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.
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― Cunga, Sunday, 4 October 2009 05:40 (fourteen years ago) link
That's one of the reasons it's brilliant.
― Cunga, Sunday, 4 October 2009 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Liked the bit at the end about the crime show where the actors are all Norwegian.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Sunday, 4 October 2009 08:38 (fourteen years ago) link
my favorite moment of the show was lady gaga struggling to sit down at the piano bench w/ her stupid nasa costume on.
― iatee, Sunday, 4 October 2009 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Much better than last week. I might grow to like these new girls yet, although I'm still bummed about Casey.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 5 October 2009 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
What was this like? SNL's usual angle is that of a Giuliani Democrat.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Th joke was that the right wing is going crazy over how Obama's changing the country, when in fact he hasn't even done a single thing he said he was going to do. There was a checklist. I laughed.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah... here.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/obama-address/1163263/
(That Obama impersonation wasn't even trying, though.)
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Found it... reasonably OTM sketch. And I didn't laugh once.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:19 (fourteen years ago) link
(I mean, if even SNL writers know that the joke is Obama's snake oil, you may wish to postpone that Republican Party autopsy)
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
And I didn't laugh once.
Your new screen name.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
man the digital shorts really hit rock bottom this week
― why does deezy claim nuts (some dude), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link
think the hardest i laughed all episode was at hader's phil spector
― xuxa pitts (donna rouge), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah Sandberg's thing was wtf and just bad. Sandberg in general was just bad.
Gotta admit, though, I liked the dog food commercial.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link
fake commercials are so in their wheelhouse that it's almost hard to congratulate them
― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that was the kind of thing that they could've done in '92 and would've been just as funny, no more no less
― some dude, Monday, 5 October 2009 03:37 (fourteen years ago) link
xp Yeah, and it wasn't even a great one. But I've been torn recently between buying the cat food that I usually get and some cheap awfulness, and I was like, fuck it, it's a cat. She'll either eat it or starve to death, and I know which she's gonna pick.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:38 (fourteen years ago) link
So you see, I RELATE.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I liked Ahmadinejad's wife, actually. He farts under the sheets and blames it on Israel. It's such an old joke, but lol.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:46 (fourteen years ago) link
This.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 5 October 2009 07:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Dollars to donuts it was written by Jim Downey, SNL's long-time political writer and devout right-winger (and Robert Downey, Jr.'s uncle). I don't think his writing a completely in-character sketch exactly sounds the Dems' death knell.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 5 October 2009 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, that sketch is so clearly written from a "right wing" perspective. Keep drinkin' that Kool Aid!
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2009 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ Lady Gaga and her keytar
― a misunderstanding of Hip-Hop and contracts (HI DERE), Monday, 5 October 2009 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't have my glasses on so I couldn't tell - was that really Madonna? Someone upthread called her sad, I thought it was Wiig in costume? If not, without my glasses, Madonna is looking good..
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 5 October 2009 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i had assumed it was either of the two new women on the show but at the end, ryan reynolds thanked madonna
― xuxa pitts (donna rouge), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Hader doesn't even have to say anything, the faces he makes as Spector or that weird alien sports guy are priceless.
That really was Madonna! The arms are a dead giveaway. She does look good, but there's something kind of pathetic about the Gaga fight -- at some point you should stop trying to be down with the kids.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
That was most certainly Madonna. But I'll agree she looked way younger than she usually does. And that whoe Madge/Gaga thing was pretty lame.
Morbs, Downey has the ability, despite his political leanings, to tackle different sides of an issue. He's written a lot of GOP-skewering sketches, as well. If you could just re-read that post of mine real quick, you'll see that I didn't say that the sketch was written from a right-wing persepective. Rather, I'm guessing it was written by right-winger Downey because my understanding is that most political sketches that are critical of the Democrats are written by Downey.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I had no idea that Jim Downey was related to RDJ. Is that how RDJ ended up on Saturday Night Live in the first place?
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
ok
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
...bu then, by current standards, that really doesn't make him sound like a right-winger.
I was at this radio interview, and they mostly talked about Fey's Sarah Palin:
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/32393
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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Very possibly, Nicole. I mean, most of the cast that season consisted of semi-famous actors (RDJ, Anthony Michael Hall, Joan Cusack), but that would've been right after Downey returned to SNL, so it was probably a factor.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wow, that is kind of sad that it was really Madonna. My boyfriend & I were mesmerized by the "incredible makeup work" they'd done on what we presumed was an SNL actress but I agree, she's a bit too old to do something that ridiculous.. Good for her for looking so good though! I fell asleep on the couch before the ending credits, as I always do..this time I missed weekend update too though :(
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link