Saturday Night Live

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.

that sucks. michaela watkins was awesome.

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.

Even when they've had 2 black guys on the show, there's only been one person doing all the black guy sketches.

Actually, Jenny Slate caught the attention of Lorne Michaels with her one-woman-show Black People Are Never Funny.

Casey Wilson and Michaela Watkins let go:

so, so wrong. i thought for sure abby elliot would get the ax.

call me naive but with the election of obama i think the climate might be right for black people to finally break into comedy

black people are socialists who want to kill your grandma

well duh

black people are socialists who want to kill your grandma

where my family comes from this has often been true!

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

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

would someone please put this guy out to pasture already?

i'm just not gonna comment, i guess he's my white whale and that's that
somehow i completely missed anything Michaela Watkins did last year

so, so wrong. i thought for sure abby elliot would get the ax.

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.

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.

otm

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).

lol "Ras Trent" just came up on shuffle in my iTunes...never noticed her in the sketch, though.

ras trent = mad underrated

ras trent that cracks me up is when he shuts up when passing the 'real' rastas.

yeah that is def the best part...tho iirc he's passing black ppl, not rastas?

it's inferred, shit still cracks me up.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_truth/b143074_hey_saturday_night_live_sexist_much.html

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.

i didn't realize someone named 'Nasim Pedrad' was a white chick

prodouchernozzles

always got the feeling Casey Wilson was not really being given a fair shot, for some reason...

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.

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

hahaha @ the halloween skull line

lol man that's killer

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.

casey was the cutest cast member by far wtf

casey was the cutest cast member by far wtf

Get in line, dude.

Also, Aubrey Plaza is my new favorite person. (gawd I hate Sarah Silverman SO MUCH!)

lmao @ jewgina

isn't that that Jim Breuer guy doing those killworthy JACKPOT pizza commercials? May all cast members meet the same fate.

hey, Darrell Hammond just left the show and is already doing some pretty embarrassing Oreos commercials with Trump

I thought Aubrey Plaza's bit there just sounded like a Sarah Silverman routine.

Keenan is WIN.

Madonna is so sad right now.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xB64fs6XVRc/RqkHvBRJhWI/AAAAAAAAALc/sRuoM02amiE/s320/StrangeloveBat.jpg

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?

Cocksweat

did morbius write the opening obama sketch?

Can't get over how straight outta Belle and Sebastian awesome your display name is, Kenan.

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I thought Aubrey Plaza's bit there just sounded like a Sarah Silverman routine.

That's one of the reasons it's brilliant.

Liked the bit at the end about the crime show where the actors are all Norwegian.

my favorite moment of the show was lady gaga struggling to sit down at the piano bench w/ her stupid nasa costume on.