Saturday Night Live

Really loved the digital short and the inane Apple Juice skit. Vanessa is outshining the new guys so far. And I want more Nasim.

what was the skit that hulu cut from Weekend Update?

andy samberg as cathy?

^I wanted to know that, too.

No, Hulu showed Anthony Crispino and Cathy.

presumably something with music...

are you sure they cut something? i can't remember what the third character was i guess

Yeah, there was clearly an edit right before whatever Seth Meyers's last joke was.

or a joke with a song. they cut the one w/ yakety sax a few months ago

ohhh

was it the joke about law and order: uk

go mary
go villi
you married
it's creepy
she old
you young
it's nasty
i love it

sudeikis should be nationally recognized for how hilarious his dancing character is

ohhh

was it the joke about law and order: uk

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, October 5, 2010 12:02 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have no idea what yr talking about, so yes

yeah okay so the joke was that the DUNH DUNH sound was gonna be replaced by on law and order: uk by *circus sounding song that indicated incompetent british ppl*

he means the music from Benny Hill

uh oh

lol @ "circus sounding song"

rawkan-level retardedness on display here from j0rdan

ffs, i mentioned yakety sax like 10 posts up, man

nothing will ever be as retarded as rawkan

but yeah i knew i was in trouble

literally, if you could somehow inhabit my nightmares, you would be placed in a glee parody sketch centered around gillie

how is that lady who manages to make me lol in every 5 second excerpt i've seen of glee was painfully unfunny on my television tonight

Terrible snl writers

Jay Pharoah is getting his talents kind of stomped by writers who are just expecting his impersonation to carry the whole sketch.

Like that's a YouTube guys, not a skit.

This dude could be like Dana Carvey huge if he just gets someone to write him some good material

Like that's a YouTube guys, not a skit.

― i love you but i've chosen markers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:51 AM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark

quite literally, because you can find jay pharaoh doing denzel on youtube -- it's sort of cynical that they're just p much having him do his act on the show -- no real situations or new characters -- like, the guy is good, but black comics doing denzel & will smith are really dime a dozen, i'm afraid

Dana Carvey huge

hasn't exactly worked out so well for Dana Carvey.

dude was huge in his day, come on

would watch black church lady

Of course he was huge. Just never really parlayed that into... anything else.

When you think about Carvey's level of career success is compared to Mike Myers, it's pretty crazy. Thinking about back then, it seemed that Carvey was the real break-out star, especially before Wayne's World. Yet today it's Myers sitting at home fat on Shrek and Austin Powers royalties, and who knows what Carvey's doing nowadays.

Dana Carvey has struggled with some very serious health problems for years. He had a heart defect which was operated on, the operation was botched badly, and he was caught up in major medical and legal issues for years. Just sayin' - him vanishing from showbiz wasn't entirely his fault.

I thought this episode was on average much better than the previous week's (though I will love "What Up with That" for all time). I groaned when I heard that Kristin Wiig was all over the episode, but thankfully she didn't dominate. In the Password sketch, she was overshadowed by Lynch's Phyllis Diller impression. (Speaking of which, any theories on why they used the name Peggy Zellers instead of Phyllis Diller?) And the Gilly sketch was really a Glee send-up in which Gilly just made a brief appearance.

Speaking of which, any theories on why they used the name Peggy Zellers instead of Phyllis Diller?

because it was loads funnier to make a character loosely based on Phyllis Diller but had her own unique set of character traits. it's why the Simpsons create the Happy Little Elves instead of just calling them the Smurfs. Also it's why movies like Scary Movie 3 are for retards

but had her own unique set of character traits.

She did? Seems like p. much the entire character was based on Diller, from the outfit (cigarette holder, feathery neckpiece, big teased hair) to the screechy voice to the jokes about her flat chest and poor cooking.

Probably my favorite SNL impression is Armisen as David Paterson (although that's starting to wear thin), and it bears very little resemblance to the actual dude, i.e. he doesn't talk like that, he doesn't have a vendetta against NEW JERSEY. It's basically a character named "David Paterson," loosely based on the real-life person.

― jaymc, Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:45 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

having a feeling u don't know how this show works

? Not sure what point you're trying to make...

watching an ep from 2000 and will ferrell is on as "texas governor george w. bush, addressing his supporters in south carolina."

parnell as mccain!!!

fiona apple as musical guest is rippin it!

the episode that was on vh1 the other day was juliana margolis & dmx!!

I wish some the '87-'91 shows turned up in rerun now and then. I miss almost every single one of those old Lovitz characters.

"ACT-ING!"

Annoying Man was the best.

Annoying Man was pretty much deej's posting style if it was a human

haha!

Oh man, here's Phil Hartman breaking character, which almost never happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLyJ4QMj-5M

Dana Carvey has struggled with some very serious health problems for years. He had a heart defect which was operated on, the operation was botched badly, and he was caught up in major medical and legal issues for years. Just sayin' - him vanishing from showbiz wasn't entirely his fault.

― She Got the Shakes, Tuesday, October 12, 2010 4:59 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is true, but those health issues started in '97, after the failure of The Dana Carvey Show and Clean Slate, and he's always said that he wanted to focus more on raising his kids than on his career, so I don't think he'd be a ubiquitous star if not for that. that said Dana totally WAS as huge draw during his time on SNL, if we're talking about popularity of cast members as cast members and not their movie careers after SNL.

TS: The Love Guru vs. The Master of Disguise

The Dana Carvey Show was so fucking good

I think it was in that oral history, but i read somewhere that another castmember asked Hartman why he broke up as Frankenstein, and he told them that he recovered from his initial break quickly (pro that he is) but then he thought about the absurdity of Frankenstein cracking up, and THAT is what made him totally lose it.

dana carvey show was pretty great but not as great as you might think considering that writing staff. i know bill hader has wanted to stay away from being an 'impressions' guy (even though he's ridiculously good at it) cuz of carvey's post snl career. how far along are they w/ complete seasons? did they just do the original not ready for prime time players? that original cast's shows were incredible and i know everyone thinks whichever snl they watched when they were 14 is the best era but that late 80s/early 90s snl really does seem like the best era to me.