Saturday Night Live

yeah that cartoon was a sad TV Funhouse knockoff, i hope Smigel called up Lorne and yelled at him after it aired

Dennis Perrin on the memorial for Tom Davis in Studio 8H:

Murray recalled how Tom saved him in a meeting, when Murray was new to the cast and dying slowly each week. Murray pitched Nick the Lounge Singer, but had no ending for it. Tom said, "I'll help Billy finish the sketch," which Murray confessed reversed his fortunes on the show. Murray choked up a bit remembering Tom, and spoke of the love he had for many in the room.

Franken verged on tears through much of his eulogy. He painted an impressionistic picture of Franken and Davis, starting as teens cracking each other up in a Minneapolis basement, learning their craft in LA clubs before moving east to work on SNL. Success, shared joy, disappointment, eventual break up — Franken and Davis experienced it all. You saw this history in Franken's expressions, something he did little to hide.

The concluding point, shared by all the speakers, was that Tom was a model for how to die. No self-pity. No anger. Acceptance of fate. Embracement of life. The last time I saw Tom he was clearly wasting away, yet he mocked his cancer while remaining upbeat. According to his wife, Mimi Raleigh, Tom left this world with a smile on his face. I definitely believe that.

http://splitsider.com/2012/12/saying-goodbye-to-tom-davis-and-letting-go-of-snl/

2 chainz

shouldve been a 1/2 hr 2 chainz set considering how bad the 1st 30 mins of this show was

thought this was irredeemable until Mulroney and Maine

Maine Justice is fucking ALL-TIME! Best sketch I've seen on SNL in years.

"once I got banged to death, then I got banged back to life after five minutes. thanks crystals!"

xp are you... serious?

Absolutely.

D-:

It would've been even funnier if they hadn't explained why these cajuns were all in Maine, but even with that it was still the most batshit and exuberant sketch in recent memory. Sudeikis channeling Carvey was ace, Foxx breaking uncontrollably, Charlie Day cameo, Mardi Gras band as the button, "hush your butts!", everything.

Yeah, I was laughing all through that. Sorry, flopson.

Maine Justice was absolutely shockingly good

i missed the rest of the episode so i think my expectations were just relatively un-lowered compared to yours, presuming you watched it from the beginning

rest of the episode up to that sketch

"once I got banged to death, then I got banged back to life after five minutes. thanks crystals!"

― some dude, Sunday, December 9, 2012 12:56 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was great. "Gamour!"

yeah. last sketch before the end is hit-or-miss but always at least tries to be a sketch.

Traditionally, the final sketch has been the repository of bland shittiness/shitty blandness. But weirdly, they've started keeping some of the best sketches for the end. What, are they trying to ensure everyone stays tuned for Live From Daryl's House?

(at least, that's what comes on my NBC station after SNL)

I thought this one was one of the best episodes of the past few years. Nothing wincingly bad.

I thought the first half was pretty bad, though I enjoyed the monologue. I thought Tyler Perry was an ok idea and executed really well but just not that funny. I really don't like the j-pop skit. Maybe a little bit the first time and sometimes guests add a bit to it, like Jamie Foxx's no doubt deliberate callback to The Last Dragon. When they came back with another game show skit I was like "oh god no, not another game show" but as soon as they announced it I was dying. Especially since I IMMEDIATELY said "they should have Rupert Everett on there too", so when that happened we were dying.

Charlie Day was great.

For a Martin Short-hosted Christmas episode, that was okay. He was even funny here and there, mostly in the royal OB-GYN sketch.

said it before but sudeikis in what up with that will never fail to remind me that humans have an endless capacity for joy.

felt like i appreciate the episode more because of reading the recent Martin Short profile in Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/01/martin-short-hollywoods-most-beloved

folks caught sam jackson cursing on "what up", right?

it actually kinda passed me by, my wife had to tell me what just happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqd-MjeNTzc
Love Kenan's "That costs money!"

Yeah, I did. I was all "oh Samuel L. Jackson, noooo".

Kenan reacted like a PRO!

I didn't catch Jackson's follow-up "This is bullshit!" though.

Yeah, I picked that up live too.

I missed Carrie's reaction because I was doing the math for two obscenity outbursts in my head.

bar mitzvah kid was good, also.

I believe that the purpose of the gyno sketch was to break Bill Hader. Can't have another Stefon appearance so soon? Translate the same idea to a new setting!

my fav sketch of the night was the weird 'old friends' thing w/ Martin Short and Fred Armisen -- can easily get annoyed with both of those guys but it was fun to see them play off of each other in a way that utilized each guy's unique weirdness

Samuel L. Jackson ‏@SamuelLJackson
I only said FUH not FUCK! K was sposed to cut off da BULLSHIT, blew it!! pic.twitter.com/XLKgYTeT

see if i was someone like SLJ and i was just hanging out at SNL and they wanted to put me in a sketch, i'd drop the f-bomb on purpose, and write a check for whatever the fine would be before even leaving the building

"i was in three star wars movies, keep the change"

Why can't Secret Santa just be openly gay? Hello, it's 2010!

but don't tell my parents.

Thanks for posting that VF piece, some dude. Great read.

usually during the xmas episode everyone goes out and skates in the Rockefeller Center ice skating rink; what happened :(

http://www.avclub.com/articles/10to1-odds-19-bizarre-sketches-from-saturday-night,91162/

this is kind of a fun article but this will always be the definitive 10-to-one SNL sketch for me: http://snltranscripts.jt.org/97/97pbible.phtml

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/shirtless-bible-salesmen/1354388/

god that sketch was bombing with the audience but it was so fucking funny

oddly i didn't even remember that will ferrell was in that sketch, in my memory it was just tim meadows as a lone shirtless bible salesman. but i do remember catching it at the end of the show and just being like "..."

I had never seen that one, the writing is just totally bizarre.

Here's one with no writing at all, I still bring this up almost 25 years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV7Qz640OeM

I had never seen this one until someone mentioned it in the comments of that AV Club piece. Sudeikis and Forte always go all in, love those guys.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/potato-chip/1182388/

Ohhh, yeah, the potato chip sketch was a great one. Will Ferrell (and Adam McKay) dominated the 10-to-1 back in the day: the bad doctor sketches, TGI Friday, Ride The Snake.

SNL should seriously put out a 10-to-1 compilation DVD. Those tend to be the sketches I point SNL haters towards.

jesus i'd never seen that. dying!

I had to watch it again just to see how many ways Will Forte pronounced "potato." Blake Lively is surprisingly game there, too.

Yeah, as one of the commenters noted, for Lively to not completely break as Forte goes more and more ballistic is really quite something.