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and the robotic deodorizer that freshens "..my business. My LADY business."

THAT HAD ME IN TEARS.

It was a lot longer than a year; Dick Ebersol exec-produced most (or all?) of the '80s. I've seldom tuned in since Mike Myers left.

Lost its subversive nature circa 1978.

dan, nbc has been airing "golden era" snls on saturday nights after the new one is over -- or at least, they were during the summer -- in their entirety, sometimes with three music numbers, and it is astonishing to see the difference in ingenuity and simple variety of acting styles/pastiches they had then. it's like people were born with better brains.

He's gone way past those. The Nuni character was pretty funny the FIRST or SECOND times it was on. His Tony Danza is quite cringe worthy, in a good sort of way. And Prince suffering from an allergy attack was pretty fucking funny.

I wish that they would pick up Darryl Hammond and throw him into the dumpster. Maybe now that they've picked up a new impressionist, they'll act on that. I think ten years is a little long to be doing the same lame Trump or Chris Matthews imitations.

The new guy, however, was able to bring something remotely new to Al Pacino, someone who is frequently imitated. The THERE'S A SHITZU STUCK IN A CHARTER OAK TREE line was funny while Hammond would have just said HOO-AH 800 times.

Will Forte is underrated. His appearences back I think when he wasn't even a regular castmember as Tim Calhoun were amazing. It reads funny, but it was performed even better, really slow and stilted with long pauses between sentences:

http://members.aol.com/ummmliz/home/calhoun.html

wow, this is a great website:

http://members.aol.com/ummmliz/home/forte.html

It was written and staffed by Lampoon and Second City people then, after all, not careerists trying to develop lowbrow characters for spinoff movies.

the noise dudes write this now?

-- Dan I. (w1nt3rmut...), October 4th, 2005 3:55 PM. (later) (link)

Andy Sambourg is in the cast now. I didn't catch if the other guys were writers, though.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTVSeason?id=111067020
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0

worst target girl sketch yet

fuck SNL

jason sudeikis as ricky gervais is so perfect

Brittain out

Thats too bad, he was really growing on me this season. I loved his Little Lord sketches. But something doesn't scan between "effective immediately" and "parted amicably".

It seems like cast members only "leave" mid-season if they seriously fuck up on the air or otherwise piss off Lorne Michaels (I believe Norm MacDonald did both). Theoretically, Brittain could've gotten offered something he couldn't turn down, but realistically, what're the odds that Paul Brittain is getting insane unturndownable offers?

Exactly.

First time I saw his Ron Paul, I wasn't sure which cast member it was. That's how underutilized he was.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls2ncysXrA1qz79iao1_500.png

“Sex” Ed Vincent nooooooooo

Aw, too bad -- there goes my one degree of separation from SNL.

every once in a while i check in on this thread just to make sure snl is still not funny

Well, whatever relieves you of the burden of forming your own opinions.

also, every once in a while i watch 5 minutes of snl just to make sure snl is still not funny

Too bad. It seemed like he was finally starting to get more screen time, as well as a couple leads in sketches. I wonder if this means Jay will get some more screen time. Taran and Vanessa seem to be heading straight to full-time cast members by next year.

It seems like cast members only "leave" mid-season if they seriously fuck up on the air or otherwise piss off Lorne Michaels (I believe Norm MacDonald did both).

it's extremely common knowledge that he did neither!

Norm? Yeah, he didn't piss off Lorne, rather one of the NBC execs that was friends with OJ Simpson and got sick of the jabs on Weekend Update. But that may have been in reference to the F-bomb Norm dropped on air that a lot of people still seem to think he got fired for.

have we ever done a weekend updater poll? and did someone who wasn't norm mcdonald win? if so, FUCK YOU.

how do you get so preemptively angry about something that doesn't exist

i was trying to imitate norm mcdonald's voice

Norm? Yeah, he didn't piss off Lorne, rather one of the NBC execs that was friends with OJ Simpson and got sick of the jabs on Weekend Update. But that may have been in reference to the F-bomb Norm dropped on air that a lot of people still seem to think he got fired for.

