alec baldwin has a line in the oral history about how he never imagined some of the cast members he worked w/ would become movie stars and it's pretty apparent he's talking about sandler. interesting to me also that michaels produced tommy boy and black sheep but didn't produce any of the sandler movies even though there were definitely snl ppl - sandler and mcdonald and farley obv but also robert smigel and jim downey and tim herlihy - involved w/ billy madison. maybe there's bad blood there but there have been plenty of ppl whose exits or stays were less than graceful who came back at some point - ben stiller, chris rock, hell even norm macdonald came back to sing 'goodnight saigon'.
― balls, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
Lorne-produced movie careers so rarely work out well, kinda makes sense that Sandler did so well without that 'help.' but weird to think that Lorne was evidently not too hot on Sandler considering that his mini-me Fallon was later his golden boy.
― some dude, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 01:34 (ten years ago) link
billy madison-happy gilmore-wedding singer straight classics in my book, no shame in saying it. will rep for 50 first dates to some extent also (not the soundtrack though). beyond that (and not counting punchdrunk love or funny ppl or whatever outlier) not so much, though i do figure he's paid for at least a couple of steve buscemi and john turturro's homes and grown ups has a great soundtrack (movie is horrid).
― balls, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 01:44 (ten years ago) link
wedding singer is enough of a harmless rom com to me that i can stomach it, but in general i'm done with sandler, he's the white tyler perry to me.
― some dude, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 01:53 (ten years ago) link
Murphy did come back; he hosted the '84 x-mas show (which included the best thing he ever did, the "White Like Eddie" film). His not hosting since then probably isn't about bad blood, but more likely due to not having any connection to/relationship with Lorne (Murphy's tenure was during the Ebersol years).
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 02:11 (ten years ago) link
nice info tarfumes
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 02:11 (ten years ago) link
nah they've invited him back for the anniversary specials and he's declined. in rolling stone last year (or maybe the year before - whenever he made that shitty brett ratner movie w/ ben stiller that was supposed to show us that 'old eddie' is back) he said he had considered coming back to host and then david spade made some crack about him on hollywood minute and he wrote snl off. i'd always chalked up billy crystal never coming back to host to him being ebersol era (by all accounts he was loved while he was there and actually wrote sketches for other ppl to star in which is kind of unheard of for snl cast members) but julia louis-dreyfus and obv martin short have come back from that era so who knows.
― balls, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 02:24 (ten years ago) link
xps aw, I liked Grown Ups.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 02:30 (ten years ago) link
i laughed twice, both times chris rock lines
― balls, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link
Ah, I'd forgotten about Short and Julia. I remember the David Spade kerfuffle, but figured Eddie had let it go. Evidently not.
xp
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link
Norm and Crystal came back for the 25th Anniversary special too. McDonald joked in his segment that he was just passing through on the way to a party at Eddie Murphy's. Hadn't realized Crystal never came back to host--I saw him on the 90s Muppet Show fer chrissakes!
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link
Maybe it had something to do with being 21 in 1995, but I loved that season. Polar bear sketch and everything.
― pplains, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 02:47 (ten years ago) link
Not a surprise, but after a will he/won't he atmosphere for two seasons, Sudeikis has left: http://tvline.com/2013/07/24/jason-sudeikis-leaving-saturday-night-live-snl-official/
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
You can tell he's quitting because he's grown a mustache.
Paging all funnymen with solid Joe Biden impressions in their repertoires:
Please none of you actually attempt this page.
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
Auditioning for SNL.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
HADER My audition was me as Vinny Vedecci, doing Al Pacino talking to his maid staff. Tony Blair talking about the new “Star Wars” movie in Parliament. James Mason with an expired gift certificate for a dozen doughnuts.
would kill to see this
― R'LIAH (goole), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
That was the only thing in the piece that made me laugh out loud.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
He elaborates a little on his SNL audition of the episode of WTF he did with Marc Maron a few weeks back.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
This is like the epitome of Will Ferrell:
I [had come] in with a briefcase full of counterfeit money that I’d bought at a toy store. And in the middle of whatever Lorne was going to say, I was going to start stacking the equivalent of $25,000 on his desk. “Listen, Lorne, you and I can say whatever we want to say. But we really know what talks, and that’s money. I’m going to walk out of this room, and you can either take this money or not. And I can be on the show.” But it was just not a joking atmosphere. It was just tense. And I never get to do my gag.
