Saturday Night Live

all it means is you watched a lot of comedy central

yes, there's nothing sad about watching a lot of comedy central

it's certainly not sadder than ilm

and while we're outing ourselves as total saddoes for having watched more than our share of sketch comedy, 1980 had some pretty amazing musical guests

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Kid Creole & the Coconuts
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Aretha Franklin
Keith Sykes
James Brown
Ellen Shipley
Linda Ronstadt
The Cast of The Pirates of Penzance
Jack Bruce & Friends
Cheap Trick
Stanley Clarke Trio
Joe "King" Carrasco & the Crowns
14 Karat Soul
Jimmy Cliff
Funky Four Plus One
Todd Rundgren
Prince
Delbert McClinton
Jr. Walker & the All-Stars

would be a dope mixtape, imo

I'm just gonna post youtubes of musical guests from season 6

Kid Creole & The Coconuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuCxNlWWe3g

Captain Beefheart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xepBfz3mVXs

I'm a big SNL apologist, but I'd rank the last one among the worst episodes in the past 10 years.

the host was visibly inept, the musical guest was not only an abomination but performed 3x, and the sketches were uniformly unfunny. your best effort is farting grace kelly? really? really?

deric's otm re: wiig. she's great but they let her run off with the show too often. seems like every skit she is in has exactly one joke, and that's whatever character tic she's riffing on.

i wonder if she ever gets tired of playing captain crazypants multiple times each episode and nothing else

i bet roxy would have my back on farting grace kelly being awesome.

someone should tell bobby moyinhan that alfred hitchcock was british

think he had him mixed up with that old actor that goes "yeeeeEEEEESSSS???"

leave it to bobby moynihan to be the low point in a grace kelly farting sketch.

looooool

i knew we were in trouble when "grace kelly farting" appeared in the first half hour instead of the last.

So I guess I can safely delete this week's episode from my DVR?

what % of the SNL audience has heard of Grace Kelly?

http://www.gracekellymusic.com/

preexisting knowledge of grace kelly is not necessary for getting a fart joke

"getting"

exactly

let me add that this skit was 5 minutes long

Three notes, in order of least important to most important:

- Jones was really amazingly bad (and I'm not sure how I feel about her whole current effort to make herself known outside of Mad Men anyway)

- okay so once again: what is it about having Jenny Slate in a sketch that creates this weird sense of total awkwardness? I don't think I have anything against her -- I thought she was kind of terrific on Bored to Death -- but this is the second time she's been prominently featured in a sketch and it's just seemed totally awkward and wrong in some nebulous cringing way. (the first time being that kinda biker-chicks sketch, which really wasn't just a writing problem, it was some kind of vibe/energy she has that just translates freaky-awkward on TV, maybe)

- thank you SNL for TOTALLY RUINING my previous weekly habit of annoyingly singing "MAD MEN, MAD MEN" along with the theme song

Season 5 is about to come out on DVD this xmas. I wonder if they're even gonna bother putting out Season 6 or just jump to the Dana Carvey era.

From what I understand, they're jumping past the Carvey era, and the next season they're gonna release after 5 will be Will Ferrell era. Which makes sense from a marketing standpoint, but (even though I really had no realistic hope that they were going to release season 6 anytime soon) I'm a little disappointed nonetheless.

grace kelly farting would be an amusing sidebar in one of hader's vincent price sketches, but as the raison d'etre for an entire sketch? feels like they're not even trying.

- thank you SNL for TOTALLY RUINING my previous weekly habit of annoyingly singing "MAD MEN, MAD MEN" along with the theme song

Ditto.

From what I understand, they're jumping past the Carvey era, and the next season they're gonna release after 5 will be Will Ferrell era. Which makes sense from a marketing standpoint, but (even though I really had no realistic hope that they were going to release season 6 anytime soon) I'm a little disappointed nonetheless.

yeah. i maybe don't want to own season 6, but am crazy curious to watch those episodes at least once. they should offer them pay-per-view via the net or something, i would pony up at least to see the Charles-Rocket-sez-Fuck episode....

(not even sure if i want to own season 5 either, tbh)

From what I understand, they're jumping past the Carvey era, and the next season they're gonna release after 5 will be Will Ferrell era.

wow, that's like 15 seasons, missing the entire jack handey era, not to mention one of my favorite skits

http://snlarc.jt.org/detail.php?i=198603155

but yeah, it would be a bit of a slog wouldn't it

it's not like they can't go back later

Also, I don't know if they're planning on starting from Ferrell's first season, but I don't remember that season (featuring a mostly new cast still finding its feet) being terribly good.

I for one am ready to trust Deric W. Haircare's unsubstantiated rumor about this

You can poke around the forums at saturday-night-live.com if you want and see for yourself, Whiney. They aren't my unsubstantiated rumors.

I love Jenny Slate but she seems out of her element on SNL.

I'm just gonna post youtubes of musical guests from season 6

let me know if you find Ellen Shipley, this is the first I'd ever even heard of her!

Maybe you need to have a talk w/your mom.

I only just learned last week that Abby Elliot is Chris Elliot's daughter.

Tell me, was this the kind of unfunny SNL ep that puts you to sleep and you realize only later was atrocious, or was this of the unintentional comedy, "hmm...maybe anybody could do this for a living?" unfunny? The latter can be entertaining.

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I only just learned last week that Abby Elliot is Chris Elliot's daughter.

A currently open wikipedia window just taught me that January Jones is an actress, and not a porn star. I think I win/lose.

jaymc you're making a joke about my last name and you refer to my mom, who in all likelihood (and in reality) was born with a different maiden name? poor form.

Aren't you like 30? Wouldn't your mom be married in 1980?

Or, I guess, COULDN'T your mom be married would be more accurate. No need to make Al-ssumptions

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Well, look. If you do improv or write sketch stuff at all, you learn pretty quickly (even at a beginner level) that fart jokes and gay jokes are really easy and rarely good and are to be avoided as much as possible. This week's episode suggests that the SNL writers haven't quite reached that point in their comedy education.

uh, fart jokes are always good

um, fart?

heh heh

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OR it suggests that the host sometimes has a little too much control over the material. OR it suggests that the producer should exercise a little less control over the material. OR it suggests that the head writer should exercise any level of quality control over the material.

Aren't you like 30? Wouldn't your mom be married in 1980?

^^this

Actually, you know what sketch I did like? The one near the end of the episode with Jason Sudeikis and January Jones on a blanket looking at clouds.

I personally like fart and poop jokes as much as the next guy, Whiney, but you've gotta bring something interesting to the table (see: 'toilet scissors' on the Asssscat! DVD).

one thing that might have buoyed the fart sketch a bit would be if Jones could have made halfway-funny farting faces instead of just standing around blankly. (I mean if the whole joke is some gulf between guest actress/guest's persona/Grace Kelly on one hand and "farting" on the other, selling it and making it funny is all on her, and I can imagine plenty of actresses who could have made it way less lame.)