Saturday Night Live

I kinda like Kyle Mooney, but the contrast between those two sketches is pretty telling. Heidi Gardner nails the teenage highschool kid; Kyle Mooney can't even play a convincing Kyle Mooney.

― Frederik B, Monday, July 9, 2018 4:55 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

See, I think Gardner as the teen movie reviewer is a lot like some of Mooney's stuff, in that it's a very carefully observed study of a recognizable type. E.g.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc61ONXClhA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is3SalooJP4

yes! we're boys again!

yeah I remember liking a lot of the stuff from his youtube channel several years ago before he was on SNL. I think Gardner is better because her characters are more specific and she has more range.

And yeah, burning out great one/two sketch characters by making them come back every week is one of SNL's worst tendencies. Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer the first time was great, I couldn't believe they did the exact same thing the next week. "Meet Your Second Wife" was one of the best sketches they've done in years, and I'm glad they didn't bring it back.

That's kind of a nuts first Mooney video there, the Oscars one - it is just one long unfunny joke for 4 minutes, and the co-stars look incredibly awkward. I don't think I've ever seen Kyle Mooney in a sketch where he wasn't "Loook attt meeeee!", but then I guess those are the ones that his fans like?

I agree that Inside Socal is great, but it's pretty much the opposite of that first video.

I think what I'm trying to say is that Gardner is just better at acting. Her physicality in that youtuber sketch, the way she fidgets with her hair and waves her hands when she becomes flustered. Mooney mostly just starts talking slowly halfway through his sketches. I still like him. His relationship with Leslie Jones has been one of the better running jokes of the last few years.

That Bailey Gismert character: I've encountered a few adult women who acted/spoke the same exact way. Terrifying.

Those 3 Mooney videos are all terrible. Do I need to be high?

xpost I do kind of like his relationship with Leslie Jones.

i only know Mooney from AD, where he is funny because his name is a reference and he is just a random looking guy who could just as well be preparing your Taco Bell order and that alone is the entirety of the joke.

I like Mooney's bad comedian character, Bruce somebody. Beyond that, I can take or leave him. He doesn't stink up the joint, but I never, ever think, "Oh good, Mooney's in this sketch!"

Gardner is great, though Yerac is otm re: Girlfriend In Boxing Movie should not be recurring.

Really dug Chris Redd this season. Sometimes just his reaction shots -- e.g., as the FBI agent listening in on Michael Cohen and Trump -- crack me up.

Bruce Chandler is amazing

SNL is garbage and should be cancelled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgs81IOU0m4

I'm the verbal catcher's mitt and you've been caught

^^^ This was the moment where I first thought that Kyle Mooney sucks really bad.

Yeah, that makes me think bad things about Mooney fans.

Carey did you know Kali is a huge a fan of Kyle? For what that's worth.

He's nothing special in most skits that don't clearly involve his input, but I think his characters and skits and especially videos w/ Beck are great.

I only really know him from SNL. Something about him makes me mad. I also don't like mumblecore movies.

^^^ This was the moment where I first thought that Kyle Mooney sucks really bad.

― Yerac, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1:28 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, that makes me think bad things about Mooney fans.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1:45 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ed/e6/f6/ede6f6dc527cafa2434ab8ad5c4252e1.jpg

Yeah, that makes me think bad things about Mooney fans.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1:45 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like what a fuckin jackass thing to say

Lol it is shame upon shame that I have brought to my family by finally introducing ‘judging people for their taste in culture’ to ILX, which has withstood it for so long.

eat me!

This past season may be the first season that I thought Jost and Che were ok doing Weekend Update.

they're the most consistently strong part of the show imo. Jost is great, the Norm influence is clear & appreciated

Jost was completely awful in his first season or two, but has since improved dramatically. And Che's unscripted asides are reliably funny.

it must be noted how poorly SNL acquitted itself last night at the emmys. che and jost were remarkably tepid, and lacked chemistry. the armisen/rudolph thing bombed (this is the first time I've ever thought maya was bad in anything!). (I wish armisen would just go away, how does he still get work?) the whole program was a bore.

Armisen, like Jimmy Fallon, strikes me as an unfunny person who tries really hard to be seen as funny.

Imo Armisen is a sort of twisted straight man a la Will Ferrell. That is, his characters are huge and ridiculous, but what makes them funny (or "funny," depending) is that they are played straight and he doesn't break. The "humor" comes from watching people react and keep it together around them.

Armisen's cannibal character on The Last Man on Earth was hilarious.

I think he's pretty talented, I just don't know how he's avoided persona non grata amid all the weird rumors/accusations

I was just thinking about that. He had a wave of accusations and intimations that he didn't quite duck that came out a couple of years before the me-too thing started.

I’m generally pro SNL and give it a lot is slack but the emmys bombed hard. 1 or 2 Adlibs from Che were ok.

Mulaney thanking Steve Martin and Martin Steve was my favorite joke though.

Rudolph was in Away We Go which is the worst movie ever made so

I was just thinking about that. He had a wave of accusations and intimations that he didn't quite duck that came out a couple of years before the me-too thing started.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, September 18, 2018 3:59 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he also unceremoniously dumped his wife elisabeth moss

Elisabeth Moss is sounding off again on her marriage to "Saturday Night Live" alum Fred Armisen.

The "Mad Men" actress poses on this week's New York magazine cover in only overalls ahead of the April 13 premiere of the AMC series' seventh and final season. And Moss opened up about the once-adorable couple's "traumatic" union and their split in 2010 just eight months after tying the knot.

"Looking back, I feel like I was really young, and at the time I didn't think that I was that young," the 31-year-old said. "It was extremely traumatic and awful and horrible. At the same time, it turned out for the best."

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-elisabeth-moss-fred-armisen-marriage-divorce-mad-men-20140310-story.html

he is the Reynolds Woodcock of sketch comedy

afaik Armisen was never accused of sexual harassment or assault, just being an asshole / bad boyfriend / bad date. he's admitted as much. Could be wrong though - anything in one of the Gawker pieces? I don't remember anything other than, yeah, DDL in Phantom Thread style coldness.

I don't follow people/gossip news and rarely watch snl and I always thought Armisen was gay and a very nice person...
very perceptive !

hi mom

Most surprising thing about Armisen (to me anyway) is that he was married to Sally Timms of the Mekons for several years.

I don't know how long they were hitched. He was a punk indie Chicago scene mainstay, like Timms (who still is).

I can imagine Armisen marrying a sc13no without knowing anything about it and then dropping the whole basket of clams when he realised

Not sure how well SNL's 1991 take on the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings would play today, but I think it's still very much on point. Featuring Al Franken playing a Senator no one remembers! https://t.co/pNGeMJKCEG

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) September 19, 2018

anyone read the big piece on Chevy Chase making the rounds? depressing and I kind of feel for him. The headlines pulled from it are kind of out of context though, which is ironic considering that's 'out of context' and 'misunderstood' seem to be the claims the writer is making for Chase.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/lifestyle/chevy-chase-cant-change/

(the headlines running in other places are "chase bashes SNL/Donald Glover" neither of which he really does in this article)

Dude has always been a massive asshole

he does pretty much bash SNL

"I’m amazed that Lorne has gone so low. I had to watch a little of it, and I just couldn’t f------ believe it.”

“That means a whole generation of shitheads laughs at the worst f------ humor in the world,” he says. “You know what I mean? How could you dare give that generation worse shit than they already have in their lives? It just drives me nuts.”

Chevy otm

he does sound pretty racist though

he is the most tortured, conflicted and miserable public figure i can think of

really

have you seen our president