Saturday Night Live

The M'OD bio "Mr Mike" is worth a read. He bitched when the original cast started to do recurring characters, cuz he thought that was too much like Carol Burnett etc.

the writers' terror of offending anyone makes most of the sketches heavily dependent on unfunny gimmicks and repetition, much like conan o'brien's show these days.

(i ACTUALLY roffled the first time i saw this sketch)

-- joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 04:22 (2 years ago) Link

was actually bumping thread to say i have a crush of shame on kristin wiig

why shame?

maybe shame bc she's totally annoying?

yeah, that

shes kinda horsey too

i dunno i used to get real madtv vibes & think she was really untalented but now i kinda think shes the funniest person on the show

she never tina fey

the hot air balloon thing sealed it for me

she def. cracks me up with the penelope skits.

the hot air balloon was totally a rip-off of Tim and Eric style bad TV. Tonight wasn't so funny. Cold open was pretty weak and the game show too. Steve Martin and Tina were good in the intro. I also liked Tina's Hillary rant. What's the story on the new girl?

i watched snl tonight for the first time in a while!! it was not that good but when is it ever. tina fey was only really good in the monologue.

the there will be blood thing cracked me up tho.

and ya what IS up with that new chick?> is she secretly fergie

bret michaels sketch was awesome. the girls on snl roxxor.

so's maya rudolph gone?

I couldn't remember seeing new girl in the earlier episodes this season and then noticed half way through the show that maya hadn't shown up at all.

new girl is not funny

two of these are new to me, i know dratch and wiig basically.

goddamnit darrell hammond is going to outlive us all

I love Fred Armisen, and I understand that they're kind of in a pinch, but his Obama is horrible.

darrell fucking hammond.

he is responsible for like 25% of the suckage in any given year

fuck, i was just thinking that. he's been on for 13 years, hasn't he...

xp

glad i misssed the obama thing. his gene simmons was way off at first but it got funny.

His fake Gene Simmons hair is sadly better than Gene Simmons's real Gene Simmons hair.

maybe shame bc she's totally annoying?

-- tehresa, Saturday, February 23, 2008 10:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

kristen wig is beautiful and funny.

this week has been the week of gnar ilxor girls telling dudes which girls they should like.

Mike Huckabee -- great timing!

xp: huckabee was pretty good. a shame about his beliefs and politics.

the fake ad was funny. the new girl did a hateful rachel ray, so she's ok with me. but overall should've been better with a couple months' vacation. i hear they're only doing eight more episodes for the season.

the hot air balloon was totally a rip-off of Tim and Eric style bad TV.

but kinda funny instead of not funny at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AUHHOVtNqo

http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c3921788d9d5011789462b940066

just because...

hilarious to suggest that women need to vote for hrc because bitches need to stick together, and pretty funny too to imply that the mainstream media gives obama a free ride at her expense; if '30 rock' goes this way it will get boring very quickly, but i doubt it

i dunno i used to get real madtv vibes & think she was really untalented but now i kinda think shes the funniest person on the show

-- and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (9 hours ago) Link

truth. snl has always been the original american idol. there's often these moments when a new performer "breaks". wiig's moment was doing nancy pelosi, up until then she had been a waste of space, but the second she started doing pelosi's intensity eye stares she had the crowd eating out of the palm of her hand.

saturdaynight dead

for me it was knocked up... mega lolz at her in that

Tina Fey as Daisy on Rock of Love 2 was scary accurate! Actually all of them were scary accurate.

That pill commercial had me screaming with laughter! "Buy yourself a hat and hold the f*** out of it." haha

i laughed at the first bleep but nothing else in that

reminded me of arrested development

Tina rolling into work with an axe was basically exactly what I wanted to see.

coleman domingo episode had the FIDM robbery sketch which made up for any meh parts

The British Pork thing and the Mario sketch were outstanding this week. George Fouracres has become a national treasure in the space of two months. And I really want Aimee Lou Wood to be an actual Doctor Who companion. "What the fuck is that?" is a better line than anything heard in actual Who for years.

