Saturday Night Live

http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_539_-_chris_parnell

Oooh, awesome!

loved Sarah's monologue. turned the episode off when I couldn't fast forward through Maroon 5.

RIP Jan Hooks - 57 is way too young.

I still can't quite believe it.

the "Love is a Dream" clip is twice as poignant now

oh shit i forgot about that one

oh, god.

my favorite Jan sketch: https://screen.yahoo.com/brenda-waitress-000000407.html

that one is up there with the best snl sketches to me

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?

I feel like every season it gets more noticeable.

Hooks was an ace talent, RIP

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.

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.

Hasn't that always been the case? (just ask Elvis Costello)

JH's Old Bette Davis was formidable.

https://screen.yahoo.com/video-000000540.html

So great.

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.

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.

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

Lovitz as the devil was always a win, but Hooks is likewise brilliant.

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.

xp That People's Court sketch is an all time favorite of mine. RIP Jan Hooks.

ahahaha moynihan

https://vine.co/v/OKpwBDQjDVW

haha

http://tadleckman.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/the-devil-on-the-peoples-court/

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.

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...

They did a full 'Best of' for Hartman, since he was killed after they wrapped that season.

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.

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.

The SNL oldie they showed at 10:00 featured Hooks prominently. (B52s musical guests)

this sketch should've made it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxKZSPELEvs

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

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.

hollywood game night was funny imo but "a succession of absurd celebrity impressions" is SNL's most reliable formula

The SNL oldie they showed at 10:00 featured Hooks prominently. (B52s musical guests)

Strange how the last cast member in the alphabetical roll call was Kevin Nealon.

Loved that diner sketch ("Sexual Tension Diner"), plus Nealon and Hartman being goobers in the background.

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.

Yeah, "Escrow, it's funny because it's true."

Are you looking at my gut? I'm working on it!

did anyone notice that in the hollywood game night sketch the crowd screamed suspiciously loud when they introduced "nick offerman"

― 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

To a Brooklyn thirtysomething hipster in digital media, yes

ok dude, keep calm and chive on

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.

I think watching SNL during that era made me want to move to NYC.

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?

john milhiser
the guy who played a hillbilly next to ed norton, did his stand-up on update and basically nothing else
mike(?) o'brien
the big-faced dude who swapped writer-actor spots with o'brien

Milheiser, the schlumpy dude, the guy who looked like an Addams Family cartoon come to life, and the other one

i believe big-face and o'brien are both back in the writing trenches now, that's gotta be weird