Best SNL Movie

The film is Robbins' directorial debut, and is based on a short segment of the same name and featuring the same character that Robbins did for Saturday Night Live on December 13, 1986.

Stuart Saves His Family is hella underrated

there are like five movies on this list, including ladies man, that are better than blues brothers.

It's Pat to steal this no question.

i have literally never heard of the first movie on this list

its really hard to remember the time that The Ladies Man was like the most popular SNL thing in years. Tim Meadows was already on the show like 8 years on some Darrell Hammond shit and hadn't done like one memorable thing since Def Magic Show Jam, and then he got to be Wayne and Garth for a year

i'm not saying ladies man is great btw, i'm saying blues brothers blows

o_O

Running time 133 minutes

I remember whenever it was on TV, with commercials it was like three hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0maWXkLzIIY

if this thread is going to be filled with challopsy hate for the Blues Brothers then I will take it upon myself to be Carrie Fisher with a flamethrower.

maybe.

or I'll chicken out and just unbookmark the thread :)

anyway BLUES BROTHERS IS THE GREATEST

Wayne's World, no question. Even though one could blame it for turning Mike Myers into a star and thus paving the way for "The Cat in the Hat", which is offensive on a metaphysical level.

Also you're missing the one w Chris Kattan.

I really need to see It's Pat; it's been too long

Corky Romano

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250310/

Corky Romano wasnt an SNL sketch, just part of the mercifully short bubble where people gave Chris Kattan money

fuck Blues Brothers

^

voted Stuart, with Coneheads 2nd

Corky Romano wasn't a character originated on SNL though, was it? That was just a Chris Kattan movie.

I remember whenever it was on TV, with commercials it was like three hours.

You had to rent two tapes from Blockbuster.

THEYRE WHITE GUYS WHO SING THE BLUES BAAAAAUGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

WERE GETTING THE BNAD BACK TOGETHER GAHHHHHHHHUUHHHHHHHHH

i understand the backlash against the blues brothers (which in my mind is mostly b/c of how it's been embraced by the same sort of person who thinks that diana krall/elvis costello records ripping off old-school New Orleans music is where it's at maaaaan), but i'm still voting for it. the only other SNL film on this list that comes close is wayne's world.

anxiously awaiting the "What's Up With That?" movie

^ this!

Lol.

Looking over this list, I actually think the maxim of SNL skits being too little material to stretch over a full movie is kinda bunk. SNL isn't really that funny and has never really been that funny. Most of these movies are more successful about entertaining you over an hour and a half.

It's Pat is great, such a wonderfully stupid movie all the way through

"Is that a banana in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
"Nope, it's a banana..."

anxiously awaiting the "What's Up With That?" movie

― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, March 23, 2012 12:25 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean, if the movie could be 60 minutes of backstory and then an actual 30 minute episode of What Up With That, it might be the funniest movie ever made

I should see It's Pat. I mean, I watched the fucking Roxbury movie ffs. I should at least see the movie of a character I actually liked.

I'll pay to see the What Up With That? movie five times over if it's 90 minutes of this:

http://www.cigarettesandcoffee.com/storage/WhatUpWithThat_5.gif

when he jumps into frame I lose it every fucking time

There is exactly one amazing line in Roxbury

they never got around to a Sprockets movie, which may be the greatest loss to Western Civilization since they burned down the Library of Alexandria ...

I think the thing with SNL is when it's not funny, there'll be something on in a few minutes that might be? Which is not the case with a lot of these movies.

But I am reasoning straight from "It's a sketch show", I've never actually seen a full episode.

they never got around to a Sprockets movie, which may be the greatest loss to Western Civilization since they burned down the Library of Alexandria ...

Especially given the apocryphal story that the failed struggle of making it caused Mike Myers to say "fuck it" and start making shovels-full of cinematic shit.

SNL is kind of shit tbh

mr... mike's... mondo... video...?

I remember when that came out, played for a week, and disappeared

Stuart Saves His Family is hella underrated

― action bronieson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, March 23, 2012 11:46 AM (59 minutes ago)

ha, I was just repping for it in comedy poll thread

Ladies Man and Roxbuy were cool but I voted WWI

Whiney's idea for a WUWT movie is brilliant - maybe like a mockumentury kind of thing

Narrated by Morgan Freeman

I mean, if the movie could be 60 minutes of backstory and then an actual 30 minute episode of What Up With That, it might be the funniest movie ever made

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, March 23, 2012 12:27 PM (18 minutes ago)

I'm picturing the usual group of freaks growing larger and larger until they bust out of the studio and end up at a local stadium with parliament/funkadelic doing backup and 30 foot models of hitler and churchill having a light saber battle overhead also the entire audience is porpoises

FUCK YES

Never seen an episode of SNL. Voting for Wayne's World

Fuck. Everyone.

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/carrie.jpg

voted Bob Roberts, wd accept either Wayne's World.

