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oh hey, stefon!

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

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, October 24, 2010 8:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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

agreed. both stone and wiig made me cringe in that one. and was there anything to the french skit besides lol france?

didn't catch all of the episode, but i have to admit i laughed hard at those BTTF auditions

Hader's Alan Alda was immaculate. There were some pretty good lols in this ep. Better than recent weeks anyway. Even though there was A LOT of Wiig, she didn't totally ruin everything, even if I did get a sinking feeling everytime I saw her.

Hader's Alan Alda was immaculate.

^ this! It was even better than the one on Running Wilde a couple weeks back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39PO0NTRlo&feature=player_embedded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHElwqpcsRw&feature=player_embedded

for some reason not on hulu, hader's alda is pretty amazing

uh you realize that Lorne basically gave KITH their TV show and made it possible, right?

uh yes, I thought it was clear that's what I was talkin about, as McKinney on SNL was as forgettable as anything else that black hole has swallowed up.

yeah i guess i kinda misread your post

Hader's Alan Alda was immaculate.

^ this! It was even better than the one on Running Wilde a couple weeks back.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, October 31, 2010 3:03 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

disagree, but both were great

the old Star Wars audition skits w/ Kevin Spacey are super classic so the BTTF thing being a throwback to that was great, wish they did that kind of thing more often.

Probably not on hulu due to Huey Lewis music.

They're on there as part of the full episode, just not as clips.

ah! yeah no way i'm sitting thru a full episode, even w/ hamm. did they ever get around to putting up hader doing pacino checking his bank balance?

Too much Wiig ruined it for me.

Alda impersonation was amazing.

scarjo's monologue is so obv written by john mulaney -- has his exact cadence & joke style

figured Woody Allen rubbed off on her (in more ways than one, hiyo!)

big ups on the vanessa bayer meta

oh hey it's another denzel impersonation, cool

ScarJo on SNL = 90 minutes of Jersey-voice.

i give them a pass on that because the first time they didn't actually write a real sketch for the denzel impression to appear in

that opening bit though, jesus christ

Denzel bit probably the best use of Pharoah so far and also by far the funniest thing that's been on tonight.

scarjo was much funnier in the "unstoppable" thing by far tho

I liked the Denzel at Macy's bit far more than the Unstoppable parody. But I'd be fine not seeing another Denzel bit all season.

i don't think kanye really says "fam" all that much...

yeah what was that

it's shameful that snl has gone so long without someone who could at least attempt a kanye character though

pretty sure samberg is the only person on this show who reliably makes me larf

I can't remember what the love Kenan/hate Kenan balance is like around here, but I love when he gets a chance to shout with a shortened cadence like he did when would fall on the floor.

vietnam? what was that?

i didn't really catch that school kid sketch because i was reading about interrogation techniques but maybe it was funny?