Saturday Night Live

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

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/snifter.jpg

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.

I haven't been watching consistantly, but maybe people might know.. Do the cast members ever crack up mid-sketch anymore?

Kenan reliably gets other caster members to lose it during the Scared Straight sketch.

Get Smart was better than I thought, and yeah I only watched it for Hathaway

mcgruber is going to be such an excellent watch-at-2-a.m.-still-a-little-drunk movie

Yeah, its rare if a Scared Straight sketch passes without Hader cracking up at some point.

Sergio was amazing.

scott brown skit also lol-sy.

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

by "proper call back" i mean refer to an earlier skit in a different context, so repeated skits like mcgruber don't count

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

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.

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?

I liked the Hamm & Buble' skit.

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".

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.

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."

was everyone not freaking out at the end of sergio? i laughed very hard.

i dunno how could you not see it coming? the lonely island elevates every premise for the big finish the same way.

it was totally obvious but still really funny

Sergio's got funnier for me seeing this clip from The Lost Boys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9fH-nJi_Nc&NR=1

Sergio reminded me of this, both the man himself and the reactions he inspires:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhU1F7t6pp4

"there are also some scenes of Bill Pullman looking very natty and East Village in all black and jamming on his tenor sax in front of a packed dance floor (only in a David Lynch movie would people dance ecstatically to abstract jazz)..."

tbh i thought that was the best cold open that they've done in like... a whole year or something -- i enjoyed the 'white house in a mess' & 'jobs' gags

i think i've picked up on this thing where when kristen wiig says her first line in a skit in her exaggerated vocal tone and contorting face, people knowingly laugh because they think it's an old character but then it tails off when they realize it's a totally unrelated character that sounds the same as all her other ones

aw man, this scott brown sketch is good