I watched one of his Weekend Update skits and it just seemed like a bad stand-up bit
― esempiu (crüt), Thursday, 11 August 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
yeah, I feel like Weekend Update has been leaning a bit too heavily on that lately: Davidson, Leslie Jones, Brooks Wheelan
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 August 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link
Would prefer more Bruce Chandling
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 August 2016 21:37 (eight years ago) link
what i want is for them to take the characters they make for weekend update, and instead of endlessly forcing them to sit in that chair when they hit and do the same thing but with more current references, maybe explore their lives in a sketch or two? i wanna see drunk uncle at christmas! i wanna see wally dealing with his terrible life!
― a simba man (Will M.), Thursday, 11 August 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link
or was it willy? given my name i should probably remember this
i mean it may have been a bit much to create one of stefon's nightclubs but can you imagine
― a simba man (Will M.), Thursday, 11 August 2016 21:54 (eight years ago) link
Brooks Wheelan?
I just want Will Forte to come back and do more Tim Calhoun skits for the election.
― dan selzer, Friday, 12 August 2016 04:52 (eight years ago) link
oh guess he's appeared on the tonight show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaemxzYUCWw
― dan selzer, Friday, 12 August 2016 04:53 (eight years ago) link
god bless will forte.
wonder why they all of a sudden needed to cut to bored jimmy after every joke, is this to cover the "reaction videos" contingent
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Friday, 12 August 2016 07:17 (eight years ago) link
If I don't see Jimmy laugh how do I know it's funny
it's like porn
― doeth represent the square of squares squaredly (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 14 August 2016 02:27 (eight years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/lin-manuel-miranda-to-host-snl.html
Miranda will take on hosting duties on October 8, joined by first-time musical guests Twenty One Pilots.
will go from passively to actively ignoring for this ep
― goole, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
you show em
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
nobody who isnt in Lorne's tax bracket has even seen this guy perform
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
have never heard of any of these people
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
it's the Hamilton guy, keep up with the musical crowd Shakes
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
few things make me want to commit suicide more than having to sit through a modern American musical
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
I can't believe you don't care about culture.
― I Still Don't Regret My Crazy Town Neck Tat, and Here's Why (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
what can I say, I had to sit through the Lion King once
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
but this one's Broadway hiphop!
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
if you think the modern american musical makes you wanna end it all, wait til you hear twenty one pilots
― a simba man (Will M.), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
Here's where I point out LMM used to rap in a cape on The (New) Electric Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hTWuN0WCu4
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
terrible music I have no problem ignoring. but enthusiasm for Broadway garbage pops up in the strangest places, and I'm always a little taken aback when I come across people who profess to love it, like their aesthetic sensibilities were formed on some other planet where quality songwriting, acting, storytelling, staging, etc. were all subsumed under the spectacle of a bunch of people doing silly shit in fancy costumes on an expensive stage. I think I just have basic issues with what constitutes a "good" Broadway musical that do not line up at all with what they are these days. (For what its worth there *are* musicals I like, but I admit it's a narrow subset - a lot of times the basic artifice of the Broadway musical often prevents me from having any kind of emotional or intellectual engagement with the material, there's just some built-in ridiculousness to it that is hard for me to get past)
xp
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
I stumbled across that New Electric Company clip while searching for things to entertain my kids and it cemented a pigheaded desire to never, ever, ever see Hamilton deep in the foundation of my being
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
For the record, I've been holding off my take on Hamilton until I actually see it. But I really do wonder what LMM means to people who don't live in New York
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
special snowflake story: i saw the lion king in the west end (tickets via a relative who was pumbaa's understudy) and i don't remember a single second of it; it's all gone, blocked, except for using the crowded bathroom at intermission and being very cold walking home. years later in new york i was passed by a bus wearing a banner ad for the broadway production, emblazoned w the single enormous word UNFORGETTABLE
― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
there were fart jokes
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
The costumes, in the posters that are all over Penn Station and half of Manhattan, make The Lion King look almost watchable. They're very cool. But then I remember it's a musical, not just a dance thing, and my interest fades.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
I was baffled to realize that it is basically the plot (and in many cases the exact dialogue) from the movie transferred to the stage, with extra nudge-nudge/wink-wink jokes (like the fart jokes) added. And this is a thing adults were enthusiastically praising to me.
a lot of the costumes did look cool. but was consistently distracted from them by every other awful thing that was happening.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
The Fela musical was great, but it was essentially a (insanely skilled, and very faithful-to-the-arrangements) Fela tribute act with bits of his bio between songs. The only part that didn't work was, not coincidentally, the only song written specifically for the show.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
daveed from hamilton is in clppng that guy is legit!
