Saturday Night Live

no thoughts on the Murray-Shearer season, huh

I was just watching some of this on Netflix actually (Season 5 I think)..

when Muse played NYC on that 'black holes & revelations' tour - whichever that was - they sold out madison square garden and people were losing their shit over them (i was reviewing). i know nyc pulls people from a lot of markets but, yeah, they're pretty big.

When Muse played Lollapalooza a few years back they drew a HUGE crowd opposite, I believe, Interpol. They headlined the second night and I was blown away by the crowd.

They must be street teaming high schools pretty heavy or some shit. Also, probably some Hot Topic push.

I'm just guessing.

Actually, judging from the crowd, many of the fans were 30-35 year olds that still cling to any bands sounding like the alt-rock of their college years.

think of shy ronnie short every time i hear rihanna's voice now

i lol'd @ the jammies sketch

OK, that was awesome.

been home for a few hours and mom and i are already bonding over our love of "What Up With That"

happy holidays, yall

ugh

no thoughts on the Murray-Shearer season, huh

Harry Shearer really bugs me.

I tried watching an episode of the first season of SNL recently and it was hard for me to sit through, honestly.

I can respect that if you also can't sit through the current one.

lotta crap in the first season, with some bright moments (Paul Simon vs. Connie Hawkins b-ball game!). Didn't really hit their stride until the 2nd and 3rd seasons.

I watched the Franco episode recently, first time I'd seen the show in a few years, really fairly unbearable.

there's a lotta crap in every season.

that Paul Simon one was he first one I saw.

lol that episode is like 75% musical performances

I can respect that if you also can't sit through the current one.

The miracle of DVR!

it was a big deal at the time bcz of Simon & Garfunkel's first reunion of many (and Still Crazy was the #1 album I think).

xp

WHO KNEW
YOU KNEW
SAY WHAT
VOODOO
WHAT UP WITH THAT

I tried watching an episode of the first season of SNL recently and it was hard for me to sit through, honestly.

Yeah. First season isn't really that good. There's some good stuff in it, but it's few and far between. But it's also 35 years old and, y'know, the first season of a show that had yet to really find its footing.

Also, just catching up and coming to this late, but:

i dunno i kinda thought 1973 colonel sanders NASA job applicant potato chip regurgitator thief collecting his hemorrhoid donut on the way out the door skit was pretty fantastic and unless i'm overlooking something pretty obvious maybe even the best job interview oriented SNL skit since the chris parnell/christopher walken "we don't hire dirty centaurs" classic

^^^^^^^^^^This. That and Kickspit were A+ classics.

alright, so, this episode wasn't horrible. i actually laughed a good amount. the "scared straight" sketch is about as funny as that's going to get. and mcgruber was good. i don't know, maybe the past week and a half have been so shitty that i'm just desperate for comedy. maybe i lowered the bar for charles barkley. but i thought it was good. guys?

I was in and out of the room while it was on, but I my favorite thing about the Scared Straight sketches is how Kenan always tries to crack up Hader on camera and it ALWAYS works.

thought it was a pretty decent episode. i feel like their game show parodies have been getting better ('Reel Quotes' last night and 'Secret Word' in the Joseph Gordon-Levitt episode) because they realized they can have 2 different contestants w/ 2 different running jokes going on at the same time. 'Scared Straight' is the same every time and is just not a good recurring sketch.

Last night's was OK; but perhaps I also lowered the bar for Barkley. Scared Straight is still funny to me, and McGruber is about the best recurring sketch in the last few years, but maybe that's because it's only 30 seconds long.

best lazer cats ever?

It was pretty good.

It had the one (1) joke I laughed at so far tonight, when the small cat came out of the giant cat's mouth. Otherwise this is awful.

The Larry King open had great potential that was completely squandered on shitty impressions and flat jokes.

I'd forgotten that Sigourney was Pat Weaver's daughter, though.

The Ting Tings are still riding this song?

What a lazy music booking... I'd have at least figured the Ting Tings would have a new song to push for this, but no.

yeah i was gonna say, who drew the short straw that they booked a band whose record came out almost 2 years ago and hasn't even gone gold in the US

i don't know why they do that ESPN commentator sketch over and over w/ the slightest variations on the same jokes, it doesn't even really feel like it qualifies as a running joke or recurring character, it's just the same thing every time.

Someone should count all the lounge singer sketches that have been done since SNL started in 1975.

have there been that many? i mean the Bill Murray character and the Sweeney Sisters both had lots of sketches but I don't think of that as a template they go back to a lot like talk shows, game shows, etc.

I enjoyed Seth Myers' self-zing tonight, but seriously I do hope they get a good new Update anchor at some point in the next year or two, the guy is really just keeping the seat warm.

Best show of the decade! Sigourney did better than I expected, though.

i guess if ur expectations were v. low

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man, i was kind of bummed at how expensive the avatar sketch looked for such a shitty one-note "joke" that got only mild laffs

weird, they cut the "fire and rice" sketch on hulu. THX UTUBE.

man, i was kind of bummed at how expensive the avatar sketch looked for such a shitty one-note "joke" that got only mild laffs

― miley stylus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, January 18, 2010 2:52 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah one of the most depressing things about SNL can be when the set & costumes dept. is clearly working way harder than the writers

well the macgruber trailer looks like total & complete dogshit

Are we surprised? The whole reason the MacGruber skits even work is because they are so short and infinitely (maybe) redone with the same basic plot, there was no way stretching it out to 10 minutes was going to be successful, let alone 90.

yeah i mean, obviously, but still

i dunno it looks like it could be at least as good as, i dunno, the Get Smart movie, even if it is almost totally devoid of the sketch's primary concept/appeal.

why would anyone watch the Get Smart movie

it was pretty decent imo

why would anyone watch the Get Smart movie

Anne Hathaway was really the only draw for me, but I still haven't bothered to watch it.

Someone should count all the lounge singer sketches that have been done since SNL started in 1975.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, January 16, 2010 11:57 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha i'm watching the first season of SNL and rob reiner essentially does a lounge act character in his monologue for the third episode of the show

Anne Hathaway was really the only draw for me, but I still haven't bothered to watch it.

haha OTM

I mean, my crush on Anne Hathaway will allow me to sit through some crappy movies, but even that has limits.

Speaking of lounge singers, I liked Moynihan in the Fire and Ice skit this week. I know most people on here don't like him, but I think he has been criminally underused lately.

that skit was so stupid, yet so ridiculously hilarious

Exactly why I like Moynihan, tbh.