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I was just thinking about that. He had a wave of accusations and intimations that he didn't quite duck that came out a couple of years before the me-too thing started.

I’m generally pro SNL and give it a lot is slack but the emmys bombed hard. 1 or 2 Adlibs from Che were ok.

Mulaney thanking Steve Martin and Martin Steve was my favorite joke though.

Rudolph was in Away We Go which is the worst movie ever made so

I was just thinking about that. He had a wave of accusations and intimations that he didn't quite duck that came out a couple of years before the me-too thing started.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, September 18, 2018 3:59 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he also unceremoniously dumped his wife elisabeth moss

Elisabeth Moss is sounding off again on her marriage to "Saturday Night Live" alum Fred Armisen.

The "Mad Men" actress poses on this week's New York magazine cover in only overalls ahead of the April 13 premiere of the AMC series' seventh and final season. And Moss opened up about the once-adorable couple's "traumatic" union and their split in 2010 just eight months after tying the knot.

"Looking back, I feel like I was really young, and at the time I didn't think that I was that young," the 31-year-old said. "It was extremely traumatic and awful and horrible. At the same time, it turned out for the best."

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-elisabeth-moss-fred-armisen-marriage-divorce-mad-men-20140310-story.html

he is the Reynolds Woodcock of sketch comedy

afaik Armisen was never accused of sexual harassment or assault, just being an asshole / bad boyfriend / bad date. he's admitted as much. Could be wrong though - anything in one of the Gawker pieces? I don't remember anything other than, yeah, DDL in Phantom Thread style coldness.

I don't follow people/gossip news and rarely watch snl and I always thought Armisen was gay and a very nice person...
very perceptive !

hi mom

Most surprising thing about Armisen (to me anyway) is that he was married to Sally Timms of the Mekons for several years.

I don't know how long they were hitched. He was a punk indie Chicago scene mainstay, like Timms (who still is).

I can imagine Armisen marrying a sc13no without knowing anything about it and then dropping the whole basket of clams when he realised

Not sure how well SNL's 1991 take on the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings would play today, but I think it's still very much on point. Featuring Al Franken playing a Senator no one remembers! https://t.co/pNGeMJKCEG

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) September 19, 2018

anyone read the big piece on Chevy Chase making the rounds? depressing and I kind of feel for him. The headlines pulled from it are kind of out of context though, which is ironic considering that's 'out of context' and 'misunderstood' seem to be the claims the writer is making for Chase.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/lifestyle/chevy-chase-cant-change/

(the headlines running in other places are "chase bashes SNL/Donald Glover" neither of which he really does in this article)

Dude has always been a massive asshole

he does pretty much bash SNL

"I’m amazed that Lorne has gone so low. I had to watch a little of it, and I just couldn’t f------ believe it.”

“That means a whole generation of shitheads laughs at the worst f------ humor in the world,” he says. “You know what I mean? How could you dare give that generation worse shit than they already have in their lives? It just drives me nuts.”

Chevy otm

he does sound pretty racist though

he is the most tortured, conflicted and miserable public figure i can think of

really

have you seen our president

he *should* be the most tortured, conflicted and miserable public figure but his ego won't allow it i think

There's a new documentary out on Gilda Radner called Love, Gilda, which I saw last night. Very nice, though it never really shows a full skit with her in it (I suppose anyone can go look those up) and focuses much more on her life and what drove the decisions she made (to go into comedy, to not return to SNL, to basically retire from acting all together). Chase shows up maybe twice to say nice things; was surprised at no Jane Curtin or Bill Murrary appearances though.

one thing I learned in it that I had no idea about: she was married to GE Smith???? (and left him for Gene Wilder)

(I suppose anyone can go look those up)

Not if the documentary ever screens or streams or is released outside the US.

another show where they saved some of the funniest sketches for the second half. i don't know why they foisted that Fortnite thing on everyone as the first major sketch, it was awful. Driver as Pete Davidson's oil baron father, however, had me dying.

I think the less said about these kanye performances the best.

More folks are talking about the Kanye MAGA "I am not in the sunken place" rant that happened onstage after the show had just ended.

https://people.com/music/kanye-west-trump-speech-saturday-night-live/

Oh kyle mooney, you still suck so bad.

You’re nuts. I want Kyle and Beck Show.

Kyle still #1

This was pretty awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HD2xG92-0

adam driver carries that entire sketch on his shoulders but he's incredible

echoes of the Prospector Will Ferrell sketch, but that's never a bad thing

yea Driver is so good in that

exactly, that was far and away the funniest part of the show. why did they stick it way in the back half? why did they subject us to some unfunny fortnite shit at the beginning? and I swear that Domenico's coffee sketch: didn't they do that last year or the year before, almost note for note?

I shut this off before Kanye started blathering

Pretty impressive of you not to watch something that wasn’t broadcast tbh

sic burn

did he not start blathering while it was running? that's what I heard. anyway don't give a fuck have a nice day

^^^ cosign. Seriously don't care about his MAGA hat, his SNL appearance, or his entire career.

some seriously hard men itt. i also got huge gus chiggins vibes from that oil baron sketch, especially with pete davidson in the jimmy fallon role of nearly breaking the entire time.

OK the "male supplement" ad was something that needed to happen

Loved this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxIg80kk_-s

That was good

Paul Simon just straight up sounding like the music in the NPR segments on Parks & Rec

Apparently the guy who thinks New Orleans accents are automatically hilarious still works at SNL but his partner who wrote the funny parts of Maine Justice doesn't

that sketch was terrible. as was most of this show. above posted sketch one of the few highlights.

Pedant alert: that's a Cajun accent, not a New Orleans accent. And proving that humor is subjective, that was my favorite of the night. The sheer wtf-ness reminded me of the infamous potato chip sketch. MAGA biscuit!

Also a fan of Kenan's Treece Henderson Trio. Gucci shoes!

Overall thought this was stronger than many recent nights, although the bar has been set pretty low...

that cajun sketch just made me miss jason sudeikis and maine justice

treece henderson after the "trees" song kinda confused me because they sound the same but tbf i was very tired. also i laughed at both of those a lot so