Saturday Night Live

I loved her "Biiiitch, pleeeaase..." blogger character

That shit was GOLD!

RIP Tina Tina Chaneuse

Oh yeah, I miss her. And yeah you are 100% otm with things working out great for Casey Wilson, but it wasn't looking that promising when she first got the ax from Lorne. Also, I was just bitter about the rumors that it was because she was "too fat".

Yeah, the "too fat" thing was fucked up, and also something I would totally expect from Lorne Michaels.

Yeah, sometimes (as in the cases of Casey Wilson and Jimmy Fallon) it isn't so much that a cast member is actively shitty as it is they're maybe just not the best fit for SNL. As evidenced by their success in other venues that better suit them.

I've kinda been saying this for years about Kristen Wiig, and Bridesmaids more or less confirmed it for me. I think she has a solid career ahead of her once she shakes off the wacky characters.

I didn't think Casey Wilson was funny on SNL and the writers did not seem to know what to do with her -- I don't watch or care for Happy Endings, but it sounds like a better fit.

xp: you know that Kristen Wiig did 22 movies before "Bridesmaids", right

She was great in Knocked Up.

I don't watch or care for Happy Endings

I'm crying for you on the inside.

xp: you know that Kristen Wiig did 22 movies before "Bridesmaids", right

no where you find infromations about kirsten wigs movies before kirsten wigs first movie birdsmades pleas

I wanna say there's a slight difference between her involvement in Bridesmaids and, for instance, her role in Date Night, but I can't quite articulate what it is...

Seriously, though. She's been great in most of her supporting film roles, but Bridesmaids showed her range and capability as a film lead/creative force.

yeah i mean i've seen over a dozen of Wiig's pre-Bridesmaids movies but i'll be damned if i could remember what she did in any of them besides Knocked Up off the top of my head until consulting google. it's like pointing out that Will Ferrell was in movies before Old School.

She was great in Macgruber!

(maybe that doesn't count since it's an SNL spinoff anyway)

"I peed my pants. I peed 'em."

Seriously w/r/t Will F? Zoolander + Austin Powers + Dick.

she was good in macgruber but it's not the kind of movie i readily remember the very existence of when discussing anyone besides will forte

He was so great in Dick omg

I love everyone and everything about that movie, though.

Um, A Night at the Roxbury?

Seriously w/r/t Will F? Zoolander + Austin Powers + Dick.

not paying enough attention to reading, made me think "Was Will Forte really in Dick?"

Zoolander was Ferrell's only bigger-than-a-cameo role in a movie that made a decent amount of money before Old School, i'd say his pre-2002 filmography is pretty comparable to Wiig's pre-2011

but then we're in a crazy world where people apparently remember Dick, so

I was a little surprised nobody nominated Dick for the comedy poll (haven't seen it myself).

Beyond being solidly entertaining, it has the best use of a Yes song I've ever seen in a movie.

It just seems weird to say that someone who has been in 22 movies, many of which have been commercially successful, can now finally have a good post-SNL career now that they've been nominated for a screenwriting Oscar. It's like saying Clint Eastwood's career started with "Unforgiven".

Yeah, it's weird that Clint Eastwood never had a leading role in a movie prior to Unforgiven.

lol

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Mattwalshcomedy.jpg

this guy has been in a shit ton of successful comedy movies but if he ever got top billing in a movie that made $200 million i would be comfortable in saying it was a breakout role without going 'omg but he was in other movies before that!'

plus, in terms of what Deric was saying to begin with, most of Wiig's previous movie roles were pretty wacky and were practically little sketch-like scenes within those movies anyway

xp the difference being that UCB and SNL aren't even on the same level of exposure. Matt Walsh is just an "oh, that guy!" and Kristen Wiig is "oh, Kristen Wiig!".

But I think some dude's point is that pre-Knocked Up, Wiig was probably an "oh, that girl!" for those who didn't really keep close tabs on SNL.

Yeah, and SNL superstardom doesn't necessarily translate into film superstardom (although it's possible that Master of Disguise did much better overseas than I realize).

Beyond being solidly entertaining, it has the best use of a Yes song I've ever seen in a movie.

I didn't like the movie, but "Heart of the Sunrise" in Buffalo 66 inches past "Seen All Good People".

I didn't watch SNL when Fallon was on, but I did recently watch SNL's Best of Jimmy Fallon on Netflix and found most of it pretty funny. Maybe my love for Late Night has made me predisposed to like him, though.

yeah i've watched that best-of special a few times and they did a good job of cherrypicking, some good sketches in there

star wars, those crazy star wars

jason sudekis please leave eastbound

cant ever go wrong w/ a nutshot sketch

That was one loose and freewheelin' and ramshackle show. But it was a pretty fun episode of The Jonah and Kristen Experience, all told.

I don't know why I loved the Liza Minelli sketch so much, but I did.

Love that talkative six-year-old bit.

taran's rush opener was hilar imo

This probably means little to most of you at the moment (and it may turn out to not mean anything, period), but Jet Eveleth has apparently gotten a callback for a possible cast slot at SNL. If she gets hired, that'll make her the third cast member to come out of iO Chicago (after Vanessa Bayer and Paul Brittain) in a very short time. I reeeeally should'a stuck it out there...

It means something to me -- for a little while Jet dated the friend of mine through whom I met Paul B. (Wondering now if you know the friend: M@rk P13b3nga.)

Hmmm, no...a quick Facebook stalk-a-rama suggests that we might know some of the same people, but that whole crew is a "generation" or three ahead of my peers (who started 5B shows tonight...sigh) and I.

Perrin on the less yuks-oriented material of the early era, esp Marilyn Suzanne Miller's:

http://splitsider.com/2012/03/when-snl-was-about-more-than-just-jokes

http://marilynhagerty.areavoices.com/

her latest video misues "hoi polloi". i guess we should be sneering after all!

er, wrong thread.

To be fair, that era extended into at least the late '80s (thinking Hartman and Hooks in "Love Is A Dream"). I have been thinking lately that the current era would be more well-rounded if it had a pinch more bittersweetness. But that doesn't really seem to fit with what SNL has morphed into, for better or worse.

Actually, this is kinda just the way (popular) comedy has trended in general, and I would say it's for the worse (for instance, attempts at the promotion of dramatic improv in Chicago were a real pain in the ass).