Saturday Night Live

I love when he does Pierre Escargot as Def Comedy Jam standup though

I wish he would just do straight-up Pierre Escargot. Bathtub and all.

Nicholas Fein is seriously the best new character of the last few years.

"...agriculture in the '30s...."

Kenan is great. That weird Ziggy-style or whatever skit where he was dancing around on public access TV with all these controversial guests getting shot at was really great for some reason.

kenan drives me nuts.

Fix it!

To think that if this cast had been on ten years ago I could be picking up a $10 two-pack of the Nicholas Fehn and Tim Calhoun feature films at Target today

Actually I guess 85 minutes of Deep House Dish might be more likely

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Deep House Dish is the one Kenan thing I don't like...which is shocking considering how I feel about deep house in general. It should be funnier then it is.

I just remembered the skit he did with Fred Armisen where Fred played a racist deaf comedian. That was awesome.

I'd say I'm actually a really big fan of the current cast, though I don't think the writing is that great right now, not as good as it was just a few years ago, but similar.

The last Deep House Dish wasn't as good as previous ones.

DHD was better in general w/ Dratch as the co-host instead of Samberg.

Nobody else can play a stage manager or show bandleader quite like Kenan Thompson.

the baby pug in the lasercats skit FTW

I just remembered the skit he did with Fred Armisen where Fred played a racist deaf comedian. That was awesome.

I'd forgotten about that completely!

wait, why did so many ppl hate 'ras trent'? i thought it was hysterical

rudeboy living in the shanty dorm

“I remember when I first met him—I kind of didn’t like him,” says Greg Rivera, Pentz’s college roommate and, today, co-owner of the Mishka streetwear company, which has made shirts for Mad Decent. “He also was a white kid with dreads. And most white kids with dreads, obviously there’s something up with them."

EXCUSE I!!!!!

I am imagining this show with a cast made up of all of the women ever to appear on the show who are still living and I think it would be balls-out awesome.

BRING BACK JAN HOOKS!

It seems like even besides Tina Fey they've been bringing back more and more former cast members like Maya Rudolph and Chris Parnell for one-off appearances lately, which I like, but also get a little bummed out by because I wish they were still on the show every week.

Denny Dillon thanks you, HI DERE

Chris Parnell should be on every show on television.

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xpost OTM. Merv The Perv was some of the funniest shit.

I can't believe Lorne Michaels fired him twice!

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poor Danitra

Downey & AM Hall were rumored to be lovers.

Danitra Vance thoroughly outclassed the material, RIP

Nora Dunn as Pat Stevens brought so much joy to my life.

I'd forgotten that Lovitz and Dunn were there a year before the late '80s super-overhaul with Hartman/Carvey/Nealon, etc.

I thought RDJ would have better taste.

man young joan cusack can get it

xp hahaha I am now imagining him screaming "I! WILL EAT! YOUR! SOUL!" at AMH

Lovitz has such a wide smile.

Everyone picks on the 85 cast but the only ones that really struck me as unfunny were Sweeney and AMH. I think most of the problem was terrible writing.

any season could have used a boost of vitamin quaid.

comedy central only played the 85 seasons for like a month.

94-95 beats that season for the most blatantly misused cast of talented people in the history of SNL.

Michaels angered most of his cast by ending the season with a sketch in which the cast (playing themselves) get caught in a fire, and Michaels chooses to rescue only Lovitz (who had connected with audiences due in part to his popular characters the Master Thespian and the Pathological Liar with the catchphrase "that's the ticket!").

i've read about that before but wish i had seen it. brass balls, that LM.

wow, nora dunn was hot

some dude OTM about 94-95

Janeane Garafalo
Michael McKean
Mark McKinney
Laura Kightlinger
and Al Frankin

Could you imagine what this shit would be like if dudes were on their game?

not to mention Sarah Silverman the year before

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I remember Jon Lovitz' liar character only being funny because the rest of the show was so insanely gawdawful. Like finding a cheeto in a turd.

I saw an interview with Sarah Silverman recently and she explained that she got fired for accidentally stabbing one of the writers in the head with a pencil as a joke gone wrong.

a cheeto in a turd

re 94-95: Franken's Stuart Smalley was maybe the funniest thing he ever did (in front of the camera, w/out Tom Davis). Garofalo is better at film acting then she ever was at sketches, standup, or being a big huge Air America bore.

Iirc Garofalo mostly played the girlfriend or straight man in most snl sketches, I don't think they knew what to do w/her.