Saturday Night Live

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.

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

-- Johnny Fever, Sunday, February 24, 2008 8:32 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link

totally.

and why are they in that pinch, i wonder.

OMG the birth control pill commercial! Tina Fey with an axe! HOTT.

i thought i heard kenan was gonna be obama

I totally get the pro-HRC slant displayed last night. The have a killer Bill impersonator and a killer Hillary impersonator but no Barack impersonator. They should just acknowledge that and let Kenan do some ridiculous completely un-Obamalike character, maybe as a split with Armisen so they end up with a Jeckyll/Hyde routine.

So glad it's back. I don't think the audience got the milkshake sketch but Hader's impression and phrasing was awesome.

the "I'M FINISHED!" followed by the little musical doop-dee-doo had me rofling.

For some reason last night I remembered Toonces after forgetting about it for a long time. One of their best bits ever, imho.

remembering toonces, a memoir by hurting 2

Toonces y Yo, por Duelendo Dos

xpost Tina Fex with a PINK axe. So perfect.

only skit i saw was the milkshake one and i thought it was a disaster. i think the idea of plainview hosting a real food network show has potential, or it'd at least be better than bill hader literally reciting lines from the straight from the movie while kenan does the aw-shucks thing. armisen's chigurh was awful.

carrie underwood was cool though

kudos to whoever shook this shake, Magnum

"new girl" is casey wilson from ucb la

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.