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

it's just harmless speculation, who cares, no one is combing through these videos like it's the Zapruder film god at least I hope not

Tell that to reddit!

FWIW, Wallen apparently did out of there as fast as possible, and shortly afterwards posted to his socials a pic of his private plane on the tarmac captioned "Get me to God's country"

ofc, I knew nothing at all about Wallen when he took the stage and started singing. I listened to the lyrics and it quickly became obvious he's a flaming asshole. thx for the multiple confirmations, world wide web.

"Get me to God's country" beneath a pic of vehicle / mode of transport is a promising meme format.

the other thing that quickly was obvious is that his singing voice was a painfully contrived affectation designed to say "I'm so Country I had my brain replaced by a bucket of red clay".

One of my least absolute favorite things about ILM is otherwise intelligent, cultured people ardently defending these 100% worthless modern mainstream country performers.

Hi!

for whatever it's worth, i think what the cast - some members, at least - did here is about as toothy as they can be without causing themselves trouble at work, if you will.

there are several feet between them and Wallen. there is usually no separation.

several people are way off camera, including two Black cast members. that is never the case.

even without a lot of analysis, it's pretty obvious what's happening here, imo, just as it is obvious that Wallen did something short of storming off. more like abruptly bolted.

sometimes the boss invites someone shitty to the workplace and you try your best to give them the cold shoulder without jeopardizing your relationship with the boss.

Also when Keenan was asked about it he didn’t say the usual oh it’s no big deal. He said the god’s country thing was kind of offensive.

Adding to the intrigue, apparently the Joe Jonas part in the musical pretape was written for Wallen, who backed out at the 11th hour and was reportedly pretty assy about it.

Wallen is now selling "Get Me to God's Country" merch.

He's got that MAGA grifting zeitgeist thing handled.

why does this dude even do the show if he hates it so much?

It’s really funny that Morgan Wallen is catching flak for hating Saturday Night Live, which is something people have been doing for 50 years

Wallen is now selling "Get Me to God's Country" merch.

Everyone loved Morgan Wallen until he hated on SNL.

“I can forgive your racism but hating sketch comedy is a bridge too far”

It’s really funny that Morgan Wallen is catching flak for hating Saturday Night Live, which is something people have been doing for 50 years

― The Last Air ETC (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, April 1, 2025 10:35 PM (yesterday)

the cultural polarization it's teasing out is fascinating to watch because there is a strong overlap between people apparently offended by wallen violating the sanctity of the SNL stage and people who have been calling for SNL castmembers to use the goodbye scene as a political soapbox, or otherwise analyze it as such when i.e. gillis and chappelle have hosted. further he did the kinda thing that the liberal poptimist class loves -- bitchy tossed off one liner on social media turned meme turned kitschy merch -- but it's being viewed as tasteless and disrespectful instead of savvy and bratty. it's diva behavior all the way down, just from the wrong diva.

Everyone's doing the meme wrong, they're posting images of places... it has to be a humorous conveyance of some kind!! (I did it that way, with moderate success, to my pleasure.)

It's a win/win for everyone-- Wallen gets SNL exposure but also keeps true to his NYC hating fanbase. SNL gets ratings boost from Wallen fans watching and also social media boost as victim of MAGA rudeness.

It’s a loss for anyone who watched his performances

and for Mikey Madison, who was fine, despite it not being a particularly good episode. Sad to be overshadowed by that nonsense.

The armchair experts doing forensic analysis on people’s body language during the Gillis/Chapelle/Wallen eps one of the absolute nadirs of modern culture war shit. Just absolute fanfiction and wish-fulfillment from people who’ve resigned to the fact that they have no control over anything.

Choose your fighter in kooksville: “that dumb bitch in the SNL band isn’t laughing at Gillis’ amazing monologue, she’s probably seething” vs “Bowen Yang is taking a brave stance against Dave Chappelle’s transphobia by standing 6 inches away instead of the usual 4”

SNL should really lean into this and get a bunch of reprehensible hosts-- "Did you see the sideeye Sarah Squirm was giving Andrew Tate?"

