really sad none of you are anticipating Murphy
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
I mean, based on his track record, what's to anticipate
Gumby, Mr Robinson, Velvet Jones
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
"post-1990" eh? Nutty Prof was '96
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:20 (four years ago) link
Dolemite movie was great! it's ok to just be a feel good movie and not to heavy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
I'm more interested because of the animosity between Murphy and the producers (Lorne and ?). May be some underlying tension in the skits. (Or he may want to make nice to get his career back on track.)
― nickn, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 05:23 (four years ago) link
Dreamgirls was also good, as were Boomerang and (challops alert) the first Shrek movie
I liked what I saw of Bowfinger (only saw the first half)
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
"Life" was also v.v. good.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
Agreed
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
bowfinger worth finishing, and the two lads are undeniable in life
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
bowfinger was great and i can't believe it's 20 gd years old
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
life is the one i've only caught in bits & pieces on cable through the years. prob should remedy that.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
"The other new person Chloe has gotten a lot of airtime as well and is pretty solid but not really memorable."
she's a good impressionist as her instagram proves but she hasn't really done that at all on the show, and she's also used the same creepy little girl voice twice so I hope she has more tricks in her bag.
― akm, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
― nickn, Wednesday, December 18, 2019 12:23 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't think Murphy ever worked with Lorne. Jean Doumanian was the producer on Eddie's first season, and Dick Ebersol was the producer during the rest of Eddie's SNL tenure, and when Eddie hosted in 1984. Any beef he had with Lorne was likely due to the David Spade "Look, a falling star!" line, which Spade has since apologized for, and for Eddie, it's water under the bridge.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
"The white people came And changed everything But I am still your neighbor"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whfQf3Pd5bU
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 December 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
Pretty good episode. The Mr. Robinson and Velvet Jones sketches did a clever job of placing those characters in 2019, even if the timing in the latter was a bit wonky. Buckwheat felt like more of a missed opportunity; as with Gumby, I suspect a lot of younger SNL viewers had no idea who these characters were, but the Gumby bit was a least funny.
Michael Che forcing Colin Jost to tell self-incriminating racist jokes will never not be funny.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Sunday, 22 December 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
Thought this was great. The Bake Off skit had me in tears. That hasn't happened with me and a comedy skit in years. Also - hysterical elf!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 22 December 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
watched this with my wife and son (my wife, same age as me and her first SNL exposure as a kid was the Murphy years) and those were all gold for us; my son (13) has actually never seen him so I wondered how those would go down and he thought they were really funny (probably funnier than I thought they were; I loved it but it's hard to tell how much nostaligia painted my view)
the bake off skit was great, I want someone to make me that cake. Murphy slipped up twice and cursed, right? We got to silenced bits on Hulu Live, one at the end of that skit and one later but I can't remember where.
― akm, Sunday, 22 December 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
I thought he only cursed at end of bake off skit? Watched the individual skits on YT so not sure how it went down live.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 22 December 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
Of the recurring bits, Eddie seemed to be having the most fun with Gumby. Bake-off sketch was killer, and yeah, I think that was the only time he cursed. He did curse in a cut-for-time sketch, but obviously that didn't air live.
Would the kids today get Buckwheat in 2019, though? In the early '80s, the Little Rascals/Our Gang shorts were staples on UHF channels, but the chances anyone would come across those by accident in the last 15-20 years seem slim.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 22 December 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
yeah my 13-yo niece has no knowledge of Gumby or Our Gang, just Mr Rogers
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 December 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
… but ppl who have seen fewer than 300 westerns are missing many jokes in Blazing Saddles
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 December 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
Eddie cursed in bakeoff, and I could have sworn Cecily said "Merry Fucking Christmas" in weekend update. Eddie was OK. I doubt most younger people know his characters (like, the fame of Gumby, let alone Buckwheat, at this point is several times removed), and he flubbed a bunch, breaking twice, but I did appreciate seeing him enthusiastic for once. My 12-year old didn't think any of it was funny, fwiw.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 December 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
He skinned a few things but in the whole I thought he was much stronger on stage with cue cards than most guests.Also Cosby can fuck right off with his freak out bullshit re: Murphy’s monologue.
