Saturday Night Live

this is still my favorite kyle though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lzf8kfHY6A

yeah loved bruce chandling though i was a huge fan of nicholas fehn and jeannie darcy also

fwiw I loved those Arcade Fire performances and the subsequent concert was so much fun, I might actually be getting into the band after years of my husband trying to make me like them.

Gross, what an unfashionable opinion to hold!

Their new sound finally made me feel free to not feel bad about finding them bland for years. Thanks Arcade Fire!

I wish the older ex-pornstars ads were still up somewhere - SNL and Hulu are way overzealous about pulling shit off of the internet.

ohhh i didn't realize that guy was Norm MacDonald's "nephew Kyle" on his short-lived Comedy Central show, those bits were funny.

shit i gotta try and get a writing job next season

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one good joke every four years, maybe you should

i think i was in best display names only at least twice

man i thought this episode was really strong

they've been meta as hell in the past obv. smigel was on the bs report a week or so ago, he had original cast best cast, will ferrell best cast member though he said that bill murray is the funniest man he's ever met; anyway apparently he wrote the season ending sketch for the first lorne year back (the anthony michael hall year) that had the studio burn down and lorne only saving lovitz from the fire. real difference in tone from this happy cuddly tone they've had the past couple of years w/ the kristen and samberg and then the hader and armisen goodbyes and then this week where you had all the new cast stuff and the hey everybody cecily's working weekend update yay cecily stuff.

yeah it seemed weirdly myopic, acting as if most people who watch SNL are hanging on the edge of every splitsider blog post about who got hired to replace the departing cast members

that said i thought the "new cast member or arcade fire" sketch was really funny though mostly because of kenan

also kind of a bad look how they still try and shoehorn in references to things they couldn't make fun of this year because they weren't on the air (blurred lines etc)

Gross, what an unfashionable opinion to hold!

Don't be mean to me just because my snapchats suck nowadays :*(

It's tough to be a Canadian in your thirties and not into Arcade Fire in Toronto at least

new cast member or arcade fire was amusing enough on it's own (and jesus christ at the realization that they have been on there four times now and lorne plausibly should know what they look like and who they are) but kenan really made it a great sketch. usually w/ dudes that hang around forever i'm like 'good lord move on, get another job already' - thought it about nealon, thought it about hammond who was actually useful, thought it about armisen even though he was a big part of alot of my fave sketches even in his last season (this from i think miley's last hosting gig never got enough credit imo - http://videos.sapo.pt/f2WqzOK041KtHFzFuDzI), but w/ kenan i'm not remotely tired of him.

also kind of a bad look how they still try and shoehorn in references to things they couldn't make fun of this year because they weren't on the air (blurred lines etc)
--J0rdan S.

Was shocked Drunk Uncle didn't mention candy crush

_Gross, what an unfashionable opinion to hold!_

Don't be mean to me just because my snapchats suck nowadays :*(

Oh I was only being facetious! I love AF and this violent aversion ppl have to them is really tired

it's just a reflector

i don't mind AF and was kind of stoked to see they were going in a glammy disco direction now but the sound on both songs really supports Whiney's "SNL mixes bands terribly on purpose" conspiracy theory

It's tough to be a Canadian in your thirties and not into Arcade Fire in Toronto at least

There's a long-standing IATSE-protected guy who mixes all the live music on SNL. His job is union-protected, it is not a conspiracy

a conspiracy of one

I wonder if they're mixing for the room and not the TV feed

is Jim Downey union-protected so all the right-wing political sketches can go on?

Does SNL's studio not have automated digital mixers with memory settings? "Typical bad SNL musical guest sound" made a lot more sense when technology wasn't up to the task.

i'm not very fluent in stagehand union laws/regs but i'm more fluent than most and iirc you can remove an iatse tech from a job as long as you replace them with a another iastse tech of equal or greater seniority

I don't know what the thing is, I just know it's always the same guy and he's been there a while. I am far happier knowing that NBC stage-hands have their jobs protected despite public opinion about what constitutes a "bad mix". I mean, on one hand, I've never actually seen any game-changingly bad performances on the show, I've always thought it's been pretty good. If I'm sitting there thinking "I am hearing a new Kanye song for the first time and it is live" then I'm not thinking about the mix. On the other hand, taken objectively, I can't think of any live-in-studio TV performances that have been well-mixed, like, ever. All the performances-I-thought-were-great on SNL I saw as a kid ("Doll Parts", "Caught A Lite Sneeze", "Red Light Special") are actually really badly mixed on second viewing

I felt the same when I heard "Radio Radio"

sometimes a bad mix is a benefit; my first exposure to 10,000 Maniacs was their SNL appearance and I thought they were a much different-sounding band due to how ragged the mix made them sound, to the point where when I finally heard In My Tribe my first reaction was "I had no idea this was an easy listening band"

i'm not going to post a million youtubes but IMO bands always sound better on letterman than SNL, and that guy is mixing 5 times as many bands a week

not live though

fair point

though tbf in AF's case there are probably 48 channels of audio so the in-house guy is probably just thinking "fuuuuuck yoooooou"

The SNL house band's mix sounds ok. Maybe dude pays attention if you put a sax solo in your song.

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AF had two saxophones!

live from new york's ok if you like saxophones

queef latina makes a better dn than a tina fey joke, imo

xp they weren't soloing!

Sun Ra's mix in the third season was surprisingly good. Lots of saxophones. And they're from Saturn.

^^^

haha

J0rdan S.
Posted: October 3, 2013 at 4:54:36 AM

that said i thought the "new cast member or arcade fire" sketch was really funny though mostly because
of kenan

the tall arcade fire guy was pretty funny

also arcade fire go disco someone on a blog somewhere must've predicted this

yeah tall arcade fire's meet the parents thing was great

I've never actually seen any game-changingly bad performances on the show

lana del rey was for a second there

but that wasn't exactly a mixing issue per se

his deniro impersonation was one of the funniest jokes of the whole nite xposts

there's a direct-to-netflix oral history doc on the greatest hits & misses of SNL musical guests just waiting to made