Saturday Night Live

not as funny

not as funny

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, October 18, 2018 3:13 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kate is def in that Key & Peele vein of people who just have completely mastered this as an artform and craft, which I guess doesn't mean they necessarily has the personal touch of a Wiig or a Farrell or whoever

I feel like I would've liked Farrell more in SNL if he hadn't had that terrible recurring cheerleader character.

It’s a complete misconception to play Trump as a louder version of his IRL persona, the joke would be to play him as totally competent and soft spoken and thoughtful behind the scenes.
― omar little, Thursday, October 18, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wfPlgKFh8

mckinnon also seems to have graduated to a stage where she doesn't need to be in that many sketches any more and probalby makes a shit ton of money anyway, while it seems like MIkey Day is in every single thing and kind of continually sucks

there's a guy named MLKey Day?

is it consensus that Heidi Gardner is the next big star once McKinnon leaves?

seems to me that she should be

McKinnon’s HRC was great. All the Trump people she’s played - terrible

Or maybe alex moffat will do something so that people will remember his name ( I just had to look his name up and it didn't even sound familiar).

Who?

Beck Bennett has a weird body

there's a guy named Luke Null that it seems like has never been in a sketch, I just noticed him when they had their Moms on at the end of the show

he's already gone lol no longer in the credits

Total nullity

https://www.metatube.com/en/videos/366136/SNL-Late-for-Class/ (sorry for sketchy websites, i can't access snl on youtube from canada)

omg the lack of laughter is astounding

Alex Moffatt plays Eric Trump. xxxp

haha wow xp

yeah I know, I just had no clue what his name was. Total void, besides him playing eric.

this is alex moffat's third season on the show. the only thing i really remember him doing, bar parts in sketches where he has few lines, is a character on weekend update called "guy who just bought a boat"

jesus that late for class sketch....

Oh I remember that guy (Luke Null). He gave me a 21 Jump St. Penhall vibe.

Luke (null)

man when you watch Hartman in that Reagan sketch, his timing is so good and his characterization is really on point. the current cast is just lethargic.

Current cast and skits are like they rehearsed for something up until the last minute, then everyone lost the scripts and they had to cobble together a show overnight.

Basically the SNL equivalent of zombie Simpsons.

It's kind of bizarre, since improv comedy has become such an industry-- that SNL continues to pull these non-entities from such a big pool. Like, maybe these guys audition well and just fail to shine in the written sketch format?

There was an interview with Nick Kroll I just saw, where he says that yes, he did at one point audition for SNL, and fellow comedians who didn't make the cut that year included Ellie Kemper and Jordan Peele. So clearly SNL attracts top talent, but that top talent for whatever reason does not always make it to the cast. I wouldn't be shocked if they sometimes come across a really talented person and don't pick them for that reason, worrying that they won't stick around.

I kinda doubt they're worried about that tbh

I do think a lot about the fact that Key & Peele got their start as third-stringers on MadTV. auditioning for a sketch comedy show must be a lot like scouting baseball or football, where at best you get it half right and at worst all-time greats like Albert Pujols and Tom Brady get picked in the 13th round

I don't think the show is failing to find talent, they're just not giving the talent much to work with. I feel like I could go on forever listing cast members who seemed anywhere from bad to slightly above average when they were on the show but who have absolutely flourished elsewhere: Hader, Will Forte, Sudeikis, Armisen, Chris Parnell, Poehler, Tracy Morgan, Maya Rudolph, Wiig, etc.

idk some of those people were better than slightly above average on SNL

yeah i mean they went on to "greater things" i guess bc they leveraged their strengths out of snl but imo the wiig/hader/forte/sudeikis years were some of the most watchable years in this show's history. what i wouldn't give to have forte back :(

evol's list is insane. poehler wiig rudolph average?? i think he has a point with sudeikis and morgan. hader was brilliant on snl. armisen went on to portlandia yechh

yea wasn't Hader leaving SNL seen as a big mistake at the time

what exactly has he done besides that weird movie with LeBron?

he just won an emmy for his hbo show

Barry! Xp

oh yeaaaah

never mind

He did a good Documentary Now thing

yeah but why work with HBO when he could still be on SNL impersonating Sheldon Whitehouse or someone

what exactly has he done besides that weird movie with LeBron?

― frogbs, Friday, October 19, 2018 10:00 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he just won an emmy for his hbo show

that's a very weird way to describe Trainwreck

the roots of the problem with this show are very clearly spelled out by Harry Shearer in his critique of Lorne Michaels. Everything comes down to Michael's idiotic insistence on poor working conditions and his own "rules" for what he thinks works

evol's list is insane. poehler wiig rudolph average?? i think he has a point with sudeikis and morgan. hader was brilliant on snl. armisen went on to portlandia yechh

― the dutiful and the banned (rip van wanko), Friday, October 19, 2018 10:49 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i got a little carried away listing names and forgot my original premise. Wiig was definitely one of the best, if not the best, cast member of the past decade. Rudolph was really good too. I honestly don't remember much of anything from Amy Poehler though maybe it's just that I only think of her as Leslie Knope now.

the roots of the problem with this show are very clearly spelled out by Harry Shearer in his critique of Lorne Michaels. Everything comes down to Michael's idiotic insistence on poor working conditions and his own "rules" for what he thinks works

― Οὖτις, Friday, October 19, 2018 3:38 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah why hire a ton of improv experts and forbid improvisation

There was an interview with Nick Kroll I just saw, where he says that yes, he did at one point audition for SNL, and fellow comedians who didn't make the cut that year included Ellie Kemper and Jordan Peele. So clearly SNL attracts top talent, but that top talent for whatever reason does not always make it to the cast. I wouldn't be shocked if they sometimes come across a really talented person and don't pick them for that reason, worrying that they won't stick around.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, October 19, 2018 7:19 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

john goodman, jim carrey and paul reubens (amongst others) auditioned for snl and weren't cast

I like Shearer's story about how Lorne hired him as a player but told the cast he was just a writer, causing everyone to get annoyed that he kept casting himself in his sketches

Carrey's humor more suited to Mad TV (for what that's worth)

in living color you mean?

Shearer points out all sorts of stupid things that hamper the show - why allow only a couple of days to rehearse anything? why insist on doing it live if improv is forbidden? why force everyone to compete for exposure? etc

oh yeah ILC xp

first year salary at SNL is reportedly $2500/wk, for the 22(?) week run, which is basically subsistence living in NYC. gotta be tons of perks but with Lorne's net worth over $300M that seems cheap imo

i mean lorne's a total piece of shit right? i thought that was his "thing"