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I think this season is turning out to have some REAL gems. It's still uneven, and some skits go WAY longer than they should, but in between the maturing of a few players in their roles (Fred, Amy, Maya, KRISTEN, Will), the digital shorts generally being spot on (last week's "dear sister" may have been one of my most favourite moments on TV). I'm also loving the lack of a major star like Ferrell. I like that everyone's sort of equally awesome, even if they're not all superstars.

Anyone?

― Will M., Monday, 23 April 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

"You're tired!" still has me laughing today

― sunny successor, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

I WOULD SHOW MAYA RUDOLPH MY TESTICLES

OH YEAH

― KOOL-AID MAN, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

i didnt see the last ep but yeah kristen + (esp) maya are reasons to watch

i wonder if anyone will join me in my love of will forte. based on prior experience i think not.

its kind of sad though that in almost every episode its the digital shorts that blow everything else out of the water. 'macgruder' = criminally underrated as far as these go btw

― deeznuts, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

Which one is You're Tired? I don't remember now. But I can DEFFFFFF get behind Forte love. As his really boring office guy character? Unbelievable.

― Will M., Monday, 23 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

its kind of sad though that in almost every episode its the digital shorts that blow everything else out of the water

they're also the things that aren't performed live and therefore can be aided by retakes and edits.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, it really seems to be everything that's not live is better, not just the digital shorts. look at the kirsten wiig "gold" sketch. that was UNREAL.

― Will M., Monday, 23 April 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, exactly

saturday night live

― deeznuts, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

― deeznuts, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

'grab me that bucket of bum sperm'

― deeznuts, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

I remember being confused watching that because I didn't know asses could sperm... then someone told me it meant hobos.

― Will M., Monday, 23 April 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

I was annoyed with Floyd for leaving Liz Lemon.

its kind of sad though that in almost every episode its the digital shorts that blow everything else out of the water. 'macgruder' = criminally underrated as far as these go btw

It is a little telling that the best part of the show is the part that isn't live.

― Nicole, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

I can still get behind pre-recorded sketch comedy! ie most of kids in the hall!

― Will M., Monday, 23 April 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I could see SNL more often. I'm just not really home on Saturday nights, and if I am, it never occurs to me to watch it.

― jaymc, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

ditto john. i've seen it twice this year, once live once as a repeat. of course it was the one i'd seen earlier in the year. nbc5 used to rerun it at 4 a.m. and that was when i'd usually see it but they've taken to showing fucking poker these days.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

then you really mean "i wish WOULD see snl more often." (xp)

― s1ocki, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

I can still get behind pre-recorded sketch comedy! ie most of kids in the hall!

I agree but when the major selling point of the show for all of these years is that it is live, it's kind of sad that the only funny parts are pre-recorded.

― Nicole, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

YOU'RE TIRED! was what it said on the pillow that Ivanka Trump gave Regis Philbin.

I've started watching it again recently (it's fairly certain I'll be home on Saturday nights) and I agree that Kristen Wiig is really doing well- I'm glad her spell on Joe Schmoe as Dr. Pat did not kill her career before it got out of the gate.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

Ok so my love of Kenan Thompson led me to find the single video / comments page on YouTube that most makes me despair for the future of our nation. I don't want to spoil the horror for anyone, but note that this is

NOT SAFE FOR WORK

not due to sex or violence but just due to plain jaw-dropping wrongness and the fact that you do NOT want your co-workers thinking you think this is funny, because in the right kind of office, that could have you running back and forth to HR for the next YEAR getting corrective training. I am actually pasting the search for it, to avoid clicking through and retrieving the URL at work.

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=unfunny+kenan

(Note that even beyond the incredibleness of this [AND OMG THE COMMENTERS], the guy's arguments are seriously flawed: he thinks KEL was more talented than KENAN?)

― nabisco, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

THAT'S what I recognize her from! I knew I recognized her from something other than SNL. I never looked it up, though.

xpost omg wow nabisco :i

― Will M., Monday, 23 April 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

nabisco you damn well know that kind of office does not & has never existed before

jesus christ can you say 'paranoid'?

― deeznuts, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

the guy's arguments are seriously flawed: he thinks KEL was more talented than KENAN?

SO WRONG

― Nicole, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

my god on a heavier note, i completely forgot about kel. i believe in good burger he made some kind of sauce that looked exactly like earwax but really caught on. that deserves serious props

― deeznuts, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Is Bjork in any of the skits for the other night's ep? I gots to watch it tonight.

― Will M., Monday, 23 April 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Wiig is really funny and likeable, but she has this problem where all of her recurring spotlight characters are too annoying -- intentionally funny-annoying -- for me to be amused for very long. It inevitably gets grating. (Hahaha also minor point but she overuses her weird ability to make her chin disappear for comedy purposes. You can be funny WITH your chin, Kristen, have faith!)

― nabisco, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

SNL has been really good lately. REALLY.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Yeah deeznuts, given the comments on that thread we might actually live in a nation where you could call all your coworkers over to show it to them. Still, I don't anyone getting into any Curb Your Enthusiasm-style misunderstanding hijinks based on a blind link!

