Saturday Night Live

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.

Much better than last week. I might grow to like these new girls yet, although I'm still bummed about Casey.

did morbius write the opening obama sketch?

What was this like? SNL's usual angle is that of a Giuliani Democrat.

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.

Ah... here.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/obama-address/1163263/

(That Obama impersonation wasn't even trying, though.)

Found it... reasonably OTM sketch. And I didn't laugh once.

(I mean, if even SNL writers know that the joke is Obama's snake oil, you may wish to postpone that Republican Party autopsy)

And I didn't laugh once.

Your new screen name.

man the digital shorts really hit rock bottom this week

think the hardest i laughed all episode was at hader's phil spector

Yeah Sandberg's thing was wtf and just bad. Sandberg in general was just bad.

Gotta admit, though, I liked the dog food commercial.

fake commercials are so in their wheelhouse that it's almost hard to congratulate them

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

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.

So you see, I RELATE.

think the hardest i laughed all episode was at hader's phil spector

I liked Ahmadinejad's wife, actually. He farts under the sheets and blames it on Israel. It's such an old joke, but lol.

Madonna is so sad right now.

This.

(I mean, if even SNL writers know that the joke is Obama's snake oil, you may wish to postpone that Republican Party autopsy)

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.

yeah, that sketch is so clearly written from a "right wing" perspective. Keep drinkin' that Kool Aid!

lol @ Lady Gaga and her keytar

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..

i had assumed it was either of the two new women on the show but at the end, ryan reynolds thanked madonna

think the hardest i laughed all episode was at hader's phil spector

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.

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 had no idea that Jim Downey was related to RDJ. Is that how RDJ ended up on Saturday Night Live in the first place?

ok

...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

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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.

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 :(

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gilly!

imo

lol

drew barrymore looked like she wuz 55 yrs old in the monologue

*takes off safety*

*aims at head*

srsly worst skit

What happened to MAD TV?

It's cast was much funnier than the SNL casts it competed against, imo.

i dunno i fuckin love gilly i guess u_u

morelike Kristen Wiig Makes Faces Live imo

the liam character kills me tbh

who is musical guest?

regina spektor lmao

regina spektorofl

alright what was that

i thought it was okay tbh. sharon osbourne one made me lol

oh shit! snl is on NOW. fucking Central Time. not used to this.

no one likes regina spektor, right

n opinion on her, she's kinda hot tho