Saturday Night Live

The Wrigley Field security guards sketch! I saw that cast, too!

It was funny because you'd see Second City, make note of the hilarious cast members, and then a few weeks later on Chicago TV it'd be, "Hey, there's that hilarious guy Steve Carell...in...a Brown's Chicken ad...?" or "Cool, it's Tim Meadows!...in a McDonald's commercial?" Obviously they needed whatever work they could get, but it was odd to see these hilarious performers play it straight in commercials.

The Clothes / Holes thing was an abomination

hahaha i was watching that holes clothes thing the whole time like "how is this even on tv? is there a punchline?"

nope, just the worst sketch in yeeeears!

It was so terrible and it was on right before the amazing Romano Tours. Someone really messed up.

I had to question why I ever thought Bennet or Mooney were ever funny

the Holes thing feels very South Park

The Wrigley Field security guards sketch! I saw that cast, too!

I specifically remember that sketch and Farley's Dolphin Boy sketch, mostly because of the song he sang while squirting water out of a prosthetic blowhole. I assume the program where I circled their names is somewhere in my parents' house still among my stuff.

I was dreading watching this because when I rarely if ever find Sandler's movies funny. However, this was actually one of the best episodes of the season. Roman's Tours and Rectix were classic and I really enjoyed his tribute to Farley.

Yeah Roman's Tours and Rectix both felt really really early 90s to me, loved them both. I will typically defend Mooney more than most but, yeah, the "Holes" thing was one of the worst skits of an already pretty bad season.

a new low, imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejAjdcRC28Y

The entire show felt underrehearsed, except for Paul Rudd.

i like the new tradition of che and jost writing jokes for each other at the end of the season

the View sketch was a timing mess; there was this weird sustained silence near the end where I couldn't tell WTF was going on.

honestly I wish I time travel and stop "Lazy Sunday" from happening, these rap skits need to stop

ok but can alec baldwin be retired first ugh

as i noted in the other SNL thread, Gilda died 30 years ago today.

Believe or not, I hadn't seen this until yesterday. Michael told me that he and Belushi smoked some of Tom Davis' weed before going on. And I have the jacket O'D's wearing. (Thanks to @Franksantopadre and Kliph Nesteroff @ClassicShowbiz for the find.) https://t.co/P7Hwn9oQca

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) August 16, 2019

three new snl castmembers: bowen yang (from twitter), shane gillis, and chloe fineman

https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/snl-cast-bowen-yang-chloe-fineman-shane-gillis.html

saw a comment that yang is the first out gay cast member since terry sweeney??? that's nuts

wait mckinnon. i guess they meant out gay male cast member.

nothing can save this show

maybe Lorne's death

John Milhiser, who lasted a single season in 2013-14, was gay.

thank god they fired Leslie Jones, I'm not sure she ever made it through a show without fucking up her lines

lol, of all the opinions

she was terrible though

thought she was one of the only funny people on the show last time i caught an ep but ymmv

she's fine when she gets her lines right

when i catch old sketches i'm pretty impressed by the ability of the casts to keep a straight face in skits that are ten times as funny as whatever mediocrity the present cast can't stop breaking into laughter over.

Yes

LJ's regular stammering and misreading of cue cards would've gotten p much anyone else fired back then and probably now too

Leslie Jones had an esprit that more than made up for her technical gaffes imo

she is pretty charismatic. I just rewatched Ghostbusters this weekend and it was a lot funnier than I remembered it being.

also I'm biased towards her bc she old (and a woman, and black...)

Cool, 1/3rd of the new hires fucking sucks. Guess which o... it's the doughy white dude.

today SNL announced the hiring of its first cast member of East Asian descent, and also this guy pic.twitter.com/0FAGJZJUkK

— Seth Simons (@sasimons) September 12, 2019

yeah this is most certainly already over

if i remember rightly that other guy on that podcast is a aped also

this guy will not appear on snl

is a paedo that should read

oh wait i think I'm mixing him up with someone else in the orbit of cum town

Ok, that guy now takes Kyle Mooneys place as my most hated snl member.

ahahahahahahhhahhhahaha

GREAT job, Lorne

I like Leslie Jones but being an ensemble cast member with specific things to do (apart from Being Leslie Jones) is not her strong suit and never was.

Tell it to worthless Pete Davison.

him too

I think I am still kind of mad about that Bobby Hill boiled hotdog motherfucker Shane Gillis.

i like shane gillis but it's a weird choice getting a guy that spent the past few years making daddy trump is doing a great job irony shit on his podcast and everywhere else to write on snl. first cast member that dips citrus skoal.

is that a skit about moron podcasters?

I can't even figure out his schtick. It's like edgelord boomer humor?

boomer?

like, he's a youngish guy but his humor is tired dad jokes.

mixed in with rush week talent show.