Saturday Night Live

this show is unwatchable, and duh i know my idea wouldn't work outside of giving it up for one night to the apatow/jody hill etc brigade

wow, abby elliott is

a) chris elliott's daughter,

yeah i know, and it makes me even more bummed that she's not funny

the cast isn't really all that funny either. it used to be that the funniest people in america were on snl-- this was true even up into the ferrell/fey era-- and now we have... kristen wiig and will forte?

I love Abby Elliott, but more for the ws factor that her funny skills.

jordan u hatin on Hader?

kristen wiig is pretty funny, guys

I mean, I'd start a "least funny SNL personality" poll if it wasn't obvious that Abby Elliott would take it in a sweep.

She (Elliott) does the walk out Angelina Jolie performances on Weekend Update, right? It's hard to tell who that actually is. If so, she can hang around just for those.

it used to be that the funniest people in america were on snl

― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, April 13, 2009 12:54 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you are way too young for the revisionist nostalgia to be kicking in already

though to be fair snl is probably funniest when you're like 14 and loopy from staying up until midnight

Whiney you could do a poll of the current cast w/o the featured players (Elliott, Moynihan, Watkins and Wilson)

Wiig is so hit and miss, which makes her more frustrating. Gilly is horrible tho.

That's why I cherish the Lovitz/Hartman/Carvey/Hooks era. xxp

hader, forte and armisen are good. wiig is a one-trick pony but can be funny at her best

And I like Moynihan, whats up with the hate on him? His waiter guy is classic.

I DVR the show and have for years out of sheer habit. Usually just to watch the musical guest (and the YYYs SUCKED with the drum machine. Wow, has a guitar player ever been so publicly marginalized??) and the opening couple of skits.

The ubiquitous political opener hasn't been funny in years. Even with a retarded target like Bush.

The underage skit was pretty funny. I liked the Gilly skit but it's very easy to see that Lorne will beat that one into the ground, long after it's funny.

The Jon Bovi thing is kind of an absurd premise that could be really good, but the execution was miserable. The gay dudes from New Jersey was pretty spot on--they didn't linger and it was just brief enough.

Wiig is funny but I don't think she's as versatile as Lorne wishes. I don't think she's charming enough to carry the show like Ferrell or even Oteri.

all of the main cast members have had their moments imo -- Armisen is probably the one I'm most sick of lately but even he can be pretty good

i don't hate Moynihan but his worst is pretty hacky, and i don't love the waiter guy as much as a lot of people do...he has potential though

yeah hader is the one dude who i feel is failed by the writing, like dude was basically a riot in fucking "adventureland" and snl totally fails him. wiig is funny but her characters are so one note, and i wouldn't even definitively say that she's funnier than amy pohler who was a mid-tier cast member years ago

F = samberg
M = armisen
K = none of them really, wd prob K some of sudekis' characters but i still think he's damn funny

I get the feeling Gilly is based on something. Is Gilly Pippi Longstocking?

i think watkins has some potential tbh - just going off of this weekend i thought her portrayal of hoda was pretty good (as always) and her blogger thing on weekend update was pretty funny except for it being ruined by seth meyers going "AREN'T YOU JUST A SNARKY BLOGGER?" lol hello 2005

doesn't michaela do barbara walters when they parody the view? i like her

The problem with Wiig is that even when she's hitting the right notes, her characters just seem so mannered.

yeah i like sudeikis generally. samberg is sort of useless but occasionally he'll give you a great digital short ("ras trent"). hammond hardly contributes, and lol kenan thompson peaked creatively with kenan & kel, no joke

that was an multi-xpost

except for it being ruined by seth meyers going "AREN'T YOU JUST A SNARKY BLOGGER?" lol hello 2005

how did seth myers ruin it by pointing out the premise?

I will say I've been impressed by Bill Hader recently -- he has good range.

i took gilly to be some kind of nancy grotesquerie

http://www.gilchriststudios.com/images/d2s/09/Nancy.gif

I like Watkins as a versatile utilitarian player rather than a star player, though tbf I haven't seen her do an out-of-character character yet.

Will Forte will always have a place in my heart for being the voice of Abe Lincoln on Clone High.

bill hader doing the dateline guy is the only thing on snl i've seen in 5 years or so, and it was just a clip online, but i thought it was hilarious

I like that, too, even though I have no idea who he's parodying.

except for it being ruined by seth meyers going "AREN'T YOU JUST A SNARKY BLOGGER?" lol hello 2005

how did seth myers ruin it by pointing out the premise?

― mizzell, Monday, April 13, 2009 1:04 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

cuz the actual jokes were pretty funny in a childish way

watkins-as-blogger is fuckin awesome, if only for the "bitch please" payoff. kills me every time

gilly = raggedy ann gone mental

gilly =

http://www.nexternal.com/dreamland/images/blecky.jpg

Hader's Keith Morrison impersonation is definitely caricature, but after a bit you can start imagining the real guy as totally being that creepy.

http://thumbnails.hulu.com/13/908/62056_145x80_generated__uLeb-882bUaS9IofVSGg-w.jpg

your nancy theory looks promising...

the blogger character is really funny, but hitting on the angle that it's about bloggers too hard does hurt it a little imo

Samberg isn't really a factor in sketches, i am very pro- the guy lately cause the Lonely Island album but i like those dudes far more for the writing than for his performances

he blogger character is really funny, but hitting on the angle that it's about bloggers too hard does hurt it a little imo

I read this as "does hurt a little"

Wiig is funny but I don't think she's as versatile as Lorne wishes. I don't think she's charming enough to carry the show like Ferrell or even Oteri.

― The Contemptible (Dandy Don Weiner), Monday, April 13, 2009 1:59 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think Ferrell's run is benefitting from the rose colored glasses provided by a good movie career and cherry-picked best-of specials as much as any cast member from the 70s or 80s -- guy was an insufferable sketch hog in his day, at the height of their sketch lengths going on way too long, it seemed like every week's broadcast included at least 15 minutes of him yelling in a thong or something. there were a couple years where i straight up hated him.

xpost haha whiney

Is Darrell Hammond in like one sketch an episode?

One sketch too many.

^^^ REAL TALK xp

yeah al i mean i dont hate the writing on this show at all. each week they consistently throw 3-5 A+ ideas out there that either they underwrite or the cast underperforms.

I don't know if it's part of the del close 'chicago school' of comedy but it seems like an unwritten rule that in any bit with an eccentric character there must always be a proxy for the audience who is normal and 'clever' enough to say 'what you are doing here is both weird and stupid'
so seth meyers might be contractually obligated to point out the blogger thing, just like kenan has to point out that his being a suspect in Gilly's crimes is ludicrous.

this is really condescending to the audience -- smells like Lorne's doing.

i dont hate the writing on this show at all. each week they consistently throw 3-5 A+ ideas out there that either they underwrite

this means that you should probably hate the writing

Wiig has definitely been hurt by the lack of creativity of the writing staff. Oh, people like a character she does? Now she has to do it all the time. Now people like Wiig in general? Now she is in every sketch. Etc. I liked her better when she had more room to breathe.

Also, when Seth Meyers is your head writer, there is a problem, and I *like* Seth. He's just not a lead guy. They miss Tina Fey a lot, I think.

xp jordan yeah i guess, but my problem is how they end sketches most of the time. if i can get a few minutes of good lollin and at least one "wish i thought of that first" moment, i'm usually ok

philip OTM, that stuff bugs me a lot

what ideas were like that this past week?