Saturday Night Live

and what:

we shall meet. pistols at dawn for the hand of casey rose wilson.

last two mostly sucked except for digital short and the School of Excellence, but tonight was much better. I do get sick of recurring characters, like Penelope, and that was a mostly weak Tim Calhoun...the best Tim Calhoun skits may be my favorite things ever.

still annoys me that 'digital short' is now a thing that people talk about like it's a big deal buzzword. it's a pre-taped sketch, BFD.

yeah we definitely don't need anymore Penelope sketches, though. shit is getting as repetitive as the Will Ferrell cheerleader shit at this point.

still annoys me that 'digital short' is now a thing that people talk about like it's a big deal buzzword.

People don't do this anymore. Dick In A Box was like 1.5 years ago.

Can anyone who is older than me and from New York enlighten me on what Tookie Styles was influenced by?

jean k jean haha

It's really too bad Amy Adams isn't a regular cast member, because I could see myself laughing through at least 10 more of those "Mirror Image" sketches.

she's pretty funny.

vampire weekend is da troof

Kind of bummed they didn't do "Oxford Comma" : (

they were the worst band ive ever seen on snl i thnk. whiney: petey green?

chaki old bean i expect we'll disagree like gentlemen on this matter.

yah but you have to admit keyboard player's scarf was total ball licker style, they had no energy, and the singer was contrived and has a terrible voice as well as the worst guitar tone ive ever heard.

the guitar tone was laid on kind of thick i'll give you that.

LOL, xp

kristen wiig is scraping the bottom of the barrel with those frumpy middle american women. the target skit was terrible

her suze orman needed some work too

tracy morgan is my boy

feeling the tpain/mariah song. i missed the first one

the song is so 4 years ago, in a good way

so sick of broadway monologues

maybe you're just sick of broadway

yeah, I was like, "another broadway monologue?". And then the first skit was a game show, which I almost always hate, though Jonah made this one actually pretty funny.

bitch may be the new black, but black is the new president, bitch. lolololol

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/16/snls-antispitzer-bias-_n_91736.html

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SNL did what SNL has long done -- feature whoever's hot that week. That's the show's function. Satire has nothing to do with it. Everybody feeds on the fix. That's where money and power reside. Dem partisan Alec Baldwin willingly traded japes with Palin, bringing her into the fold. Little wonder she felt free to groove to Amy Poehler's rap about her stated positions. SNL added to Palin's luster. Who wouldn't dance along to that?

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2008/10/laugh-you-assholes.html

wahlberg was a funny idea, though

wait a minute - television show features zeitgeisty, talked-about celebrity??????? stop the pressezzzzzzzzz

yeah, just like SNL Bob Hope specials in 1975

'Cast (in alphabetical order)':

America
Aretha Franklin
Bob Hope
John Wayne
Flip Wilson

At least somebody finally has the balls to stick it to those jerks at SNL.

</sarcasm>

the iMdB in no way lists all the Hope specials; there were at least 4 a year.

the palin rap was pretty funny since it mocked almost everything she's associated with bar downs syndrome; she looked clueless sitting there through the whole thing. amy poehler, meanwhile, was pretty impressive (through the whole episode, actually, since she's clearly like, at term)

i'm surprised people like the rap, i thought it was pretty embarrassing. and i'm usually kind of a captain save-an-snl. i love poehler and she did her best with it but reviving the rodney dangerfield joke rap song in 2008 is pretty lame

that excerpt seems to presuppose that a) SNL should seek to materially detract from Palin, presumably because she's Palin and snl/perrin don't agree with her and b) proper satire should always negatively affect the "luster" of the person being satirized, neither of which seem to be the self-evident points the tone of the article suggests.

So how many new people did Palin win over with the SNL thing? Guesstimates?

not Colin Powell!

OK, new question..

Number of people won over by Powell's O endorsement
minus
Number of people won over by Palin in SNL
----------------------------------------------------
= ????

= PROFIT

surely nobody was seriously "won over" by the fact that maccain's vp can woodenly recite four sentences off a cue card. right?

n/a OTM re: the rap and I never say this about anything ever but in this particular case Dennis Perrin OTM as well

seriously the "lolz white people rapping" thing is so fucking lame

yeah i don't get any of you guys who think anything to do with snl political stuff is that funny. i always feel like i'm reading in a foreign language when you guys discuss it. especially white ppl rapping badly, which they LOVE. that is so 1998.

also seriously you guys are negative nancies: who on earth would be won over by a short appearance on a shitty sketch show that doesn't already like sarah palin? she's a completely polarizing figure to like 95% of the country.

I saw a part of the Palin SNL and I felt I was watching Mad TV, so I stopped watching.

I fell asleep before it even started.

i would watch pregnant amy poehler do anything

v v cute btw

I thought she and GOB didn't consummate the marriage?

Rap was kinda cringe-worthy, but I will always laugh at McGruber and even a weak Jean K. Jean. (Would pay theater prices for a crappy Jean K. Jean movie.)