http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/02/saturday-night-lives-olbe_n_140102.html
he should just hire Ben Affleck
― cherokee flux (HI DERE), Friday, 4 September 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Michaela Watkins was great! Bad decision, as much as I love Jenny Slate.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Friday, 4 September 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Watkins always reminded me of a lot of other Nora Dunn/Ana Gasteyer/Jan Hooks-type vaguely WASP-y female cast members who were good at playing uptight and/or older women, which I thought boded well for her future on SNL but I guess not.
― definitely mayne (some dude), Friday, 4 September 2009 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
She was great! I don't know why they fired her along with Casey Wilson, who deserved to be fired just for having a hand in writing Bride Wars.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 4 September 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
that sucks. michaela watkins was awesome.
― mizzell, Friday, 4 September 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, no offense to Jenny Slate or Nasim Pedrad, but are we supposed to believe that there are absolutely no funny black women in the country right now? Keenan probably has a love/hate relationship with his job. He can't be fired, because he's the only black castmember. But he's probably tired of doing all the black guy sketches.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 September 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Even when they've had 2 black guys on the show, there's only been one person doing all the black guy sketches.
― cherokee flux (HI DERE), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually, Jenny Slate caught the attention of Lorne Michaels with her one-woman-show Black People Are Never Funny.
― definitely mayne (some dude), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Casey Wilson and Michaela Watkins let go:
so, so wrong. i thought for sure abby elliot would get the ax.
― smitty (get bent), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
call me naive but with the election of obama i think the climate might be right for black people to finally break into comedy
― i'm beasting off the riesling (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
black people are socialists who want to kill your grandma
― smitty (get bent), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
well duh
― cherokee flux (HI DERE), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
where my family comes from this has often been true!
― nabisco, Friday, 4 September 2009 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
it's a shame how all-or-nothing SNL casting seems to be these days, most cast members seem to either get fired in under 2 years, or get locked in for 6+ years
― definitely mayne (some dude), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Darrell Hammond also may return in some capacity this season, even though it looked like the May finale was also going to be his. He told a local TV station in Rochester, N.Y., recently that he was in negotiations.
i can't even...think right now
― Apply to become an Indie Artist (tremendoid), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
would someone please put this guy out to pasture already?
― smitty (get bent), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm just not gonna comment, i guess he's my white whale and that's thatsomehow i completely missed anything Michaela Watkins did last year
― Apply to become an Indie Artist (tremendoid), Friday, 4 September 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
really! she looks sort of like angelina jolie when they put lots of makeup and hair on her and that's about all she has going right now. she's total dead weight.
― HURL CROCKERY AT THE MOSQUE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 5 September 2009 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I am sick of this comedy world where Kenan Thompson is on national tv and Kel Mitchell continues to collect unemployment. I wonder if Lorne got the names confused, and is just too embarrassed to admit the mistake.
― Cunga, Saturday, 5 September 2009 06:47 (fourteen years ago) link
otm
― iatee, Saturday, 5 September 2009 06:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Not too happy with Casey & Michaela going, although my guess is that Michaela maybe skewed older instead of younger and Casey never fit in. I feel a bit more upset about Casey because they rarely utilized her being the zany one, she was always playing the straight/bit part in the sketch. She needed to be let loose more, you could totally see how her overacting and overdoing all these pedestrian roles just so she could get noticed (her "backup singer" role in Ras Trent comes to mind).
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 5 September 2009 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
lol "Ras Trent" just came up on shuffle in my iTunes...never noticed her in the sketch, though.
― some other dude (some dude), Saturday, 5 September 2009 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
ras trent = mad underrated
― k3vin k., Saturday, 5 September 2009 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
ras trent that cracks me up is when he shuts up when passing the 'real' rastas.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Saturday, 5 September 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that is def the best part...tho iirc he's passing black ppl, not rastas?
― the fleet bon fox jumped iver the blank dog (k3vin k.), Saturday, 5 September 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
it's inferred, shit still cracks me up.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Saturday, 5 September 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_truth/b143074_hey_saturday_night_live_sexist_much.html
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I found Casey Wilson to be grating and unpleasant in every sketch she was in, but the producers are bunch of douchenozzles if this story is true.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't realize someone named 'Nasim Pedrad' was a white chick
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
prodouchernozzles
― Blanket McCulkin (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
always got the feeling Casey Wilson was not really being given a fair shot, for some reason...
― Nhex, Thursday, 10 September 2009 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
There are plenty of examples of people who were funny before or after SNL but not funny on SNL. Casey could just be another one. I liked her thing on Funny or Die (or whatever) about reading comments about herself on the web.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Thursday, 10 September 2009 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Apparently Aubrey Plaza auditioned for SNL and did an imitation of Sarah Silverman? Clearly I think differently than Lorne Michaels because I'm pretty sure I would have hired her if she brought this to an audition, but whatever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Sa9hXA4mo
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha @ the halloween skull line
― iatee, Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:12 (fourteen years ago) link
lol man that's killer
― some dude, Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
i can understand if mean otm impressions of contemporary comics probably aren't what SNL is looking for, but then i think sudeikis's ricky gervais is one of the funniest things from the past couple seasons.
― some dude, Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
casey was the cutest cast member by far wtf
― hey hey hey, smoke persians every day (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Get in line, dude.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, Aubrey Plaza is my new favorite person. (gawd I hate Sarah Silverman SO MUCH!)
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
lmao @ jewgina
― k3vin k., Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
isn't that that Jim Breuer guy doing those killworthy JACKPOT pizza commercials? May all cast members meet the same fate.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 September 2009 03:00 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, Darrell Hammond just left the show and is already doing some pretty embarrassing Oreos commercials with Trump
― some dude, Thursday, 10 September 2009 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought Aubrey Plaza's bit there just sounded like a Sarah Silverman routine.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Thursday, 10 September 2009 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Keenan is WIN.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 4 October 2009 04:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Madonna is so sad right now.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Sunday, 4 October 2009 04:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xB64fs6XVRc/RqkHvBRJhWI/AAAAAAAAALc/sRuoM02amiE/s320/StrangeloveBat.jpg
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Sunday, 4 October 2009 04:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I still love Madonna. I don't care.
Also, Gaga just said "shit."
So that's "fuck" in week 1. "Shit" in week 2. What are they going for in week 3?
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 4 October 2009 04:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Cocksweat
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Sunday, 4 October 2009 04:13 (fourteen years ago) link
did morbius write the opening obama sketch?
― xuxa pitts (donna rouge), Sunday, 4 October 2009 05:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't get over how straight outta Belle and Sebastian awesome your display name is, Kenan.
x-post
― Cunga, Sunday, 4 October 2009 05:40 (fourteen years ago) link