least funny current SNL castmember

hay look i play the "staight man" or i'm black

pretty sure he's black when he's the "straight man" too

The Jonas Bros T-Pain John McCain

I like Will Forte, but it's weird that he's the only cast member I can think of who doesn't ever drop character or show even a hint of self-awareness. He's sort of enigmatic.

or a robot

i think will forte's one of the better cast members for sure.

the opinion of ppl who endure this barren shit week after week is worthless.

if you don't endure it week after week, how do you know it's barren?

also, is this poll telling me that the 3 funniest cast members are jason sudekis, will forte, and bill hader?

the opinion of ppl who endure morbius' barren shit week after week is worthless.

more links to jawdroppingly bad skits plz.

the dr. morbius curmudgeon shtick is kind of endearing at this point.

if you don't endure it week after week, how do you know it's barren?

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, May 15, 2009 12:40 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

one of the constants of ilx is that dr. morbius will have strong opinions about things he hasn't actually experienced. my new theory is that he has never actually watched a movie in his 80 years on this earth.

this show has not gotten any better

No, this is the flattest premiere episode I can remember.

first kenan thompson character to please me

post-nickelodeon of course

I seem to recall him doing that one before.

yeah probs

re-reading this thread, can't believe that there were people in here repping for "gilly" - really hope they killed her off in between seasons

Also, Jean K. Jean. zut alors!

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:45 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark

i guess i missed this episode

I kind of love Jean K. Jean.

me too

He's done that character at least five (and probably more) times. Sorry you've missed him.

did she just say "fuckin"????

...okay, Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson were dumped for this shit?

Biker Chick Chat

Sept. 26 2009 - Sept. 26 2009 R.I.P.

pretty obv post-second musical performance sketch there

Megan Fox said on Fallon a couple nights ago that SNL has five new writers this season. Is it possible the bad ones were fired and replaced with even worse ones?

good digital short

i'm willing to bet that next week either lady gaga performance will bring more laffs than the funniest sketch

Yes, digital shorts obviously exempted from regular sketch bashing.

which one was the digital short? that horrible transformers thing?

Context.

If someone had said last Wednesday, "Hey, go to youtube and check out this transformers sketch with Megan Fox and a naked dude playing Optimus Prime", I probably would've groaned. But surrounded by all the horrible live sketches tonight, it seemed like genius.

Also, I think the "official" digital short tonight was Will Forte as the SWAT commander/lamb farmer.

It just happened to be the only sketch I paid attention to after switching on TV around 12:30.. If that was the episode's highlight, that's pretty fucking sad. A few minutes later the biker chick sketch came on and I had to change the channel.. It made me so upset, I couldn't even get 30 seconds into it.

But maybe that's just me.. yay internet. I have an opinion.

Didn't see the Will Forte thing but I'm willing to give it a shot.

Highlights: Keenan's sexual aid dvd ad, Forte digital short, Optimus Prime digital short, Keenan as Jean K. Jean on Update, U2 playing out the episode with "Ultraviolet."

Lowlights: Every remaining second that's not listed above. It was truly one of the worst SNL episodes in recent history.

Season premieres always suck on this show. But Jean K. Jean is ALWAYS a winner. MOAMMAR DEBARGE!

Oh, wow, is Darrell Hammond finally gone?

he was on the thursday weekend update thing a week back, so i somehow doubt they're totally done w/ him yet.

just now realizing that wiig is the only permanent female cast member on the show :/

That new girl did indeed say "fucking", will she be Normed?

Yeah, I just heard the "fucking"! Her face fell instantly. Really, though, whose idea was it to make her say "fricking" 800 times in her first sketch ever?

I can't believe anyone is rating that Grady Wilson bullshit that was unfunny as hell the first time Kenan did it. Sub-sub-sub Mad TV shit.

lol f-bomb on her first show.

somewhere, Charles Rocket is laughing hysterically

about ten years ago this show just became a blur of unfunny to me. i dont' even know who is on it anymore. I am officially too old for it.

I would maintain, based on what I know about how the show is structured, that Lorne Michaels has too much control over the content. My understanding is that he's still the last word on what sketches make it to air, often cutting or adding sketches between dress and air. So I would imagine that a lot of good, funny material is written but never seen by the public because it has to ultimately pass through the Lorne filter.

This is just my understanding, mind.

If that's indeed what happens, it explains a lot.

I think the show is better then most people give it credit for, and has always been wildly inconsistent and mostly not funny, and that even now there's still some good stuff, including this premiere which had a few moments. C'mon...Afghanafrance. Classic. But the Lorne thing must be the case, and would explain 20+ years of played out talk show and game show settings that are only funny once every decade or so.

I liked the pee-shy fake ad, both digital shorts, the russian brides..."any hobbies?" "heroin". etc. Jean K. Jean and Grady Wilson both make me laugh, even if they are one trick ponies.

I think the show is better then most people give it credit for

It just isn't daring anymore. During its Golden Age in the late 70s, SNL felt edgy and underground, even during some of the stupid bits. After that it was sometimes funny, but rarely edgy or dangerous. Now it's just lame.

I liked Kristen Wiig's mom talking to Megan Fox. Although I do like her wacky stuff for the most part, I think she can do straight work just as well, and I wish she'd have more opportunities to do so.

It's very true that SNL has always been and probably always will be pretty uneven. I just rewatched the Tom Hanks episode from '88, which is just about as classic as an episode gets. Even so, it still has a dumb Hans & Franz sketch and a game show bit that literally isn't about anything more than guessing which celebrities are Jewish.