Saturday Night Live

As despicable as Dennis Miller is now, he was quite good at the Update desk. WU was never stable in the early years, but Chevy, Aykroyd and Curtin were all memorable. Kevin Nealon...could be okay sometimes. Jimmy Fallon was never a good partner for Tina Fey, but Fey was never held back by him as evidenced during the time she flew solo. The addition of Poehler just took that pairing into the stratosphere. Poehler ever upped Seth's game and left him better prepared to go it alone.

I honestly don't remember who all went through the Update ranks during the Ebersol years, but none of them were great. That's where the riff raff is (along with Colin Quinn).

i feel like nealon's a little underrated, but he was the anchor during the years i first watched snl so it's probably just bias on my part.

Yeah, so I think we basically agree that jost would even be fine with Poehler xp

I love nealon's standup but I don't recall his weekend update

I honestly don't remember who all went through the Update ranks during the Ebersol years, but none of them were great

iirc it was like joe piscopo + father guido sarducci

Yeah, so I think we basically agree that jost would even be fine with Poehler xp

We don't.

haha. How can we know for sure?

Colin Jost's grandmother is probably better on camera than he is.

Mr Julia Louis-Dreyfus was a Weekend Update anchor!

The first episode of SNL I ever saw was the night Buckwheat was assassinated (which the internet tells me was March of 1983). I didn't become a regular viewer until the 86/87 season, which is when Lorne returned and Carvey, Hartman, Hooks, Nealon, and Victoria Jackson all joined what was left of the previous cast (Lovitz, Nora Dunn and Dennis Miller). Surprise, surprise! The old adage about your favorite era of SNL being the one you watched when you were 13 holds true in my case. It's a shame about Jackson and Miller now, and definitely a shame about Phil Hartman, but pound for pound it was the best cast the show ever had all at once.

For the longest time, the measuring stick for WU for me was Dennis Miller. Now it's Fey & Poehler (which is the best WU has EVER been).

Dennis Miller lives up here and is generally a nice dude outside of his politics fwiw

Ha, the first episode of SNL that I remember watching is one hosted by Matthew Broderick in 198. It was originally run in October, but it was rerun on New Years Eve, and my parents let me stay up to watch. (I was 9.) It featured this infamous sketch: http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88bnudebeach.phtml.

I'm still not 100% convinced he actually believes all that shit, because he seems like the kind of guy who can spot a pretty good mealticket. xp

Haha, I remember watching that nude beach sketch with my mom in the room. Oof.

I think that one had my all-time fave: http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88bmonkey.phtml

The old adage about your favorite era of SNL being the one you watched when you were 13 holds true in my case.

Well, yes, but also because that is objectively and inarguably the best SNL cast ever.

(Although, admittedly, I may also have possibly been 13 during that era.)

I honestly don't remember who all went through the Update ranks during the Ebersol years, but none of them were great. That's where the riff raff is (along with Colin Quinn).

― Johnny Fever, Friday, September 12, 2014 12:58 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Brad Hall ('82-'84) and Christopher Guest ('84-'85 season). Guest was surprisingly awful at it, no personality whatsoever, and shitty timing. But compared to Colin Jost, he was Richard Pryor.

Anyone who doesn't think Norm was the best update anchor, gtfoh

Fey & Poehler > Norm > Dennis Miller >>>>>>>>>> everybody else >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jost

yeah probably

At any rate, I think we can all agree that Colins should never work the Update desk.

your granny on bongos >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jost

Agreed. xp

Also agreed, lol. xp

Is this where we were discussing the Mulaney sitcom? Because that shit looks bad.

Is there where someone explains to me why people expected so much of John Mulaney to begin with? his on camera segments on SNL were always painful imo.

I wasn't expecting much, really, because yeah the dude's a good writer but his persona sucks. But him being a writer I was kind of expecting jokes that could at least, in theory, be funny when delivered by someone more appealing than him.

yeah he's been a writer on enough things i've enjoyed that i assume he's talented, but whenever he turned up on Best Week Ever or a Comedy Central standup show i was just like this guy is awkward as hell, send him back to the writer's room

His New In Town special was great

Great on kroll show too

20-year-old NY stand-up Pete Davidson added to the cast:
http://deadline.com/2014/09/pete-davidson-cast-saturday-night-live-834404/

attn J0rdan S.

http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/934464/wild-n-out-meet-pete-davidson.jhtml

That dude's set on Kimmel was pretty funny.

Darrell Hammond replacing Pardo.

Wow

I've been jokingly suggesting that but then Lorne Michaels actually went and did the thing that seemed absurd enough for me to suggest in a joking fashion.

they should just play the recording of Pardo saying "DARRELL HAMMOND" for the introduction of every cast member

My sister still spouts ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL! in Pardo's voice during random lulls at Christmas.

haha

TMZ sayin Kenan's leaving :(

after this season, with snl calling the report "inaccurate"

would miss him, he seems like one of those anchor dudes that can be relied on in almost any situation/sketch

I'd be surprised if he comes back, and I thought that even before the TMZ report yesterday. It just seems like it's his time to move on (I still love him, tho).

I'll be sad if he goes, for sure. 2016 season will feature a "reunion" Scared Straight sketch with returning Hader, Samberg & Thompson still trying to make each other break.

still weird to think of bobby moynihan as the 2nd most veteran castmember today

wow ariana grande can't enunciate

That isn't news, dude

its news if you've managed to avoid her as much as i have

She is wonderful

well 'Piano' is anyway