Saturday Night Live

Kate McKinnon is the new Julia Sweeney, right?

jay is miles better than armisen

so, this thursday night thing.

i kinda like these things. needs more biden tho.

"girl from a party" = great

yeah that was fantastic

is SNL airing somewhere on thursdays? I've bene out the last few.

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.

ah, I remember the 08 ones. Nice! I'll seek them out and catch up.

love girl from a party

what was it?

"seth. seth. close your eyes. ok, now open them. ok, do you get it?"

can i use the n-word real quick?

excellent use of purse prop too

"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

can i use the n-word real quick?

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haha yesss

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.

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

Oh, I didn't see that bit. Totally okay with Applegate.

Christina Applegate http://www.christianmums.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/thumbs-up-smiley%5B1%5D.gif
Passion Pit http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg149/autumn59/thumbsdown.gif

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.”

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.

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.

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]

i remember that episode, i think i taped it

So, wait. Is there really a clip somewhere out there of Steve Forbes saying, "Ladies and Gentlemen, Rage Against the Machine!"

Drunk Uncle was particularly good. "You are not a genius. You are in a t-shirt."

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.

I'm still sore about Michaela Watkins getting released. (Casey Wilson too, but that turned out alright thanks to Happy Endings.)

I don't feel like he ever had any qualms about getting rid of featured players. Main cast is another story.

xp Fever OTM. Watkins was great, had so much potential. Genuinely surprised that she was let go, considering who they held onto that year.

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.

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.

trying to remember who lasted from the saturday night dead cast to the ferrell era - norm macdonald, tim meadows, who else?

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.

Mark McKinney and Molly Shannon sneaked into the cast in the season previous to Ferrell's debut

o man forgot mckinney (i guess that means koechner was there too maybe?).

I remember that 1995 premiere and the first cheerleaders skit, thinking oh what in fresh hell is this crap.

Took me a long time to come around to Will Farrell.

Same here.

For a short while, it looked like the show revolved more around Cheri Oteri than anyone else.

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.

i didnt learn to like ferrell until Old School, hated him on snl

you didn't like bill brasky?

Will Ferrell was really only WILL FERRELL in a handful of sketches during his first season. Most notably:

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/wake-up-and-smile/1400225
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xczm9g_ride-the-snake_fun

Ferrell didn't take a long time at all to become hilarious imo, thanks to Harry Caray, Alex Trebek and Janet Reno.

I'd forgotten just how awesome that Wake Up and Smile sketch was.

I remember that 1995 premiere and the first cheerleaders skit, thinking oh what in fresh hell is this crap.

I remember that as well, I thought the same thing.

yeah "ride the snake" was killer

but hated ferrell for a long time, even after he came into his own it just felt like he was in every sketch doing the same thing in most of them -- a little of him goes a long way imo

true SNL fans looked past the overblown comedic stylings of will ferrell and instead appreciated the nuanced humor of jim breuer