― akm, Monday, 23 December 2019 02:47 (four years ago) link
The statement from Cosby’s representative was some pure “fuck me for ever finding Cosby funny” horseshit
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 23 December 2019 04:22 (four years ago) link
jeez guys show your kids some gumby, that stuff is timeless
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 23 December 2019 04:23 (four years ago) link
I had no idea who Gumby was when the SNL version first debuted and i laughed so hard at the sketch that I tracked down who he was pre-internet. (It helped that some syndication channels picked up on Murphy’s impact and started including Gumby in their afternoon cartoon lineups.)
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 23 December 2019 04:27 (four years ago) link
Eddie aside, I only ever knew Gumby as a keychain.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Monday, 23 December 2019 04:31 (four years ago) link
In some ways Home for the Holidays was one of the best-executed things I've seen from SNL in a long time -- the concept was simple and timeless almost to the point of triteness, yet the delivery of each line, the timing of the editing, etc., was perfect and it made me laugh extremely hard as a result.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 23 December 2019 05:20 (four years ago) link
They did the same thing but for thanksgiving, or Xmas last year. I don’t remember.
― dan selzer, Monday, 23 December 2019 05:35 (four years ago) link
They showed last year's xmas skit at 10pm, similar, with the current niceness and flashbacks to the hassles of the run-up.
― nickn, Monday, 23 December 2019 05:38 (four years ago) link
I watched both Gumby and the Murphy Gumby sketch as a kid fwiw, but we are definitely very far removed from both Gumby and from the type Murphy plays it as (grizzled Jewish actor with a legit yiddish accent).
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 23 December 2019 05:40 (four years ago) link
absolutely, the concept of "Catskills comic" is fusty even tho Shecky Greene still lives
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 December 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link
Lol it is truly terrible that kids today will not understand Eddie Murphy’s revival of his 35 comedic characters
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 23 December 2019 13:13 (four years ago) link
35 year old that is
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 23 December 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link
well it's not terrible but they might well be confused
kinda like when Mel Blanc does a Joe Besser impression at the end of a 1946 Looney Tune
it does kinda blow my mind that Murphy's revivals are equivalent to Buster Keaton doing his silent bits on early '60s TV
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 December 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
I'm going to guess that most 12 year olds in 2000 didn't know what Blue Oyster Cult was
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 23 December 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
Watched this with a late-20s friend who had no idea who buckwheat was and also didn’t recognize Chris rock.Tracy Morgan’s “I made my millions on the road” home made me laugh the hardest.
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Monday, 23 December 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
That was brutally funny
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 23 December 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Sunday, December 22, 2019 11:27 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Yep, I too initially only knew Gumby as a bizarre and hilarious Murphy creation. We also had UHF stations digging Gumby out of mothballs, which a) put Murphy's bit into context, and b) was pretty psychedelic. The Museum Of The Moving Image in Queens had a fascinating Art Clokey/Gumby exhibit some years ago, and holy hell, putting those shorts together was beyond painstaking.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 23 December 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
I want to say there was a more traditionally animated Gumby show in the late-80s, possibly inspired in theory if not practice by Murphy's rendition.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 December 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
true. plus there was a Gumby movie in 1995.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 23 December 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
A- clokey is tha godB - go find Art Adams and Bob Burden’s excellent comics take on the character
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 23 December 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
Lol I loved the "I made my millions on the road" joke. I knew something like that was coming and it still killed me.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 23 December 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
for some reason they showed Gumby stop motion on TV when I was like 4 at some ungodly hour in the morning (5am or something). So I was already a Gumby fan but I moved by the time I was 12 and absolutely no one I knew at that age had any idea who Gumby was.
― akm, Monday, 23 December 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
https://theoutline.com/post/8583/michael-che-feud-snl-jack-allison
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
can we just talk about how that guy's twitter handle is 'jackallisonLOL'
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 23 January 2020 02:03 (four years ago) link
the outline is just the worst
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 23 January 2020 02:04 (four years ago) link
i watched 'Papyrus' again last night, and it may never be beat, just perfection
― I have not yet begun to fart (rip van wanko), Thursday, 23 January 2020 02:18 (four years ago) link
What's bad about The Outline?
― JRN, Thursday, 23 January 2020 02:43 (four years ago) link