Saturday Night Live

Destroy: The writing staff.

Now *that's* funny.

I hate Jimmy Fallon.

D: Jaret's Room, Mango, Adam Sa...I mean, Jimmy Fallon's guitar parodies

I think Jimmy Fallon is rather funny, but not nearly as funny (nor original) as he seems to think he is.

Actually, I think the plight of SNL is that they have some extremely talented cast members, but don't have the solid writing to back it up like in some days of yore. There are sporadic bits of amazingly funny stuff ("I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!"), but it's just not SOLID.

Weekend Update is awful, sorry. There's no bite to the jokes. they seem happily surprised if a joke does well, and if it doesn't they lean reaaaal hard on the "it's not funny; isn't that funny!?" thing that is the death-knell of television comedy (cf Johnny Carson, Conan's monologue)

Everyone keeps banging on about SNL and I've never seen it - indeed, living in the UK with no Sky means I probably never will. Is there like a SNL Best Of DVD around? Or should I not bother - is it over-hyped rubbish?

I liked the bit about Larry David. The part with him and Dick Ebersol standing by the elevator sounded just like something out of "Curb Your Enthusiasm".

make talk about the old snl. converse about the dim bulb sketch.

The M'OD bio "Mr Mike" is worth a read. He bitched when the original cast started to do recurring characters, cuz he thought that was too much like Carol Burnett etc.

the writers' terror of offending anyone makes most of the sketches heavily dependent on unfunny gimmicks and repetition, much like conan o'brien's show these days.

(i ACTUALLY roffled the first time i saw this sketch)

-- joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 04:22 (2 years ago) Link

was actually bumping thread to say i have a crush of shame on kristin wiig

why shame?

maybe shame bc she's totally annoying?

yeah, that

shes kinda horsey too

i dunno i used to get real madtv vibes & think she was really untalented but now i kinda think shes the funniest person on the show

she never tina fey

he has been 55 for 40 years

Lol

I liked Colin Quinn on Weekend Update too, I think he's pretty funny and is a good example of how to do centrist-type political comedy without being really annoying, but it's hard to imagine why anyone thought he would be any good on SNL

Pedro Pascal dancing to Devo was absolutely the best thing about that SNLmusic thing.

xpost, did you not watch Remote Control?

my pal kari was on remote control! she was nuts. we went to high school together. she is the only person i know who was in anaconda AND a sharknado movie. remote control kinda sucked though.

i liked that special that colin quinn did that was like the history of new york? america? one of those. it was amusing.

Kari Wuhrer!

Oh wow, I had such a crush on her back in the Remote Control days, haha.

Colin Quinn took the bullets that would have been Marc Maron's had he been cast back then.

Looking at some of the gazillion Reddit threads, the Cancelled were welcome to the festivities, as Victoria Jackson, Rob Schneider, and Horatio Sanz were in attendance on Sunday.

i didn't watch that 4-part(?) anniversary special but i wondered if they mentioned my pal ted lee's dad, eugene. he passed away recently and was the set designer since the beginning. so, i think he was there for 49 years. ted lives in town here and runs the excellent feeding tube records. ted told me that his dad did the sets for gilda's broadway show and it brought back a wave of nostalgia of my sister playing that album over and over again. especially the animal song. loved that record.

Is Rob Schneider any more cancelled than Jim Bruer or Dennis Miller?

I suppose Randy Quaid is about on the Victoria Jackson level

Quaid's a genuine psycho now, so his standing's probably the worst of all.

I think on Kanye’s allmusic page, Randy Quaid is listed as one of the “similar artists”

my pal kari was on remote control! she was nuts. we went to high school together. she is the only person i know who was in anaconda AND a sharknado movie. remote control kinda sucked though.

she was also in Eight Legged Freaks!

scott just casually dropping that he's friends with Kari Wuhrer!

Maybe we're all friends with Kari Wuhrer.

The real Kari Wuhrer was the friends we made along the way

Should we talk about Beastmaster 2 while we’re at it?

i haven't seen her in a million years. she went out with my brother for a bit way back when. i was just thinking about HER brother the other day. wondering what he was up to. he was the sweetest guy. we got along really well. i know what kari is up to cuzza facebook. we were so excited when she got a part in a movie with virginia madsen. we went to the movies to see it. Fire With Fire. it wasn't very good.

i already told you guys a million times that our most famous schoolmate turned out to be betsy peyton world famous art star. she did paintings of kurt cobain and jarvis cocker and the rest is herstory. and yes i am wearing a swatch in that picture. i got it for christmas.

