talked about showing her boobs
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
CQ is pretty funny on Twitter though
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Norm's 'Me Doing Standup' is my favorite comedy album. I don't remember his WU very well. I'm looking forward to any Norm bits in the Miller and Shales book.
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
Norm on WU is the thing I most looked forward to during that era of SNL. Granted, there wasn't much else to look forward to during that era of SNL.
― Oh, Delicious! (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
I like Colin Quinn. On Weekend Update and in general.
Jane Curtin got a lot of time doing WU w/ Tina and Amy and a much reposted joke Fox News.
― dan selzer, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
The thing I like about Norm is the perpetual glint in his eye, like he knows he's going to far and is willing to be not funny just for the sake of that knowledge. Like his infamous roast performance, or this, which actually is funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F6dXcW-_Fc
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 February 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
Harry Shearer had some fun anti-SNL and Lorne stuff on yesterday's WTF episode.
― polyphonic, Friday, 20 February 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
lol at Shearer's bit about Lorne's "I've never hired a Jewish male before"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 February 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
I completely forgot that Norm HOSTED in 1999?!
― pro stroke Johnny Gill songs would rub you the right way (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
Like riding high on the non-existent success of Dirty Work and the Norm Show?
― pro stroke Johnny Gill songs would rub you the right way (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
Shearer provided a pretty good explanation of why no one has their lines memorized---Lorne waiting til the last minute to decide which sketches will run
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
xp yeah i remember he mentioned in the monologue about being fired the year before, but now suddenly being "good enough" to host the show and how weird it was
― Nhex, Friday, 20 February 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of getting fired, everyone's been focusing on Eddie but it's kind of a big deal that Sandler came back for the anniversary, too. Hadn't he pretty much washed his hands of that place?
― Oh, Delicious! (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
Sandler always kept ties to the show by employing his castmates
Murphy never did this
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 February 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
Spade, Rock, Schneider etc. - Sandler keeps these guys working
(well ok maybe not Rock)
see why would we beat up on Norm when Schneider exists
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
I wish we'd seen more of that copy guy character
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
It's never too late for a movie.
― Oh, Delicious! (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
I went to look up Rob Schneider's filmography and was slightly floored by the fact that dude is 51.
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
anyway his last starring role was as recent as 5 years ago, which I find amazing
maybe there's hope for The Hot Chick 2
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:35 (nine years ago) link
He had a TV show called "Rob" as recently as 2012
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
Copy guy character easily the height of his career.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
SNL for so long has just underscored the futility of the whole process. Go figure, it turns out the more time you put into refining and improving something the better it gets. The whole artificial deadline of OMG we only have a week ... there's a reason the fully scripted/realized commercials and filmed bits were and always have been highlights. How's the saying go? Composition is just very slow improvisation?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 February 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
one illuminating thing from the special was how many fantastic skits/characters were taken entirely from the performers' auditions and built directly into a sketch
― f you see your mom this weekend, will you be sure and tell her... SEITAN (DJP), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
pretty much all of rob schenider's higher-profile roles from the past decade are in movies produced by adam sandler
otherwise it's mostly voice work for mexican cartoons
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
they should tell a Weekend Update joke about Schneider's career and then see if shows up at the next anniversary show
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
left an IMPORTANT hs football game with a friend to see The Animal at an actual theater. it was my first hate watch.
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
sandler always looks to me like a guy weary of friends asking him for favors
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 20 February 2015 21:56 (nine years ago) link
Gary Kroeger's POVLhttp://garyhasissues.com/2015/02/backstage-at-snls-40th/
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
I loved reading that
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
thank u, Eazy
ditto
― Tove Lo Tove You Baby (jaymc), Saturday, 21 February 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
Norm's 'Me Doing Standup' is my favorite comedy album. I don't remember his WU very well. I'm looking forward to any Norm bits in the Miller and Shales book.― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:19 (2 days ago) Permalink
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:19 (2 days ago) Permalink
Me Doing STandup is my favorite comedy special since Killin' Them Softly
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 22 February 2015 00:35 (nine years ago) link
1 great article, heartwarming.
2 The Harry Shearer interview was terrific. I had been wondering about whether there would be more Christopher Guest movies and he explains why they are so hard to do and why there probably would not be more. Which I had figured on, but it's depressing anyway.
3 This led me to the Andrea Martin interview. Which is sweet and uplifting in so many ways yet - to think that Andrea Martin could feel bad for a minute about not being on SNL - when she was essential to the exponentially more valuable SCTV --- makes me go all Hulk Smash irrational anger crazy like arrgh, crush SNL, crush SNL, crush SNL, crush SNL.
― Vic Perry, Sunday, 22 February 2015 00:58 (nine years ago) link
does anyone else ever see this at Whole Foods and think "SNL musical guest"?
http://villagefarmgrocery.com/media/catalog/product/cache/2/image/34cbcb55cdc7f11f2af756fd8a287707/o/n/once_again_creamy_peanut_butter_16oz_3.jpg
― thrifty grades of pay (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 22 February 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
I never get in a Whole Foods and I'm thinking it anyway
― Vic Perry, Sunday, 22 February 2015 01:18 (nine years ago) link
Gary K's piece was fantastic.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 22 February 2015 01:29 (nine years ago) link
as hokey as it was, the ending of Kroeger's post got me a little.
― pplains, Sunday, 22 February 2015 02:00 (nine years ago) link
Palin shit was gross
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 22 February 2015 02:37 (nine years ago) link
So gross that an adult in politics didn't start a fight at a party
― DJP, Sunday, 22 February 2015 12:57 (nine years ago) link
https://dennydillon.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/my-snl40-experience-by-denny-dillon/
― polyphonic, Sunday, 22 February 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
.
― Mon-El in the Middle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 February 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
The ways it aligns and differs with kroeger's take is fun, esp "OMG I had said its great to be back to someone, Eddie must have been told and stole it!"
― da croupier, Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
Also I approve of the anecdotal evidence that bob odenkirk will be called "better call Saul" by clueless passerby now
― da croupier, Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Pretty brilliant of her to come up with the phrases "magical evening" and "it felt like high school" I bet no-one at that 40th Anniversary special had thought of those.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
Kroeger's "man I wish I tried harder to be memorable when I was on" vs dillon's "my memorable sketches...ignored to praise bass-o-matic!"
― da croupier, Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
I think the disdain for Doumanian's season is generally overblown, but I don't think Dillon would've lasted more than one season during any SNL era.
― Ad Strawmanem (Old Lunch), Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
Wow, Denny. nagl there
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 22 February 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
She's obviously joking?
― polyphonic, Sunday, 22 February 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link