Saturday Night Live

first year salary at SNL is reportedly $2500/wk, for the 22(?) week run

$5000/week in 2013, per Brooks Wheelan on The Little Dum Dum Club this week

interesting ty

well that's certainly not enough to live a druggy lifestyle in NY, no wonder there hasn't been much of that in awhile

If you're an SNL cast member people will likely just hand you drugs.

well that's certainly not enough to live a druggy lifestyle in NY, no wonder there hasn't been much of that in awhile

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, October 19, 2018 12:43 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah yes, the subsistence wage of $10k a month

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

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, October 19, 2018 12:06 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes he is a total piece of shit

― Οὖτις, Friday, October 19, 2018 12:06 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

totally, i think there are def some ex SNL cast members who don't really gaf anymore who are on record talking about his shit tendencies.

Shearer is cantankerous enough that I don't think he ever gave a fuck and has been pretty open but also I think his POV is relevant because he is pretty sharp about how these ensemble comedy sort of things can and should work in general. I can think of a bunch of former castmembers (Murphy, Murray, McDonald etc.) who I would imagine have a p low opinion of Lorne, but idk how public they've been about it.

jiv, it's only 22 shows.

Murphy was only on during the Ebersol years (though I wouldn't be surprised if he has a low opinion of Lorne from David Spade's "Look! A falling star!" line).

xp

i think generally anyone who wasn't a white dude from the original cast has or had mixed feelings about LM, most of them afaik haven't gone all-in on him publicly but there have been a few somewhat dissenting opinions on how he dealt w/things.

This is why I don't watch this fucking garbage anymore:

Actor and former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Taran Killam said the show’s creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels wanted the cast to make President Trump more “likable” in sketches and was very specific about what he allowed members to say about him.

Mr. Killam, who appeared on “SNL” from 2010-2016 and played Mr. Trump on the show until Alec Baldwin took over, told the “I Was There Too” podcast released Tuesday that Mr. Michaels often told the cast not to “vilify” the then-Republican presidential candidate.

“‘He’s like any New York taxi driver. … I know him, I’ve seen him around at parties for years and years, and he just says whatever it is he’s thinking, and that’s his thing,’” Mr. Killam recalled Mr. Michaels saying. “You have to find a way in that makes him likable.”

Mr. Killam has been critical of Mr. Trump in the past, saying last year that having him on the show as a host before the Republican primary was something that “grows more embarrassing and shameful as time goes on.”

If you took every funny sketch SNL ever did, would you have enough for 1 season's worth of shows?

yes

jiv, it's only 22 shows.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, October 19, 2018 1:43 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes and for the time they're doing those 22 shows it's a good earner

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, October 19, 2018 4:58 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as sic corrected it it would actually amount to $110,000 for < 6 months work, for people in their first year.

have you seen the rents here?

Quidities and agonies

xp. yes

we're talking about people in their first year at the show too, like people that posters itt don't remember being cast members despite them being on the show like a year ago

the famously cheap-to-rent-in city of Vancouver

but also I think his POV is relevant because he is pretty sharp about how these ensemble comedy sort of things can and should work in general.

speaking of, successful sketch comedy ensemble showrunner Bob Odenkirk bemoaned the process of dropping pitches forever if they didn’t get up the first week, instead of developing and improving the scripts over the next few weeks. so that nothing that’s been worked on ever goes to air, it has to be some half-arsed nonsense that somebody first thought of a couple of days ago

Shearer said the same thing. It's totally stupid.

back when Odenkirk was on SNL, he was working with an incredible cast and writers like Smigel and Conan O'Brien, and i think even if you come up with something a couple days previously and you've got a preternatural talent for comedy you can turn it into gold. i...don't think the current group has that same talent for writing or character, i think they have energy, confidence, and a very good show on which to get noticed.

They paid Luke Null $110.000, which means they paid $110.000 for that 'Late for School'-sketch

no one in the current cast would be capable of doing this or even getting through it with a straight face.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/one-more-mission/n9473

"first year salary at SNL is reportedly $2500/wk, for the 22(?) week run"

how the fuck did pete davidson afford to give ariana grande a 100k engagement ring?

