Saturday Night Live

was on (mute) in a bar last night, i see they did a Rent Is Too Damn High guy for what seemed like 20 minutes

one of the best bits!

being chris elliott's daughter might've helped too, just sayin'

the whole 2nd-gen nepotism angle would make more sense if Chris Elliott had been on the show for more than a year. I dunno if the hypothetical children of Tim Kazurinsky have a foot in the door, ya know? I'm sure it didn't hurt, but being attractive and up for impressions probably helped more.

if you think elliott and kazurinsky are comparable then there is nothing more that i can say to you

uh if anything Kazurinsky did more during his SNL stint than Elliott did in his!

also, as far as the abby vs. nasim thing goes, abby's been on longer, don't think people leapfrog their way into the cast (and I think Nasim, who's also attractive and both does impressions and solid character work, is a lock to join soon enough).

super attractive plus longer time on the show

what's the longest someone spent in featured perf purgatory and wasn't just someone who had a spot on update like a. whitney brown or don novello? and kazurinsky did more than elliot the elder during his snl stint.

it is possible that chris elliott, as the son of bob elliott and former writer for david letterman, has quite a few connections and a much better reputation in the comedy world than kazurinsky does. not saying that's the only reason that abby is on the show, but to downplay it is kinda ridic.

ben stiller never made it past featured performer and his parents have way more connections than chris elliot.

If Lorne Michaels was worried about displeasing Chris Elliott I think his season on SNL would have been very different

Dennis Miller makes some joke on the Ben Stiller Show about how Stiller split SNL "after he learned there was no 'I' in team"

you're right. fred armisen's dick is the key player here.

I just learned Armisen used to be married to Sally Timms today!

stiller split snl (and took odenkirk w/ him) after learning lorne michaels wouldn't let him do a sketch making fun of bono. TRUTH. the story of stiller coming back to host around 9/11 are so bad you wonder how they haven't done damage to his career.

I dunno how you go from five years with a Mekon to a month with a scientologist but hey!

xpost lol wow never heard the bono story!

ha i knew you'd bite! i wish it was 'we dare not offend bono' but it was actually lorne michaels thinking bono was way too obscure (this is post joshua tree and rattle and hum).

I actually remember seeing Stiller parody Bono on that MTV show he had right before the Fox one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIUPgqnc0Zc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2X8zPYhNag&feature=related

Just because proto-Stiller LOLs >>>> the mostly MOR shit he does these days.

the MTV sketch involved him and his co-host running around a city block dressed like Bono and the Edge doing some kind of "Streets Have No Name" parody, but I can't find evidence of it on youtube

I remember that! I remember them playing to, like, five spectators, and when the cops come Stiller/Bono is all "they're trying to shut us down! but the police just want them to turn down a little or something.

I'm amazed Lorne had enough on the ball to sign up the Kids in the Hall.

Love the weird french sketch, first time I've really noticed Taran Killam.

It kind of seems like they are flailing, but the experiments worked really well last night - i.e. the French skit and "Sex" Ed the sex educator. The cold open political sketch was awful awful and Wiig just needs to quit now. Sick of every "new" character being a minor variation of all her other ones, like that Home Makeover lady last night.

<3 <3 <3 Emma Stone tho

Sorry I am becoming Mr. Excuse Me But I Have Met Paul Brittain on a Handful of Occasions Since We Have a Mutual Friend, but "Sex" Ed Vincent is actually a character Paul Brittain created at iO in Chicago; it even became a weekly show for a while, with questions from the audience, etc. (never actually saw it myself).

oh man, kenan killed it as 'the rent is too damn high' dude

hardest i've laughed at this show all season by far

He was born to play that guy.

john mulaney looks really tired :(

oh hey, stefon!

I'm amazed Lorne had enough on the ball to sign up the Kids in the Hall.

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uh you realize that Lorne basically gave KITH their TV show and made it possible, right? and that Bruce and Mark were hired as writers for SNL for a while even before that? obv their show was totally different from the SNL factory system but LM probably deserves some credit for allowing that to happen (even if when Mark did join the cast he was wasted and had to recycle his most predictable running KITH character, Chicken Lady).

i said this last time but John Mulaney just should not be on camera -- he's obviously a good comedy writer but he just doesn't have much presence and it's almost like they let him just randomly quip about Mad Men during Weekend Update because he misses being on Best Week Ever or something

"Sex" Ed was incredible imo.

Yeah, I'm not sure if my post was clear, but I loved "Sex" Ed. Its weird, my wife's favorite part of the entire episode was John Mulaney and she wants to see more of him.

thread is making me nostalgic for Ben Stiller show. Anyone watched the DVDs recently? Do they hold up?

Pretty phenomenal that 4 out of the 4 cast members went on to be pretty enormous comedy players.

yeah i was agreeing with you. missed the first 20 minutes or so and i'm glad to hear i missed another bad political cold open. Wiig really has done all she can do at this point -- I think the only thing keeping her there is that being the alpha dog at SNL is probably going to be the peak of her career, I can't see her being more than a supporting player in any halfway decent movie or series.

xpost -- I bought the Ben Stiller Show DVD when it came out a few years ago, and some of it has definitely aged really awkwardly, but some of it is still pretty funny.

some dude OTM re Stiller DVDs, more of it held up than I expected.

I thought the Wiig sketch worked really well, mostly because of Emma Stone's implacable deadpan and the muttered asides Wiig made in reaction to it.

Oh, Emma Stone's "I was watching Two and a Half Men inside, still thinking about it" line was classic, but Wiig's over-excited little arm-raise thing is so annoying at this point.

it's almost like they let him just randomly quip about Mad Men during Weekend Update because he misses being on Best Week Ever or something

So that's where I know him from -- I knew I had seen him on something else before but couldn't remember where.

When Wiig started bouncing the red balloon in front of Stone's face, that's when it went from "eh, OK" to "losing-my-shit funny." Also the montage of previous winners.

the sex-ed vincent thing needs to be on each week. that was fantastic..."and then this guy climaxes."

When Wiig started bouncing the red balloon in front of Stone's face, that's when it went from "eh, OK" to "losing-my-shit funny." Also the montage of previous winners.

"Oh, the reactions get me everytime! Watch what they're doing because tou aren't doing anything!"

I dunno, I thought it was a pretty bad episode and I thought the home makeover thing was the most tired sketch I've seen in ages, though I liked the "this is how others have responded" bit.

The only parts of the show I liked were Sex Ed and the French youth skit. The latter seemed like a real old-school SNL skit, like 70s style. Telling that it was all/mostly the newer cast members. I think this is definitely a transitional period and hopefully the new folk will stretch out and add something. Even if Sex Ed is an old routine, it was the first time he really got to shine. Nasim's skit about her brother wasn't the funniest thing, but it was cute and fits with the character she does where she's best friends with her parents. I like her more and more.

Kenan and Stefon on Weekend Update were both pretty good too.

I lolled at the Wrangler commercial

yes that too! I totally thought that was Norm Macdonald doing Sex Ed at first.

I'm pretty sure the Wiig sketch was inspired by this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hRfeg9mC9Y&feature=player_embedded

Even if Sex Ed is an old routine, it was the first time he really got to shine

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I wasn't complaining about it or anything. Definitely one of the best sketches of the night.

lol that moynihan has to do fake double chin pushback to play jonah hill

man that wiig sketch was so, so unfunny