o_O
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 September 2014 04:45 (ten years ago) link
there's norm mcdonald, fey & poehler, and then a bunch of riff raff as far as I can tell
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 September 2014 04:52 (ten years ago) link
As despicable as Dennis Miller is now, he was quite good at the Update desk. WU was never stable in the early years, but Chevy, Aykroyd and Curtin were all memorable. Kevin Nealon...could be okay sometimes. Jimmy Fallon was never a good partner for Tina Fey, but Fey was never held back by him as evidenced during the time she flew solo. The addition of Poehler just took that pairing into the stratosphere. Poehler ever upped Seth's game and left him better prepared to go it alone.
I honestly don't remember who all went through the Update ranks during the Ebersol years, but none of them were great. That's where the riff raff is (along with Colin Quinn).
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 September 2014 04:58 (ten years ago) link
i feel like nealon's a little underrated, but he was the anchor during the years i first watched snl so it's probably just bias on my part.
― my friend, Gater (Clay), Friday, 12 September 2014 05:00 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, so I think we basically agree that jost would even be fine with Poehler xp
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 September 2014 05:00 (ten years ago) link
I love nealon's standup but I don't recall his weekend update
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 September 2014 05:01 (ten years ago) link
I honestly don't remember who all went through the Update ranks during the Ebersol years, but none of them were great
iirc it was like joe piscopo + father guido sarducci
― jaymc, Friday, 12 September 2014 05:04 (ten years ago) link
We don't.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 September 2014 05:04 (ten years ago) link
haha. How can we know for sure?
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 September 2014 05:05 (ten years ago) link
Colin Jost's grandmother is probably better on camera than he is.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 September 2014 05:06 (ten years ago) link
Mr Julia Louis-Dreyfus was a Weekend Update anchor!
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Friday, 12 September 2014 05:11 (ten years ago) link
The first episode of SNL I ever saw was the night Buckwheat was assassinated (which the internet tells me was March of 1983). I didn't become a regular viewer until the 86/87 season, which is when Lorne returned and Carvey, Hartman, Hooks, Nealon, and Victoria Jackson all joined what was left of the previous cast (Lovitz, Nora Dunn and Dennis Miller). Surprise, surprise! The old adage about your favorite era of SNL being the one you watched when you were 13 holds true in my case. It's a shame about Jackson and Miller now, and definitely a shame about Phil Hartman, but pound for pound it was the best cast the show ever had all at once.
For the longest time, the measuring stick for WU for me was Dennis Miller. Now it's Fey & Poehler (which is the best WU has EVER been).
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 September 2014 05:16 (ten years ago) link
Dennis Miller lives up here and is generally a nice dude outside of his politics fwiw
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 September 2014 05:26 (ten years ago) link
Ha, the first episode of SNL that I remember watching is one hosted by Matthew Broderick in 198. It was originally run in October, but it was rerun on New Years Eve, and my parents let me stay up to watch. (I was 9.) It featured this infamous sketch: http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88bnudebeach.phtml.
― jaymc, Friday, 12 September 2014 05:33 (ten years ago) link
I'm still not 100% convinced he actually believes all that shit, because he seems like the kind of guy who can spot a pretty good mealticket. xp
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 September 2014 05:35 (ten years ago) link
Haha, I remember watching that nude beach sketch with my mom in the room. Oof.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 September 2014 05:36 (ten years ago) link
I think that one had my all-time fave: http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88bmonkey.phtml
― schwantz, Friday, 12 September 2014 06:39 (ten years ago) link
The old adage about your favorite era of SNL being the one you watched when you were 13 holds true in my case.
Well, yes, but also because that is objectively and inarguably the best SNL cast ever.
(Although, admittedly, I may also have possibly been 13 during that era.)
― Rocking In The Broad Daylight (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 September 2014 11:33 (ten years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Friday, September 12, 2014 12:58 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Brad Hall ('82-'84) and Christopher Guest ('84-'85 season). Guest was surprisingly awful at it, no personality whatsoever, and shitty timing. But compared to Colin Jost, he was Richard Pryor.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 12 September 2014 12:06 (ten years ago) link
Anyone who doesn't think Norm was the best update anchor, gtfoh
― bozack horseman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 12 September 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Fey & Poehler > Norm > Dennis Miller >>>>>>>>>> everybody else >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jost
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 September 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
yeah probably
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 September 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
At any rate, I think we can all agree that Colins should never work the Update desk.
― Rocking In The Broad Daylight (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 September 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
your granny on bongos >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jost
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 12 September 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
Agreed. xp
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 September 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
Also agreed, lol. xp
Is this where we were discussing the Mulaney sitcom? Because that shit looks bad.
― "a bit of goatery, some demonry" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 14 September 2014 11:13 (ten years ago) link
Is there where someone explains to me why people expected so much of John Mulaney to begin with? his on camera segments on SNL were always painful imo.
― some dude, Sunday, 14 September 2014 11:18 (ten years ago) link
I wasn't expecting much, really, because yeah the dude's a good writer but his persona sucks. But him being a writer I was kind of expecting jokes that could at least, in theory, be funny when delivered by someone more appealing than him.
― "a bit of goatery, some demonry" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 14 September 2014 11:21 (ten years ago) link
yeah he's been a writer on enough things i've enjoyed that i assume he's talented, but whenever he turned up on Best Week Ever or a Comedy Central standup show i was just like this guy is awkward as hell, send him back to the writer's room
― some dude, Sunday, 14 September 2014 11:23 (ten years ago) link
His New In Town special was great
― da croupier, Sunday, 14 September 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
Great on kroll show too
20-year-old NY stand-up Pete Davidson added to the cast: http://deadline.com/2014/09/pete-davidson-cast-saturday-night-live-834404/
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Monday, 15 September 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
attn J0rdan S.
http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/934464/wild-n-out-meet-pete-davidson.jhtml
― bozack horseman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
That dude's set on Kimmel was pretty funny.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 September 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Darrell Hammond replacing Pardo.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:48 (ten years ago) link
Wow
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
I've been jokingly suggesting that but then Lorne Michaels actually went and did the thing that seemed absurd enough for me to suggest in a joking fashion.
― Bouffants and Other Coifs (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
they should just play the recording of Pardo saying "DARRELL HAMMOND" for the introduction of every cast member
― example (crüt), Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link
My sister still spouts ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL! in Pardo's voice during random lulls at Christmas.
― pplains, Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
haha
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
TMZ sayin Kenan's leaving :(
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
after this season, with snl calling the report "inaccurate"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
would miss him, he seems like one of those anchor dudes that can be relied on in almost any situation/sketch
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
I'd be surprised if he comes back, and I thought that even before the TMZ report yesterday. It just seems like it's his time to move on (I still love him, tho).
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
I'll be sad if he goes, for sure. 2016 season will feature a "reunion" Scared Straight sketch with returning Hader, Samberg & Thompson still trying to make each other break.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
still weird to think of bobby moynihan as the 2nd most veteran castmember today
― da croupier, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
wow ariana grande can't enunciate
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Sunday, 28 September 2014 04:07 (nine years ago) link
That isn't news, dude
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Sunday, 28 September 2014 04:10 (nine years ago) link
its news if you've managed to avoid her as much as i have
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Sunday, 28 September 2014 04:51 (nine years ago) link