It’s all they have to go on since no one‘s pulling a Nora Dunn anymore

fwiw that female percussionist in the back always goes and hides during the monologue and comes back at the last possible moment. I've always noticed that for some reason.

Ah, the opportunistic pee break

hates comedy obviously

Of course there's a Reddit thread/TikTok video about it

https://www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNewYork/comments/1cpmia2/justice_for_valerie_dee_naranjo/

i did see earlier that this episode was the lowest rated SNL episode in history for the 18-24 yr old demographic. that has to be because of Wallen and not because of Mikey Madison who, AFICT, young people love.

Funnier than anything I can remember from SNL:

https://theonion.com/artist-profile-morgan-wallen/

you must have pretty advanced amnesia

Caught just a minute of the opening last night--the opening is as far as I ever get--and laughed at a throwaway line from their Trump guy (at a podium next to Mike Myers' Musk): "Wow, swastikas made out of penises--we really are the party of Lincoln."

The audience got spicy with Miss Eggy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSZf2Iwd128

The full (albeit censored) bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_LJASfqktU

Its really funny that E!'s video news for illiterate zoomers sounds like an AMSR vocal-fry uptalk e-girl. The future is now.

fuck this never-funny show and their corny trump impressions

more like saturday night dead

https://gifdb.com/images/high/fred-armisen-holding-rim-shot-stick-ucklyl4ldxvysolt.gif

after seeing people enthuse about how perfect the jack black episode was I was fairly underwhelmed. Extreme Preperation H was funny though.

Jack is really the best at mugging and yelling and singing and he got to do a lot of excellent mugging and yelling and singing ut I would exactly say any of the sketches were great. Cheetos and Indiana Jones were p funny.

this is a tangent from Whiney's post but I'm sometimes a Jack Black apologist -- I agree that he just kicks ass in his zone, he's a Jim Carrey or Robin Williams figure where he does his thing and if you're sympathetic to it then it's a blast -- but I saw the Minecraft movie this weekend and the contrast between Momoa, who managed to give some depth to a very broadly drawn character, and Black, who just did his thing, was stark

Momoa was indeed good, but I also thought Black "doing his thing" worked well enough for his role (and I'm not particularly a Black fan).

Speaking of Carrey (and a tangent) – I'm even less of a fan of his, like I've always found him either tolerable or irritating, but his performance in Sonic 3 was so great and "committed" that I came away feeling like it was the role of his career (at least insofar as I, a non-fan, was concerned).

Carrey has said that he was bored with acting and about to announce his retirement when he got offered Sonic 1, and apparently he's been having the time of his life making those.

I don't know about that, but

In April 2022 (just after the release of the second film), Carrey announced that he was considering retirement, saying: "I have enough. I've done enough. I am enough." He said he would return to acting if "angels bring some sort of script that’s written in gold ink that says to me that it’s going to be really important for people to see"

And then he agreed to play Dr Robotnik (and his grandfather) in the third movie - partly because the director did in fact hand-deliver him a copy of the script in gold ink, it's worth about $100k.

Father Guido Sarducci was on Colbert last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmRVuB5exLM

My wife revisited last season's Ryan Gosling ep., to show our son the Beavis & Butt-head sketch... we also watched the "three guys in a bar" sketch, and his younger sister is now going around quoting "the Original Dog From 'Beethoven'..."

I've always loved Father Gudio Sarducci and he's still great.

Just watched the Linda Hamilton episode from '91 last night for the first time in decades. It might be an all-time top ten ep imo, just banger after banger: Tooncinator, Massive Headwound Harry, Baby Loves Sauce, The Chris Farley Show with Scorsese, the Schiller short with Farley losing his mind after having his regular coffee switched with decaf