Saturday Night Live

Surely Tina Fey has had a better post-SNL career than J L-D.

tarfumes that is awesome

haha listen i love 30 Rock but Seinfeld is a heavy trump card

argument could definitely be made! seinfeld ridiculously more successful than 30 rock but fey obv more central to 30 rock's success. gave it to jl-d cuz i remember hearing she's the first actress to win best comedy actress emmy for 3 different shows, extent to which old christine can be called a hit is arguable and it's too soon to call veep an unqualified triumph too imo. otoh fey does have a movie career of sorts (did jl-d even attempt this? only thing i can think of is deconstructing harry. how did jason alexander and michael richards get movie vehicles but not jl-d???), big bestselling book, more 'iconic' or something. in any case wiig will be the clear winner in a few years.

own personal ws rankings may be unintentionally swaying me here

mean girls, bossy pants, date night and 30 rock, plus people actually know her from snl, dreyfus can settle for most successful seinfeld vet

that's larry david pretty easy

loved the 30 Rock live episode where J L-D played Liz Lemon in flashbacks -- "Why are you better looking in your memory?" "Because my memory has Seinfeld money."

No other SNL cast member has a big financial firm named after her.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/Dreyfuscorp.jpg

that's larry david pretty easy

boooooo

OK i guess technically she's named after the firm but still.. she's probably the only one who could have Lorne Michaels killed.

i know right (xpost)

now i'm wondering where larry david ranks on wealthiest snl employees

prob top 20 but not top 10? there are quite a few gigantic movie stars on that list y'know

would actually love to see that list, find out whether house of blues secretly puts danny in the top 10, find out whether denny dillon has a good eye for a land deal, etc

New Adventures of Old Christine did pretty well for awhile....did Veep get renewed?

New Adventures is in syndication, which is usually some mark of "success"...but then again, so is According To Jim, so never mind.

yeah syndication money is insane and as hobbies go curb is pretty lucrative. apparently he's worth around $800 million. for comparison tom hanks is worth around $250 million. i'm guessing lorne is wealthier than david but not will ferrell and probably not eddie murphy (i know eddie's produced alot i can't remember if any huge hits though). o and actual wealthiest is obv, again, jl-d but that's from her billionaire dad. fuck brad hall.

i liked New Adventures more than most but it was kind of a flash in the pan, after it got an Emmy and a renewal for the first season there was a lot of excitement about her 'breaking the Seinfeld curse' and then it just quietly plodded along for a 5 season run. i guess we'll see if Veep suffers the same fate.

according to jim was on from fall 2001 to spring 2009. ponder that shit.

when julia louis dreyfus was doing commercials for clairol i was wondering if she'd had some weird kind of amnesia where she forgot that she was wealthy.

sadly his vegas lawyer show with jerry o'connell did not get to be his old christine

...did Veep get renewed?

yep

Five year run for a sitcom is like a five year NFL career, doesn't seem impressive until you realize that like five percent of shows last that long

David Spade is SNL's king of staying on primetime with shows nobody cares about -- 7 seasons of Just Shoot Me, 2 seasons of 8 Simple Rules, and now Rules Of Engagement going into its 7th season

I just see Fey as more powerful in the biz than JL-D, I mean, Seinfeld doesn't seem to help Richards or Alexander, really.

Never realized New Adv lasted 5 years, seems like 2 or 3.

Just Shoot Me was a great show, never understood why it wasn't better regarded

Just Shoot Me was a great show for two seasons; it lasted for seven

Okay, I would watch a whole lot more of Kate McKinnon as Ellen Degeneres. Make it happen SNL.

FUZZ ALDRIN

oh wow, there are now two Muse songs I like

I was just about to come here and affirm my already held belief that Muse is terrible.

they are terrible but I liked that song

Now that I've heard my second Muse song, and I like it as well, I'm ready to acknowledge them as a guilty pleasure.

Kate McKinnon is winning this episode for reals.

She's great. Big Bird winning though.

Yeah. It's always interested the rate new players find their groove/use and she's running away with it.

liking this british tv show sketch even though its bombing

yeah i appreciate a nod towards relentlessly grim working class british sitcoms.

that has got to be the worst spanish accent i've ever heard.

also that british sketch was funnier than every single episode of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. every one.

damn... these Muse guys suck ass

Yep.

was he playing an ipad?

Kate "Crazy Eyes" McKinnon

I fell asleep early but Kate McKinnon was beastly last night

i had to google who lea michele was :/

You are a lucky man.

Was that actually Carroll Spinney as Big Bird? Sure sounded like him.

Ah, OK, it was. Cool.