Saturday Night Live

The Question Is Moot is classic.

I didn't see that so I'm not sure. It was hosted by Michael Jordan and musical guest was Public Enemy so I guess that was one of their "let's put some black people on" episodes

― Οὖτις, Monday, February 9, 2015 3:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I remember this episode well, as it aired the night Miles Davis died. Public Enemy asked for a moment of silence for Miles before their second song saying, "Without him, there'd be no us."

Rolling Stone ranks the cast members!

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/lists/saturday-night-live-all-141-cast-members-ranked-20150211

(something something one old, irrelevant institution reviews another something something)

man the pre-Hartman/Lovitz 80s seasons are a real wasteland (occasional Eddie Murphy brilliance excepted)

138. Victoria Jackson

She's got so much to answer for, but still...Ouch

Some funny stuff during the season of ringers (Short, Crystal, Guest and Shearer), but yeah.

One of the funniest things from the years prior to Lorne's return is Madonna's monologue where she shows a filmed piece of her wedding to Sean Penn.

Even though Lovitz was in the top 20 on Rob's list, he should've been top 10.

I remember the ringer season being solid (and there were some all-time classic bits: synchronized swimming, Murphy's "White Like Me"), but I'm probably overrating it since it was the first season I was allowed to stay up and watch every week.

The first page of that shit made me so angry haha

I have a soft spot for the assassination of Buckwheat because it's the first SNL episode I ever saw. I was at the house of some friends of the family—the adults were doing bible study and the kids were staying up watching tv—and it was unlike anything I'd ever seen before.

I didn't watch it again until the 86/87 season, though, when Hartman and Hooks and Carvey and Lovitz etc all came together for the beginning of the show's best era.

The Buckwheat assassination bit has one of my favorite Murphy moments, when the guy who shot Buckwheat (and who was voted "Most Likely to Kill Buckwheat" in high school) talked about tasting lime jello in a dream.

Bobby Moynihan deserved better imho.

That huge unsorted pile of new cast members bummed me out

Moynihan's placement was a slight and Jay Pharaoh's placement was inflated.

That huge unsorted pile of new cast members bummed me out

Kinda true, though. Also, I'd never thought about it, but I'm totally cool with Cheri Oteri and Chris Kattan sharing a placement.

I was sad Melanie Hutsell placed so low.

I don't agree w that list at all (quel surprise) - for one thing my opinion of the Sandler/Farley/Spade axis has dropped considerably since the 90s

it's kind of terrifying/awesome how many talented people have been on this show

Farley the best of the three and not bad really but Sandler and Spade are just awful

xp

a number of the most talented cast members (eg Danitra Vance) were abominably underutilized.

It's truly a shame that Pat is Julia Sweeney's SNL legacy, because she was so much better than that.

her WTF episode was great

I tried to watch her stage show (I think it was about cancer?) and couldn't get through it

I think Fey is spectacularly overrated, and i would have put Murphy ahead of Belushi. And Hartman #3

I've got nothing against Belushi (either of them, tbh), but the saintly adulation of John is totally mysterious to me.

Fey is incredibly important, though, and may have even been underrated in this list.

Also think Norm McDonald got the shaft.

You're high if you think Fey is better than Murphy or Belushi

i watched an episode of this a few weeks back with that country singer dude in it and it was hands down the worst tv show ive watched in several years.

Norm - again, I like Norm, but he falls into the same category as John Belushi for me where I think he's okay, he's funny, but nowhere near worthy of that kind of adulation.

Norm's standup is better than his SNL work

I remember that Michael Jordan/Public Enemy episode very clearly. Being a 15 year-old kid in Illinois super into the Bulls and Public Enemy meant that this felt like a really big "event" in a way the show had never seemed before.

As usual I cant get RS's f'ed up site to work but if they didn' t put Hartman at number one then its probably not worth looking at

Tho lol at young Gilbert Gottfried looking like Drake

man, a 3-1/2 hr anniversary special; how fitting. "What's the difference between life and SNL 40?"

got to vintage Belushi period last night - he really was compelling, his best stuff really holds up/still elicits laughter

like him berating Ed Koch during the opening monologue

Chevy Chase said that by the time SNL hit the air, Belushi was already half the performer he'd been onstage a few years earlier bcz of drugs. Normally i'd be skeptical of CC but not esp in this case.

You be the judge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuBhwEgi8qU

got to vintage Belushi period last night - he really was compelling, his best stuff really holds up/still elicits laughter

― Οὖτις, Friday, February 13, 2015 1:19 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Star Trek thing still kills me

even though i did watch the '76 Olympics, whenever I heard "Bruce Jenner" in the last 35 years i tended to think of

http://www.hulu.com/watch/2345

because

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNU90DQn5lw

another thing all these reruns has hammered home to me is what a bummer it is that there's this treasure trove of musical performances that will basically never see the light of day because of rights/publishing issues. I mean if they put out a box set of just the musical performances from the first 10 years or so I would totally buy it.

a DVD box set that is

I have the Year One box, those episodes are intact I think? Same with the standalone season sets, but I guess you're not looking to own those.

I had year 1 for awhile and got rid of it tbh

also don't those standalone sets stop at 25

s5 I mean

XPS That doesn't help in the case of the Ebersol years, which'll never get collected that way (losing us anthology of appearances by Fear, Funky 4+1, etc)

Yeah, they stop at 5.

I lost most of mine in my apt fire >:( so I'm planning on coppin em on iTunes

They are probably not gonna be making more of them tho

the Ebersol years, which'll never get collected that way (losing us anthology of appearances by Fear, Funky 4+1, etc)

1980 musical guests alone:
Kid Creole and the Coconuts
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band
Aretha Franklin
James Brown
Linda Rondstadt
Cheap Trick
Jimmy Cliff
Todd Rundgren
Funky Four + 1
Prince
Delbert McClinton
Jr. Walker

1981:
Rod Stewart
The Kinks
Miles Davis
Fear
Rick James
the Gogos
Billy Joel
Meatloaf
the Spinners
Allman Bros
Sparks
Elton John
Mink Deville
John Cougar Mellencamp
Charlie Daniels

I mean COME ON

i manage to rip a copy of the ornette coleman performance (from the infamous milton berle episode) from Hulu, and it's fucking fire.

(from 1979, i think? or 1978. something like that.)