Saturday Night Live

Don't forget the sketch where Farley, Sandler, and Jay Mohr ended their runs by jumping into the Polar Bear pit!

I wish Armisen's final episode was a 90-minute Californians sketch

here's hoping they won't attempt to continue the Californians w/o Armisen and Hader

farley and sandler were fired after the season at nbc's behest so that definitely wasn't meant to be a send off

oh for real? why'd they get canned?

this was during the saturday night dead era (which i suspect might be better than it's rep and just suffered from being in the immediate shadow of the best era of snl) so ratings and rep were poor and nbc was untouchable in primetime w/ must see tv and more importantly had scored a huge huge success w/ friends which apparently the suits had had heavy involvement in developing and so they felt they knew everything and iirc this was probably the time the balance of power between lorne and the suits was most out of whack - they were suggesting not doing it live (which would save a ton of money), using phil hartman's clinton on leno (this happened), other crazy stuff. also new blood w/ specific demand that sandler, farley, and tim meadows be fired (which is odd cuz sandler and i believe farley had had some movie success by this point), michaels managed to save meadows job (i don't know if it was cuz he figured sandler and farley would be just fine or if he recognized meadows as a hartman glue type). i would also guess that network may have said 'hire more women' (this was also in the immediate aftermath of the garofalo stuff in the press and some sexual harrassment claims about farley) though maybe michaels took the initiative there. i don't know if there was any bad blood as a result - farley came back to host very shortly before he died (i've never caught a rerun but i recall there were alot of jokes about how it was obv chris farley was going to die soon) but sandler's never hosted and somehow, unlike w/ eddie murphy, his not coming back has not been remarked on much in the press or whatever.

yeah Billy Madison and Tommy Boy were both #1 at the box office in the months before they were fired. i don't think anyone really had a concept of how popular they were or would be, though, especially Sandler.

alec baldwin has a line in the oral history about how he never imagined some of the cast members he worked w/ would become movie stars and it's pretty apparent he's talking about sandler. interesting to me also that michaels produced tommy boy and black sheep but didn't produce any of the sandler movies even though there were definitely snl ppl - sandler and mcdonald and farley obv but also robert smigel and jim downey and tim herlihy - involved w/ billy madison. maybe there's bad blood there but there have been plenty of ppl whose exits or stays were less than graceful who came back at some point - ben stiller, chris rock, hell even norm macdonald came back to sing 'goodnight saigon'.

Lorne-produced movie careers so rarely work out well, kinda makes sense that Sandler did so well without that 'help.' but weird to think that Lorne was evidently not too hot on Sandler considering that his mini-me Fallon was later his golden boy.

billy madison-happy gilmore-wedding singer straight classics in my book, no shame in saying it. will rep for 50 first dates to some extent also (not the soundtrack though). beyond that (and not counting punchdrunk love or funny ppl or whatever outlier) not so much, though i do figure he's paid for at least a couple of steve buscemi and john turturro's homes and grown ups has a great soundtrack (movie is horrid).

wedding singer is enough of a harmless rom com to me that i can stomach it, but in general i'm done with sandler, he's the white tyler perry to me.

Murphy did come back; he hosted the '84 x-mas show (which included the best thing he ever did, the "White Like Eddie" film). His not hosting since then probably isn't about bad blood, but more likely due to not having any connection to/relationship with Lorne (Murphy's tenure was during the Ebersol years).

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nah they've invited him back for the anniversary specials and he's declined. in rolling stone last year (or maybe the year before - whenever he made that shitty brett ratner movie w/ ben stiller that was supposed to show us that 'old eddie' is back) he said he had considered coming back to host and then david spade made some crack about him on hollywood minute and he wrote snl off. i'd always chalked up billy crystal never coming back to host to him being ebersol era (by all accounts he was loved while he was there and actually wrote sketches for other ppl to star in which is kind of unheard of for snl cast members) but julia louis-dreyfus and obv martin short have come back from that era so who knows.

xps aw, I liked Grown Ups.

i laughed twice, both times chris rock lines

Ah, I'd forgotten about Short and Julia. I remember the David Spade kerfuffle, but figured Eddie had let it go. Evidently not.

xp

Norm and Crystal came back for the 25th Anniversary special too. McDonald joked in his segment that he was just passing through on the way to a party at Eddie Murphy's. Hadn't realized Crystal never came back to host--I saw him on the 90s Muppet Show fer chrissakes!

