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.
― Dif Juz Guys (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 24 December 2009 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Early Tuesday morning, a distraught Tequila tweeted (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 10 January 2010 09:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 10 January 2010 09:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Sunday, 10 January 2010 13:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― nickn, Sunday, 10 January 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
best lazer cats ever?
― kenan, Sunday, 17 January 2010 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link
It was pretty good.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 January 2010 05:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Snake Effect Low (Pancakes Hackman), Sunday, 17 January 2010 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link
The Larry King open had great potential that was completely squandered on shitty impressions and flat jokes.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 January 2010 05:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd forgotten that Sigourney was Pat Weaver's daughter, though.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 January 2010 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
The Ting Tings are still riding this song?
― Snake Effect Low (Pancakes Hackman), Sunday, 17 January 2010 05:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 January 2010 05:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― shart shart shart shart shart hey guys is this still funny? shart sh (some dude), Sunday, 17 January 2010 05:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Someone should count all the lounge singer sketches that have been done since SNL started in 1975.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 January 2010 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― shart shart shart shart shart hey guys is this still funny? shart sh (some dude), Sunday, 17 January 2010 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Best show of the decade! Sigourney did better than I expected, though.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 17 January 2010 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess if ur expectations were v. low
― johnny crunch, Monday, 18 January 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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― kenan, Monday, 18 January 2010 06:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 18 January 2010 07:52 (fourteen years ago) link
weird, they cut the "fire and rice" sketch on hulu. THX UTUBE.
― KORGÜLL THE EXCHEQUER (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 18 January 2010 11:04 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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
― HOTT LUNCH II HARDEEZ (some dude), Monday, 18 January 2010 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
well the macgruber trailer looks like total & complete dogshit
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i mean, obviously, but still
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― The Titi Hendricks Experience (some dude), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
why would anyone watch the Get Smart movie
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
it was pretty decent imo
― some dude, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Anne Hathaway was really the only draw for me, but I still haven't bothered to watch it.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
haha OTM
― Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
that skit was so stupid, yet so ridiculously hilarious
― Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Exactly why I like Moynihan, tbh.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I haven't been watching consistantly, but maybe people might know.. Do the cast members ever crack up mid-sketch anymore?
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Kenan reliably gets other caster members to lose it during the Scared Straight sketch.
― Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Get Smart was better than I thought, and yeah I only watched it for Hathaway
― ice cool HOOSicle (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
mcgruber is going to be such an excellent watch-at-2-a.m.-still-a-little-drunk movie
― max, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, its rare if a Scared Straight sketch passes without Hader cracking up at some point.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Sergio was amazing.
― mizzell, Sunday, 31 January 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
scott brown skit also lol-sy.
― mizzell, Sunday, 31 January 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
first time in my memory that SNL has done a proper call-back to an earlier skit within a show (closet organizer - guys in bar)
good episode, i love guest hosts that actually appear in most of the skits instead of disappearing after weekend update
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 31 January 2010 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
by "proper call back" i mean refer to an earlier skit in a different context, so repeated skits like mcgruber don't count
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 31 January 2010 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
actually i think hamm might have appeared in all of the sketches after the cold open?
speaking of the cold open, they really need to junk the political sketches, or at least stop using them to open the show, they are routinely awful and formless. i think this batch of cast/writers just isn't built for political humor, they tend to shine best on wacky absurdist stuff, not topical satire
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 31 January 2010 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
The political cold opens have been really bad. I haven't watched the whole episode, but look forward to Hamm joining the Steve Murphys, Alec Baldwin, Tom Hanks etc of the SNL universe. His last/first appearance was one of the most consistent episodes in a long time, and I still love Jon Hamm's John Ham.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 31 January 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought the political openings were good during the election campaign season. Have they changed writers since then? Or just no Tina Fey is the problem?
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 January 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I liked the Hamm & Buble' skit.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 31 January 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know what the story is with the political cold opens. I think they've been done by the same writers through several seasons/casts, and they always seem better when people are more excited about politics. I have to admit loving the Bill Clinton/Monica/Saddam era, with the telephone party line and "that guy has more tapes than Steely Dan".
― dan selzer, Sunday, 31 January 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
the scott brown skit would have been a good cold open. i kinda liked the usage of the audience shots in the obama one (especially brendan fraser) but why was it 7 minutes long.
― mizzell, Sunday, 31 January 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
The Scott Brown sketch was really lol-y. Especially Byrd's vision of Brown as a flapper and Frank's vision of Brown as a hottie construction worker: "I'm about to filibust out of these jean shorts."
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 31 January 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
was everyone not freaking out at the end of sergio? i laughed very hard.
― mizzell, Sunday, 31 January 2010 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link