Saturday Night Live

Eh, better Horatio Sanz than Carlos Mencia.

i partied with horatio sanz & hes a bro + suprisingly introverted/reflective

Dan, that's like saying better Stalin than Hitler.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/80/80a.phtml

This is the all-time worst show they ever had.

i was too busy hating fallon to get around to hating sanz

Eh, better Horatio Sanz than Carlos Mencia.

pretty much this. I guess the years he was on snl i just wasn't watching (was pretty much done with it post-Norm), because the only thing I remember with Sanz is SNL Best-of parody that's all "he's not dead yet - but he will be!" and maybe some lame skit where he's in a Mariachi band. Defintiely not good, but mostly benign. But everybody hates this guy so much! I guess I'm lucky I never caught much of him...

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/80/80acarters.phtml

This sketch in particular actually made my parents turn off for the entire rest of the season.

horatio improv >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> horatio snl

S Chow = Rex Reed Award-winning reverse barometer of comedy

Hmm, that's not very funny either.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, October 20, 2008

See, it works!

WHY DID AMY POHELER MAKE GUN NOISES WITH HER FINGERS INSTEAD OF A FAKE GUN

Secret Service?

made visual connection with Fay-lin's gun-finger pew-pew-pew?

Fey-lin

See, it works!

Still neither.

Speaking of Fallon hate, soon he will be gracing our televisions every night at 12:40

I hope he lasts as long as the Chevy Chase late night show, but otoh nbc seems to have a real tolerance for these kinds of useless time wasters. Carson Daly's show has been on for years and years.

Amy Carter: [ chipper ] Like the slaves!

still can't wrap my mind around that. he's the W of comedy. hey, he sucked at everything else, let's make him pres.

I guess this analogy would work better if he were landing the Tonight Show gig. But hey, he's got nothing but time and Conan in his way now.

xxpost

i thought the wahlberg animal sketch was hilarious. i just hope they don't do something stupid and try to make it recurring or something.

Was Fallon -ever- funny? Why the hell did they pick him?

....fallon gets a tv show??

He's taking over Late Nite once Conan goes to the Tonight Show next year.

wow!

has that 1980 season of SNL been repeated at all? I kind of want to see those.

The Wahlberg sketch is already reoccurring:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/12/mark-wahlberg-slams-satur_n_133948.html?page=22&show_comment_id=16738196#comment_16738196

has that 1980 season of SNL been repeated at all? I kind of want to see those.

― akm, Monday, October 20, 2008 4:51 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/1337_part_5.png

~barf~

it's a morbid curiosity

I posted xkcd because he psotred something baf too

this past episode = lots of my favorite characters (suze orman, jean k. jean) doing comparatively weak sketches. i loved "narc school."

always good to see "macgruber" too

"This is the all-time worst show they ever had."

no show that features a short film by jonathan demme is the worst show ever. worst show ever was dice clay nightmare.

I remember the 1980 ep with Malcolm McDowell being quite terrible (w/ MM sending up John Lennon a few weeks before his murder)

wow Laurie Metcalf was on SNL during the 1980 season????

I just learned that Gilbert Gottfried was in the cast that year, too.

yes, weirdly trying to fit in.

yeah there's kind of a whole bunch of famous people who were on SNL in the 80s but didn't have memorable tenures or get a real career boost from it (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Robert Downey Jr., Damon Wayans, Ben Stiller, etc.)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus was my favorite cast member from her season!

nobody ever says gary kroeger.

i still have his "my name is needleman! i'm an oral surgeon!" song going through my head.

Wayans wasn't given't enough to do, and when he tried to improvise, was fired. He and the way underrated Danitra Vance were in probably the best sketch of that whole season, "That Black Girl."

joan cusack and anthony michael hall were cast members?

Yup. I think AMH was the youngest cast member ever.

Hall joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (SNL) during its 1985–86 season at the age of 17. He was, and remains, the youngest cast member in the show's history.[6] His recurring characters on the show were 'Craig Sundberg, Idiot Savant', an intelligent, talented teenager with a vacant expression and stilted speech, and 'Fed Jones', one half of the habitually high, hustling pitchmen known as The Jones Brothers (the other Jones Brother was played by short-lived featured player Damon Wayans). Art Garfunkel, Edd Byrnes, Bobby Kennedy and Daryl Hall were among Hall's celebrity impersonations.

Here's an interesting trivia question:

Who appeared on SNL first as a musical guest, then as a host, and then as a cast member?

mckean?

^^ Going with that.

Yep.

nobody ever says gary kroeger.

I seriously think he was the first cast member I ever saw (based on my dim memory that the first episode I ever saw was the Bruce Dern/Leon Redbone episode). That whole 83 to 85 or so era was the only time I watched the show semi-consistently.

I watched every Phil Ebersol SNL, visiting my dad on the weekends. We'd watch the show at his girlfriend's house and then at midnight when the show ended, go back to his apartment.

That guy lighting a cigarette with a blowtorch in the opening credits is the first thing I visualize whenever old SNLs get brought up.

cmon worst ep ever has to be nancy kerrigan