Maybe it had something to do with being 21 in 1995, but I loved that season. Polar bear sketch and everything.

Not a surprise, but after a will he/won't he atmosphere for two seasons, Sudeikis has left: http://tvline.com/2013/07/24/jason-sudeikis-leaving-saturday-night-live-snl-official/

You can tell he's quitting because he's grown a mustache.

Paging all funnymen with solid Joe Biden impressions in their repertoires:

Please none of you actually attempt this page.

Auditioning for SNL.

HADER My audition was me as Vinny Vedecci, doing Al Pacino talking to his maid staff. Tony Blair talking about the new “Star Wars” movie in Parliament. James Mason with an expired gift certificate for a dozen doughnuts.

would kill to see this

That was the only thing in the piece that made me laugh out loud.

He elaborates a little on his SNL audition of the episode of WTF he did with Marc Maron a few weeks back.

This is like the epitome of Will Ferrell:

I [had come] in with a briefcase full of counterfeit money that I’d bought at a toy store. And in the middle of whatever Lorne was going to say, I was going to start stacking the equivalent of $25,000 on his desk. “Listen, Lorne, you and I can say whatever we want to say. But we really know what talks, and that’s money. I’m going to walk out of this room, and you can either take this money or not. And I can be on the show.” But it was just not a joking atmosphere. It was just tense. And I never get to do my gag.

would kill to see this

5:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E97QCU6LWxI

whew i don't have to kill anybody

New cast members: http://www.avclub.com/articles/here-are-the-four-new-people-who-will-probably-joi,102018/

delightful: http://www.avclub.com/articles/watch-bill-hader-and-snl-writers-commentary-on-jus,99458/

Cecily Strong to co-anchor Weekend Update, take over when Meyers leaves.

Beck Bennett, John Milhiser, Kyle Mooney, Mike O'Brien, Noel Wells and Brooks Wheelan will join the troupe as "SNL" enters its 39th season on Sept. 28.

http://adage.com/article/digital/t-funnyman-beck-bennett-headed-snl/243842/

Bennett is the straight man/ guy who talks to the kids on those A T & T phone commercials

Three exit, one moves to the writers room, and six come in. Seems crowded, and I wonder if it means Kenan and Jay (and Nasim?) get pushed to the fringes as everyone else tries to out-white each other.

old blogpost still relevant:

http://www.forharriet.com/2012/12/black-women-and-snl-when-will-we-be-in.html

Beck Bennett, John Milhiser, Kyle Mooney, Mike O'Brien, Noel Wells and Brooks Wheelan will join the troupe as "SNL" enters its 39th season on Sept. 28.

what's the over under on how soon some dude polls these

I suspect Bennett will be utilized as the straight man/authority figure in the Hartman/Sudeikis tradition. Of course, I only know him from the commercials, so I could be completely wrong about his demeanor.

I predict that Bennett will steal the 2013-2014 season with a new character named Pantsless Putin

snl

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Saturday Night Live's Race Problem

“SNL’s” all-white, predominantly male casting call got some minor criticism, but many defended the decision by arguing that the cast of 16 performers, which currently includes three people of color (and six women), approximately reflects the demographics of a nation in which white people are the majority.

i'm more outraged when i see the writing staff for daily show or colbert, they appear to be 99% white men.

best article ending ever

Was talking about this during the Emmy's. Noted that Jimmy Kimmel wins for having a writing staff that actually had considerably larger amounts of women then any of the other late night variety shows up for awards.

This is just the first step in Lorne's plan for an accurate representation of global demographics, along with the advent of SNL Mexico (which, yes, is a real thing that's happening and that I wouldn't even be aware of if people I know hadn't auditioned for the cast). I look forward to SNL Laos and SNL Côte d'Ivoire (the improv scene there is off the hook).

what's the over under on how soon some dude polls these

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the fuck is this, leave me alone, man. i haven't even started a thread in like months.

about the same representation of people who are funny

lots of lolz imo

the breaking bad fanservice is kinda bizarre tho. maybe lorne is a big fan

Wow the sound mix for Arcade Fire is SHITTY

"You'll feel like you're walking on clown nine" made me lol.