Saturday Night Live

lol wasn't that same 'jon bovi' pic at the top of i think a da croupier thread about worst cast members?

the guy's done alot of stuff i love - ben stiller show, flirting w/ disaster, heavyweights, zoolander, greenberg, always game to appear on a great show that can use the ratings boost a ben stiller appearance can provide - but god his walter mitty sounds awful, every problem i had w/ tropic thunder blown up to the nth degree. kept thinking of alan alda in crimes and misdemeanors when i read it.

otm

it was not a da croup thread

has anyone ever even seen the MTV version of The Ben Stiller Show? it was a little before my time, but i watched the Fox show when it was on the air -- when the later was released on DVD a few years ago, i don't think there was even much mention of the MTV one in the commentaries or any clips in the extras or anything. i suppose there might be clips online but i haven't looked, don't know how hard it'd be to google and not get a bunch of results from the fox show.

i learned all about ben stiller leaving snl because of his ambitions to direct from that surprisingly good ORAL HISTORY OF REALITY BITES that we talked about on some thread a few months ago

― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Wednesday, October 3, 2012 7:09 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

whoa, i gotta read that

Defend the Indefensible: "Reality Bites"

i vaguely remember seeing (and enjoying) some of the mtv stuff as a kid. The stuff I recall was him trying to get the straight-man character to do some wacky musical business. One involved them in front of a row of synthesizers, another had them traipsing around in some "i still haven't found what i'm looking for" parody.

julia louis dreyfus most successful post snl career for a woman

― balls, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 5:06 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, but. Joan Cusack, one-season wonder, does have two Oscar nominations and I bet those two Toy Story movies made her made cash.

JLD was only on a single season too, right? Maybe two, but I don't feel like factchecking.

She may have been on for three.

She was on at least two seasons. She, Gary Kroeger, Mary Gross, and Jim Belushi were the only holdovers from the '83-'84 season to the '84-'85 "ringers" season.

(Fucking Gary Kroeger...dude was on THREE seasons?! Yeesh.)

re: Farrell as Caray, a friend of mine thought Harry Caray was some bizarre fictional character Ferrell had come up with. When I showed her some Cubs clips, she completely lost her shit.

I had no idea she was on the show for so long. I was mostly too young to watch then, but I'd see it every once in a while. I really only know her time on the show from just a few sketches I've seen.

Oh for the days when people only had "basic cable" and everyone grew up watching WGN.

Surely Tina Fey has had a better post-SNL career than J L-D.

tarfumes that is awesome

haha listen i love 30 Rock but Seinfeld is a heavy trump card

argument could definitely be made! seinfeld ridiculously more successful than 30 rock but fey obv more central to 30 rock's success. gave it to jl-d cuz i remember hearing she's the first actress to win best comedy actress emmy for 3 different shows, extent to which old christine can be called a hit is arguable and it's too soon to call veep an unqualified triumph too imo. otoh fey does have a movie career of sorts (did jl-d even attempt this? only thing i can think of is deconstructing harry. how did jason alexander and michael richards get movie vehicles but not jl-d???), big bestselling book, more 'iconic' or something. in any case wiig will be the clear winner in a few years.

own personal ws rankings may be unintentionally swaying me here

mean girls, bossy pants, date night and 30 rock, plus people actually know her from snl, dreyfus can settle for most successful seinfeld vet

that's larry david pretty easy

loved the 30 Rock live episode where J L-D played Liz Lemon in flashbacks -- "Why are you better looking in your memory?" "Because my memory has Seinfeld money."

No other SNL cast member has a big financial firm named after her.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/Dreyfuscorp.jpg

that's larry david pretty easy

boooooo

OK i guess technically she's named after the firm but still.. she's probably the only one who could have Lorne Michaels killed.

i know right (xpost)

now i'm wondering where larry david ranks on wealthiest snl employees

prob top 20 but not top 10? there are quite a few gigantic movie stars on that list y'know

would actually love to see that list, find out whether house of blues secretly puts danny in the top 10, find out whether denny dillon has a good eye for a land deal, etc

New Adventures of Old Christine did pretty well for awhile....did Veep get renewed?

New Adventures is in syndication, which is usually some mark of "success"...but then again, so is According To Jim, so never mind.

yeah syndication money is insane and as hobbies go curb is pretty lucrative. apparently he's worth around $800 million. for comparison tom hanks is worth around $250 million. i'm guessing lorne is wealthier than david but not will ferrell and probably not eddie murphy (i know eddie's produced alot i can't remember if any huge hits though). o and actual wealthiest is obv, again, jl-d but that's from her billionaire dad. fuck brad hall.

i liked New Adventures more than most but it was kind of a flash in the pan, after it got an Emmy and a renewal for the first season there was a lot of excitement about her 'breaking the Seinfeld curse' and then it just quietly plodded along for a 5 season run. i guess we'll see if Veep suffers the same fate.

according to jim was on from fall 2001 to spring 2009. ponder that shit.

when julia louis dreyfus was doing commercials for clairol i was wondering if she'd had some weird kind of amnesia where she forgot that she was wealthy.

sadly his vegas lawyer show with jerry o'connell did not get to be his old christine

...did Veep get renewed?

yep

Five year run for a sitcom is like a five year NFL career, doesn't seem impressive until you realize that like five percent of shows last that long

David Spade is SNL's king of staying on primetime with shows nobody cares about -- 7 seasons of Just Shoot Me, 2 seasons of 8 Simple Rules, and now Rules Of Engagement going into its 7th season

I just see Fey as more powerful in the biz than JL-D, I mean, Seinfeld doesn't seem to help Richards or Alexander, really.

Never realized New Adv lasted 5 years, seems like 2 or 3.

Just Shoot Me was a great show, never understood why it wasn't better regarded

Just Shoot Me was a great show for two seasons; it lasted for seven

Okay, I would watch a whole lot more of Kate McKinnon as Ellen Degeneres. Make it happen SNL.

FUZZ ALDRIN

oh wow, there are now two Muse songs I like

I was just about to come here and affirm my already held belief that Muse is terrible.

they are terrible but I liked that song

Now that I've heard my second Muse song, and I like it as well, I'm ready to acknowledge them as a guilty pleasure.

Kate McKinnon is winning this episode for reals.

She's great. Big Bird winning though.