Tony noms are out today, and Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer are both up for best featured actress in a musical.

Aimee Lou Wood was really good. I loved how she was playing every Victoria Wood character rolled into one person during the pork sketch. But one of my favourite sketches so far this series was the jewellery one from last week. Emma Sidi is very funny, but something about Nicola Coughlan's "Why is it so long?" really got me.

SNL UK renewed for season two. Good news.

I saw a quote from a pod on one of snl subs that if Ashley Padilla gets around 8 minutes of screentime in each of the last two episodes of this season she'll set a record for most screentime in a season...which is <fucking insane>.

xpost Weird, since I was told in this very thread that everyone in the UK hated this show.

where did anyone say that?

I think SNL UK has only improved week over week. Fouracres obviously the breakout star but every cast member on there is impressive. Glad it's coming back.

It would be kind of funny if Padilla bailed on the next season before she is even promoted.

One thing I learned from the Olivia Rodriguez episode last time around is that her voice is very good, well-trained and well-controlled, but this clearly isn't nearly enough talent to break through as popular singer these days. What puts her over the top is her talent for heavy flirting with a camera.

:-/

Aimluez

if only women were able to write funny, smart and entertaining songs, maybe she could have broken through that way. alas!

People (including me) were definitely pessimistic beforehand, but the show is definitely solid at worst and excellent at best. They’re a bit fucked if Fouracres gets a better offer in the meantime, though.

Man, this sketch could have run in any era and killed in almost all of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbn5T8rMLQc

Hannah Waddingham very good value in some fairly low-standard sketches. Hammad as a rhino and the reveal of the triplets birthday sketch were the highlights for me this week. And Ania's best Weekend Update, I think.

Yeah, I didn't think it was as good as other weeks either, but Hannah Waddingham was fantastic. She should have her own Saturday night variety show.

That Auctioneers sketch is amazing, particularly considering it wound up as the last sketch of the night. I don't think anyone fucked up a line either.

It was remarkably skillfull for a sketch that may have only allowed one week for Sherman and Damon to prepare their deliveries. I didn't find it that funny but yeah, it was impressive in execution.

Matt Damon episode best episode in a year or two.

No absolute clunkers.

Cold open was same jokes and impersonations but better than usual, Mom trailer was OK, cat litter commercial was pretty good, kamikaze dolphins was kinda good. Tough Guys was annoying for a while until it got where it was going and that was a good place.

But mainly Substitute Teacher and Auctioneers. The sub was almost ruined by chloe breaking...I'm not usually too bothered by breaking and sometimes find it charming, but in this case Damon was killing it with his nonstop activity and the reaction shots from the students were so good that having one of them break was annoying.

And auctioneers felt like an old-school sketch, the kind I don't generally like. The family that's always yelling or whatever. But it was really impressive, the performance, the writing etc.

Joke Swap!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY8lNAmso1Y

The new “Lorne” documentary is streaming on Peacock.

YMMV on whether you like it or not but I thought it was really good & surprisingly moving towards the end

Few things that really landed for me
1) the quiet way he has been a low-key, positive parental figure to so many cast members. the line “a good parent never loses control in front of their children” kinda blew me away a bit because lord do I have no idea what that would even look like
2) the way his 60’s idealism still shows in small, unannounced ways, like the table read. as he pointed out, He runs the show, he could skip the lame sketches a page in and cut to the next one. but he’s aware that those writers are at the table & they deserve their moment with the material, that it’s about the group & not him & what he wants.
3) Lorne & the baby goats.
4) “gardening is like producing a show that doesn’t talk back made me lol but is also weirdly profound”

I mean this dude is still weird as hell to me but what an immense figure in fostering comedy in our culture. FOR MY WHOLE LIFETIME. and longer! It’s crazy.