I was kinda sad this weekend that Samberg had to stomp on the vague hope that the guy in the video might actually be his brother-in-law.

― nabisco, Monday, 23 April 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

Re: annoying characters- point taken, nabisco. I used to find Amy Poehler really annoying when she started, when every ~~other~~ character she played was a one-legged flatulent inbreed with a lisp, but now I really like her, especially when she teams up with Maya Rudolph, especially that little Cable Access show thing with Peyton Manning as a zookeeper.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 23 April 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

That Maraka thing was amazing.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 23 April 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, yeah. One nice thing about moving to NYC = finally really getting the borough humor on SNL, which turns out to be way better observed than I'd have thought! I'd have thought of those ladies as way more Queens than Bronx, but their asking questions and then suggesting answers ("what are you, part Sioux? Cherokee? Kickapoo?") = spot on. But yeah, I hope Wiig settles down from irritating along the lines Poehler has, cause she's really quite funny.

― nabisco, Monday, 23 April 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

I liked how they had two different answer-guessing styles that they would parallel-process- Amy varying her guess over the ostinato of Maya repeating the same answer over and over.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 23 April 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

That youtube video.... Good God.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 23 April 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

I know, right? I think he's offending all human sensibility to distract us from wondering how THAT GUY is making fat jokes about Kenan.

― nabisco, Monday, 23 April 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Will Forte is so fucking funny and I'm so glad I'm not the only one who likes Kenan

― A B C, Monday, 23 April 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

there was really fantastic kenan/maya skit about consumer awareness or something, i dont remember it was awhile back

― deeznuts, Monday, 23 April 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

Originally Kel was actually more of a rising star post-Nickelodeon with his role as the voice of one of Clifford the Big Red Dog's sidekicks but Kenan has deservedly left him in the dust

― A B C, Monday, 23 April 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

I have only seen Kel recently in bit parts on black sitcoms, and his comedy style would appear to remain Nickelodeon broad. Whereas Kenan has translated his child-star "innocent" face into exquisite subtleties of Everyman befuddlement and skepticism. (Okay not really but he has that talent of making the straightman reaction-shot funny, cf that bit where Rumsfeld's moving out of his office and only has one mover and he's all like "umm, I think this couch is a two-man job.") Also the "put black man in drag as inappropriate loud-mouth" is a usually terrible SNL staple that's hard to rescue from tackyness, but Kenan's "Virginiaka" is pretty damn good about it. (E.g. this week's ZOOP and ZESTY.)

― nabisco, Monday, 23 April 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

The second-to-newest SNL digital short that made me laugh my ass off: http://youtube.com/watch?v=jFLWQgSgzbk

an homage to a scene from the OC. i don't know what it is about things like this that make me laugh so much. see also: the dwight pepper spray scene on the office. possibly my fave office moment OAT.

i have to say, as a canajun i didn't get nickelodeon, and never saw the kenan and kel show. i saw kel in good burther though, and he was kinda... grating. kenan's a funny guy but he needs a couple more season to become, you know, an actual SNL type. he mostly plays smirky kenan ALL THE TIME on snl. reminds me a bit of early horatio where he didn't have that "range" (range like SNL cast members have).

― Will M., Monday, 23 April 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Once you watch that one, be sure to follow it with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLW963ewcq8

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 23 April 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i have a group of friends who lived together & literally never missed an episode of the oc (provided they were stoned out of their already retarded minds) but despite managing to avoid every single ep i still thought that imogen heap takeoff was pretty hilarious

― deeznuts, Monday, 23 April 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

I used to post on an SNL board, and everyone HATED Maya Rudolph...

― Tape Store, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

if I recall correctly, Good Burger > SNL

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone else notice that Maya Rudolph seemed to get funny all of a sudden last year? My watching is very spotty so maybe I'm wrong. I've liked a strong majority of the material I've seen the last 3 years, it's not GREAT but it's reliable drinky TV. The news part is the weakest link lately, which is weird. nabisco (sigh) otm about kenan, he's almost only funny when he's low-key and peripheral. I loved him in the new age band sketch.

― tremendoid, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

she always does the same character or sings. duh.

― chaki, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

I've always liked her, especially the postal worker/security guard character who says: "Sir, what you need to do is, turn yourself arount..."

but Kenan's "Virginiaka" is pretty damn good about it
I enjoyed this character or the variant thereof in the Prom Dress sketch, but felt like Scarlet Johanssen's character should have been paying New Zealand Herald-level royalties to Debra Wilson's Bunifa on the hated-by-ILX Mad TV.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 02:00 (eighteen years ago)

xpost i liked an old singing sketch where she was a supermarket cashier or something, she wasn't funny again for like 5 years. I don't know of any recurring characters I've liked, just remember how bad the donatella stuff was.

― tremendoid, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 02:19 (eighteen years ago)

Maya Rudolph as Beyonce on "The Prince Show" = HILARITY

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 03:15 (eighteen years ago)

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