I stand corrected on Lorne/Norm, but yeah, I was also thinking of when he said "fuck" on the air, which probably didn't help.

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https://twitter.com/SteveMartinToGo/status/310161621832056832/photo/1

that picture is amazing

i was just coming here to post that very early 80s SNL is sooo terrible. why have i never heard about this era as a dark age for the show? it's srsly painful to watch. during update, people in the audience laughed at almost none of the jokes! i'm surprised that the show didn't die around that time.

though obv i's not like i've heard about it as a golden age, either. just never heard people talking about how bad it was. apparently it was nearly cancelled in 81?

gilbert gottfried talking in a normal voice, tho

that's the piscopo years i guess?

yeah. murphy too, but he's not really being used yet

Jean doumain iirc. There was at least one time in the 80s (and a second time either in the 80s or 90s) where almost all of the cast was scrapped except maybe one or two people

The time when Janeane Garofalo was on was also notoriously unfunny; there's a Wizard of Oz sketch w SJP floating around, maybe on YouTube, that might actually be the most awkwardly unfunny thing they have ever aired

Though otoh the season where almost everyone got fired has one of the show's best episodes where Francis Ford Coppola "directs" it and keeps trying to call "CUT!!" in the middle of sketches and there's a lot of self reference abt how bad their own show is and then everyone dies in a fire at the end, not jk

Also Oprah hosted an episode in the 80's!!

The final sketch of the 11th season: "... in the final sketch, Billy Martin is shown dumping gasoline around the studio and then setting it on fire. The entire cast is shown to be trapped in a room as a parody of TV show cliffhangers. Credits rolled with question marks on each name, signaling that the viewer didn't know which cast members would be returning the next season. Cast members were angered by an ending added to the sketch, in which Michaels has the opportunity to rescue the cast from the fire, but chooses to save only Lovitz."

Lovitz, Nora Dunn and Dennis Miller actually returned for the 12th season.

it seems like a lot of the 1980 stuff was self-referential about how much they sucked. like, a majority of it! the very first sketch of the season does that. it gets pretty old.

nearly everyone was fired from the 1980 cast when charlie rocket let "fuck" slip, apparently. i didn't know that he killed himself until i was looking stuff up about this incident.

Saturday Night Live

oops

Thirty years ago today, the great Gilda Radner died. She was beautiful and gifted and funny. Eternal love. pic.twitter.com/CiXniXilSd

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) May 20, 2019

Love Gilda is fantastic. I wept.

As I get older it gets clearer she was the best of the original cast. That sketch where she plays the little kid who keeps jumping off the bed into her wall is just so perfect.

is sarah squirm funny or not? i'm confused by her.

she seems to enjoy her own humor immensely which signals to audiences that it must be incredibly amusing and they respond positively to that because they want very much to participate in the good time she's obviously having. that's probably a lot of what's confusing you.

the body horror comedy she did before snl was pretty out there -- a little too off-putting for me, but i am wondering if anyone on ilx is a fan

I was a fan pre snl and and was astonished that she made it into the cast. I don’t watch regularly but have enjoyed a lot of the snl stuff of hers that I’ve seen. Anything that makes the show weirder is good for the show imo, as is anyone outside the mode of “forgettable milquetoast standup” types that seem to dominate the cast these days

I HATE don’t stop believing or whatever they’re called

The video skit crew

The video skit crew

^^Please Don't Destroy

yeah they are fine, and sarah sherman is the funniest person in the cast. IMO she is a future legend.

don't care for her. she insists upon herself.

She just says stuff really loud?

lol, this has you guys written all over it. you can't wait, admit it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ9O_tl5Npk

and by you guys i mean everyone except me. these things make me cringe. its mrs. parker and the vicious circle all over again.

Dude: Saturday Night Live

i searched for that i forgot it wasn't shortened.