Best SNL Movie

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.

you know Carrie Fisher being all Princess Leia kind of obscured her smashability, but she is v ws in that pic tbh

The amount of wrong itt so far is astounding.

SNL hasn't been funny (save for the odd sketch here or there) in decades.

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

Fucking figures.

It was made as an NBC special, and bcz of Michael O'Donogue's assorted priorities (fetishism, weirdness, throwing cats into a swimming pool) the network refused to air it. MO'D was delighted when there was a report of a riot at the box office for the audience to get their money back.

ian still has my DVD of it.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/mr-mikes-mondo-video/3973

Carrie Fisher being all Princess Leia kind of obscured her smashabilit

I thought Leia was like ultimate smash material for megadorks worldwide?

yeah I hated the spiral braid cheese Danish bullshit

SNL hasn't been funny (save for the odd sketch here or there) in decades.

Yeah, I was surprised by the previously small amount of wrong in this thread, too. Thanks for rectifying that!

SNL hasn't been funny (save for the odd sketch here or there) in decades.

If ever. I watched 5th season eps with dad recently and he commented on how he remembered it being funnier at the time.

I need to finally watch that boot of Mr Mikes I got last year.

in all honesty Morbs, I would never know who Michael O'Donoghue was if it weren't for you repping for him in some earlier SNL-related thread. Very cool stuff.

Was being mildly facetious, obvs, but truth bomb: SNL has been spotty and occasionally awful right from the start. The writing is still pretty bleh a lot of the time (kinda feel like this is mostly due to Lorne's iron fist), but the current cast is top-notch and this season in particular has been up there with the best (albeit as undeniably spotty as ever).

SNL hasn't been funny (save for the odd sketch here or there) in decades.

Yeah, I was surprised by the previously small amount of wrong in this thread, too. Thanks for rectifying that!

― Gregor Samsung (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, March 23, 2012 1:47 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nearly every time I've tuned in over the last 15 years or so I could barely watch more than 15 minutes. Unless something major has happened in the last couple years then I'm pretty certain it's still painfully unfunny.

I watched 5th season eps with dad recently and he commented on how he remembered it being funnier at the time.

I challenge anyone hatin' on current SNL to sit through the entire first season.

Nearly every time I've tuned in over the last 15 years or so I could barely watch more than 15 minutes. Unless something major has happened in the last couple years then I'm pretty certain it's still painfully unfunny.

^completely otm

they were TRYING to do DIFFERENT things which involves a lot of failure. I'm p sure the set of cultural references would also be a challenge. The OG cast/writers hit their stride in seasons 2 & 3.

xp

Hint: if you only tune in to SNL occasionally, I'd advise switching over at 5 minutes to 1 AM. That seems to be the time that Lorne's iron grip slackens a bit and the more surprising material sneaks through.

also, the dirty Muppets didn't work at all. xp

Plus, they had to deal with Chevy's ego in S1.

Still, I think the current cast is one of the show's best.

I watched season 3 not too long ago (bought the DVD for the Sun Ra appearance alone, and it was totally worth it); most of it lives up to its reputation, but parts of it really really do not (one episode -- surprisingly, with Madeline Kahn as host -- was among the worst SNL episodes I'd ever seen). The pace was a lot less frenetic then, and that takes a little getting used to.

so glad there's finally a place on the internet where people can say SNL isnt as good as it used to be

Albert Brooks' short films were great, too. Nice little bizarre non-sequiturs.

Whiney, don't you have some fat white men ripping off black rappers to fawn over somewhere

yeah, the whole culture was less Ritalinized. (and more coked) It is, of course, the pace I'm used to. Still, the recent years' sketches have always felt endllllesssss to me. xxxp

I agree that current SNL would greatly benefit from tighter/shorter sketches, leaving room for some of the most oddball ideas to make it to air.

the current cast is top-notch and this season in particular has been up there with the best (albeit as undeniably spotty as ever

This might very well be true. I haven't even attempted it this year.

IMO one of the major problems with SNL in recentish years (even with a lot of the funniER stuff) is that the writers don't seem to know when a skit should end and just keep them going and going and beating a dead horse until what might have been funny becomes the farthest thing from it.

Shut up Whiney.

just kidding!

I wrote that 10 mins ago before it was a x-post but then my computer froze so I guess I should have said x-post.

the first season of SNL was much more of a variety show than a sketch comedy show -- there's a whole episode which basically consists of a simon and garfunkel reunion. i get the sense that a lot of the freshness of the early seasons comes from the fact that they weren't being pressured to be 'funny' every second and come up with a new irritating character/catchphrase every episode.

there's also a pretty funny sketch called 'citizen kane 2' where the original cast do a bang-up job imitating joseph cotten, et al.

IMO one of the major problems with SNL in recentish years (even with a lot of the funniER stuff) is that the writers don't seem to know when a skit should end and just keep them going and going and beating a dead horse until what might have been funny becomes the farthest thing from it.

they kind of parodied this tendency in the '90s with that "you like-a the juice, eh?" sketch. at least, i always assumed it was a parody...

MACGRUBERRRRRRR, though I haven't seen Wayne's World in a long time and I've never seen Stuart

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.