peyton manning was pretty funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L42C7wphzVY
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
peyton manning is funny in commercials too
― max, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
iirc most of the athletes that host tend to bring in huge ratings no matter how bad they are -- wasn't Nancy Kerrigan one of their highest rated episodes ever? i can at least see the rationale for that more than getting the 3rd or 4th most famous person from an award winning but not massively popular cable drama.
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, November 16, 2009 11:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
derek jeter's taco hole was great
― mizzell, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 peyton manning's comedy.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Part of the allure of athletes on the show is watching highly successful people fail, imo.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:51 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
nah, people have low expectations for athletes on snl so then as long as they aren't awful they come across pretty well
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't remember who it was, but there was an athlete on, a baseball player I think, and Chris Kattan is a kid about to go to sleep, and the athlete shows up like a ghost to offer all these aspirational thoughts and it's really touching, then one by one more show up till it's just annoying and creepy and finally Will Ferrel enters. That was a great skit.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Here it is. Helen Hunt was the guest but real athletes show up.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/97/97ibaseball.phtml
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha, remember when Wayne Gretzky hosted in 1989 and he did that sketch where he just said everything he thought outloud.
"Bye guys, if you need me, I'll upstairs masturbating"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
actual lols just from reading the transcript of that baseball sketch
― max, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
That was Joe Montana, not Gretzky.
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/86istu.phtml
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Ugh, SNL Transcripts...
"This is my master, Hannibal" instead of "mastiff"
come on fuck a guy
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks, dan... shit that was 86!
I remember being incredulous that my parents were not stopping me from watching the show at that point
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
ha i totally remember that one!
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
it was such a weird thing for Joe Montana to say
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
think that was maybe why it was funny
― mizzell, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I still bust out the line "I've got the rolling papers if you got the weed" from the baseball sketch fairly regularly. I'm rarely taken up on the offer though.
― methanietanner, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
you're welcome, jazzgasms! (/joe montana voice)
― mizzell, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
loool @ 2012 sketch
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 22 November 2009 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Dave Matthews as Ozzy was big lulz
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 22 November 2009 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link
what is up with that
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 22 November 2009 05:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, this kid likes cassettes.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 22 November 2009 05:59 (fourteen years ago) link
not very funny episode, but from JGL monologue alone...will you deny his talent?
― dan selzer, Sunday, 22 November 2009 06:34 (fourteen years ago) link
SNL goes to great lengths -- too great -- to keep the host from looking stupid.
― kenan, Sunday, 22 November 2009 07:12 (fourteen years ago) link
OK SNL can just fuck off for real with that China-Obama skit.
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
"How many jobs have you created?" "None" AARCCCHHHGDSS!O#IF$@H!!!
"Wah! Wah! SNL is only supposed to make fun of the OTHER guys, not my guy! Wah!"
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought the China-Obama thing was funny!
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Good episode all around, actually. JGL seemed a little frantic but he did a good job.
He was entertaining, Kenan MVP of this ep though. Between Reba and What Up With That.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Jason Sudeikis's bboy dancing is still the mvp of "what up with that" imo.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know, seeing Moyinahan in those wrestling tights twirling the snake kinda did it for me.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
True
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Of course a lot of my love for this episode comes from the fact that it wasn't last week's episode.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
yah this one tailed off a little near the end with the thanksgiving sketch and some other crap but it was a pretty funny episode overall, the return of "what up with that?" almost killed me. the china/obama thing was one of the better recent cold opens (which are usually pretty awful, they should maybe try something other than lame political humor here for a change?) but it went on way too long.
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I loved the Wilson Phillips/En Vogue part of the thanksgiving sketch.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd be fine with them making fun of Obama. But sorry, dumbass misrepresentations of policy debates you don't understand isn't funny. Neither is Fred Armisen.
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Neither is Fred Armisen.
Agreed; that guy is especially horrible.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i mostly just liked the "making sex with me" punchlines.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Armisen was funnier when he was under the radar. Ferricito 4EVA
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:48 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
y'know I was thinking during the sketch that they've done probably a dozen different variations on that kind of 'tense family dinner' sketch with a dozen different casts over the years but they're pretty much always really funny to me, then they broke out a wacky singing routine which feels like a much more recent vintage SNL cliche and it kinda ruined it for me.
― turkey turkey turkey let's all get basted (some dude), Monday, 23 November 2009 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
also ugh @ the announcement that Blake Lively is hosting soon, which should be at least Megan Fox bad, if not January Jones bad. lots of funny women exist in show business, why can't any of them host SNL? or even be cast members, Wiig aside? I'm really quickly starting to hate Jenny Slate.
― turkey turkey turkey let's all get basted (some dude), Monday, 23 November 2009 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Jenny and Nasim are both duds (on SNL anyway). Still not really into Abby Elliott either.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 23 November 2009 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Abby did a fantastic Sarah McLachlan a few weeks ago though, plus she is super cuet.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 November 2009 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Who was the translator in the opening sketch? She was awesome.
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Monday, 23 November 2009 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
That was Nasim.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Monday, 23 November 2009 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link