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Some rough line readings and either the audience wasn't on board or the laugh sign was on the fritz, but the rock episode was probably my favorite of the season.

i kept waiting, honestly a little excited, to see this atrocious rock/jones sketch people had talked about, and really the only "problem" was that it didn't have a really strong "game" in terms of letting the audience know what they'd be laughing about. if it'd been written by the regular writers, the daughter would have come out early on to say "you guys keep fighting! break up!" telegraphing that the sketch is a "these old people keep fighting, so laugh when they do that" sketch - instead it wasn't clear whether that was just set up for a bigger game, esp with uber dude coming in early on. a dropped line (which i didn't actually spot) or awkward cue card fixation (which is admittedly inescapable now) would barely matter if the audience was on board in the first place.

they've had the same director since 2006, so I'm curious if there's some more recent adjustment to the schedule that increases the likelihood of missed cues, unpracticed lines, etc

Did you see the east coast live version of the fighting couple sketch or the taped dress rehearsal version they plugged in for the west coast and online repeats?

lol wait it's official they did that? cuz then, yeah, west coast.

ohhhhhhh shit

http://www.pajiba.com/saturday_night_live/two-explanations-emerge-for-one-of-snls-worst-sketches-ever.php

watching the embed in that link, i vote either someone put the cue card in the wrong place or she forgot to look in the right direction, but the degree to which jones lets you know SHE doesn't know what's going on...supporting ensemble players are supposed to be better than that

point remains that when the audience knows what the fuck is going on in a sketch and laughing, someone on screen can forget for a couple seconds and it won't really matter

i feel like the show went from "everybody know your lines" to "everybody know your lines, host - if you're an athlete, just read the cards" to "everybody know your lines, host read the cards" to "everybody read the cards"

and it's not like people from second city, ucb, esp stand-ups, got the job because they were great at reading cue cards

Yeah, Michaels' no-improvising rule makes a certain amount of sense for technical reasons, but it makes no sense when the cast is almost entirely coming from improvising backgrounds. "Wow, you won ImprovOlympic? Cool, welcome aboard! And remember: never improvise!"

I thought Lorne loved it now when actors flubbed their lines! Looks like Leslie Jones could be the next host of the Tonight Show!

i cant even believe michaels is not embarrassed to continue WU at this time. It's easily my least favorite part of the show.

che's got potential. the whole show is so far removed from its best days that it's hard to single out weekend update, tho that segment's especially antiquated given all the better competition (e.g., daily show, colbert report, real fox news).

there are skits every week worse than "Patio Party" (referenced in the pajiba link above).

i gotta wonder if a big problem with this is that the writing isn't done until the last minute... i feel like if the writers of some of these jokes, particularly che's reading at WU, heard him read them weird once, they'd correct him and they'd hit right. doesn't work if you're writing it while he's in makeup or whatever tho. i like michael che, i think he could be great on WU, i think jost reallllly needs to do something different if he's gonna be good... but it's the writing pipeline that i'm really concerned about. this show is 2 weeks on, 1 week off at this point, right? could maybe the writers who got their dream gig on SNL uhhh write through the one week off so there's something prepped by the time the actors start getting back?

I'm guessing that people who are calling that sketch one of the worst of all time probably started watching in the late 2000s and/or have seen, like, 15 episodes total.

Show them a) De Niro hosting; b) 1980.

This is a show that's been on longer than any cast member has been alive! I've been watching reruns since childhood and I'd still have no place saying what the worst one ever was. Or even comparing the consistency of averages episodes as most reruns are trimmed.

only bobby and kenan were alive for the first lorne period. aidy, jay and sasheer were born during the second lorne period. that pete davidson could have been conceived during an opera man sketch.

You were on thin ice from that first sentence, but it was the image of Pete Davidson's parents fucking in front of a CRT television showing Adam Sandler that made me almost FP you.

btw, who is Pete Davidson.

a guy on snl, stay with us gramps

well shut my mouth...leslie jones (whose age is not on wikipedia) might be considerably older than everyone the cast if the credits on her imdb page are legit. would have played a police sergeant in 1998

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428656/

her website bio claims she was on an episode of coach AFTER college so....take heart, olds

http://web.archive.org/web/20140109052827/http://www.sandiego.com/articles/2011-11-03/leslie-jones-craft-comedy

Do you remember the first time you did stand-up?
Leslie Jones: Yes, it was in Colorado. I was playing basketball. I was on a scholarship actually. One of my friends signed me up for a contest and didn’t tell me until a couple of days before the contest. She was like, ‘I think you’re really funny and I signed you up for this contest.’ And I was like, ‘Are you crazy!?’ She’s like. ‘No, I think you can do it. I think you’re really funny, just go up there and talk like you talk to us.’ And I did, and won the contest and have been a comedian ever since.

What year was this?
LJ: 1987.

Jones started to do stand-up comedy in college in 1987, when a friend signed her up for a "Funniest Person on Campus" contest

That would put her damn near 50 years old!

Black don't crack, y'all. (I could tell she was older than the average SNL cast member, but I wasn't sure by how much.)

Definitely old enough to be fucking while watching Opera Man.

If she's somewhere in her 40s, she's surely the oldest person to be brought on as a featured player right? That's cool imo.

michael mckean was only 46 when he joined in the 90s, and i think he went straight to cast

wonder if they'll actually announce the record being broken if she's bumped up

I just now realized from those biographical details that I already knew of Leslie Jones from her WTF interview a couple of years back.

Show them a) De Niro hosting; b) 1980.

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there's that sketch in the peter sarsgaard ep taking place in a hotel room that fails from just about every angle iirc

But that episode had Peter Saarsgaard's SARS Guards so everything else was forgiven.

I'm old and have been watching since the early/mid 80s and I'm on the side of thinking the Rock episode might be one of the worst of all time.

I liked the Rockbama sketch though.

Jones turned 47 just before the season began, which does make her the oldest person ever to join the cast:
http://www.allamericanspeakers.com/celebritytalentbios/Leslie-Jones
https://www.facebook.com/LeslieJonesComedy/info

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/1041961/stephen-malkmus-talks-to-squir-o.gif

haha

TS: Scott Weiland vs. that squirrel

lol what is that from

joey gladstone era snl

btw Harry Shearer says everyone on the show has been reading off cards for 30+ years

lol what is that from

The "Stereo" video.

what the fuck series of events transpired in 2006 that resulted in peter sarsgaard hosting snl

am i forgetting a period of time in which peter sarsgaard was popular enough for that

dude didn't even have a movie coming out. like edward norton last year i think sometimes they just get a new york based actor who likely attends their after parties.

He hosted in 2010, and I think he was coasting off An Education and Orphan and was ramping up for Knight and Day.

Oh wait, y'all are right. Wikipedia says 2010, but imdb says 2006. So fuck if I know.