― Domo Arigato, Demi Lovato (Phil D.), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
5:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E97QCU6LWxI
― Same old bland-as-sand mood mouthings (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 22 August 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
whew i don't have to kill anybody
― R'LIAH (goole), Thursday, 22 August 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
New cast members: http://www.avclub.com/articles/here-are-the-four-new-people-who-will-probably-joi,102018/
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 August 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
delightful: http://www.avclub.com/articles/watch-bill-hader-and-snl-writers-commentary-on-jus,99458/
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 26 August 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
Cecily Strong to co-anchor Weekend Update, take over when Meyers leaves.
― punt cased (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 September 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
Beck Bennett, John Milhiser, Kyle Mooney, Mike O'Brien, Noel Wells and Brooks Wheelan will join the troupe as "SNL" enters its 39th season on Sept. 28.
http://adage.com/article/digital/t-funnyman-beck-bennett-headed-snl/243842/
Bennett is the straight man/ guy who talks to the kids on those A T & T phone commercials
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 September 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
Three exit, one moves to the writers room, and six come in. Seems crowded, and I wonder if it means Kenan and Jay (and Nasim?) get pushed to the fringes as everyone else tries to out-white each other.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
old blogpost still relevant:
http://www.forharriet.com/2012/12/black-women-and-snl-when-will-we-be-in.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 September 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
what's the over under on how soon some dude polls these
― Vinetalic - "My Friend Terio" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 September 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
I suspect Bennett will be utilized as the straight man/authority figure in the Hartman/Sudeikis tradition. Of course, I only know him from the commercials, so I could be completely wrong about his demeanor.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 16 September 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
I predict that Bennett will steal the 2013-2014 season with a new character named Pantsless Putin
― WHAT DOES SAMANTHA FOX SAY (DJP), Monday, 16 September 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
snl
2 threads
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 September 2013 19:30 (ten years ago) link
Saturday Night Live's Race Problem
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 27 September 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
“SNL’s” all-white, predominantly male casting call got some minor criticism, but many defended the decision by arguing that the cast of 16 performers, which currently includes three people of color (and six women), approximately reflects the demographics of a nation in which white people are the majority.
― Mordy , Friday, 27 September 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
i'm more outraged when i see the writing staff for daily show or colbert, they appear to be 99% white men.
― mizzell, Friday, 27 September 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
best article ending ever
― smang culture (DJP), Friday, 27 September 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
Was talking about this during the Emmy's. Noted that Jimmy Kimmel wins for having a writing staff that actually had considerably larger amounts of women then any of the other late night variety shows up for awards.
― dan selzer, Friday, 27 September 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
This is just the first step in Lorne's plan for an accurate representation of global demographics, along with the advent of SNL Mexico (which, yes, is a real thing that's happening and that I wouldn't even be aware of if people I know hadn't auditioned for the cast). I look forward to SNL Laos and SNL Côte d'Ivoire (the improv scene there is off the hook).
― Coke Opus (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 September 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
― Vinetalic - "My Friend Terio" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, September 16, 2013 1:21 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the fuck is this, leave me alone, man. i haven't even started a thread in like months.
― Jean-Claude Brand Ambassador (some dude), Friday, 27 September 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
about the same representation of people who are funny
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 27 September 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
lots of lolz imo
― Mordy , Sunday, 29 September 2013 04:02 (ten years ago) link
the breaking bad fanservice is kinda bizarre tho. maybe lorne is a big fan
― Mordy , Sunday, 29 September 2013 04:07 (ten years ago) link
Wow the sound mix for Arcade Fire is SHITTY
― smang culture (DJP), Sunday, 29 September 2013 04:13 (ten years ago) link
"You'll feel like you're walking on clown nine" made me lol.
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 29 September 2013 04:56 (ten years ago) link
“I think there’s lots of parts of America that could care less about ‘Saturday Night Live,’” Becker added. “Lots of African-Americans, lots of gays and lesbians. And Dr Morbius, for sure."
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 September 2013 07:25 (ten years ago) link
They can keep doing the tipsy ex-porn stars-selling-things commercial sketches forever, and I'll laugh at all of them.
It's no secret I'm a Kate McKinnon stan, but I want to see them develop her smoking ER doctor from the cold open into a proper character.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 September 2013 07:34 (ten years ago) link
IAWTC. Both of them, though I doubt they'll ever top "my eye got sucked out by a butt."
― just like tom yum's soup (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 29 September 2013 08:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah I was wondering if it was just me or if the AF mix sounded hoorrrrrible
― Tetsu: The Inoue Man (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 29 September 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link
I had never heard Arcade Fire before last night, I had no idea they sound like that, it was funny.
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 29 September 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
i've only heard them a little but this is some new direction right? James Murphy produced disco new wave? With dubbed out 12" style b-side mixes?
― dan selzer, Sunday, 29 September 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
they don't usually! def a new direction for them
― Tetsu: The Inoue Man (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 29 September 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link