balls, Thursday, 4 October 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
i liked New Adventures more than most but it was kind of a flash in the pan, after it got an Emmy and a renewal for the first season there was a lot of excitement about her 'breaking the Seinfeld curse' and then it just quietly plodded along for a 5 season run. i guess we'll see if Veep suffers the same fate.
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Thursday, 4 October 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
according to jim was on from fall 2001 to spring 2009. ponder that shit.
― balls, Thursday, 4 October 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
when julia louis dreyfus was doing commercials for clairol i was wondering if she'd had some weird kind of amnesia where she forgot that she was wealthy.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 4 October 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
sadly his vegas lawyer show with jerry o'connell did not get to be his old christine
― da croupier, Thursday, 4 October 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
...did Veep get renewed?
yep
― ┐(´ー`)┌ (sic), Thursday, 4 October 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
Five year run for a sitcom is like a five year NFL career, doesn't seem impressive until you realize that like five percent of shows last that long
― farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 October 2012 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
David Spade is SNL's king of staying on primetime with shows nobody cares about -- 7 seasons of Just Shoot Me, 2 seasons of 8 Simple Rules, and now Rules Of Engagement going into its 7th season
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Thursday, 4 October 2012 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
I just see Fey as more powerful in the biz than JL-D, I mean, Seinfeld doesn't seem to help Richards or Alexander, really.
Never realized New Adv lasted 5 years, seems like 2 or 3.
― nickn, Thursday, 4 October 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
Just Shoot Me was a great show, never understood why it wasn't better regarded
― farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
Just Shoot Me was a great show for two seasons; it lasted for seven
― set me on fire RAAAAH (DJP), Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
Okay, I would watch a whole lot more of Kate McKinnon as Ellen Degeneres. Make it happen SNL.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 7 October 2012 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
FUZZ ALDRIN
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 7 October 2012 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
oh wow, there are now two Muse songs I like
― Technology of the Big Muff (DJP), Sunday, 7 October 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
I was just about to come here and affirm my already held belief that Muse is terrible.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 7 October 2012 04:18 (eleven years ago) link
they are terrible but I liked that song
― Technology of the Big Muff (DJP), Sunday, 7 October 2012 04:19 (eleven years ago) link