Saturday Night Live

I play Beth!

http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/lorne-michaels-on-tonight-show-snl.html

i loved the kyle mooney superbowl bit

I did too. I like Mooney! He's probably not right for SNL though. I think he used to do that sports bit on Fallon or Kimmel or something?

as an employee of S FM0 Ma and one of the possible 5 people who could be "Danny Trans", the museum sketch was disconcertingly odd.

pretty sure my first encounter with mooney doing that same sorta bit was as norm macdonald's "nephew" on the briefly lived, if brilliant, Sports Show

as an employee of S FM0 Ma and one of the possible 5 people who could be "Danny Trans", the museum sketch was disconcertingly odd.

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I actually searched on Twitter after the sketch aired to see if anyone from the museum had commented on it.

Sparkle is your real name Danny Cis because that'd be a giveaway.

It was verified by our education staff that something similar had been staged during the Kahlo show a few years ago... and run ins like that happen in the galleries all the time. It was pretty accurate all things considered.

Didn't see that coming.

http://splitsider.com/2014/02/fred-armisen-is-late-nights-new-band-leadercurator/

UPDATE: A rep at NBC has confirmed the members of the 8G Band with Fred Armisen. From left to right in the photo, the band includes Seth Jabour (Les Savy Fav) on guitar, Kimberly Thompson (session drummer who has played for Beyoncé, amongst many others) on drums, Eli Janney (Girls Against Boys) on keyboards, and Syd Butler (Les Savy Fav) on bass.

Armisen is more off-putting than anything else he is, certainly more so than funny or musically talented

Two members of Les Savy Fav!

xp I could understand that feeling as applied to someone like Morrissey or Woody Allen, i.e. where the person has been off-putting in ways mostly independent of their entertainment product. But I don't know how you could feel that way about Fred Armisen. I'd guess that you find him off-putting because he shows up in stuff and you already think he's not funny or musically talented?

go fred go

look forward to him occasionally appearing in musical sketches whenever the heck he wants still

does this mean he's done with that portland show? f--g a, fred armisen. go back to portland.

think the article said he would be absent from the band while doing other things, e.g. portlandia

yeah if Max Weinberg could run off and do Springsteen tours and still hold down the Conan gig i think Fred can go do Portlandia and the occasional movie role. i imagine he'll be in sketches and stuff a lot, although it's hard to picture him being a full-on Andy Richter type figure, because he's so rarely played 'himself' or anything resembling a normal guy on SNL or whatever, and when he does it comes off very weird.

thought he was hilarious in brooklyn 99 and broad city. hope he continues that type of thing.

tonight's episode was really enjoyable

I watched the Ellen cold open and bits of the Peter Pan thing and had to turn it off.

I liked most of it, but especially the Dance Floor Killer thing.

Colin Jost is redundant and unfunny. Cecily Strong should be flying solo on WU.

The strings in that 2nd Beck song are gorgeous.

I liked most of it, but especially the Dance Floor Killer thing.

ha this was ok. i'm hoping that them hiring 50% white extras for the soul train scene was meta.

I thought it was a woeful episode. The way the cohosts on weekend update laugh and smile was so annoying. Several skits started funny and then just dragged on. Plus Beck was a snooze.

enjoyed the 12 years a slave casting call and jedediah and shaq and barkley (though pharoah's flub there was part of a weird trend for the night) on update but thought the rest was pretty poor

The strings in that 2nd Beck song are gorgeous.
--Johnny Fever

Everythiiiiing in its riiiiight plaaace

Heh. I liked that song a little bit. But I still don't go for srs Beckness.

I dunno if "Trick, I am not Bill Withers. Do not lean on me, okay?" is a real Katt Williams line or not, but I'm still laughing about that one.

That MRA sketch was a disaster.

thought it was great thru update, mooney short the only thing i liked after that. dunham was awesome. sometimes i wonder if dvr was invented specifically to ffwd thru the music act on snl.

He wasn't sweating enough to do a real good Katt Williams.

I don't hate Colin Jost (I think). He's the guy who created Drunk Uncle with Moynihan after all. But he really has no business being on camera, much less co-anchoring Update. Cecily's got this, Lorne.

Ooh Child short was fun. I've already forgotten most of the rest of it, except Moynihan as the older brother in the tween girl show sketch was gold.

Oh right, the monologue...Kate McKinnon playing an old lady is always a good time.

Is it wrong of me to wish Kate McKinnon would do her Russian woman again?

I don't understand the National. Like I never heard of them and suddenly it seems like everyone likes them. And they sound like mature music for Interpol fans?

National frontman is totally Thom Yorke cosplaying as Walter White amirite

Or Warren Zevon with no sense of humor.

Why would anyone put a band that boring on national tv?

Also, Weekend Update has turned into an absolute shitshow

eve sketch was pretty good and really killer olivia pope impersonation

Yeah, Seth Meyers' Weekend Update persona might have been "smug prick" but that's preferable to the blank slate that is Colin Jost's nothingness.

yeah zameer's olivia pope was great

pretty much hated this episode. ugh, Parsons' was so much better.

In both episodes there were sketches that started funny and then just ran too long

Kate McKinnon playing an old lady is always a good time

But yes to this

It's been fun seeing all the "men's rights" men come out of the woodwork to complain about the jewelry party sketch.

But just a moment ago, I saw a story about how SNL and Lena Dunham "mocked" the bible in the Garden of Eden sketch.

I thought the Parsons episode was terrible and this one was pretty good, though I didn't see the end of the Parsons due to DVR not catching it running late. Garden of Eden was great though it helps to be a Girls fan. I thought jewelry party sketch was great, despite of/because of Cecily's accent. I wonder if whoever wrote that watched 90 Day Fiance on TLC that ran recently. I'm thinking yes. I really loved the rap show skit and it's driving me nuts because I can't find the original video that I'm sure fed that...some like 40 minute video of a downtown NYC 80s artist woman doing this "jazzy" rap that sounds pretty much exactly like what they were doing and is oh so terrible. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Loved the Will Smith skit.

"My flute amp!"

The intro to "What are you even doing?" sounded a lot like "Me Plus One" by Annie.

apple-shaming was a great gag i thought