Elon Musk

i've only caught the odd episode since but it does seem even worse now

I feel like "Please laugh" should be their tagline

A funny character still needs to be funny.

fell in love with early '90s snl via reruns on comedy central and did not realize that i was watching edited-down versions of the show

very same here lol

For at least the last 20 years, probably even longer (my warm memories of the early '90s cast from when I was 12-14 clouds my judgment a little) SNL has been 35% absolutely terrible, 55% boring and 10% hilarious. I still think this is the case, it just happens that sometimes the 10% hilarious completely misses an episode or two.

otm

And this one keeps me laughing every time I watch it. Nieces and Pets!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb7b5-31LFY

Huh, Grimes was Princess Peach in the Wario skit.

Mario and Wario are not Japanese (although that was the only mildly funny part of the sketch) but Italian immigrants that live in New York (well Mario at least, Wario is italian but there’s no confirmation he also lives in NYC). Princess Peach is definitely not Italian she’s from the Mushroom Kingdom no idea why the Italian accent on her.

because Italian bippity boopity amirite

wario is german

so then it's pronounced "var-io"

"Murder Durder," for example, was really funny and silly this week

It wasn’t really funny, it just had an identifiable joke, unlike the rest of the parts I saw. Unfortunately, that joke was 30 Rock’s The Rural Juror.

And it was funny for the exact same reason, just hearing them say "murder durder durder murder" over and over again. If it were live it would have been funnier for them breaking.

some of their sketches remind me of the dreck that I used to read when I was a judge for a local Playwright Round Table that specialized in short, ten minute plays.

I eventually quit because I couldn't read any more shit sketch writing.

It was initially conceived as a german character with a german accent and words but nintendo changed him to have the same Italian accent Mario has in subsequent games:

https://www.siliconera.com/voice-actor-says-wario-originally-intended-german-character/

Wario Was German:

Wario originally spoke German in Mario Kart 64 -- his voice actor says it's because Nintendo told him Wario was German. But Wario's voice was later re-recorded with an Italian accent, and he's remained Italian ever since.

Full story: https://t.co/Gue1ge4Prj pic.twitter.com/qNSfpVxd7A

— Reggie-800's Nintendo Secrets (@reggie_800) August 26, 2020

that's what baffles me about SNL, no matter what they're lampooning they come off like it's something they just found out about yesterday. like with Donald Trump they were just like "so this guy's like Dan Quayle right? he misspells words and has weird hair? also there's something with him and Russia, can we do something with that?"

Waluigi is half Lithuanian half Tongan iirc

xpost - I don't think it's a lack of current, timely news that is the problem, it's figuring out a funny, original take on it that seems to be a challenge

As the review/essay and its citations argue, a big part of that is because every take has to be filtered through the perspective of an extremely rich, petty, fameo-loving man with multiple servants. Plenty of other humans are able to come up with funnier, deeper takes in a shorter timeframe.

As for non-news-based material, Bob Odenkirk argued in the '80s that writing every sketch in three days while sleep-deprived - then throwing away anything that didn't get approved first time - was a bad way of developing material, and proved it by rewriting and developing rejected sketches into an admired show with a better hitrate in the 1990s. Tim Robinson rarely got material onto SNL at all after being demoted from cast member to writer, but five years after that was able to use his rejected material in the most acclaimed sketch show of the last, oh, five years. For the last three years, John Mulaney's guest-hosted episodes of SNL have been widely noted as the best, and in each of those he has used his position to mount sketches that had been rejected during his five years on the show, five years earlier.

Norm's monologue summarizes it pretty well. "See, they fired me because they said I wasn't funny. But now, this is the weird part, it's only a year and a half later, and now they ask me to host the show! So how did I go, in a year and a half, to not even being allowed in the building, to being so funny, that I'm now hosting the show? Then it occurred to me: I haven't gotten funnier, the show has gotten really bad! So yeah, I'm funny, compared to...well you know, you'll see later"

xpost - it's almost as if Lorne's gut reactions to draft skits are uniformly terrible

ok folks lets get back on topic

pls stop the future i want to get off this ride pic.twitter.com/AO4XeMCGe1

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) May 8, 2021

well another thing is SNL skits last like 6-8 minutes, once the joke is revealed there's little for the characters to do but just yell at each other and start throwing shit. last time I watched a full episode there were a couple where I thought "did this end 2 minutes ago and they're just improvising to fill time?"

there must be an snl thread

there is but fuck Elon Musk, we can discuss anything that sucks in here

michael o'donoghue would've told musk what's what!

i love elon musk erasure

always, don't wanna be with him

muskerasure love

who is Elon Musk

I believe he's a wacky one-note Jon Lovitz character who quickly outwore his welcome, like Master Thespian

Loads of wasted hate on SNL that would be better used directed at Elon Musk.

We have plenty of hate to dispense like Pez

Elon Musk......you look marvelous

*abandons failed autonomous-driving program*

"I HATE when I do that!"

turns out the autopilot may not have been to blame in the recent crash. instead it seems like a terrifying design flaw that seems related to the fact that ... you can't open the rear doors when the car is one fire because they require power?

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/05/ntsb-finds-no-reason-to-suspect-autopilot-in-fatal-tesla-crash/

As for why the driver was not found in his seat, one troubling possibility is that the front door was inoperable or obstructed and the driver died while trying to escape from the rear of the Model S. Unlike most cars, Tesla uses IP-based electronic door locks that fail if the car loses power (as it would have in this crash). Although the front door handles will continue to work in an emergency that cuts power to the car, under such conditions the rear doors of a Model S can only be opened using a plastic tab found in the rear footwell.

But it's ok the autopilot works

yes, let's trap those in seats typically reserved for the most vulnerable passengers

gets lost in all the hubbub that teslas are poorly made cars

like tesla wanted huge dashboard screens but there was nothing that big available in automotive quality so they just used regular screens and now they break at an insane rate, tons of stuff like that thats the result of doing startup culture to a car company

im sure ive said this before but a lot of its been papered over by the fact that teslas have always been expensive toys sold to rich people who own more than one car, but now theyre selling ~$30k cars that people need to drive every day

When I think about Tesla engineering I remember Chris Lattner left after just six months:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/20/15844280/tesla-autopilot-software-chris-lattner-ai-quit

“Turns out that Tesla isn't a good fit for me after all,” lol

Tesla reporting is a useful reminder that the technology press has no relationship with technologists.

yeah its pretty much just straight business or consumer reporting

elon is unstable

Tesla & Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/YSswJmVZhP

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 12, 2021

hahahahahaha omg

haha

🧐

lol he really is just joker mode and fucking with the world