Saturday Night Live

omg "Po-Po" LOLOLOL

that sketch is really great

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/05/kristen_wiig_has_retired_two_s.html

As long as Target Lady lives on, I'm happy.

I miss Gilly already ;_;

Yeah, I'd only recently come around on Gilly, so now I'm a little sad there will be no more sketches.

Penelope, good riddance.

I'm prob in the minority, but Penelope and Gilly were actually two of my fave Wiig characters. Target Lady not so much.

maybe we should just have this convo on this thread to avoid everyone repeating their preferences: worst recurring Kristen Wiig character on SNL

work on the tweet is that Madonna and Gaga were filming some video together, possibly for SNL.

This is the list of the last 3 eps this year, with Gaga being the musical performer on the finale. SNL usually goes big to end a season, so a Madonna cameo thing wouldn't surprise me (especially with Justin being there too).

May 7, 2011 Tina Fey/Ellie Goulding (36.20, live) [13][14]
May 14, 2011 Ed Helms/Paul Simon (36.21, live)[14]
May 21, 2011 Justin Timberlake/Lady Gaga (36.22, live) [15]

(Ellie Goulding seems like a stretch for a US audience, amirite?)

they made us watch Fleet Foxes, I wouldn't put anything past them at this point

(Ellie Goulding seems like a stretch for a US audience, amirite?)

so was that leggy "price tag" woman with the huge mouth. the music industry is cRaZy!!

After watching that performance, I was convinced Jessie J was going to be HUGE in the U.S.! Oh well.

Jessie J at least has some radio presence here, though. Ellie Goulding is a blog star, and a UK blog star at that.

Lykke Li might've been a good idea. "I Follow Rivers" was even briefly on Glee.

I would've signed on for that 100%. She's awesome in performance.

Also -- does this thread load mega-slowly for everyone, or just me?

SNL did kind of break Adele in the US, though, so who knows what will happen. Tina Fey's a good lure to get people watching a particular episode.

Phoenix were also on a good 3 months before Wolfgang came out.

Huh, I didn't realize that the performance antedated the album release, though it looks like it was only about six weeks (early April to late May), so the singles were already in circulation. Also, the reason I didn't realize that is b/c the album leaked in March, IIRC.

Ah, you're right. I just remember the album actually being released happening a dog's age after it leaked.

Ellie Goulding was every bit the dud I expected.

Bring back out Kristen Wiig as Tina Fey's singing fetus!

Stefon, still hilarious. Now it's obvious the point is to make him break, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N24fVEJyQKM

this had me lol'ing & i dont want to start a separate thread for it atm

i like 'your song' ok but ellie has abt 5 songs better than that & 'lights' on her album imo

stefon is the best bit in years imo

OH YES

Lindsey Buckingham cameo on What's Up With That!

Star. Studded.

Would see an Ambiguously Gay Duo movie with Jon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon (and Colbert and Ed Helms and whoever that was playing Big Head).

ROFL @ the live action Ambigulously Gay Duo... hahahhahaha

colbert

I would sooo pay to see that made into a real movie

i thought it was just some lame rerun filler at first

that was pretty choice

i thought 'what's up w/ that' was too much meta & not enough sudeikis dancing

jon hamm is just the best, that's all there is to it

big head was carrell

perfect!

omg first buckingham and then this amibuously gay duo wow

paul simon kinda boring

idk i think this is kinda cool/based

at least listen-able, which is better then most of this season

There should just be a rotating Hamm, Alec Baldwin and Timberlake slot.

i endorse this idea

i'm just going to choose to believe that will smith set up his massive trailer in order to create a controversy so he could pull even w/ denzel washington in the "times impersonated by jay pharaoh on snl in 2011" race

i believe they are both tied at 34

Odds on Jay Pharaoh having a second season? Low, methinks.

is it me or has there not been much Ed Helms in this episode?

i would hope that they'd keep jay pharaoh around considering how young he is -- i mean i know he was famous mostly for impressions, otoh i would like to see them use him for more than just impressions of the same ppl that black comics have been impersonating since he was a child

I don't know if he's just not writing anything else, or if all his non-impression stuff is just getting cut at rehearsal, but he's a one dimensional castmember so far. Disappointing, certainly.

I hope they keep Jay around, he's really talented he's just being underutilized... they ought to actually write some sketches for him!

Paul Brittain is kind of invisible too. Vanessa Bayer and Taran Killam are the only new ones who really made an impact this year.