least funny current SNL castmember

hahahaha

WOULD WATCH THAT SKETCH

lolololololol PP

wiig is n/l compared to all others

would marry nqa

Hader's bringin it right now.

wiig is n/l compared to all others

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, April 13, 2009 2:09 PM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

would marry nqa

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, April 13, 2009 2:09 PM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what

he'd marry luriqua

i think he already did, posting like that!!

forte and hader are basically interchangeable

Seriously dude, I'm starting to wonder if I can take you seriously on anything again.

i think hader is funnier but they've got similar styles

next level
no questions asked

xp hader is the funniest guy on the show. forte is forgettable. they do look kinda similar though...

voted kenan but to be fair armisen and hammond are not that far behind.

I don't get Wiig's characters, like I don't even get what's supposed to be theoretically funny about the Target sketch. Is there anyone in America laughing at that? Will that person explain where the humor in the situation is supposed to come from?

I voted Kenan though, because I think I remember finding Wiig funny in something or another and she's good at selling herself in a stupid character, whereas Kenan just isn't really a very funny person or serious actor. His career as a comedic actor seems sorta like a fluke. (Even Kenan and Kel was ALL about Kel imo - Kenan was the straight man.) I'm sure he's a nice dude and I don't really have anything personal against him...he's just never made me laugh.

it seems like they killed the target cashier character off

Kenan is much better in a straight man role than he is as the wildcard character.

target lady easily her worst character, i love wiig to pieces but i won't rep for that shit

i thought the skit from a few weeks back where kenan and tracy were doing the scared straight duo was pretty funny

I love Kenan when he plays detached or annoyed. When he's anchoring a sketch, though, like Deep House Dish, he's weaksauce.

I kind of love the Target Lady sketches. Maybe it's because I live in the south, but checkout ladies are always commenting on your purchases and making small talk (though they don't run off and grab sale items while you're checking out). It's just an exaggerated version of reality. Also, the voice of that character is lulz.

yeah, i have no problem w/ Target lady and I agree that firsthand experience is a factor

it's kenan thompson, and it's not even close, come on

― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Monday, April 13, 2009 6:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

for reals. seth meyers would be my #2 choice.

I kind of love the Target Lady sketches. Maybe it's because I live in the south, but checkout ladies are always commenting on your purchases and making small talk (though they don't run off and grab sale items while you're checking out). It's just an exaggerated version of reality. Also, the voice of that character is lulz.

haha thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for! I live in California and when I think Target worker I think Hispanic woman.

i think hader is funnier but they've got similar styles

― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, April 13, 2009 2:16 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

to me hader is more about impressions and being kind of creepy/sleazy, while forte is about being a goofball - "his" sketches are more non sequiter-y, less based on real people or current events. plus he's been doing a lot of songs lately.

seth meyers would be my #2 choice.

I voted for him, he is v. undynamic + I think his role as head writer ought to count for something. Most of these people would be very funny given good material to work with.

I'm real into Bill Hader lately...he's maybe the best Funny Voice Guy they've had in 20 years.

The skit with Seth Rogan where they talk in their girlfriend voices, Bill Hader fucking slayed me. "I protect you from the DRAGON."

that was a really good skit

I usually groan over SNL's celebrity impersonation sketches, but I LOVE his Vincent Price specials.

Also, his fake celebrity Vinny Vedcci is gold. xxp

I hate hate hate Kristen Wiig. She's one of improvers who seem to equate annoying and repetitious "characters" with funny. God, she sucks.

that was a really good skit

Yes. Kudos to the writers for turning what I thought I was going to be a one-note "lol men are whipped" sketch into something a lot sillier and more rewarding than that.

I'd be happy to never see Wiig's Penelope or Gilly characters again as long as I live, but other than that she's okay in my book.

Gilly is just awful.

I should seen this new Gilly sketch because the first one seriously had me in tears.

I missed Gilly the first time...was it this season?

yeah they were in a classroom iirc and it really reminded me of all that

Hader really is the best. That bit with him as the Italian TV host impersonating/interviewing Malkovich was mind-blowing.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/53463/saturday-night-live-gilly

That one was slightly funnier, but the real thing I took away from that is how hot Rosario Dawson is with braces.

haha there is that

I recognize that the sketch is really oddly-paced and awkward, but I still crack the fuck up at it, esp. Rosario Dawson with the pencil sticking out of her head.

also Forte going "GILYYYYYYYYYY" over and over again in different registers for no reason... it's like the years when Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon spent most of their skit time trying to see how uncomfortable they could make the audience rather than making the audience laugh

I think I like the concept of Gilly more than the actual article. Like, I appreciate Kristen Wiig going for such a weirdo, minimalist character...but in the process, I get creeped out and turned off by it.

