Saturday Night Live

Unless she's contributing from L.A., she's not writing for them. But yeah, good call on that Sally Field bit -- I thought the same.

Will Forte is the first to announce we won't be there in the fall. :(

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/will-forte-is-leaving-saturday-night-live/?src=tptw

we=he

Freudian much?

no more jon bovi = best news of the day

i won't be sad about any of these fools leaving, kenan aside

http://www.theapiary.org/the-apiary/2010/8/26/is-taran-killam-headed-to-snl.html

there you go, three more white folks

http://www.thecomicscomic.com/2010/08/casting-news-paul-brittain-taran-killam-vanessa-bayer-look-set-to-join-snl-for-its-36th-season.html

i don't know why that surprises me, it shouldn't, but it does

OMG!

Paul Br1tta1n!

I've totally hung out w/that dude.

hahahaha i can't believe they're gonna hire a dude from wild n out

not that i don't love that show dearly, but still

also paul br1tta1n looks exactly like will forte, so that makes sense

I wouldn't hate it if they're bringing in Vanessa Bayer to replace Jenny Slate, who is USELESS. Nasim Pedrad worked out, but I'm still mad that Slate was brought in to replace Michaela Watkins and/or Casey Wilson.

Seriously, I saw Paul when he was still going through classes at iO. I don't know him that well, but my friend Mark is tight with him. Saw him at Pitchfork Fest last month. Crazy.

insane

str8 up

jaymc is our degree of separation b/w snl and jeopardy. next thing u know he finds out his granmama sucked andy griffith's dick and his uncle was the co-creator of cheers or something.

not a dig on u jay, i just think it's rad u r connected to 2 tv institutions in some cosmic way.

Apparently SNL has picked up Jay Pharoah, who's a pretty killer impressionist: http://splitsider.com/2010/09/goodbye-armisens-obama-snl-hiring-jay-pharoah/

This Will Smith vs. Denzel Washington video is awes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqZGGqO6Eu0

Jenny Slate is out.

RIP Tina Tina Chaneuse

Good, I was hoping Jenny Slate would be out.

she was terrible, yet she gave me my biggest non-Kenan lols of the season

http://vimeo.com/12143461
http://vimeo.com/12185378
http://vimeo.com/12357996

This is better than anything she -- or anyone else -- did on SNL last season:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TL3oaHKCko

Slate seemed liked she sucked aside from the tina tina cheneuse sketches but I feel bad kicked out for the kids who get kicked out after one or two seasons, a lot of the people I like on the show took at least a couple of years to really find themselves and start being funny.

That's kind of torturous. xp

Season premiere: Amy Poehler and Katy Perry

I would lol my face off if they had their new impressionist do Katy Perry on his first show

the car honking skit was pretty funny imo

RIP jenny

don't see the point of keeping people on for one season tbh

deznel video is funny

The Washington Post's gossip column on the hiring of Jay Pharoah mentioned above (W. Post says its the first hiring of an African-American-American comedian there since 2003)

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2010/09/this_just_in_saturday_night_li.html

his obama isn't really any better than armisen's imo

uhm judging by that 15 sec clip that is...

Some blog I read (maybe even linked to upthread) said that Armisen's Obama isn't *bad*, but it's also not *funny*. I think Pharoah has the opportunity to make it funny. I'd also argue that he gets the timbre of Obama's voice right, which is the one thing that has always bothered me about Armisen's impression.

new season tonight

didn't realize jay pharaoh was born in in 87

fucked up

who are these cast members

one dude was on wild n' out

hm that does not seem promising

jay pharaoh is a supposedly amazing impressionist

the other two are UCB improv types i think

*waiting for katy perry performance*

Bryan Cranston and Kanye will be a show worth watching.

pube commercial had me lolin

v. subtle w/ the grass ref, katy

was kinda hoping she'd do "teenage dream" + new single

"california gurls" is obv over at this point

what is the new single, last fri night? that is so perfect for snl i ttly want 2 see the sax solo

but yeah no chance now

i don't even know what it is -- maybe the one that sounds like "mickey"

it's "firework" -- dope joint

really?!