omg The Finer Things
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Sunday, 23 September 2012 04:41 (eleven years ago) link
okay this Evelyn skit is the type of thing you watch going "WTF is this" and then 4 days later you are calling your friends and singing "we present this to yoooooooooooooooou" and laughing your ass off
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Sunday, 23 September 2012 04:56 (eleven years ago) link
wow strong episode imo
― balls, Sunday, 23 September 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
also kinda hilarious listening to seth myers on the bs report and then so much of the episode almost pandering to simmons' suggestions
― balls, Sunday, 23 September 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
bless you, children of the Internet
http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferson/every-gif-of-joseph-gordon-levitt-doing-magic-mik
― Roz, Monday, 24 September 2012 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
he is one buff li'l twink.
And it fits in with SNL, cuz no jokes.
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 September 2012 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
Just FYI, Morbs, because I know you haven't tuned in for a while, but this thread is about a different SNL than the Cosell show that you're familiar with.
― Old Lunch, Monday, 24 September 2012 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
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― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 September 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
Kate McKinnon is the new Julia Sweeney, right?
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 04:05 (eleven years ago) link
jay is miles better than armisen
― instafapper (J0rdan S.), Friday, 28 September 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
so, this thursday night thing.
― goole, Friday, 28 September 2012 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
i kinda like these things. needs more biden tho.
― instafapper (J0rdan S.), Friday, 28 September 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
"girl from a party" = great
― goole, Friday, 28 September 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that was fantastic
― instafapper (J0rdan S.), Friday, 28 September 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
is SNL airing somewhere on thursdays? I've bene out the last few.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 28 September 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
they've been airing live 30-minute "thursday election specials" in one of the sitcom timeslots, mostly update desk w/ a political sketch here and there. did the same thing in '08.
― some dude, Friday, 28 September 2012 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
ah, I remember the 08 ones. Nice! I'll seek them out and catch up.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 28 September 2012 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
love girl from a party
― max, Friday, 28 September 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
what was it?
"seth. seth. close your eyes. ok, now open them. ok, do you get it?"
― goole, Friday, 28 September 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
can i use the n-word real quick?
― max, Friday, 28 September 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
excellent use of purse prop too
― max, Friday, 28 September 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
"I'm going to give you this website. I met this guy the other day, and it was like, my brain, exploded. I have to go to Croatia."
kind of a spin on armisen's topical comedian character
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 28 September 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
― max, Friday, September 28, 2012 1:11 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha yesss
― goole, Friday, 28 September 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Given that it was just a week and change away with no announcement, I suspected that they were having trouble pinning down a host for the post-Daniel Craig episode. Bruno Mars pulling double duty would seem to confirm my suspicions.
― Old Lunch, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
yeah BM as host is worrying, i'm sure HE thinks he's funny but who knows
glad Christina Applegate is finally hosting again, which she hasn't done since way back in the Married With Children days
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I didn't see that bit. Totally okay with Applegate.
― Old Lunch, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
Christina Applegate http://www.christianmums.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/thumbs-up-smiley%5B1%5D.gifPassion Pit http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg149/autumn59/thumbsdown.gif
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
AV Club looks back at '85-'86 season. And holy shit, I don't remember this sketch at all:
this season’s Christmas episode opens with Wayans and Vance performing the “Wrapper Rap,” a Christmas wrap-themed rap song that’s maybe the most racist thing ever, and that includes Jim Crow laws, the political careers of Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, and the founding of the Ku Klux Klan. I suspect that if the heads of the American Nazi Party were to watch the sketch, even they’d say, “Jeez, we would never insult the dignity of human beings that way.”
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
We are more than due for another weird failure of a season like that one. I'd say the cast changes have been so gradual, there hasn't been an awkward season like that since the mid-90s.
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
Well yeah, you only wind up with a season like that when an entire cast gets sacked and a new one comes in. 1980. 1985. 1995.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
Speaking of 1995, I never knew about this:
The season was also home to the Rage Against the Machine incident. On April 13, 1996, the band was the musical guest, and was scheduled to perform two songs. The show was hosted that night by ex-Republican presidential candidate and billionaire Steve Forbes. According to RATM guitarist Tom Morello, "RATM wanted to stand in sharp juxtaposition to a billionaire telling jokes and promoting his flat tax by making our own statement."[2] To this end, the band hung two upside-down American flags from their amplifiers. Seconds before they took the stage to perform "Bulls on Parade", SNL and NBC sent stagehands in to pull the flags down.[3] Following the removal of the flags during the first performance, the band was approached by SNL and NBC officials and ordered to immediately leave the building. Upon hearing this, bassist Tim Commerford reportedly stormed Forbes' dressing room, throwing shreds from one of the torn down flags. Morello noted that members of the Saturday Night Live cast and crew, whom he declined to name, "expressed solidarity with our actions, and a sense of shame that their show had censored the performance."[2]
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
i remember that episode, i think i taped it
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
So, wait. Is there really a clip somewhere out there of Steve Forbes saying, "Ladies and Gentlemen, Rage Against the Machine!"
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
Drunk Uncle was particularly good. "You are not a genius. You are in a t-shirt."
― flavor blasted (kenan), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
is michaels more ruthless about getting rid of & replacing people one by one now than in the past? jenny slate, paul brittan, the 'bitch please' woman. dunno how it was in the past.
― goole, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
I'm still sore about Michaela Watkins getting released. (Casey Wilson too, but that turned out alright thanks to Happy Endings.)
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
I don't feel like he ever had any qualms about getting rid of featured players. Main cast is another story.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
xp Fever OTM. Watkins was great, had so much potential. Genuinely surprised that she was let go, considering who they held onto that year.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
And when whole casts were replaced, it was because there was a new producer. So the only years with 100% turnover were the Doumanian season, and when Lorne replaced Ebersol.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
yeah featured players have always been as likely to bounce out as to make the cast - ben stiller and sarah silverman particularly prominent ones who made two or three sketches and then disappeared. genuinely curious about the anthony michael hall season now - that writing staff is incredible.
― balls, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
trying to remember who lasted from the saturday night dead cast to the ferrell era - norm macdonald, tim meadows, who else?
― balls, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
spade briefly right? i remember he felt very out of place and he had his own 'showcase', felt as attached to the rest of the show as albert brooks or andy kaufman. only instead of brooks or kaufman you got spade.
― balls, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
Mark McKinney and Molly Shannon sneaked into the cast in the season previous to Ferrell's debut
― set me on fire RAAAAH (DJP), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
o man forgot mckinney (i guess that means koechner was there too maybe?).
― balls, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
I remember that 1995 premiere and the first cheerleaders skit, thinking oh what in fresh hell is this crap.
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
Took me a long time to come around to Will Farrell.
Same here.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
For a short while, it looked like the show revolved more around Cheri Oteri than anyone else.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
yeah those early episodes of that era of snl where ferrell is either second banana or glorified extra are interesting. it's like the snl's where bill murray still hasn't found his footing.
― balls, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link