Saturday Night Live

Yeah, Robert Smith made me lol, also Armisen's Randy Newman and Wiig's Dolores:
"Don't eat the field... Hor...say...Hor...say....ay....ay..."

omg

why did I fall asleep before that

Rachel Maddow is Abby Elliott's first recurring character?

>>on the last two shows, there were NO real "everyone stare at crazy kristin wiig" sketch

Yeah, in the past two episodes I felt the loud/crazy/quirky characters were split more evenly between Wiig and Bayer instead of Wiig all the time.

I would actually like to defend the last Penelope sketch, the fact that they added some props this time ("Universe's Greatest-est Chef So..." and the giant vat/ladle) for once at least felt like they were willing to add SOMETHING to the formula so that it's not the exact same sketch every time.

Yeah, the apron was lol.

Hate to say it, but Paul B. on stage tonight seemed a little awkward. I guess b/c the team probably hasn't rehearsed in a while. But it's never a good sign at an improv show when you can see the wheels spinning.

Liked Anne Hathaway's frustrated mockery of Penelope. Plus, every P. sketch has at least one stupid one-up line that makes me laugh. This week it was, "If I clap twice, all the dogs in the world get an extra weiner..."

Can we take a moment to discuss some of the times in history where SNL did weird meta/self-referential/otherwise highly uncharacteristic stuff? Like not just "oh lol here I am walking through the corridors, here's the office!" but like Charles Grodin bumbling his way through sketches.

I mean Louise Lasser's opening monologue was pretty WTF but only if you don't know who Mary Hartman is I guess.

Was also reading something about an episode from the Anthony Michael Hall season with Francis Ford Coppola fucking everything up (but I have no idea how I would find it to watch)

This is also maybe not so meta but seems pretty awesomely WTF for SNL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqVgjvTbh3k

Was also reading something about an episode from the Anthony Michael Hall season with Francis Ford Coppola fucking everything up (but I have no idea how I would find it to watch)

It was the last show of the season. In one skit, they were doing an Apocalypse Now spoof except Coppola was using real bullets.

is tonight's new? it's pretty good so far...

yes

oh wait, no it's definitely not

too bad

definitely something better about watching stuff live

i sent a bottle of sparkling apple juice to your house...

Snl marathon on vh1 today

Home invasion/app sketch was great. What the hell was that gum class one?

Oh Kanye, never change.

*gym

HOLY SHIT there is like every episode of every season on Netflix streaming, including that weird run from the early 80's that no one seems to care about.

rly? I'd been toying with getting Netflix again, but that might be the clincher.

btw -- it looks like they have every episode up streaming, but they actually don't

it's just like the first four or five seasons and the last few

aw, meh. I've seen those 70s seasons so much I don't even think they're really funny anymore. And I don't care about the last few.

Can we take a moment to discuss some of the times in history where SNL did weird meta/self-referential/otherwise highly uncharacteristic stuff?

The episode Garry Shandling hosted from like 87 has him "breaking character" in 2 sketches - he turns to the camera and starts talking about the sketch he's currently in. You can see one of those at the end of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw8f_vxfPBc

btw -- it looks like they have every episode up streaming, but they actually don't

― J0rdan S., Sunday, November 28, 2010 1:11 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

Problem is, they didn't get music clearances. So not only are there no musical guests, but the Stevie Wonder-hosted episode, for instance, is a scant 24 minutes. The no-clearances thing also means stuff like the sequence where Buckwheat has been shot isn't available, presumably because they didn't get the rights to the "Nightline" theme (which crops up about 50 times in that sketch).

interesting, i didn't realize Stevie Wonder actually hosted an episode -- always assumed the couple famous sketches he was in that they use in clip shows were from when he was a musical guest.

OK, this wikileaks/TMZ thing is the best cold open in ages

agreed, always appreciate gratuitous sudekis biden shit, too

yeah they honestly don't use his Biden as much as they could, they could really easily throw him into stuff every other week and i wouldn't complain

hate deniro getting a funny monologue and kind of stepping all over it

imo opinion he should just do "u talkin to me" in 7 different outfits 2nite

For some reason "The Pokemon Directive" struck me as hilarious. I should be ashamed, I know.

no u shoulnt, also i lolld at the fuddrucker one

^____^ what's up with that ^____^

when will snl ppl realize sudeikis is funny as fuck and give him more 2 do

and also when will they bring the real lindsay buckingham 4 this sketch

You want some cake? Well, I guess we should've gotten some.

i missed the cold open cuz of football but it was actually funny??

Sort of.

It was at least a good idea.

yes -- no barack armisen or CSPAN shit or anything, an actual clever sketch (xpost it was mostly the concept but i thought the execution was solid)

sweet -- sudeikis doing biden is like 3,000 miles better than any of their other political impersonations

i fuck w/ this digital short

I honestly think Robert DeNiro shows up at about 6pm on Friday and just goes with whatever's written.

until the ending i thought it was a little lazy -- they're generally pretty good at topping everything off with a good twist or gag at the end (xpost)

loved the ad break bumper of diddy and his mannish sidekicks dancing and staring at the camera

i think deniro stumbled on the perfect way to say "diddy-dirty money"

i still don't get how anyone green lighted "diddy-dirty money"

like, why not just Diddy & Dirty Money