mckean?
― flyover statesman (will), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ Going with that.
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Yep.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
cmon worst ep ever has to be nancy kerrigan
― goole, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I miss Rich Hall. I remember the David Byrne clothing commercial skit!
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
well, it's dire just about every time an athlete hosts, but they keep booking them since they're apparently great for ratings (last week's Palin episode was the highest rated since the Kerrigan episode).
xpost
― some dude, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
The Joe Montana episode had another one of my favorite sketches:
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/86istu.phtml
― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ ok yeah, that sketch was classic
― some dude, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I think that Montana sketch was the first time I heard the word "masturbating."
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/91/pics/91asmalley.jpg
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
The Garth Brooks episode was shockingly amazing
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
OLDFRENCHWHORE
I remember reading somewhere that OFW was Tina Fey's favorite self-penned sketch.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
The Garth episode was great. "Just regular cowboy stuff", "thank you for coming to Loews" etc.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
how many people got their mental image of new york from SNL credits montages?
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I got my earliest NYC images from the old "Late Night With David Letterman" openings.
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I was talking about the original open, but this one is a bit crepey in hindsight (starts about 1:00 into clip.)
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
it was the Tomorrow show for me, but the late 80s era with Hartman, Dunn, Carvey, Hooks, Miller, etc. had the best "ooh like you caught me doing in NYC" montage.
I always remember the raver dude humping the convenience store ride for a split second.
― Joe Petagno's Imagination Station! (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
For some reason old SCTVs seem to hold up better than the really old SNLs, the rare times they play either on TV
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
SCTV was always funnier. And you can get all the 1981-1983 SCTVs on DVD - and those episodes often include segments from the 1976-1980 period.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
So how accurate are my images of Toronto, where televisions are constantly being defenestrated?
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
you mean melonville.
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought SCTV was originally filmed in Edmonton(?) -- at least in the David Thomas years.
― Joe Petagno's Imagination Station! (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
SCTV became markedly less funny when they shifted producers and moved to Toronto.
So "Second City" is in relation to Calgary?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Second City was always based around Chicago and anyone else who they were friends with.
― Joe Petagno's Imagination Station! (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
SCTV started in Toronto, but temporarily moved to Edmonton when they reignited the series to the full 90 minute form in 1981 or so.
― Joe Petagno's Imagination Station! (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
xp: not really true, I think ... The Toronto branch of Second City developed its own identity, tho some actors moved back and forth btwn it and Chi (Aykroyd & Radner, I think).
One SCTV producer left it for Letterman cuz he was sick of cast infighting.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
most awful host of recent memory was de niro a couple years back
he recited from the cue cards like a 4th grader reading a history textbook aloud
at least pretend to try
― Edward III, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
that's one of the few recent ones I've seen. it was indeed an awulf performance.
― Granny Dainger, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
awful, too
I remember that one. He was in some kind-of Peter Pan play sketch
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
peter and awulf
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/23/will-ferrell-back-as-bush_n_137399.html
tina fey's Palin is morphing into laraine newman's sherrie the air stewardess
― MacElby's Puddin'© (stevie), Friday, 24 October 2008 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i thought the ras trent thing samberg did saturday was funny. i know it's basically just the white guy rapping joke. but it was specific and kinda funny.
― news is dicks. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 27 October 2008 08:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Merciful Zeus, please end this election, if only so Tina Fey can shelve her annoying Sarah Palin impression. Every age gets the satire it deserves, and from the looks of things, we are in a cheap, plasticine era....
"Fridays" went into more political depth than SNL even pretends to plumb today. Some of the material on recent shows has been incredibly inane and pointless, like John McCain challenging Obama to a pie eating contest. Have SNL's writers stopped doing drugs? Or is this merely Vicodin comedy?
It'll be interesting to see how present-day parodists deal with the Obama administration. So far, they've given us really nothing. Fred Armisen's impression on SNL is not only bad, the writers have found no satirical hook. You'd think that a fiftysomething Repub like Jim Downey might have some angle on Obama, out of partisan hatred if nothing else. Liberals are too swoony at the moment to write any decent attacks on the next imperial manager, a condition I'm sure will continue well past Obama's coronation.
http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-bippy-meant-something.html
(there's an ace Richard Pryor-as-prez clip from his variety show at the end)
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 27 October 2008 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
huh? its the trailer for a billy jack movie, surely?
― MacElby's Puddin'© (stevie), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link
It'll be interesting to see how present-day parodists deal with the Obama administration. So far, they've given us really nothing.
he isn't president yet.
― MacElby's Puddin'© (stevie), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks for that
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 27 October 2008 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link
(there's a hyperlink of Pryor above Billy Jack)
i missed that.
you know what? i love Richard Pryor but his TV series was pretty dud, IMHO. though i enjoyed the roast that was included on the DVD extras. also, Perrin's Michael O'Donoghue book was fantastic.
― MacElby's Puddin'© (stevie), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
only watched the last episode through weekend update but don draper's guide to picking up women was classic
― akm, Monday, 27 October 2008 13:38 (sixteen years ago) link
be glad you missed the MAd Men skit, akm. It had Roger and Peggy and SNL still ruined it (with slight redemption at end). Sigh.
― skeletal lexing (Finefinemusic), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah it wasn't funny, I saw that one. guy doing Sal was the only really funny thing in it.
― akm, Monday, 27 October 2008 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
otm. the guide to picking up women had me cracking up. first time i've actually watched snl in maybe 5 years!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 27 October 2008 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link
"blow people away everytime you say anything / take six hour lunches / disappear for weeks at a time"
― akm, Monday, 27 October 2008 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually yeah, Sal was pretty great in that skit. Everyone was great except the "inventors" and it was just so over the top and terrible in true SNL form. I cheered when I saw Peggy and Roger.
― skeletal lexing (Finefinemusic), Monday, 27 October 2008 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link
It was the first time I even bothered to watch the show in ages and one of the few times when I've seen anything from it where I genuinely laughed.
― Michael White, Monday, 27 October 2008 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link