Morbs, I'm sure we'll all do the right thing and run future ballots by a WWII vet before submitting.

apparently CHEVY CHASE IS THE GREATEST FILM COMEDIAN OF ALL TIME

Nobody's saying that, Morbs! We're saying he's the greatest comedian of all time full stop.

This is between og Wayne's World and MacGruber for me.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, March 23, 2012 10:21 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too, tie goes to the movie with ghost porking

current snl is awesome, stefon forever

I would see a stefon movie for real

I think the only one of these I've ever seen straight through is Wayne's World, which was funny but not very funny, and kind of sluggish and forced - for a zany movie based on a sketch comedy show it's not exactly laugh-a-minute. Voting Blues Brothers on the grounds that even if it were less funny than Wayne's World (and from what I've seen of it, it's got some moments?), it has some kick-ass musicians doing pretty decent performances. I'd buy that for a dollar.

Alice Cooper explaining the history of Milwaukee vs Ray Charles shooting a gun over the head of a shoplifter. I understand both sides.

The Milwaukee thing was pretty great, I'll give you that. And the moment when he's like "No, no, stay, guys!" and for a second it seems like Wayne & Garth have been sufficiently turned off by his Milwaukee nerd speech that they actually are going to just politely excuse themselves.

Mr mikes mondo video is fucking a+++++ FYI guys

Wayne's worlds both make me want to die tho so

haha

Caddyshack or Fletch.

lol those were my #1 and #2 in the comedy poll

just kill me now

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, March 24, 2012 12:02 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

WHY I OUTTA

Listen - They're my favorite funniest movies! I have to say though that in the end I found ranking the 50 a lot harder than picking 50. I wasn't really sure about the order at all - even the top 10. 11-50 ranking was pretty much totally arbitrary.

CHEVY CHASE IS THE GREATEST FILM COMEDIAN OF ALL TIME

When he was on and good he was one of the best, yes.

"OUTTA"? I haven't had coffee yet. OUGHTA, obv. I haven't had coffee yet.

Or is it aughta? I think it should be aughta but isn't. OK, coffee. Yes.

wayne's world ahead of ladies man, love blues bros but i dunno is it a very good movie

have always h8d chevy chase's smug smug face

macgruber was pretty awful

yeah, i refuse to believe MacGruber is actually good

It was better than I expected but I wouldn't call it "good".

Voted Bob Roberts, but might have gone with The Coneheads cartoon.

this thread took a rough tumble through the challopian tube. in 9 mos it may give birth to something even more RONG

One can only hope

let's just hope Armond White doesn't finally start posting here, coinciding with Momus' return.

macgruber has more laffs in it than anything in this poll, save the two waynes worlds

Wayne's World II would probably win for me. between the Charlton Heston cameo, the roadie, and the sequence of Wayne pickin the Waynestock bands from conveniently placed visual stimuli...classic.

Anyone who's dismissing MacGruber out of hand is doing themselves a grave disservice.

i'm dismissing it out of having watched it, yerman is painful to the eye/ear

the Church Lady Trilogy is going to own this when it finally comes out

I saw MacGruber, it wasn't really all that funny.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Masterpiece: It's Pat - The Movie
Pretty damn close: Stuart Saves His Family; Superstar
Shame on you for stealing the title of the greatest American film comedy: The Ladies Man

But the real question is: does the Lewis Ladies Man hold a candle to It's Pat?

bozelka back

can we just

That same year, her father, C.L. Franklin was shot during an armed robbery of his home, and subsequently spent the next five years in a coma, prompting his daughter to leave L.A. and return home to Detroit. Franklin’s career seemed similarly incapacitated as the new decade dawned.

Fab factoid: Dixie Square Mall, in which the car-chase scenes from The Blues Brothers were filmed, chosen for filming because it had just closed down in 1978 only 13 years after it was built, still stands today because nobody wanted to pay to tear it down. It has stood as a derelict, vacant building for over twice as long as it was actually open for business!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Dixie_Square_Mall_Block_B_stores.jpg

I kind of loathe Superstar with a gut-wrenching intensity

like KJB repping for it in the same breath as Stuart tempts me to watch it again, but, as it turns out, the thought of ever watching it again is itself a peculiar form of torture

xp A friend of mine grew up near that mall, which was vacant during his whole childhood...except for one night when it was mysteriously, and suddenly, completely lit-up and fully-stocked. A day or two later, it was back to being vacant. He thought he'd dreamed it or was otherwise going nuts until he saw the movie.

Forget the movie, I kind of loathed the Mary Catherine Gallagher sketches.

Like, I might have to do a sequel to this poll: Worst SNL Sketch Upon Which a Movie Was Based. Roxbury would probably win. I honestly don't know what Lorne was smoking there for a while.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I guess not *everyone* hates the Blues Brothers. hmph

I can live with that top three.

Coneheads should have been a great movie but wasn't at all

wayne's world deserves its place, but how many were attributable to "anything but the blues brothers" pseudo-challops?!?

also, i'm both happy and sad that a night at the roxbury got 3 pts.