Kenan's done "adult" material - sexual stuff, race stuff - idg what the criteria is for "edgy" or why that's even important.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 December 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
Vanessa Bayer is the most underrated person in the current cast IMO
my comedy crush
― rip van wanko, Monday, 7 December 2015 21:24 (eight years ago) link
I think everyone on this cast right now is great except maybe Beck Bennett (he's... ok. I need to see more) and Jon Rudnitsky (has he even been in anything yet?). I still don't get why Cecily Strong isn't used anywhere near as much as she should be.
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 7 December 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
Beck did the Boss Baby sketches so: classic
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 December 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
boss baby was pretty awesome
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 7 December 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
It's pretty clear that "edgy" means the cast member that makes the others struggle to stay in character, folks with a preternatural ability to keep a straight face while doing the most ridiculous things. Aka, also the reason people tune in.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 December 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
ppl dissing kenan that is crazy talk
― rip van wanko, Monday, 7 December 2015 22:35 (eight years ago) link
tbf it's only one person
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 December 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link
Wasn't it always Kenan making Hader/Samberg/guest laugh during those "scared straight" sketches?
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 7 December 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link
xp k3vin and Hadrian XIII
― rip van wanko, Monday, 7 December 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
http://d236bkdxj385sg.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Kenan-Whats-Up-With-That-pic.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 December 2015 23:02 (eight years ago) link
Oh man, this guy!https://ionetheurbandaily.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/jimmy-mcmillian-snl-keenan-thompson.jpg?w=593&h=356Shouldn't this guy be running for president?
I like Reese de'WHAT
― Capitalism Is A Death Cult And Science Is A Whore (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 00:15 (eight years ago) link
i love keenan but i'm not sure he's had a better character in his career than Pierre Escargot
― Mordy, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 00:16 (eight years ago) link
kenan thompson snl characters poll
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 00:27 (eight years ago) link
me otm in that thread
you all are free to like this super square one note dude i am not judging you for it
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 8 December 2015 00:39 (eight years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/5LVYF2rZkT80U/giphy.gif
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 01:58 (eight years ago) link
Can someone remind me of that really weird last sketch of the night that was like.. A job interview, maybe? And the guy went nuts because the applicant ate one of his pretzels(?) when left alone in the room?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 02:20 (eight years ago) link
Years old, I learned about it from this thread - not from last episode fwiw
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/potato-chip/n12630
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 02:28 (eight years ago) link
Thank you pp! That was driving me nuts.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 02:43 (eight years ago) link
Vanessa Bayer is the most underrated person in the current cast IMOmy comedy crush― rip van wanko, Monday, 7 December 2015 21:24 (Yesterday) Permalink
― rip van wanko, Monday, 7 December 2015 21:24 (Yesterday) Permalink
Mine also. She's ridiculously attractive!
― daavid, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
...and funny and perfect in every way!
― daavid, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 20:42 (eight years ago) link
The potato chip sketch is one of my all-time favorites.
― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 20:46 (eight years ago) link
thank you for reminding me of the potato chip sketch! definitely an all-timer. jsut wish i oculd view those videos in canada :(
another all-tiem fave of mine that includes will forte is the one where he's a... high school? basketball coach, and his team includes host Peyton Manning, which sounds like it'll be bad, and has a LOT of breaking character/laughing from everyone except Forte (stay with me, i know this sounds terrible) and the whole joke is that will forte wants to pump the loser team up at half-time by playing them a song... and the song is the dorkiest polka-type thing (or whatever... not polka, but something "dorky") to which he has hilarious dance moves and he knows every time the silliest instrument is about to make a sound. god it's incredible. i'll try to find it
― nerd shit (Will M.), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
it's almost ruined at the end by peyton manning doing a dumb football endzone dance
hopefulyl this works http://www.fastcocreate.com/3046062/anatomy-of-a-sketch-how-will-forte-made-dance-magic-with-peyton-manning
― nerd shit (Will M.), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
the lines they wrote for peyton manning are so perfect and so funny that it's kind of a tragedy he's so lame.
― nerd shit (Will M.), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link
yeah i love it too, sudeikis and forte were so great together. sudeikis accent reminding me of maine justice.
xp
― balls, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link
Forte is instrumental in a number of all-time sketches. The spelling bee comes immediately to mind (the rare comedic thing that reliably cracks me up every time I experience it).
― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link
need to watch macgruber again
― balls, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 21:06 (eight years ago) link
Will Forte is an insane human being and it saddens me that he didn't overlap with Molly Shannon.
― you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
I swear, you could count the number of strokes he was having whenever he'd do Zell Miller on Update.
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 21:37 (eight years ago) link
Forte as Tim Calhoun is my favorite thing on SNL ever.
Forte as the halloween child-molester on the first Jon Hamm episode is amazing as well.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
I'm gonna echo the sentiments about not understanding this board's love for Kenan Thompson. Dude is the embodiment of mediocrity, the good will from What's Up With That can only carry you so far.
― someone's attractive cousin (st. nico), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 23:19 (eight years ago) link
get out
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 23:26 (eight years ago) link
But that's still pretty far!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 23:27 (eight years ago) link
does Black Jeopardy mean nothing to you people
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 23:29 (eight years ago) link
why you be sadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq2xW3Ie70M&list=PLR7_pvseCMqrXBkmIGSiUIGuJQkk2Tq3t&index=52
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 23:33 (eight years ago) link
Kenan Thompson is hilarious, foh
― poorzingis (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 19 December 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
What the hell was that accent Tina was trying to do in the Bronx Beat sketch? Granted, I've only been to Philadelphia once, but I think I'd remember it if I'd heard people talk like that.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 20 December 2015 07:36 (eight years ago) link
Bucks County, Pennsylvania (and parts of South Jersey), dude. It was exaggerated and not entirely accurate but a rare appearance of a Philly accent that isn't just New York/North Jersey.
― stupid children forever (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 20 December 2015 09:08 (eight years ago) link
Well she got the wooder part right at least
― Mordy, Sunday, 20 December 2015 13:13 (eight years ago) link
The biggest tells are "forehead" and "orange," imo. Cracks my wife up (I'm from the Philly area).
Didn't see that sketch, but watched a bit of this last night, because of Bruce and because the timing was right. Pretty much not funny, if not totally miserable. "Meet Your Second Wife" had an edge I don't usually see from the show. A whole lot of kids used as props in this ep.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 20 December 2015 14:27 (eight years ago) link
Not the best episode. Sometimes I think the more they put into a video, like the tina/amy and their posse video, the less time they have to work on actual skits.
Maya stole the show though, esp with her drunk singer flashback bit.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 20 December 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
none of your "all time" faves predate 2002, right guys
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 December 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
I like Kenan, but that "Jeffersons" skit with he as a director telling actors filming a serious period piece movie to do "Jefferson" tv show bits, was not funny.
Maya was good.
Paul McCartney always looks happy showing up--in the closing Springsteen "Santa Claus" number last night.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 20 December 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
Lost count of how many times you've brought this up now, but everything about the show's first five years being untouchable has to do with context. Decades removed, almost all of that era of the show is garbage.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 20 December 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
Jay Mohr brought up something interesting during a podcast I was listening to a couple weeks ago, and it's that the show rides a pendulum back and forth between eras where the humor is writer-driven and where it's character-driven and for the past several years it's been almost completely writer-driven which, in his opinion (and maybe mine too), makes it less engaging. The show is always funnier and more vital when it has a Church Lady or a Gumby or whatever to hang its hat on.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 20 December 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
Best era:
http://i.imgur.com/WUsdzTM.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 20 December 2015 20:41 (eight years ago) link