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

yep. a lot of us used that appearance as a gallows humor coping mechanism, i.e. his Clayton Bigsby reappearance

https://www.polyesterzine.com/features/sarah-sherman-cover-2024

I wonder what her style of comedy would look like in a couple of years, considering how her popularity coincides with a horror renaissance in real-time. Films like The Substance have been released to widespread acclaim, Love Lies Bleeding has made it into the queer body horror hall of fame, and Weird Girls are having their resurgence on TikTok. It seems like people are finally giving Gross Girls their flowers- so what does Sarah Sherman want from the world? “Hopefully, in the next few years, I'll be able to do a bunch of crazy stuff on SNL, make a bunch of crazy movies, make a crazy stand-up special, and as long as I have a small group of crazy little bisexual teenagers who come to my show and bringing me eyeball gifts, we good.”

John Mulaney is the most mediocre comic. I mean he’s fine! He’s not altogether terrible. I’ve seen worse. He certainly thinks he’s a once-in-a-lifetime genius, though…

kamala tonight...

for realz... or just Maya like usual?

My first thought: "It is kind of demeaning that she has to do this." Followed quickly by: "Nothing new."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmOqkG99Wkg

I didn't know she was going to be on and was shocked and delighted.

That was pretty great--loved "Do I really laugh like that?"

A six-time host I've never heard of. I'm Unfrozen Caveman.

was *not* expecting a Tim Kaine cameo

Man, Chappell Roan is making feel very very old

Wait am I crazy or was Mulaney's monologue.... really bad? I've seen that guy be funny before! And this was just kind of, I dunno, twitchy and declamatory with maybe two or three good jokes sprinkled in?

(Yes I am a non-regular SNL watcher who tuned in to see the two Kamalas)

But Tim Kaine was extremely good

I didn't know she was going to be on and was shocked and delighted.

― jaymc, Saturday, November 2, 2024 10:40 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Same

Yeah I kind of wish I hadn't known in advance!

Whole episode was very annoying and unfunny except Keenan as little Richard

Agree Mulaney’s monologue felt random and mostly unfunny, but overall it was a good episode and Tim Kaine was by far the highlight

Mulaney hasn't been funny since he sobered up. He's the Aerosmith of comedy.

Heidi is going for it too much this season - seems like she’s really gunning for the currently vacant Whig/McKinnon spot, but you can’t force that shit. Gotta happen organically. Less is more, cha cha. /Dennis Miller voice

Had to look it up, but Gardner is the current longest-tenured female cast member, and only behind Kenan, Mikey Day, and Jost/Che as the longest-served in this year's cast.

It does feel like she and Chloe Fineman are both actively trying to get in all the sketches like peak airtime Wiig/McKinnon.

Yah Heidi has been there for years now and has not displayed the “gusto” she is doing on the 50th. Seems like the pressure is on. Speaking of “going for it” the port authority musical was swinging for the fences but was a strike out.

agreed that the Mulaney monologue was bad. a whole bit about how Asian people are short??

Mulaney's not mediocre, imo. He's very funny and the last episode he hosted was very funny. But this one wasn't very funny. Lots of sketches where I either didn't laugh or was trying to find a reason to laugh.

Marcello Hernandez, I thought, was very funny on Weekend Update. A highlight on an otherwise weak episode.

Yeah that was easily the worst of his Broadway skits (you dont HAVE to do one every time my guy), salvaged slightly by Fineman’s Chalamet.

Whats with Mulaney’s face? He looks so weird now.

chin implant prob

Highlight of Harris segment was the take-my-palmala wordplay (near the end here):

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/03/business/video/saturday-night-live-maya-rudolph-kamala-harris-digvid

Yah he got a new chin. That weekend update couple was so shrill I couldnt handle it. I like that guy usually though.

i laughed at the reba thing on update. so, i got your back, heidi!

Listen I’m a HG supporter she’s a goddamn star

Yeah, she's great.

It's a little funny that during the Gardner/Fineman thing we're getting the Ego/Sarah ascension.

Gardner and Fineman are good. Mulaney is an all time great though his monolgue was kind of weak. those musical sketches are amazing but I get why not everyone appreciates them. Chappel Roan is incredible, I want a full musical special from her with costume changes for each song.

The Harvey Epstein one was funny. Wonder how many people know that’s a real dude

Garrett Morris on the racist shithole that was the 1970’s SNL writers’ room

https://deadline.com/2024/11/snl-alum-garrett-morris-recalls-lot-racism-writers-room-1236165929/

The Guardian piece that's quoted there is quite good: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/ng-interactive/2024/oct/31/garrett-morris-snl-interview

I didn't know his work in Cooley High was what earned him the promotion from the writer's room to the cast.

Just watched the Kamala cold opening and OMG Samberg has the worst case of "reading a cue card" eyes I've ever seen

oh yeah he's terrible but I get the feeling they may have written that day of.

Kamala was great at reading her cue cards, better than half the actors they have host

I'm going to miss Dana Carvey's Biden.

Sadly they really leaned into the least part of those Kamala sketches—-adding amala to a bunch of words

They did, but see, I think that part made the normies giggle, gave her a chance to smile real big and seem able to laugh at herself, and softened her image for a handful of folks. As dumb as it sounds, sitting her across a vanity from likeable mama figure Maya Rudolph was good, too. I thought she came off great.

She was having a ball, because hanging with a bunch of comedians is more fun than making yet another speech at yet another city/town/village/ crossroads in MI, PA, GA, WI, NV, or NC.

I thought this episode was pretty solid tbh. I even liked the monologue despite lazy/offensive asian people are short jokes. Was better than his last stand-up special which we didn't even finish. His fingers were twitching strangely though, made me nervous.

Tim Kaine was the star of the episode though. He did really well, better than plenty of professional actors and comedians who host.

I just had to google to make sure that was his name though, so point taken.

His fingers were twitching strangely though, made me nervous.

i noticed this too! also why does he suddenly look like jason bateman?

As someone noted upthread, apparently he got a chin implant!

And that's okay!

weird. his twitching fingers made me nervous too. like steve kornacki's erratic movements.

i suppose we could also discuss pete davidson's tattoo removal but there isn't much to say. he got a bunch of tattoos removed.

maybe its meds.

chin meds.

looked more like a jawbone thing to me -- are we calling that the chin?

Jawn Mulaney

Big Mouth

(That's the post)

yeah it’s jawline not chin, the jaw is more square now than before.