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
I liked the Lion King on Broadway, iirc
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
Pippin was amazing. It's Pippin!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, September 28, 2016 3:10 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Re-posting mostly because this pretty much encapsulates my own feelings about 99% of musical theater
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
My friend made some of the costumes for Pippin on Broadway!
I generally like the idea of musicals way more than the reality.
Also: SNL.
But also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5BQiJVqSHg
― I Still Don't Regret My Crazy Town Neck Tat, and Here's Why (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link
why
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link
why would anyone want to see a movie translated to the stage with shittier performances, shittier music, shittier everything + more fart jokes
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
My friend just got done playing Fiona in local pro production of Shrek. She had to do that scene 70+ times over six weeks.
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 22:46 (seven years ago) link
That is literally the Terrance and Philip movie
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
Worse it's the Broadway musical of the terrance and Phillip movie
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link
it took stalinesque political skill to avoid being assigned any job on the musical of 9 to 5 my theater's doing this fall, but as documented in the mary poppins thread i did get happily caught up in that one last year. no idea what the 9 to 5 musical's like but suspect it won't produce quite as many delighted, weeping children.
― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 29 September 2016 00:43 (seven years ago) link
I love the mentality of musicals, at leat the way Lin-Manuel presents it. Going out there eight times a week and working your butt off to entertain, because that's what you do. Going out before the show and doing something for the people waiting. Quite simply doing everything you can to please. That's an honorable mentality, and in theory it should lead to something pretty great. And for me, it has done so with Hamilton. But that's, like, the first time in fifty years it hasn't led to complete awfulness, I guess... That Shrek clip is one of the worst thing's I've ever seen.
That's not true, actually I've seen both Mary Poppins and Spamalot on Westend and liked it a lot.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 29 September 2016 10:15 (seven years ago) link
well asthe laddero'life'as been strungy'might thinkthat a sweep'son the bottom--most rungtho i spendme time inth'ashes and smokein the 'ole of the world there's no 'appier bloke
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, September 25, 2015 8:33 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^ bolded to emphasize where the chills come, every time
shrek clip really is next level.
― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 29 September 2016 10:40 (seven years ago) link
(i still haven't listened to hamilton, prob will eventually, but i did reread vidal's burr this week in pointless private protest)
― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 29 September 2016 10:44 (seven years ago) link
just watched the shrek thing again, in perverse fascination. keep thinking about the person doing the sound cues. to be standing there sweating in fear you'll produce the wrong fart.
― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 29 September 2016 10:45 (seven years ago) link
a lot of the modern musicals (esp disney) are understandably trite + treacly but i don't understand ppl itt who have no time for any musicals ever. like rodgers & hammerstein, sondheim, or kander have some classics that i'd stack against any other musical form. i feel like the issue is that broadway has become somewhat synonymous w/ these big andrew lloyd webber type productions which i completely understand if ppl don't like them (tho even like jesus christ superstar + joseph are imo pretty classic) - but it doesn't really make sense to me to write off everything!
― Mordy, Thursday, 29 September 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
I had a post I didn't finish yesterday where I was going to specifically pinpoint my hatred of modern Broadway musicals to the ascension of Andrew Lloyd Weber actually. I like a bunch of the Rodgers and Hammerstein ones, which still retain an air of sophistication and feel like they are written for adults about adult things (even though they are still enjoyable for children), and I love Fosse. And Fiddler on the Roof and a bunch of others... but yeah the modern spectacle + fart jokes stuff is just waaaaaaaht why
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 September 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
Fosse gets meta and subversive in a way that really appeal to me, I'll watch anything he was involved in. (Oddly Pippin is, I think, the only one I haven't seen)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 September 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
wait how the fuck has fred seen hamilton
― k3vin k., Thursday, 29 September 2016 16:04 (seven years ago) link
i like cabaret
― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 29 September 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
any time LMM's name comes up on ilx there is always a discussion of how terrible musicals are & how much ppl don't want to see hamilton... i say he is great and yr all grumps
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 September 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link