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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.)

Basically, either she should have been way more of a ditzy airhead (the lines pointed in that direction, particularly with all that "was that me?" stuff) or the sketch should have been rewritten to have her act like a stereotypical trucker, with belching, cursing, inappropriate scratching and outrageously lewd commentary mixed in with the farting and the sketch should have been about Jimmy Stewart getting thrown off by the dichotomy between the "real" Grace Kelly and the "acting" Grace Kelly. (They could have played this up by having, say, Will Forte play the gross, obnoxious Grace Kelly and JJ play the on-camera "acting" Grace Kelly but that might have been hammering the point a little too much.)

you guys don't know funny at all.

what sold the sketch to me was the juxtaposition of her dead-eyed stare with the sloppy, wet fart sounds

The sketch was amusing but she completely ruined it by cracking up at it, particularly since no one else was laughing.

(lol so basically I'm trying to rewrite it so she was in less of it)

well, yes, she shouldn't have been laughing, obv, but that's a problem with the performer, not the sketch

they should have had grace kelly strenuously argue that it's a part of her "method"

haha not to get all comedy-dissecting but yeah, I agree with you, Whiney, that was the one level on which I laughed at it, but even THAT wasn't the way it was played -- if the idea was to have her stand demurely while horrible fart-noises boomed around, that wasn't well done either! (cause like she did attempt a couple unfunny fart-faces, as I recall.) I mean, I dunno, like Dan's going into, there are several different directions you could play the joke in and the sketch didn't do any of them very well, and I basically wound up sitting there mad at myself for laughing so hard at just the fart sounds (which I would laugh at even coming from a blank screen with no associated characters)

no one laughs when I fart except me

I fart all the time its kind of weird

I, for one, completely endorse an episode of SNL hosted by fart sounds

also: http://www.fart-sounds.net/fart_sound_board.htm

I, for one, completely endorse an episode of SNL hosted by fart sounds Larry King

Only if Larry King is played by Norm MacDonald:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK6qcvrF-4I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK6qcvrF-4I

The more I think about it, the more I appreciate the equator.

double-u double-u double-u fart dash sounds dot net.

wow.

As everyone else is saying: the skit would've been better if it was not just flatulence that ruined Grace Kelly's pristine image.

Imagine how funny it'd be if they had Grace, when the camera wasn't rolling, talking about how her own experiences with voyeurism help her get into character each day. She could start going into these lurid college stories and Hitchcock would have to stop her (as well as yank Jimmy Stewarts' hand from his pants).

And why stop at debasing Grace Kelly? The second the movie camera stops they should've had Jimmy Stewart telling off-color jokes and joking about wheel chair sex with Grace Kelly. Just hearing a Jimmy Stewart impersonator be vulgar would be worth a few chuckles.

Then you'd have the pompous Alfred Hitchcock being the voice of moral authority etc. As it is it's Grace Kelly farting while Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart watch - which is a letdown.

Just hearing a Jimmy Stewart impersonator be vulgar would be worth a few chuckles.

dana carvey did this like 20 years ago, and your ideas are terrible

how about if grace kelly dropped a deuce into hitch's jowly mouth while stewart rubbed one out

would that be funny

I'd subscribe to their videos.

why not save time and post straight into the o_O thread

dana carvey did this like 20 years ago, and your ideas are terrible

Dana Carvey did everyone about twenty years ago, so that doesn't surprise me. My quickly thought-of suggestions probably are lame, but it's hard to convey the humor of farce in cold print.

I love all the SNL fanfic in this thread. Would the masturbating Jimmy Stewart sketch be intended as a part of the official SNL universe or is this a multiverse spin-off?

it's in one of the seasons never released on dvd

ok guys you got me, my mom was married and named Shipley in 1980

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.

― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, November 16, 2009 5:02 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ugh remember the Paul Rudd episode last year that felt like 80% gay jokes?

that is not shocking considering the general genre of paul rudd's humor

So the next three hosts are Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Derek Jeter, and Jon Bon Jovi.

I guess the last ten years just didn't happen or something...?

god that is an awful string there

How hard up are they for hosts?

man how do they waste the jon bovi sketch last week, they should do it when he's hosting imo

Oh, and Jake Gyllenhaal in there somewhere, too. My general point still stands.

I don't know why exactly, but that host list makes me really sad. Like seriously sad.

January Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jake Gyllenhaal, Derek Jeter, Jon Bon Jovi = point is that your first or last name has to start with a J in order to host

u r next

*exchanges knowing glances with Jon Williams*

man how do they waste the jon bovi sketch last week, they should do it when he's hosting imo

Hello this is SNL, they won't be afraid to continue beating that "joke" into the ground. Guarantee it will be on that episode.

January Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jake Gyllenhaal, Derek Jeter, Jon Bon Jovi = point is that your first or last name has to start with a J in order to host

― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 16, 2009 10:25 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

forks?

Jake Gyllenhaal

His first time was classic for the "Law & Order Acting School" sketch alone.

I think JG-L should be pretty decent too. Granted, he was only a kid on 3rd Rock, but he could probably be a funny adult too.

Yeah. There's just no part of me that understands Bon Jovi or Jeter, though.

They are incredibly popular people who are charming and outgoing

If memory serves, this will be an encore performance for Jeter. I don't remember his first time being funny, though. In fact, I barely remember it at all.

xpost

http://www.theodoresworld.net/pics/0508/PalinImage1.jpg

Yeah, this is Jeter's second go-round.

First SNL host of the new year!:

http://therichlife.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/vsbefore.jpg

I love all the SNL fanfic in this thread. Would the masturbating Jimmy Stewart sketch be intended as a part of the official SNL universe or is this a multiverse spin-off?

I don't know about the other guys here but I send all my SNL Skit Remixes to Lorne Michaels when the season is over. Like any good remix they are supposed to make him think "what if?"

This show sucks