least funny current SNL castmember

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.

well, also because The Rock was funny in that sketch

That too.

Oh, and I guess it was "The Rock Obama," wasn't it? der.

will forte is my favorite. fred armisen is good at like everything except for the one thing he's known for. voted for seth meyers b/c of the abovementioned douche vibe, might have gone with kenan in a cold unsentimental evaluation

hader is great though. that new curlyhaired fat guy won me over 90% due to the fact that i think his face looks really funny when he cries in those italian talk show host sketches

Take away the Hulk-ish "me want" syntax, and The Rock did a better Obama impression that Armisen in that sketch.

Bobby Moynihan won me over in that wedding reception sketch (in the Hugh Laurie episode) where he just said "WHAT" and dropped the microphone on the floor.

Will Forte needs to bring back "The Falconer."

^^^^ yes

Man, I can't believe I have this much to say about SNL (lol I'm old and don't go out on Saturday nights anymore).

xpost: although I love MacGruber

im 20 and watch snl basically every weekend even tho i think it's awful right now cuz sketch comedy is the greatest

Most any sketch in the history of SNL which features taxidermy/fake animals is serious LOLZ.

i would be happy if forte did a tim calhoun bit every week

^ hyperbole

I love MacGruber too, but I think we're in the minority xxxxp.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/1752/saturday-night-live-macgruber-2

haha macgruber works because it lasts 20 seconds. a lot of snl sketches would work if they were 20 seconds.

The only time in history when Jeremy Piven was ever funny? xp

Bobby Moynihan won me over in that wedding reception sketch (in the Hugh Laurie episode) where he just said "WHAT" and dropped the microphone on the floor.

Ha, me too -- this is the most OTM of various OTM Jaymcisms on this thread

I mean I actually kept rewinding and rewatching that bit and laughing over and over each time

Jason Sudekis was really funny as both Bret Michaels and the astronaut in the love triangle. The astronaut character really cracked me up.

I don't know, the sad thing is, I actually like all of these people and can't really vote on one over the others. The featured players are weak, but that's expected, they're green as hell. But I genuinely feel this current cast is one of the better ones, but the writing is just as weak and inconsistent as it usually is.

haha macgruber works because it lasts 20 seconds. a lot of snl sketches would work if they were 20 seconds.

So true!

^ you can't really vote for darrell hammond? darrell hammond's name is listed right there. he still does work on the show, although sparingly. remember darrell hammond? youtube him or check the website i'm not lying he's still on the show

Hammond's gimmick now is so old hat, it's cheap pop - he comes out, does the Bill Clinton or whatever, and disappears. It works enough for them to keep bringing him back over and over again, I can't fault him for that - gotta admit I still like him. Part of it probably is that I don't see him that much.

Plus his bizarre appearances in serious roles like in Law and Order and Damages (this) make me appreciate him a little more, I guess...

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

Kristen Wiig reminds me of naturally unfunny, though mechanically sound, improv performers who have enough classes and experience under the belt to not embarrass themselves, but they're still not easily humorous.

And then there are some performers who can wring hilarity out of the dullest of moments simply because they know the right expression, rhythm, tone and delivery to bring; and they do it without much thought and hesitation. Wiig is the antithesis of that.

Best: Kristen Wiig, Kenan Thompson
Worst: Darrell Hammond

Best of newbies: Bobby Moynihan
Worst of newbies: Michaela Watkins

I don't understand how people can waste their breath complaining about "Gilly" when we have "Bitch Please" to contend with.

"Bitch please" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gilly any day of the week.

The problem I have with the cast now, speaking generally, is that they're all so average - they aren't would-be stars. The possible exception to this is Bill Hader but everybody else is run of the mill.

Wiig is the aforementioned Average Improv Performer, Sandberg has Jimmy Fallon's problem of laughing at your own joke cuteness; Armisen, Meyers and Forte are a log-jam of the same type of comic, Sudekis is just there.

I don't think all of them are awful, they just don't seem - and here's the cutesy irony - polished and "ready for prime time." They all seem like young, future SNL performers who have yet arrive and need more work.

ok i just checked that 'bitch please' stuff on hulu, and it's like, there was a woman, once, named gilda radner...

Exactly. Like a watered-down, one-note Lisa Loopner.

Wiig, no contest. Wow, you made a monster face. For ten minutes, or what feels like it.

Wiig is fun so long as whoever the new girl is who does HODA KOTBE is in the skit with her...kind of like she's the Jimmy Fallon to (whoever plays Hoda in the Today Show skits)'s Horatio Sanz.

PS don't read this post if u hate Horatio Sanz

it's not SNL, but Will Forte is great just for this:

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

― nabisco, Monday, April 13, 2009 4:39 PM (Yesterday)

please name one thing he is good at, not including his work with nickelodeon

also i agree completely with dan on gilly. her dance is pretty obvious and dumb but it kills me

please name one thing he is good at, not including his work with nickelodeon

― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Tuesday, April 14, 2009 11:12 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Kenan is like the Kevin Nealon of this cast, always there to matter-of-factly point out an incredulous situation.

Also, Jean K. Jean. zut alors!

Sudekis is like the post-Maxim magazine version of Bill Murray

Wiig, no contest. Wow, you made a monster face. For ten minutes, or what feels like it.

― Matos W.K., Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

WTF - watching her do 17 different rapidfire faces for Kathie Lee is like a comedy force of nature.

for me this really comes down to Hammond's stiff impressions that pride accuracy over hilarity, or the fact that Seth Meyers is kind of a one trick pony with the bait-and-switch

"Or as I like to call it, the bait-and-switch."

WTF - watching her do 17 different rapidfire faces for Kathie Lee is like a comedy force of nature.

It's like a way overwrought attempt at being a comedy force of nature.