Saturday Night Live

The SNL oldie they showed at 10:00 featured Hooks prominently. (B52s musical guests)

Strange how the last cast member in the alphabetical roll call was Kevin Nealon.

Loved that diner sketch ("Sexual Tension Diner"), plus Nealon and Hartman being goobers in the background.

16 year old me didn't get all the jokes in Mike Myers' "Middle Aged Man" character, but 40 year old me was rolling the other night.

Yeah, "Escrow, it's funny because it's true."

Are you looking at my gut? I'm working on it!

did anyone notice that in the hollywood game night sketch the crowd screamed suspiciously loud when they introduced "nick offerman"

― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Monday, October 13, 2014 4:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Uh, he's pretty much TV's most baconed actor right now

To a Brooklyn thirtysomething hipster in digital media, yes

ok dude, keep calm and chive on

watching some of these sketches really reminds me how good the late eighties-early nineties SNL crew was acting wise and chemistry wise. I mean everyone is incredible. jan hooks and nora dunn were so underrated too.

I think watching SNL during that era made me want to move to NYC.

Quiz: Without Googling, how many of the four featured-player white guys from the last two seasons who didn't get invited back can you name?

john milhiser
the guy who played a hillbilly next to ed norton, did his stand-up on update and basically nothing else
mike(?) o'brien
the big-faced dude who swapped writer-actor spots with o'brien

Milheiser, the schlumpy dude, the guy who looked like an Addams Family cartoon come to life, and the other one

i believe big-face and o'brien are both back in the writing trenches now, that's gotta be weird

O'Brien is the Addams Family dude

really hoping michael che will get more and more confident as the season goes on, finally forcing lorne to have jost join this list

Bill Murray did a monologue when Michael O'Donoghue died, then they showed 12-yo Jodie Foster sitting on MO'D's lap.

i have no idea who Nick Offerman is.

i knew the fix was in for handsome stand-up dude when they started having kyle mooney play boyfriends in ensemble scenes instead, beck bennett already having taken the "dad" slot

Nick Offerman is Megan Mullaly's husband

He played the construction worker in City Of Angels

did anyone notice that in the hollywood game night sketch the crowd screamed suspiciously loud when they introduced "nick offerman"

― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Monday, October 13, 2014 4:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Uh, he's pretty much TV's most baconed actor right now

― ILOVEMASONNA (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, October 14, 2014 7:23 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In October 2013, Offerman released a book titled Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living, in which he shares his humorous ruminations on life, manliness, meat, and growing the perfect mustache.

Bacon-bound limited edition first printing, IIRC.

not going to give his name in case people still want to play the game, but featured player i uncharitably described as "big-face" was apparently the first featured player to then be made a staff writer since Brian Doyle-Murray. I could see him playing a lot of referees too.

Big Face has done a few on-camera bits on Late Night with Seth, so he may have made the move over there when Seth exited SNL.

he might be hopping all over 30 rock, but he's still in the mix at SNL. Apparently co-wrote that ad for Whites this season with O'Brien.

mike o'brien's seven minutes in heaven web series was gr8 so i was bummed when they cut him from the cast

i didn't actually see him in any sketches tho looool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqJA0xjD1CM

16 year old me didn't get all the jokes in Mike Myers' "Middle Aged Man" character, but 40 year old me was rolling the other night.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, October 13, 2014 4:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Until now I had TOTALLY FORGOTTEN that this character even existed!

Mike O'Brien still a writer? He was in a fake ad recently despite not being in the cast.

Big Face = Tim Robinson?

Yeah, if ruining a good gag is fun for you.

I hear Lorne was thinking of optioning this thread due to that Big Face gag

Yessssssssssss

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mbvd/leslie-jones-joins-saturday-night-live-as-cast-member

Finally!

http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/2014/10/tina-fey-remembers-jan-hooks

“It made me sad when she passed, and it made me mad at the time how available she was,” Fey said. “Jan should have had a bigger career. Jan deserved a big movie career. Certainly as big as Rob Schneider's fucking career. She was a bigger star on S.N.L."

ha, that is very true. does the snl cast beef with schneider?

I mean, does he have a chevy chase like rep?

I think any sensible person has been with Rob Schneider now, whether it be for his movies or for his recent descent into right wing crackpot buffoonery.

been=beef

NO sensible person has been with Rob Schneider.

I think they're just embarrassed by association with such a monstrous hack

haha, good points

I guess I didn't realize they would all be so transparent about it. But I'm glad that they are!

Have there been other instances of cast members publicly calling out other cast members as hacks? I feel like there are/should be, and I'm totally drawing a blank.

SNL's never been a hotbed of anti-establishment left wing thinking, but I'd imagine people like Schneider and Victoria Jackson (and probably Dennis Miller) are on the outs with a lot of the rest of their former castmates.

Have there been other instances of cast members publicly calling out other cast members as hacks? I feel like there are/should be, and I'm totally drawing a blank.

I just got a copy of Live From New York, that oral history of SNL by Tom Shales, in the mail a couple days ago. I'd suspect there might be some instances in there, but it's a giant book and I haven't even really started it yet.

Oh, there sure are. That book is one of my all-time favorites, so congratulations.

http://splitsider.com/2014/01/updated-edition-of-live-from-new-york-book-will-be-available-this-september/

An updated version just came out, apparently? Oh well, I only dropped $2 on a used copy, so maybe I'll replace it sooner or later.

Holy cow that's awesome. I'll definitely shell out for another copy.

Curious how much the new version covers Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson (and Jenny Slate?).

yo, the Sensitive Naked Man was great, every time