Wiig is willing to go way out on a limb, almost to an Andy Kaufman-ish extent, like, is this funny or just totally stupid? I actually enjoy Penelope's psychotic one-upping ("My six year old teaches piano... and horns... and computers...) The first Gilly sketch was okay for a couple minutes of total WTF-ness, but as a recurring sketch? "Sorry!"

yeah penelope is also hilarious - the one in AA meeting was great

Armisend leaves me blank. His Obama is the worst SNL president I've ever seen. Hammond's jumped the shark ages ago, but he's comic genius compared to most of Armisend's impressions.

I don't know guys, I was really down on Armisen's Obama at the beginning, but the more I see the more I like. He really has the speech patterns and delivery down.

he does but it's pretty easy to speak real choppily and emphasize the last word in a sentence

that said i think it's passable

I have seriously soured on Wiig, but it's not really hear fault -- every week now seems to start with like four sketches in a row that consist of her making faces and pulling her chin into her neck, which is just kinda ... impossible to save.

If Kenan wins this I will be mad at all of you for like a week.

"really not HER fault" -- like yeah, it's funny when she acts goony, but you cannot just have 30 straight minutes of television that consist of nothing but Wiig doing mild variations on the same gooniness

Armisen's Obama is really okay, but that's it. Those sketches are often unfunny, and that has as much to do with the writing as it does Armisen's flatter than flat delivery. The only one in recent days that was funny "The Hulk Obama," and that was mostly due to Samberg's take on Rahm.

I think the only wall-to-wall funny season of SNL ever was when Ebersol ran the show (with Martin Short, Billy Crystal, etc)

Ehhh, not really. What I've seen of that season was good but just as uneven as any other season. Besides, you can't expect consistent hilarity from someone as in love with himself as Billy Crystal (Or Jimmy Fallon. Or late-period Mike Myers), and he was pretty much the head of that cast.

Jimmy Fallon

His turn at the Late Night desk has gotten much more enjoyable than when it started, fwiw. He's still guilty of breaking into laughter during bits, but now he's in the right place for it.

I'm glad to hear that. Watching it a few months ago was like watching someone cut off their own hand. He's got some solid peeps on his writing staff (which has been enough to keep Kimmel on the air) so there's hope for the show, I guess.

i don't know, maybe it's what age you're exposed to it. I was about 11 or 12 when the Ebersol season was on and that is the prime age to be impacted by this stuff. most of the earlier stuff went over my head and the seasons later just seemed more and more steeped in pop cultural references that didn't mean very much to me. but the Ebersol season had great shit like that Harry Shearer / Martin Short synchronized swmming film, Crystal and Guest as the security guards....

i was the same age during the hartman lovitz hooks era and it's my favorite. by then most of the comedy was def. pretty suburban but the cast was older and very good, writing seemed slighly more polished than what came before or after fwiw. imo not being weighed down by countercultural expectations was healthy on the whole, by the time i was paying attention you kind of just knew to roll with the punches and not expect that kind of energy from 'snl'. the later cheerleader/versace lady/mongo seasons were the only unwatchable ones in my time watching it.

FYI: featured players not listed so abby elliott doesn't clean sweep this

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, April 13, 2009 1:05 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

she is a waste of a cast space, featured or not

fwiw abby elliott isn't worse than the dude with the curly hair who always plays a child

― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, April 13, 2009 1:06 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

monoyhan has been great this season, i retract this statement

Yeah, he is much improved.

I still don't have much time for Abby Elliott. Or any of the new people besides Vanessa Bayer, really.

http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/people-that-argue-snl-is-no-longer-relevant-need-to-open-their-fking-eyes.php

And no: This past season wasn’t particularly good, but individually, the cast is talented. Cecily Strong and Kate McKinnon could very well be the next Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Beck Bennett is going to be playing best friend roles in comedies for the rest of his life. Taran Killam is already getting decent filmwork (12 Years a Slave, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Jay Pharoah could easily develop into a solid action-comedy star, and Vanessa Bayer will probably end up in a string of sitcoms someday.
The rest of the new cast? Who knows? But that’s the thing about SNL. We don’t often really begin to notice cast members until their third or fourth season. It takes awhile to gain familiarity, but most of these guys will eventually land a break-out sketch that makes them recognizable, and we will slowly begin to remember their names.

abby elliot is chris elliot's daughter! I had no idea

"decent filmwork (12 Years a Slave, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)" is an amazing phrase, especially since i didn't know he really was in either of those movies and it just looked like a really weird joke

So who's least funny in the 39th season cast?

It might be John Milhiser, but I wouldn't know. He's the most invisible featured player in the history of the show I think. As for people who've actually gotten weekly screen time, it's absolutely Colin Jost.

I think everyone in the cast is pretty hysterical and, when things don't work, it's usually because of weak writing.

It might be John Milhiser, but I wouldn't know. He's the most invisible featured player in the history of the show I think.

I was about to say, hey, Milhiser had a few ok moments! He was good in that men's rights sketch!

Then I realized that was Mike O'Brien. No fucking clue what Milhiser did this season.

And yeah, Jost needs to go.

Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney are hysterical IMO

I'm warming to Mooney, but I'm not all the way there yet.