Saturday Night Live

I fear the Gabourey Sidibe episode next week, not because she's not a funny person (she is), but because I don't know that they know what to do with her.

she is hilarious...killed it on the Soup.

anyone know why the hulu version of the phillipe episode had the broadview security sketch after his monologue?

fucking john edwards jokes

btw the ke$ha performances are in the hulu version

this first ke$ha performance is so jenna maroney, good lord

lol why does she have a headset mic and a handheld mic

this is seriously like the final scene of a july 4th episode of 30 rock

bill hader is hoooorrible at impressions

this bobby monoyhan character on weekend update is pretty funny

anyone know why the hulu version of the phillipe episode had the broadview security sketch after his monologue

IIRC this is how it was on TV, too. Sometimes they recycle commercials.

Btw, that commercial is a straight-up Sarah Haskins rip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ7nBugejXs

bill hader is hoooorrible at impressions

― z-rogatis (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, April 21, 2010 5:08 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i definitely like most of his impressions for the funniness more than accuracy, but you are fulla shit solely on the basis of his Malkovich.

When he first joined, it was all about impressions...they even had a skit where he and Andy Samberg went head to head doing impressions, the joke being Andy didn't do anything but say "hey, I'm Al Pacino". I think maybe they're just pushing him too far...the impressions that he's good at, he's uncanny and hilarious.

yeah at first i kinda thought of him as 'the new impressions guy' even though supposedly he'd never done impressions before joining SNL, but in general he's so great w/ voices that it usually doesn't matter of his version of a celeb is spot-on.

i like most of hader's stuff but occasionally he just bombs like when he did Pacino as a southerner for some reason

They need to cut back on the sketches where he does impressions so they can have more sketches where he plays the host of a wacky game show.

I did notice that both his Branson and his Carville had some similar mannerisms (loose shoulders, left elbow on the table with a closed fist).

His Carville isn't very good, also it annoys me because they're not really making fun of Carville, they're just using him as a means to make fun of politicians, which is ok, but really it could just be Bill Hader making fun of politicians instead of Hader as Carville making fun of politicians and it wouldn't make much difference.

yeah he's definitely more of a mouthpiece for a bunch of lefty zings but i enjoy those bits, they're jaunty and fun imo

I do like Hader and his impressions btw. So glad Darrel Hammond finally quit.

eally it could just be Bill Hader making fun of politicians instead of Hader as Carville making fun of politicians and it wouldn't make much difference.

it's funnier to hear stuff like "it's like a midget with a big car...he's not taller, he's just crafty" coming from a drawling cueball

^True.

Probably my favorite SNL impression is Armisen as David Paterson (although that's starting to wear thin), and it bears very little resemblance to the actual dude, i.e. he doesn't talk like that, he doesn't have a vendetta against NEW JERSEY. It's basically a character named "David Paterson," loosely based on the real-life person.

it's all taste, but the only time i have beef is when i think they failed to capture what makes them funny, like his pacino, which sounds more like jackie gleason in smokey and the bandit.

his impressions just seem really canned to me -- vocally he ain't bad, but the mannerisms in the branson & carville (esp the carville) are really stilted and awkward

the game show sketches are almost always lame (and 8 mins long), but "i got it" or w/e was pretty decent (a really good idea but kind of limited in lols by nature)

game show sketches have been a lazy SNL formula for decades, but i'm ok with ones like that and the Burn Notice sketch that just take take the concept to an absurd place.

i guess any game show that isn't hinged on 8 mins of kristen wiig making faces is a win in some regard

yeah the fact that they've done the 'secret word' sketch more than once just as a vehicle for her stupid actress character is despicable imo

i guess any game show sketch that isn't hinged on 8 mins of kristen wiig making faces is a win in some regard

i can never hate her because she's still great in lower key and duo sketches (love that improv musical duo with fred armisen) but any "people stare blankly while kristen spazzes" bit is straight up mary gallagher hell.

Still like Target Lady, but I know what you mean.

Gabourey Sidibe promos are lol: http://www.hulu.com/watch/143828/saturday-night-live-snl-promo-gabourey-sidibe

hahahahahaha

those are great

ugh John Mulaney is so terrible on camera, they better not be thinking about putting him in the cast or something

Sidibe was fun but man did she blow a lot of lines/cues

she was not funny at all. couldn't even nail the doorbell sketch which was easy pickings.

pretty bad show, esp mgmt

i thought she was pretty funny -- my fav sketches were steve harvey, stoop sketch & bill hader's gay dude on weekend update

i thought john mulaney was p good

yeah I enjoyed the steve Harvey sketch

steve harvey made me laugh. snl made me laugh! it's not every day...

wake up, you got a boner over nothing

wtf was that cherry spitting stuff?

lonely island dudes running out of ideas or scrambling when the host said she didn't want to do an ironic rap song

wake up, you got a boner over nothing

― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, April 25, 2010 8:50 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

lol yes -- also "ring ring, it's 8:30 at night -- that's PM. that's on you."

the one mgmt peformance i saw was a hot mess, is that supposed be a song?

Which did you see? The Brian Eno one?

the one mgmt peformance i saw was a hot mess, is that supposed be a song band people like?

I think most people aren't as into the new album. That said, I liked the Brian Eno performance. (Didn't like the first performance tho.)

I liked both performances. I like the new album, but I haven't listened to it enough yet. I really loved the first one. The big trendy hits and the weird psyche stuff. I don't know if people are supposed to like them, they were hyped because 3 of the songs from the first album(and e.p.) were really catchy and merged a bunch of different trends and there's all this invented controversy about the new album not having such obvious hits, so yeah, it's funny that they're playing this stuff on SNL, and relatively mainstream radio (Matt Pinfield...), but I doubt this album will be the party jam of the summer.

controversy isn't really invented so much as a straight-up - this album is a disappointment - i think. "Brian Eno" is catchy though

I don't know, I think Flash Delirium is great. It's just not the anthem the past hits were. I'm not totally sold by their whole "we're really into obscure 80 psyche bands" or whatever because I think most of the first album isn't much different and it's something I like. I liked it when Jennifer Gentle did it (similarly acid-drenched syd-damaged post-indie rock neo-psych or whatever) and I like it here.