http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_539_-_chris_parnell
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 October 2014 11:11 (nine years ago) link
Oooh, awesome!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 6 October 2014 13:14 (nine years ago) link
loved Sarah's monologue. turned the episode off when I couldn't fast forward through Maroon 5.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
RIP Jan Hooks - 57 is way too young.
― Walter Galt, Friday, 10 October 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
I still can't quite believe it.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 October 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link
the "Love is a Dream" clip is twice as poignant now
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Friday, 10 October 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
oh shit i forgot about that one
oh, god.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 October 2014 01:37 (nine years ago) link
my favorite Jan sketch: https://screen.yahoo.com/brenda-waitress-000000407.html
― Raccoon Newsy Wewsies (some dude), Friday, 10 October 2014 01:54 (nine years ago) link
that one is up there with the best snl sketches to me
― polyphonic, Friday, 10 October 2014 02:22 (nine years ago) link
Not to sound all "get off my lawn," but watching so many old sketches today it's really embarrassing how much SNL casts have relied on cue cards for the past dozen years when that was never an issue during the Hooks/Hartman era (or anytime before). Is there some kind of logistical reason for it, or are the new casts just that lazy?
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 10 October 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
I feel like every season it gets more noticeable.
― dan selzer, Friday, 10 October 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
Hooks was an ace talent, RIP
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 October 2014 02:57 (nine years ago) link
Watching her skits tonight, she really was an all-around performer. The comedy isn't from punchlines, it's from her whole immersion in a ludicrous role.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 10 October 2014 02:58 (nine years ago) link
i kinda wonder if relying on cue cards is encouraged just because the sketches are so painstakingly timed for staging/camera blocking and for scheduled ad breaks, it's just another way to keep things humming along.
― Raccoon Newsy Wewsies (some dude), Friday, 10 October 2014 03:24 (nine years ago) link
Hasn't that always been the case? (just ask Elvis Costello)
― nickn, Friday, 10 October 2014 03:29 (nine years ago) link
JH's Old Bette Davis was formidable.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 October 2014 03:44 (nine years ago) link
https://screen.yahoo.com/video-000000540.html
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 October 2014 03:58 (nine years ago) link
So great.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 10 October 2014 04:05 (nine years ago) link
The show's always had the same set-up (multi cams, studio, sets, etc), but I imagine they do have to work around more commercial breaks now. Still, there's no good reason for such painfully heavy reliance on cue cards. SNL either used to employ a better class of actor or Lorne just doesn't give a shit anymore.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 10 October 2014 04:07 (nine years ago) link
This was a HUGE skit in my household when I was a kid
https://screen.yahoo.com/jan-hooks-snl-skits/peoples-court-000000848.html
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 October 2014 04:11 (nine years ago) link
Lovitz as the devil was always a win, but Hooks is likewise brilliant.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 10 October 2014 04:12 (nine years ago) link
I was wondering about the cue card thing too, and the only explanation I can think of is that maybe rewrites are happening right up until showtime (cf. Stefon cracking up because he's reading his lines for the first time on the air)...but that wouldn't explain the insane reliance on cue cards for absolutely every single line of every single show.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 10 October 2014 04:13 (nine years ago) link
xp That People's Court sketch is an all time favorite of mine. RIP Jan Hooks.
― sink floyd (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 10 October 2014 06:10 (nine years ago) link
ahahaha moynihan
https://vine.co/v/OKpwBDQjDVW
― Raccoon Newsy Wewsies (some dude), Friday, 10 October 2014 12:44 (nine years ago) link
haha
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 October 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
http://tadleckman.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/the-devil-on-the-peoples-court/
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 October 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.vidoosh.tv/videos/14781/the-sweeney-sisters-at-the-emmys
They opened the broadcast with a medley in 1988. Jan Hooks' version of Magilla Gorilla is wonderful.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 11 October 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
no onion a/v club, but does anyone remember other sketches used to pay tribute to cast members who passed?
jan hooks got love is but a dream, gilda got dancing in the dark, farley got the farley show with mccartney...
― ILOVEMASONNA (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 13 October 2014 03:19 (nine years ago) link
They did a full 'Best of' for Hartman, since he was killed after they wrapped that season.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 October 2014 03:30 (nine years ago) link
I thought I remembered them showing an old Franken & Davis sketch when Tom Davis died, but wiki tells me that was in July 2012, so probably not.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 October 2014 03:31 (nine years ago) link
This isn't the same, but I seem to recall they shuffled their reruns so they could re-air the Charles Barkley/Nirvana ep on the first rerun slot after Cobain died.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 October 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link
The SNL oldie they showed at 10:00 featured Hooks prominently. (B52s musical guests)
― nickn, Monday, 13 October 2014 04:27 (nine years ago) link
this sketch should've made it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxKZSPELEvs
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 October 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
did anyone notice that in the hollywood game night sketch the crowd screamed suspiciously loud when they introduced "nick offerman"
i think at least a dozen people in the audience didn't realize it was not the real nick offerman
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 October 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
Coal miner sketch would've been the funniest thing of the whole episode imo.
The reaction to "Nick Offerman" was indeed weird. I didn't even think the impersonation was all that great, either.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 October 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
hollywood game night was funny imo but "a succession of absurd celebrity impressions" is SNL's most reliable formula
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 October 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
Strange how the last cast member in the alphabetical roll call was Kevin Nealon.
― pplains, Monday, 13 October 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
Loved that diner sketch ("Sexual Tension Diner"), plus Nealon and Hartman being goobers in the background.
― Dick Clownload (Dan Peterson), Monday, 13 October 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
16 year old me didn't get all the jokes in Mike Myers' "Middle Aged Man" character, but 40 year old me was rolling the other night.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 October 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, "Escrow, it's funny because it's true."
― pplains, Monday, 13 October 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
Are you looking at my gut? I'm working on it!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Monday, October 13, 2014 4:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Uh, he's pretty much TV's most baconed actor right now
― ILOVEMASONNA (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
To a Brooklyn thirtysomething hipster in digital media, yes
― da croupier, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
ok dude, keep calm and chive on
― ILOVEMASONNA (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
watching some of these sketches really reminds me how good the late eighties-early nineties SNL crew was acting wise and chemistry wise. I mean everyone is incredible. jan hooks and nora dunn were so underrated too.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
I think watching SNL during that era made me want to move to NYC.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
Quiz: Without Googling, how many of the four featured-player white guys from the last two seasons who didn't get invited back can you name?
― ILOVEMASONNA (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
john milhiserthe guy who played a hillbilly next to ed norton, did his stand-up on update and basically nothing elsemike(?) o'brienthe big-faced dude who swapped writer-actor spots with o'brien
― da croupier, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
Milheiser, the schlumpy dude, the guy who looked like an Addams Family cartoon come to life, and the other one
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
i believe big-face and o'brien are both back in the writing trenches now, that's gotta be weird
― da croupier, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link