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.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 15 May 2009 04:54 (fifteen years ago) link
or a robot
― da croupier, Friday, 15 May 2009 05:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i think will forte's one of the better cast members for sure.
― circa1916, Friday, 15 May 2009 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link
the opinion of ppl who endure this barren shit week after week is worthless.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 15 May 2009 05:34 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 15 May 2009 05:40 (fifteen years ago) link
the opinion of ppl who endure morbius' barren shit week after week is worthless.
― marty flipman (jeff), Friday, 15 May 2009 06:29 (fifteen years ago) link
more links to jawdroppingly bad skits plz.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 15 May 2009 07:46 (fifteen years ago) link
the dr. morbius curmudgeon shtick is kind of endearing at this point.
― circa1916, Friday, 15 May 2009 08:59 (fifteen years ago) link
― 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.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 15 May 2009 11:58 (fifteen years ago) link
this show has not gotten any better
― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:02 (fourteen years ago) link
No, this is the flattest premiere episode I can remember.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
first kenan thompson character to please me
― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
post-nickelodeon of course
― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I seem to recall him doing that one before.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
me too
― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:36 (fourteen years ago) link
He's done that character at least five (and probably more) times. Sorry you've missed him.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
did she just say "fuckin"????
― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:42 (fourteen years ago) link
...okay, Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson were dumped for this shit?
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Biker Chick Chat
Sept. 26 2009 - Sept. 26 2009 R.I.P.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:46 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty obv post-second musical performance sketch there
― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
good digital short
― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm willing to bet that next week either lady gaga performance will bring more laffs than the funniest sketch
― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, digital shorts obviously exempted from regular sketch bashing.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
which one was the digital short? that horrible transformers thing?
― billstevejim, Sunday, 27 September 2009 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 27 September 2009 06:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 27 September 2009 06:48 (fourteen years ago) link
But maybe that's just me.. yay internet. I have an opinion.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 27 September 2009 06:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't see the Will Forte thing but I'm willing to give it a shot.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 27 September 2009 06:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 27 September 2009 06:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Season premieres always suck on this show. But Jean K. Jean is ALWAYS a winner. MOAMMAR DEBARGE!
― mojitos (a cocktail) (Cave17Matt), Sunday, 27 September 2009 07:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, wow, is Darrell Hammond finally gone?
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 27 September 2009 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
he was on the thursday weekend update thing a week back, so i somehow doubt they're totally done w/ him yet.
― guccislamic deejihad (some dude), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
just now realizing that wiig is the only permanent female cast member on the show :/
― your regulatory body is a wonderland (m bison), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
That new girl did indeed say "fucking", will she be Normed?
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 27 September 2009 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 27 September 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
lol f-bomb on her first show.
somewhere, Charles Rocket is laughing hysterically
― the swagona monologues (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 27 September 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― akm, Sunday, 27 September 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
If that's indeed what happens, it explains a lot.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 September 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Monday, 28 September 2009 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Monday, 28 September 2009 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 September 2009 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 28 September 2009 00:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it can't be all things to all people and definitely aims for a middle of the road late teen audience or whatever, but there's still plenty of weird stuff. I don't know about "edgy" necessarily but Tim Calhoun talking about having a "china-baby" is pretty good stuff.
― dan selzer, Monday, 28 September 2009 02:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Is it possible the bad ones were fired and replaced with even worse ones?
I can't speak to all five, but I booked Hannibal Buress once or twice for a variety show I hosted in Chicago, and he was pretty funny. People in the Chicago improv scene have lots of consistently great things to say about Pat O'Brien, too (though I've never seen him personally).
― katherine helmand province (jaymc), Monday, 28 September 2009 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Pat O'Brien was funny onstage, but I have no idea about his writing.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 28 September 2009 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link