^^ yeah, it’s like they saw The Greatest Love In History for the first time when someone emailed them a Youtube link after Dick In A Box came out, and went “oops”
― the sound of mu (sic), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked 'motherlover' so i'll take the face-egg re that
but really
The immigrant skit brought the roffles― lou, Monday, May 11, 2009 10:37 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark
― lou, Monday, May 11, 2009 10:37 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark
this was so lazy and most repelling skits ive seen in a while - as i said, just replace with video of timberlake masturbating onto his grammys
― man, i love collages (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe it got better at the end cuz i changed the channel once it became apparent that the whole thing was a "WINK WINK NOD NOD FAMOUS PERSON" gag
― man, i love collages (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
as i said, just replace with video of timberlake masturbating onto his grammys
yes plz
― Banvil! The Story of Banvil (Tape Store), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Will Ferrell episode is A+++ so far.
Jeopardy sketch reminded me that Tom Hanks once used to be a comedian, which is easy to forget (honestly, I haven't thought of him that way in a long, long time). Also, bonus Norm-as-Burt appearance!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:02 (fourteen years ago) link
whoa that was my cousin was in that weird subway ad there
― bnw, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Tom Hanks once used to be a comedian
i remember thinking he was really funny when i was a kid (i can vaguely remember bosom buddies). i dug his steez in that penny marshall women's baseball movie, and to a lesser extent in that thing you do.
― ^defense is impregnable (will), Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:11 (fourteen years ago) link
AMY POEHLER LOVE YOU GIRL
(yeah, Tom Hanks has a long history of being funny, and funny on SNL... can't remember the last time he played comedy in a movie, though)
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
The "best of Tom Hanks" SNL episode they aired many years back surprised me in how awesome/funny it was.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
best of t. hanks compilation has the mr. belvedere fan club sketch which is like best ever!!
― A B C, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think many people know this Billy Joel song they are singing, but it's pretty nice/communal as a season ending sketch.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Cameos from:
Norm MacDonaldTom HanksAmy PoehlerAnne HathawayPaul RuddMaya RudolphArtie Lange
did I miss anyone? I feel like I am.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Guessing it's Darrell Hammond's last episode?
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Looks like it. I think Anne Hathaway was thanked at the end too, but I don't remember seeing her.
Pretty awesome season finale. Would have loved to see Norm at the update desk though since he was around.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 17 May 2009 05:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Elizabeth Moss from Mad Men.
I was thinking it's either Hammond's last...or his birthday.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 17 May 2009 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Anne Hathaway was thanked at the end too, but I don't remember seeing her.
She was one of the many in the Billy Joel song sketch immediately before the close.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 May 2009 05:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Would explain why he was in more than 2 sketches.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Sunday, 17 May 2009 06:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked it when he used sketches to work on nailing the voice and otherwise had no idea what he was saying/.]
― ~'-.,,.-'~'-. .-'~'-.,,.-'~ (tremendoid), Sunday, 17 May 2009 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link
That "Goodnight Saigon" thing capped off maybe the best SNL I've seen in years. That Charles Barkley TNT thing with the "Mark" promo about had me in tears.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 17 May 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
just found out the other week that she's engaged to fred armisen.
― Roz, Sunday, 17 May 2009 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Huh.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Sunday, 17 May 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Casey Wilson reads internet comments
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 17 May 2009 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
I kind of love her, but whatever.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 May 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Even chuckled at Tom Hanks' meta saying "sibilance" into the Jeopardy pen.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 17 May 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
That was great...I was wondering if anyone else caught that.
― kate78, Sunday, 17 May 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, according to Wikipedia, a Scientologist. WTF
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
"That "Goodnight Saigon" thing capped off maybe the best SNL I've seen in years. That Charles Barkley TNT thing with the "Mark" promo about had me in tears."
^^this
that ending sketch almost made me cry, really. if the show itself were to end, that'd be the way for it to go.
hammond's leaving? i'll miss him, but it's beyond time for dude to do something else.
i saw him live years and years ago, doing stand-up. hilarious, leaned-heavily on various impressions, was drunk outta his mind.
― Beatrix Kiddo, Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
they kinda need to run the TNT/corner promo thing into the ground, that trend is obnoxious and deserves to be ridiculed as much as possible.
― Beatrix Kiddo, Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Agree completely.
