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)
― and I scream Fieri Eiffel Tower High (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 10 December 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
I thought this one was one of the best episodes of the past few years. Nothing wincingly bad.
― nickn, Monday, 10 December 2012 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Monday, 10 December 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
For a Martin Short-hosted Christmas episode, that was okay. He was even funny here and there, mostly in the royal OB-GYN sketch.
― flared bass (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 16 December 2012 12:26 (eleven years ago) link
said it before but sudeikis in what up with that will never fail to remind me that humans have an endless capacity for joy.
― Clay, Sunday, 16 December 2012 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
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
― some dude, Sunday, 16 December 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
folks caught sam jackson cursing on "what up", right?
― s.clover, Sunday, 16 December 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
it actually kinda passed me by, my wife had to tell me what just happened
― some dude, Sunday, 16 December 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqd-MjeNTzcLove Kenan's "That costs money!"
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 16 December 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I did. I was all "oh Samuel L. Jackson, noooo".
Kenan reacted like a PRO!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 16 December 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't catch Jackson's follow-up "This is bullshit!" though.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 16 December 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 16 December 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
bar mitzvah kid was good, also.
― s.clover, Sunday, 16 December 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 16 December 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
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
― some dude, Sunday, 16 December 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
Samuel L. Jackson @SamuelLJacksonI only said FUH not FUCK! K was sposed to cut off da BULLSHIT, blew it!! pic.twitter.com/XLKgYTeT
― Gukbe, Sunday, 16 December 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
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
― some dude, Sunday, 16 December 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
"i was in three star wars movies, keep the change"
Why can't Secret Santa just be openly gay? Hello, it's 2010!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 16 December 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
but don't tell my parents.
― s.clover, Sunday, 16 December 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for posting that VF piece, some dude. Great read.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 16 December 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
usually during the xmas episode everyone goes out and skates in the Rockefeller Center ice skating rink; what happened :(
― epic album: the pluto (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 17 December 2012 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
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
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/shirtless-bible-salesmen/1354388/
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
god that sketch was bombing with the audience but it was so fucking funny
― joint keefs of staff (m bison), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
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 "..."
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Sailor-neighbor of Chaucer's wife (Tubby) (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
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/
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 January 2013 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― (hcnuL dlO) * (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 January 2013 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
SNL should seriously put out a 10-to-1 compilation DVD. Those tend to be the sketches I point SNL haters towards.
― (hcnuL dlO) * (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 January 2013 11:15 (eleven years ago) link
jesus i'd never seen that. dying!
― goole, Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
I had to watch it again just to see how many ways Will Forte pronounced "potato." Blake Lively is surprisingly game there, too.
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, as one of the commenters noted, for Lively to not completely break as Forte goes more and more ballistic is really quite something.
― Sailor-neighbor of Chaucer's wife (Tubby) (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
Also noted, why does NASA look like a used-car salesman's office?
― Sailor-neighbor of Chaucer's wife (Tubby) (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://theforvm.org/files/thats-the-joke.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxj0-v_lnYY&feature=player_detailpage#t=9s
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 27 January 2013 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know what's going on in this high school sketch - is it a Glee reference? - but I can't stop laughing at the sound of Hader's voice.
― boxall, Sunday, 27 January 2013 05:01 (eleven years ago) link
every sketch is abt gay ppl / double polo, popped collars or both
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 27 January 2013 05:02 (eleven years ago) link
that said, i would watch the shit outta sopranos jr.
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 27 January 2013 05:03 (eleven years ago) link
the firefighter sketch was sort of great. just letting hader chew scenery.
― s.clover, Sunday, 27 January 2013 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
This skit is terrible.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 27 January 2013 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
ban digital shorts
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 27 January 2013 05:07 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the Rosetta Stone ad.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 27 January 2013 05:08 (eleven years ago) link
kendrick does not sound v good
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 27 January 2013 05:12 (eleven years ago) link
"you're still in philadelphia"
― s.clover, Sunday, 27 January 2013 05:22 (eleven years ago) link
I'm on a dvr delay, so I just now noticed this Lonely Island track in the digital short is built on a Joy Formidable sample.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 27 January 2013 05:40 (eleven years ago) link
sadface at Kendrick, he sounded super tired to me
― Bel-Air the Fresh Prince, sitting in a chair (DJP), Sunday, 27 January 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
i thought this episode (with a few exceptions) had a lot of genuinely funny sketches, and also i thought kendrick lamar (and his band) was super fun to watch. dunno why i am so enthusiastic about it, but i enjoyed it enough to look for this thread and say i liked it.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Sunday, 27 January 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
kendrick and the band sounded good by snl sound standards. much better than heyho last week.
― Garth Brooks In ... The Life of (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 27 January 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
Adam Levine was surprisingly competent. I liked his Nev impression in the Catfish sketch.
― Ulna (Nicole), Sunday, 27 January 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link