https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/465721651_10162332944952137_8380637268537113067_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=cf85f3&_nc_ohc=1yxFnKsOXgoQ7kNvgGeRkDL&_nc_oc=Adg8aZH3nD6oaXUhfpE1EilCI6ux1GR3d8MTdADmeorapJ9pEd86dEvYeO2hjsBw52q6xcGJU9IaVZnZz5lvhklj&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&_nc_gid=AXkVNoePWUqZchI5XUR5BZL&oh=00_AYDXrbWR_SO-Ve1fomLyoupn4wQ6uXI6m5tvEzwv6A6ddQ&oe=67BC6797

but wait i want to know if you guys have ever had any encounters close or otherwise with any snl cast members! the only time i did is when my dad took me to fat tuesdays to see dizzy gillespie and john belushi was there dancing on the stairs. i totally ignored diz and just watched belushi the whole time. i couldn't believe it.

Al Franken scooted past my group in the hallway during an NBC studio tour

Lorne and Seth Myers just had a lunch next to me a few weeks ago

https://imgur.com/86076f48-a06c-49d7-90b1-3f02c8a5b58a
https://imgur.com/5409a8d9-0839-400e-9a72-642e1137768f

https://imgur.com/a/jmdqzUz
https://imgur.com/a/aCtnZDG

I used to work a bunch with Shawn Pelton (longtime SNL Band drummer)and GE Smith in my recording studio days. Shawn was a great dude. GE very quiet.

idk how they didnt do a lorne succession sketch, it would have killed; maybe he'd of veto'd it

shiv = tina
kendall = jost
roman = mulaney
tom = beck bennett ? mabye alec
cousin greg = ?
connor = pete davidson

wow yeah that would have been perfect.

i would say that would have been a perfect replacement for that scared straight sketch except when i think about that sketch the more i think that was eddie's idea and that he wouldn't perform unless they did the sketch he wanted to do in 1984 at the height of his gay bashing but that he never got to do. the one that got away! it certainly read like something from 1984. that was also the last year he was really funny.

it was a recurring sketch from 2008 to 2012 but only really funny when Kenan made people break imo

oh gosh right. i forgot that they used to do it. i just have vague memories of three young guys getting yelled at by christopher walken or someone.

so crazy when you think about how it has been an open secret since the 80s about eddie and trans women. since the days of the paradise garage.

this really is so heartbreaking. a star in samoa and made into a punchline here:

https://utopiawa.org/forever-young-revisiting-the-life-death-of-shalimar-seiuli/

an snl cast member crashed on my couch once, they were very impressed with how comfortable it was. sadly, we did not keep the couch when we moved.

I was friends with some folks who did improv in Chicago in the 2000s. I remember texting one of them in 2010 when Paul Brittain was hired on SNL, because I'd seen him perform at iO and had met him at a couple of after-parties. (I had this notion for a while that he was a big indie-rock hipster, but I think he just had that kind of haircut.) My friend replied that he was excited for Paul -- and also for his friend Vanessa Bayer, who got the nod at the same time. I don't remember having met her, but maybe I did.

My only very weak contribution is that I may or may not have done some heavy flirting with someone in college that went on to be in the cast of a critically acclaimed AMC drama.

Brittain is Bob Newhart's nephew

Yeah, I didn't know that until later! It's weird that two SNL cast members have famous uncles. The other being Jason Sudeikis, who is George Wendt's nephew.

I liked Paul Brittain, he had this repeating little lord fauntleroy character that was good.

Vanessa Beyer and Bobby Moynihan are my two favorite most underrated cast members.

Can't believe they brought Beyer back to the Update desk but not as Jacob the Bar Mitzvah boy.

truly one of the great characters/performances.

Yeah, that would have been much preferable to the quiet talking Beyer/Armisen thing, especially since Armisen had already gotten plenty of air time in other skits.

bobby moynihan is like the love child of artie lange and lou costello. i'd totally forgotten about him until i watched that david cross thing. i was so happy to see drunk uncle. i loved drunk uncle and his snooki. i feel like i haven't seen him in anything since he left snl. he does a ton of voiceover stuff. he should be on a good show. he's so funny.

(dan, watch that david cross podcast with bobby. someone other than me needs to see it.)

i don't remember Paul Brittain on SNL at all, those must have been in the years I was barely watching

I did, we watched most of it last night. It's great, Cross was hilarious too.

One of my favorite Bobby things is his appearences as "Fourvel" on Comedy Bang Bang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz-9IS8Ln6E

speaking of which, listening to DC's interview with james austin johnson on the newest podcast and JAJ was proud of this cut for time sketch he did/wrote with heidi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CujHq4fb04

This is the Paul Britain but that stuck with me. I still enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGOKJ-Legak

haha, that really does make me laugh.