If they'd have pulled the What Up With That? and the live-action Ambigously Gay Duo from last week's episode and slotted them in the best of this weekend's, you'd have had the perfect season finale.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 May 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, but then no one would've tuned in because last weeks was so bad.
― nickn, Monday, 23 May 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
True, but, y'know, sacrifice.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 May 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Bill Hader is the official "cast member who breaks" now, right? (I get why, esp. in the Stefon sketch, but still)
― I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Monday, 23 May 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
For some reason it's funny when Hader does it but was always lazy when Fallon did it. (Hader obvs funnier, but still.)
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 23 May 2011 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
God, remember the "Leathuhh" sketch w/ Fallon/Sanz? Did they ever NOT break? Like, even once?
― I Like Fuck (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 23 May 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Watching the rerun; I had no idea Jessie J sang like that! Too bad her songs are horrible because wau
― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Sunday, 29 May 2011 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
You mean the second song, right? I was pretty impressed iirc
― polyphonic, Sunday, 29 May 2011 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link
this was def my favorite sketch of the season http://www.hulu.com/watch/206141/saturday-night-live-worst-of-soul-train
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 June 2011 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that was pretty great
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
what's the time frame on when cast changes happen? interested to see what happens this year, i feel like it was a really successful year for them in terms of buzz but i wouldn't be surprised to see sudeikis or wiig or even hader leave. also not sure the supporting cast was that strong this year but i think it's stupid when they dump ppl after a year
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 June 2011 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
last couple seasons the big news about who's leaving/getting fired hasn't come out until late august/early september, seems like they wait til rehearsals are starting for the season premiere to finalize or announce those kinds of decisions.
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i would be pretty bummed if sudeikis or hader or wiig left -- so sick of armisen but i guess they're going to keep his shitty obama on for at least 2 more seasons, and god willing hire a black man who can do a decent obama if the guy gets a 2nd term
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
fun fact: fred armisen is now the voice of speedy gonzalez. there really is no ethnicity that guy isn't that he won't play!
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
seems like armisen is on the darrell hammond track of hanging around for five years too long just so he can do two characters an episode
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 June 2011 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
You've gotta admit, Armisen's David Patterson had layers. Layers like, "Did you know that blind people can't see?" and...yeah, that's pretty much it.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 20 June 2011 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't really think armisen is terrible as obama, i just think the writing for those sketches has been really poor
the same episode w/ the soul train sketch had a cold open w/ armisen as bloomberg addressing nyc after the epic snowstorms & it was really, really hilarious
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 June 2011 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
lol tarfumes
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
his david patterson IS hilarious
i just don't think this writing staff has ever found a way to write funnily for obama -- sudeikis' biden has always been hilarious, but it's not even a 'good' impression really, he's just an easier person to write jokes about
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 June 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
no, he's totally a lame obama. like, if you watch will ferrell's early bush impressions from fall 2000, he didn't quite have it down yet and was just kind of riffing on a vague idea of the guy that got more focused later on -- armisen is still like that after playing obama for 4 years
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
there HAVE been funnily written obama sketches where the weaknesses of the impression aren't an issue -- particularly the 'obama plays it cool' sketch -- but mostly it's the acting even if political/current event cold openings have been otherwise weak in recent years too
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
He still plays it so straight, which draws attention to the fact that it's a bad impression. If he'd put a little character on the president, he could get away with being a white guy who simply ends his sentences on an accented syllable every time.
The sketch where he was chainsmoking on stage, saying "Instead of Obamacare, you all need to start calling it 'Guy-who-killed-Bin-Laden Care'..." was about the closest I've laughed at Armisen's Obama, but I still think The Rock owns the record for Best Impression of 44.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 20 June 2011 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i mean i wouldn't mind seeing some new blood there, but i think it's an overall problem xp
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 June 2011 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
a year or two ago i was as adamant about a new update anchor as a new obama, but seth meyers has weirdly kind of grown on me i think?
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
he's a p consistent good-joke teller imo, saw some tina fey/fallon reruns and it could be kinda dire
― mississippi john hurt, but alabama john feeling okay (m bison), Monday, 20 June 2011 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
plus he's a good foil for stefon
i think seth is great on update
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 June 2011 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah his interactions w/ update guests are great
I think the problem is that the Obama character, as Armisen plays him, is essentially a straight man -- making him the focus of the sketch fundamentally won't ever cut it. My favorite Obama sketches have been when Maya Rudolph comes back as Michelle.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 20 June 2011 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah -- or like nasim pedrad's chinese translater screaming "DOING SEX TO ME" was a good example of obama as straight man
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
so consensus has been reached that solo armisen obama = not funny, obama with silly shit around him (biden, chinese lady, the rock) = ok
― mississippi john hurt, but alabama john feeling okay (m bison), Monday, 20 June 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
not the whole truth but a facet of it, yeah
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
*gavel*
― mississippi john hurt, but alabama john feeling okay (m bison), Monday, 20 June 2011 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
obama and stefon could maybe be a good comedy team
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
am i crazy for thinking that a stefon movie would be good
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 June 2011 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
feel like the character is at a good point b/w being developed & underdeveloped that might lend itself well to being expanded into movie format
a hundred times more than the macgruber movie at least
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 June 2011 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
DC's hottest new club is K Street's FNKK. It's got everything: Chandra Levy dancers, a dwarf dressed as a flat tax proposal, gary hart selling pubic wigs in the men's room...
xxp
sry 2 custos
― mississippi john hurt, but alabama john feeling okay (m bison), Monday, 20 June 2011 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
feel like stefon bits have to be the most fun to write for
― mississippi john hurt, but alabama john feeling okay (m bison), Monday, 20 June 2011 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
stefon works behind the desk in front of an audience doing that particular schtick over and over -- can't see it retaining that in any context
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i didn't love the macgruber movie but there was a certain kind of sense about them totally bucking the sketch formula w/ that movie
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
loved macgruber with the force of 1000 gales
― mississippi john hurt, but alabama john feeling okay (m bison), Monday, 20 June 2011 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
but its success was def from not being like the sketch (how could it have been)
― mississippi john hurt, but alabama john feeling okay (m bison), Monday, 20 June 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i just want hader to have a leading role in something, he's too funny not to
yeah i dunno -- i love him but he's such a 'character' guy, it might be my lack of imagination but i feel like he'll only ever star in something high concept w/ him playing something wacky, or playing it straight in supporting roles like in super bad/sarah marshall etc.
― The bigman from the glorious 'e street' band (some dude), Monday, 20 June 2011 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Hader's first starring role.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 20 June 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone watch that clip and tell me if it's actually funny or Tim & Eric "funny" please.
― The Hetfieldification of the Menopausal Male (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 20 June 2011 05:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i think that soul train thing was like the perfect little gel cap of everything i hate about the show, j0rd4n. the fact that it was sort of clumsily put together, and it was fucking COMEDY SONG PARODIES. i guess i could forgive that but the material just felt sort of hackneyed, and it felt like there was no particular investment in the premise or whatever.
soul train disco comedy song parodies. fuck.
i think stefon is really funny.
― dylannn, Monday, 20 June 2011 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, that soul train thing was bad.
― mizzell, Monday, 20 June 2011 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Season premiere: Alec Baldwin/Radiohead. FYI.
Also, Lorne sez all cast members are returning.
― jaymc, Friday, 12 August 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link