They paid Luke Null $110.000, which means they paid $110.000 for that 'Late for School'-sketch

― Frederik B, Friday, October 19, 2018 2:55 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he had to spend 22 weeks sleeping in the Port Authority Bus Terminal to bring this sketch to the world due to this miserly stipend

XP wise investments Big Dick Energy, duh.

jeweler gets ring back + non-refundable deposit in case of relationship dissolution, otherwise client is married to megarich popstar

Michaels (ne Lipovitz) put Kids in the Hall on TV 29 years ago, so there's that, plus '75-80 and the Lily Tomlin specials before that.

I think that is a decent/low salary for an SNL cast member and not obscene. I assume if you are in bonus region you are getting perks. I mean most of these people are unknowns when they start. Also that ring, whatever. Been to the diamond district?

Also they can be doing other stuff the other weeks of the year (and are highly likely to, given their newfound name recognition).

I remember liking that Late for School sketch when it aired. It wasn't funny, it was sad and kind of scary. Good for Luke.

I assumed the sketch was auto-biographical. It was Nulls way of saying sorry for having been an asshole at the start, which was also why nobody gave him any material. Or someone elses way of explaining to Null why nobody ever gave him any material. Anyway there are few things on tv as sad as when something like Luke Null happens, and every week he pops up for two seconds and reminds you 'oh, yeah, that guy's career is over...'

I think Lorne has always seen the show as hanging by a string. Keeping costs super low has probably kept it on the air so long. But yeah there could be a duck load more development put into the writing.

Although she did professionally well after SNL, Jane Curtin never received the appreciation she deserves. She was as precise as Aykroyd, more talented than Belushi. https://t.co/7TJVrmqVwz

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) October 19, 2018

^instructive "stopped talking to Lorne" detail

as beloved as Belushi remains, what a selfish trainwreck

I like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6UkvhvqkDg

"Political Musical" is good, too. "Midterm Ad" though -just awful

the best part of the midterm ad was the cat rolling its eyes

This was a pretty good episode ( the music guest though? lol). Loved teacher fell down and the benihana.

why are these people telling spectacularly unfunny jokes in unfunny skits unable to stop laughing at their own unfunny jokes in their unfunny skits

Amateur hour (and a half)

why are these people telling spectacularly unfunny jokes in unfunny skits unable to stop laughing at their own unfunny jokes in their unfunny skits

tbf, most of them are reading other people's unfunny dialogue off teleprompters

Che and Jost are terrible though

There hasn't been a cast member since Jimmy Fallon that has made me question the show as much as Pete Davidson. I just don't get him. He's terrible in skits, and they just have him on to talk about himself. Is that funny? No, it's not funny. For a while I want to say they did this with Leslie Jones, too, who was also not funny when she did it (and is also not funny in skits, iirc.)

I feel the same way, but I think back to when it was clear to me that Fallon was manifestly terrible and yet he was robably the most popular cast member for awhile and people still watch his show even after the Trump debacle. (OTOH I have a friend who was an itern on the show back in the day and she said that Fallon and Fey were the only cast members who even acknowledged the existence of crew/staff)

of any celebrity I ever interviewed Fallon was the nicest and most down to earth

agreed on Pete Davidson - hard to think of someone who is so uncharismatic and brings so little to the table. the navy seal joke is getting a lot of heat from the right wing, apparently NBC apologized? if he gets cut loose (doubt it), i suspect it'd be the final straw rather than the joke alone. i mean, Lorne clearly likes him/has a soft spot for him. remember when he was allowed to take a hiatus from the show to go to rehab for smoking weed? (...and then go on weekend update to talk about it.... ugh.....)

yeah I'm sure it was for smoking weed

I didn't get the appeal of Pete Davidson until I saw him in that netflix romcom. I like his weekend update monologues but never knew what he really did on the show. Maybe he's a strong writer? I give a shit about his eyepatch joke.