Saturday Night Live

comedy central only played the 85 seasons for like a month.

94-95 beats that season for the most blatantly misused cast of talented people in the history of SNL.

Michaels angered most of his cast by ending the season with a sketch in which the cast (playing themselves) get caught in a fire, and Michaels chooses to rescue only Lovitz (who had connected with audiences due in part to his popular characters the Master Thespian and the Pathological Liar with the catchphrase "that's the ticket!").

i've read about that before but wish i had seen it. brass balls, that LM.

wow, nora dunn was hot

some dude OTM about 94-95

Janeane Garafalo
Michael McKean
Mark McKinney
Laura Kightlinger
and Al Frankin

Could you imagine what this shit would be like if dudes were on their game?

not to mention Sarah Silverman the year before

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/85/85rgoodnights.phtml

I remember Jon Lovitz' liar character only being funny because the rest of the show was so insanely gawdawful. Like finding a cheeto in a turd.

I saw an interview with Sarah Silverman recently and she explained that she got fired for accidentally stabbing one of the writers in the head with a pencil as a joke gone wrong.

a cheeto in a turd

re 94-95: Franken's Stuart Smalley was maybe the funniest thing he ever did (in front of the camera, w/out Tom Davis). Garofalo is better at film acting then she ever was at sketches, standup, or being a big huge Air America bore.

Iirc Garofalo mostly played the girlfriend or straight man in most snl sketches, I don't think they knew what to do w/her.

I'm sure I watched that whole season, but I remember almost nothing about it.

Al Franken was doing Stuart Smalley at least since that 1991 episode with Michael Jordan.

Hands up, who's seen Stuart Saves His Family?

o/

The Norm Coleman campaign staff, maybe?

you watched it for the Ween cameo, didn't you Whiney

Garofalo was a hundred times funnier on the Ben Stiller show

It seems like even besides Tina Fey they've been bringing back more and more former cast members like Maya Rudolph and Chris Parnell for one-off appearances lately, which I like, but also get a little bummed out by because I wish they were still on the show every week.

maya was so wonderful this saturday. it was great to see her.

Ween cameo was in It's Pat, duh!

Which I also watched.

lol egg on my face, i must have seen at least parts of both of those movies

re: female ex-cast members - you know victoria jackson is a crazy right-wing fundie type now, right? like, "mccain and palin are ordained by god to rule this country" type stuff?

i was kinda stoked to see nora dunn as seth rogen's gf's mom in pineapple express

victoria jackson just called obama the anti-christ on her blog. no joke.

remember that song she did about her husband being a cop?

the blonde Christian conservative sketch comedy actress character on Studio 60 would've been so much more believable if they'd just had Victoria Jackson play it.

or the sketch where she plays a pregnant woman and smokes/sticks stomach in the microwave/falls down the stairs?

I don't think it would ever have occurred to me to take seriously the political views of the woman famous for doing headstands during Weekend Update and giggling while reciting awful poetry.

for a second i was like "wait didn't she also have a weekend sketch thing where she demonstrated sex toys?" but then remembered that was cheri oteri

weekend UPDATE thing

victoria jackson just called obama the anti-christ on her blog. no joke.

This saddens me, I didn't realize she was that kind of wackjob.

I wonder if she and Weird Al still speak.

OMG WHY IS THE CHURCH CHAT SKETCH WITH JIM AND TAMMY FAYE BAKKER NOT ONLINE ANYWHERE?

DEMONIC RAISINS I REBUKE YOU!

last night was pretty fucking great

Ben Affleck as Keith Olbermann = A++, would lol again

that sketch was NUTS

he was amazing in the target lady sketch also

Basically I think he's missed his true calling; had he gone out there as a sketch comedy actor rather than a SERIOUS MOVIES ARE SERIOUS actor, I would probably be a fan!

Did anything good happen after Weekend Update?

Affleck was great, he should probably be doing a sitcom like Alec Baldwin instead of whatever he's doing now. xp w/Dan!

hader's queeny goth pitching the film w/ affleck could've been funnier

kenan's thing was great tho. STING YA!

omg YES

All of Kenan's appearances this episode were basically a big "YOU ARE FUCKING WRONG" to everyone upthread talking about how unfunny they find him.

Also I thought the queeny goth thing was pretty hysterical, esp the end.

hahahaha PEEKABOO! Kenan is awesome

I love Kenan. Totally underutilized.

the view sketch needed some direction but they had the characters down

affleck's alec baldwin voice was v good

That Jennifer Aniston impersonation was mean but v v v v funny

haha she looked so grotesque

Kenan's Whoopi was a little bit off...more like a Jewish grandma from Boston.