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.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i've watched that best-of special a few times and they did a good job of cherrypicking, some good sketches in there
― some dude, Thursday, 8 March 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
star wars, those crazy star wars
― calstars, Thursday, 8 March 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
jason sudekis please leave eastbound
― calstars, Thursday, 8 March 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
cant ever go wrong w/ a nutshot sketch
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 11 March 2012 06:35 (twelve years ago) link
That was one loose and freewheelin' and ramshackle show. But it was a pretty fun episode of The Jonah and Kristen Experience, all told.
― Alan Hale's Corn Casserole Recipe (Family Circle, June 1976) (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 11 March 2012 06:39 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know why I loved the Liza Minelli sketch so much, but I did.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Sunday, 11 March 2012 06:49 (twelve years ago) link
Love that talkative six-year-old bit.
― boxall, Sunday, 11 March 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
taran's rush opener was hilar imo
― arsenio and old ma$e (m bison), Sunday, 11 March 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
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...
― Alan Hale's Corn Casserole Recipe (Family Circle, June 1976) (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 12 March 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.)
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Monday, 12 March 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Alan Hale's Corn Casserole Recipe (Family Circle, June 1976) (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 12 March 2012 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://marilynhagerty.areavoices.com/
her latest video misues "hoi polloi". i guess we should be sneering after all!
― s.clover, Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
And FURTHERmore: so many of those early SNL-ers worked with or were inspired by the work of Del Close and his ilk, but the material coming out of Second City and iO (two fairly rich SNL talent mines) these days bears very little of his mark. There are a lot of talented performers and some clever conceits, but the majority of the stagework is "Just For Laffs!". I have no problem with "Just For Laffs!", but I wish there was more of a balance.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
that's actually a nice piece by perrin
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
so you did improv in Chicago for X years?
yeah I can't see Close OR O'Donoghue recognizing much influence these days.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
About 3 years. I'm on 'sabbatical' until I figure out what the next step is gonna be, but it probably won't be in Chicago and it probably won't be boilerplate improv.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Deric, I haven't seen TJ & Dave in a long time, but I feel like their approach is more lived-in and less madcap than some other acts.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, yeah, TJ & Dave is one of the definite exceptions. But then Pasquesi, for instance, is pretty heavily involved in straight theatre.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
(Not meant to challenge your general point, btw! Just wondering if you agreed.)
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Jet seems pretty funny, but still a little raw if youtube clips are any kind of a good judgement method. I'd love for SNL to bring in Emily Tarver.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
every once in a great while SNL does something a little less laff-y. i'm thinking of a skit with maya rudolph and tracy morgan as two run down drunks in a bar that was pretty touching tbh
very much the exception tho
― goole, Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
I probably haven't seen that Spacek-Belushi sketch in 30 years; it doesn't seem to be online.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
it seems like the only old SNL stuff online is on Hulu, it's not much, but even that's blocked for non-US people
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
xpost to jaymc
Nah, it's cool, and I really should emphasize how many awesomely talented people there are doing work in that whole arena. I just wish more of them would take a page from TJ & Dave and have the courage to let things breathe and allow for quiet moments and refrain from desperately pouncing on the joke. To be fair, audiences are occasionally awful and implicitly demand less-than-stellar work.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
xp it's on Netflix too but not for free
― Joan Cusack clumsily running into a water fountain (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 19 March 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
new featured player, kate mckinnon, starts next week
http://splitsider.com/2012/03/meet-kate-mckinnon-snls-newest-castmember/
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
She seems reasonably funny, but all of the impressions they featured in that article were terrible.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
i lol'ed at the liz taylor one
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
i have high hopes for her, based solely on those videos i think she might be able to lighten wiig's workload a bit
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
haha, never mind! wiig, sudeikis and samberg all leaving:
http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/kristen-wiig-andy-samberg-jason-sudeikis-to-leave-saturday-night-live-201244
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
oh noes
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
I guess most of the lady roles will be Fred Armisen in a wig now?
― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
Meanwhile, Sudeikis has a new movie in the works, Relanxious, where he will star opposite his real-life love Olivia Wilde.
this is one of the worst movie titles ever btw
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
that seriously must have been named by sifting through the discard pile in the 30 Rock writing room
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
had no idea he was dating Olivia Wilde, dude is lucky
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
I still appreciate dude as a comic actor, but irl Sudeikis is a dickweed of the highest order. He hops from starlet to starlet after leaving his wife "because he could get hotter chicks".
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
No results found for "because he could get hotter chicks".
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
Not a direct quote obvs, but relayed to me through about six degrees of comedians. Actually, disregard. It's probably bullshit.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
In his Maron interview he came across as very protective of January Jones even though they weren't dating anymore.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
Really glad that Wiig is finally leaving, but bummed about Samberg and Sudeikis leaving. I know the SNL Digital Shorts have really dipped in quality, but he brought his moments.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
I'll miss Wiig and Sudeikis. Samberg, not at all.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
He hops from starlet to starlet after leaving his wife "because he could get hotter chicks".
His wife, the beautiful and hilarious 30 Rock writer Kay Cannon. I mean...come on, dude.
― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
I'll miss all three to varying degrees. I think Wiig is moving on to bigger and better things and general stardom. I think Sudeikis is fooling himself a little, because I think he's great on SNL and I think it's the perfect venue for him and I think his film trajectory won't be terribly dissimilar to Joe Piscopo's.
― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
abby elliot may be leaving also depending on if her pilot gets picked up. sudeikis seemed ok on the bs report fwiw, he's norm peterson's nephew iirc.
― balls, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
as long as hader stays i'm fine.
― balls, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link