Saturday Night Live

people don't find this guy funny do they

yes they do

I do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xxQs34UMx4

i thought that was really funny -- i've never really seen him in that context tho so i wouldn't know how much of the jokes were old

I've seen his stand up/piano stuff before, but not for a few years. These jokes were all new to me.

deadpan jokes + piano is sooo played

the concept not the piano

Who else is doing it right now (or anytime in the last 10 years)?

random lame comics I see on comedy central?

ironic musical comedy is probably the worst brand of comedy imaginable, but i thought it worked in the snl context

jude law + pearl jam = ... 2002 at best

I'm just saying Galifianakis has been doing this at least since his VH1 show (and in all likelihood before that), so that means it's been a staple of his act for 9 years (or more).

these first two skits have been aggressively bad

it is entirely possible that he was among the lame comedy central comics doing this in my memory

the bidet one almost seemed like this was a show making fun of lame tv skits

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More than 9 years, but he's pretty much dropped it entirely in the last 3 or so years, so I'm kind of surprised he did it tonight.

The inherent comedy value of two men kissing: more or less than the inherent comedy value of white people rapping?

Both were kind of funny in 1990. Neither is in 2010.

your writers probably aren't creative enough if you have your comedian host playing himself in two of the first four sketches

However, the inherent comedy of members of a family making out (and making out AGGRESSIVELY) is always funny.

The "Taboo" series of films doesn't really play as comedy, though.

yeah snl seems like it's been doing that a lot lately, way more than it used to. I forgot how recent the megan fox episode was, but she was 'megan fox' for like 90% of the sketches.

i know the "what's up with that?" set when i see it!

poor lindsey buckingham.

ha @ them clowning on blitzer & twitter

u_u this song

what was the first one they did?

"Cousins"

They have been pretty excellent tonight.

loved that performance

the blitzer skit was really funny -- i loved how they set up everything with "a totally unscreened, unverified, unseen photo..." *teabagging*

is this their first time on snl? I vaguely remember them being on before, but it might be my imagination

and "the situation room" pointing to his ass was really funny

yeah they were on two seasons ago

this is the first sketch that zack g has had a speaking part in since like 11:42 EST

I was really hoping they'd all totally lose it during the pageant sketch.

Came close.

ezra koenig has an awesome schnozz.

are vampire weekend giants or is zach galifiniaikis really short?

god the political open was even worse than usual this week, I'm not sure there were actually any "jokes" in it unless "the health care bill is unpopular" is a joke (I'm pretty sure it's not actually true, so maybe it's a joke in the sense that lying=joke?)

No, the joke was in SNL writers trying to play up the fact that they're fair and balanced and watch Fox News in addition to all the other hippie liberal tree hugger commie news outlets.

(Also, it wasn't funny.)

jim downey needs to be taken out to pasture already

i read that long nyt magazine thing on zach g. and they kept saying how improv and wild he was and no show was the same so i went on youtube and he used the same jokes for YEARS. like, longer than david brenner would use a joke even. that that's so raven joke is like a decade old! i guess he really likes it.

i didn't mind him just doing his act as the monologue just because they barely ever let anyone do that anymore, ever since Martin Lawrence took it too far 99% of all 'monologues' are tightly scripted sketches with lots of cast members jumping onstage and interjecting.

Zach's monologue reminds me of those early 70s SNL hosts like Robert Klein or pre-Wild&Crazy Steve Martin, or guest comics like the young Richard Belzer, doing a comedy that's a little more "offbeat" than the usual TV fare, and the audience being SUUUPER into it and whooping it up like they're in on a little secret.

Made me kind of nostalgic, tbh

especially since he probably wasn't invited for being "weirdo, Chunklet-endorsed alt-comic Zach Galifinaikas" but for "the beardy guy in the frat-tard movie" so it's cool that he used that as a platform to do his thing.

also, the pug from laser cats 3 is back!

Zach's monologue reminds me of those early 70s SNL hosts like Robert Klein or pre-Wild&Crazy Steve Martin, or guest comics like the young Richard Belzer, doing a comedy that's a little more "offbeat" than the usual TV fare, and the audience being SUUUPER into it and whooping it up like they're in on a little secret.

i was thinking just that last night. maybe it's b/c his timing/delivery are kinda '70s.

Yeah Whiney OTM there. For modern SNL it was pretty wildly imaginative.

Loved the fact that he shaved the beard mid-show. Probably my biggest lol of the episode.