Saturday Night Live

Rodney Dangerfield didn't start stand-up until he was like in his 40s!

yeah comedy seems like a calling that doesn't reach everybody early in life, i'm just saying i've never looked at armisen and thought "that dude is over 40"

finally watched the JGL episode, and dude sang in EVERY sketch he appeared in before Weekend Update (monologue, password, jack johnson show, t-giving dinner, what's up with that?). was he just singing at the offices all week and they decided to use it?

What happened in the JGL monologue? Hulu cut it out.

I assume he sang some copyrighted song?

He sang "Make 'Em Laugh," from Singin' in the Rain. But yeah, I think NBC strips out for Hulu any musical performance for which they'd have to pay additional royalties.

finally watched the JGL episode, and dude sang in EVERY sketch he appeared in before Weekend Update (monologue, password, jack johnson show, t-giving dinner, what's up with that?). was he just singing at the offices all week and they decided to use it?

― da croupier, Monday, November 30, 2009 7:39 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

saw his interview on Fallon earlier in the week and he kept talking about how he'd gotten an idea for his monologue as soon as he was booked for the show and had been practicing it for like 2 months before even meeting with the writers.

Rodney Dangerfield didn't start stand-up until he was like in his 40s!

No. He REStarted after years as, I think, a fridge salesman?

loluminum siding:

As a teenager, he got his start writing jokes for standup comics; he became one himself at 19 under the name Jack Roy. He struggled financially for nine years, at one point performing as a singing waiter (he was fired), and also working as a performing acrobatic diver before giving up show business to take a job selling aluminum siding to support his wife and family. He later said that he was so little known then that, "At the time I quit, I was the only one who knew I quit!"

saw his interview on Fallon earlier in the week and he kept talking about how he'd gotten an idea for his monologue as soon as he was booked for the show and had been practicing it for like 2 months before even meeting with the writers.

no wonder they were like "holy shit, this guy really likes to sing...let's just have him do that in everything."

morbidly looking forward to blake lively, maybe they'll have her show cleavage in everything

had to look up who blake lively was :(

apparently there's a song and dance routine in (500) Drowns of Zooey? i guess that's kinda his thing now.

kickspit underground rock festival

ninjas know

i love "what up with that?"

― will.i.ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 23, 2009 2:03 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

more like Blake LIFELESS amirite!?

someone explain to me how this lady gets any attention or opportunities whatsoever when she's on the same show as Leighton Meester

last year's champ, ass dan

what up with that is the best thing they've done on snl in 10 years as far as i'm concerned

i largely agree with you

i dunno i kinda thought 1973 colonel sanders NASA job applicant potato chip regurgitator thief collecting his hemorrhoid donut on the way out the door skit was pretty fantastic and unless i'm overlooking something pretty obvious maybe even the best job interview oriented SNL skit since the chris parnell/christopher walken "we don't hire dirty centaurs" classic

i wonder if jenny slate will ever get through a sketch without stuttering

― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, November 15, 2009 11:07 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Shy Ronnie is killing me

I keep watching it because I LOL everytime Rihanna says "The tree of knowlegde it grows cause we plant the seed" and kid looks up and nods in slow-motion

Rihanna looks stoned or something tho

i mean, it's like exactly the same structure as this, but both are lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX_eHKqDwZ0

Blake Lively wasn't nearly as bad as I expected her to be. I was expecting a January Jones-style catastrophe.

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This ruled.

That's right, everyone gets pitchforks!

a special encore performance by mrs. potato dick

the worst he-man impression contest put it over the top 4 me

Perrin on the transitional 1979-80 season:

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2009/12/dissolve-into-air.html

i love "what up with that?"

― will.i.ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 23, 2009 2:03 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― what u think i steen for to push a crawfish? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, December 6, 2009 8:51 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

charles barkley is hosting the next show ??

ha srsly? this franco one is pretty good so far. i lol'd @ the jammies sketch

have there been any joeks this ep

I had no idea muse was so huge. They're playing at u2 sized venues? Is this what ppl like these days?

i have never been able to figure out who likes them. i think its the britishes.

haha ive sent this IM to my friend, muse-fan abt 5 times, latest just recently:

xxxxxxx: i still find it hard to believe anyone likes muse

they seem undecided on whether they're u2 or radiohead

They're playing at the united center in Chicago - I saw the big fancy ad recently- and I just had no idea they were that sort of band. I worked in a record store abt 10 yrs ago and I remember thinking they were blah, sort of like coldplay. And now they're huge? Like coldplay? I didn't see that coming.

they did a lightning bolt cover once lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM3FDvE-NzI

no thoughts on the Murray-Shearer season, huh

on the last.fm thread it was discovered that muse is apparently the biggest band in like 98 different countries

no thoughts on the Murray-Shearer season, huh

It's been a very long time since I've seen any of those episodes.

I had no idea muse was so huge. They're playing at u2 sized venues? Is this what ppl like these days?

― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Sunday, December 20, 2009 12:50 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tbf they only play U2 size venues in America when they're opening for U2

that was the 3rd "What Up With That" sketch in the space of 7 episodes. between that and the "A Very Gilly Christmas" primetime special it feels like we're entering a new Mary Katherine Gallagher era of the same sketches airing over and over with barely any variation from week to week.

Someone at SNL is kind of websmart, and told Lorne that the kids are loving "What Up With That." Naturally, Lorne thinks he's struck oil and will mine every last drop.

the first time it felt giddy and unexpected and fun, but it's already starting to feel a little perfunctory as of last night. can't wait for the 80-minute movie version.