Fox and TNT/TBS are the worst offenders.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_(season_35)
So far, Seth Meyers is the only confirmed returning cast member. Yeah, it's still plenty early, but it will be interesting to see who makes it back in the fall.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
that sounds ominous.
i know this has probably been said a gazillion times, but part of me wishes lorne could just fire most of the writing staff.
― Beatrix Kiddo, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"bitch pleeeeeeeeeze" has me in stitches everytime they bring it back
which reminds me, i need to start a new SNL related thread that i think will be interesting - stand by
― Beatrix Kiddo, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
From your lips to God's ears.
The majority of this cast is fine by me, but the writing is terrible almost all the time (Will Ferrell's ep and selected sketches throughout the season notwithstanding).
Also, HIRE A NEW SOUND GUY!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, exactly - people always bitch about the cast members, but they're not the problem and never have been (in most cases, anyway).
― Beatrix Kiddo, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
it's like blaming the waitstaff for the horrible cuisine coming out of the kitchen, or something
Just caught the Goodnight Saigon thing, which was weird and great. Jeopardy was great, Tom Hanks was awesome in it!
― Nhex, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty sure it's Lorne who demands all the sketches be long, obvious and repetitive, not the writers
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean he's the constant between copier guy, mary gallagher, and gilly, not anyone on the writing staff.
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Good point. But he does do the hiring.
I'm just glad every other sketch isn't in a talk show format anymore.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i like this explanation about SNL
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200905/?read=interview_smigel_odenkirk
BOB ODENKIRK: You’re defending SNL there, and how hard it is, and it is very hard to do, just on the face of it. People ask, and comedy writers especially ask, “How come the show isn’t better?” I look at SNL as a sporting match, and the question is: “How come the game isn’t better?” The contest is: You take this cast, they’re the team, and they compete each week against not being funny. And every time they’re funny they score a point. So every week you’re watching to see if they score a few points. And if they score, like, three goddamn points, they fucking won, you know? But it’s a shame that it’s set up as nothing but this contest, because I think the preparation could be overseen better, and the show could do more than just score a point or two each week. That’s my grand theory of SNL … But I would add that after years of watching, never directly, just out of the corner of my eye, I’ve concluded that I might be wrong and Lorne Michaels might have it exactly right.
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Part of the reason the Lonely Island digital stuff has broken out is because it's unconstrained by the nature of the show, which rewards sketches that require minimal set prep, swallow a lot of time, and introduce recurring characters Lorne can dream of putting into a shitty movie and on t-shirts.
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:42 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^ this. i think for a while post-Wayne's World, they just decided that anytime someone had a vague character/accent/location in mind, they'd just make it a duo and give them a public access/local affiliate morning show.
― NEO-GEO v THE DREAMCAST (some dude), Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
they're better about just imitating actual ones these days
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, the 4th hour the Today Show is probably my favorite recurring sketch lately
all-time favorite: the one-off "Hulk Hogan Talk Show" sketch w/ Ferrell as a quiet thoughtful fill-in host for the Hulk
― NEO-GEO v THE DREAMCAST (some dude), Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
^ which is funny cuz I think it was the day immediately after that SNL that there was an identical Family Guy joke about Fox corner promos (the funniest being a show titled "Slowly Rotating Black Person")
― nabisco, Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
(the best thing about the "slowly rotating" varietal is the part where the person passes dead center and has to re-cross his/her arms in the other direction in order to face the camera over the other shoulder)
― nabisco, Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for the believer link. I kind of admire the business soundness of this, but this quote from there kind of makes me hate SNL now:
"But SNL, and Lorne has said this, is designed to appeal just enough to everyone, so that the widest possible audience tunes in, each for the three or four bits they’ll like best. So the way they see it, you think they only score three points because of your taste in comedy. It’s kind of like if you liked everything, they’re not doing their job, because it means someone else—your polar opposite—must have hated everything, and won’t come back."
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
you hate your fellow man, don't you
― nabisco, Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
It sure seems like Lorne does!
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Casey Wilson and Michaela Watkins let go: http://thecomicscomic.typepad.com/thecomicscomic/2009/09/addition-through-subtraction-snl-fires-michaela-watkins-and-casey-wilson.html
Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad have apparently been hired to fill the vacancies. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/new-saturday-night-live-hires-courtesy-of-upright-citizens-brigade/
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 September 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link