Neil Young Is On SNL Tonight If You Are Drunk & Bored

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okay?

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 18 December 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

and your hero jack black

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 18 December 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

Fuck, I'm drunk and bored and don't have cable TV. Well maybe I can see it through the snow.

― Halloween Spooky Party Hints! (Bimble...), Sunday, 18 December 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

i heart smigel. that claymation christmastime for the jews thing was inspired.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 18 December 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

WTF? They've been pre-empting it here for a fucking Bills game and news. I just assumed there was no show tonight. Ah well, it probably bodes well for me actually getting work done.

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 18 December 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

neil almost lulled me to sleep.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 18 December 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

i hope he does frosty the snowman next.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 18 December 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

nice elbow pads.

― kephm (kephm), Sunday, 18 December 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

I can't even imagine what host/musical guest combo would actually get me to watch SNL again.

― 'Twan (miccio), Sunday, 18 December 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

Crispin Glover/Electric Six. Nothing less.

― 'Twan (miccio), Sunday, 18 December 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

i turn it on at midnight sometimes to see what band is on. but yeah it hasnt been funny in 20 years

― kephm (kephm), Sunday, 18 December 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

I think one of the band members just died onstage.

― Zach S, Sunday, 18 December 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

The Beastie Boys parody video "Pass the Chronic-les of Narnia" was one of the funniest things I've seen all year. Highlight of the show for sure.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 18 December 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

cool, I had no idea -- thanks for posting this Skot! I just got back and turned it on in time to catch the last song.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 18 December 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the info! In case I fall asleep, very sick, did he get to play three songs or just the standard two?

― BeeOK (boo radley), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

― kephm (kephm), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

In general, and excepting that whole Dane Cook fiasco, I think this season's been a lot better than the last few. The new cast members have been an improvement.

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

that song about elvis really really awful.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

*is* really really awful, that is.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

nah, it's not bad. not the best song on Prarie Wind by a mile, but not bad.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

i've never heard prairie wind, only heard the SNL version. what's good about it?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

Neil's vocal primarily, I just think it's a good performance by him. I mean the impressions and stuff at the end are totally corny, but that's Neil being Neil. I find it endearing. I guess I'd flip the script and ask what's wrong with it? I mean I can understand thinking its kind of light or rote or whatever, but "really really awful"? a bit too slight and inoffensive to be thought of in such strong terms, I'd think.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

i thought the whole thing was totally corny, and excessively light and rote. musically it's really average bar-band material -- neil's a much better melodicist than that -- and lyrically i heard a bunch of random lines about pink cadillacs and pink motels and gospel and shooting TVs, like he was reciting the index of an elvis biography in random order for no particular reason. if he was trying to say something, i totally missed the point, and if was supposed to be funny, i missed that too. it just seemed like nothing.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

yeah, I mean, that's basically what it is. It's just one of those tossed off things -- it works better in the context of the album. Why he chose to play that out of all the new songs, I have no idea, but that's the way he is...

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 18 December 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

When NY played SNL in '92 or so, the solo acoustic/harmonica version he did of "Harvest Moon" was STUNNING.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 18 December 2005 07:25 (twenty years ago)

the time he did Rockin in the Free World and Needle and the Damage Done on SNL was unreal. really incredible. I didnt know shit about Neil at the time and thats when I realized he was more than some dinosaur .... way more ...

― Renard, Sunday, 18 December 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

Michael,

if you liked that rapping bit you should check out: http://www.thelonelyisland.com/

there should be plenty of stuff there along the same lines including audio only stuff as well.

― jmeister (jmeister), Sunday, 18 December 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

Crispin Glover/Electric Six. Nothing less.

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― dan. (dan.), Sunday, 18 December 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

The NY song about Elvis def. bitit -- but The Crystals/Spector parody by Smigel, "Christmastime For the Jews", was outstanding. And it was sung by Darlene Love!

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 18 December 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

The NY song about Elvis def. bitit -- but The Crystals/Spector parody by Smigel, "Christmastime For the Jews", was outstanding. And it was sung by Darlene Love!

That completely blew my mind. The whole time I kept thinking, jeez, that singer sounds an awful lot like Darlene Love...and Darlene Love is impossible to convincingly mimic...but what're the odds? I thought it was more likely that the drummer was actually Hal Blaine -- it wasn't, but damn, sounded a fuck of a lot like him, to the point of being scary.

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Sunday, 18 December 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

"Prairie Wind" seemed like good foreboding even before Katrina, kind of like a followup to the Greendale vibe, and didn't he have a heart attack or something, in between? Dylan gave him a copy of the Goodbye Babylon gospel box, which so far I haven't connected with, but Neil's recent gospel-sounding songs have been appealing, when I heard 'em on TV. (More humble, and less doctrinaire, than what I'm trying to appreciate on Goodbye Babylon)(So maybe he's the folkie faux-gospel sub-Ray Charles adapter, fine with me.)Fell asleep watching Book TV, so only caught the end of the Elvis.

― don, Monday, 19 December 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

The "Chronicles of Narnia" rap made me laugh more than anything I've seen on SNL in a while. Not that that's saying much, though.

― musically (musically), Monday, 19 December 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

it was actually funny. it's like the smigel stuff, the only things that are ever funny on snl are the only things that aren't live.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 19 December 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

My wife and I looked at each other, perplexed, during the Neil Young Elvis song.

We laughed ourselves SILLY at the Chronic-les of Narnia video and the Smigel cartoon.

So there.

― Justin Shumaker (shueytexas), Monday, 19 December 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

I love Neil Young, but "Prarie Wind" is a snooze.

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 19 December 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

"She looked like she'd never seen a ten dollar bill before!"

And the woman in the ticket booth cracking up...

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 19 December 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

A link for The Chronic....les of Narnia vid, if yer interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=IggTu7kV7No&feature=Views&page=1&t=t&f=b

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

"She looked like she'd never seen a ten dollar bill before!"

It's all about the Hamiltons.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Michael OTM on that song parody, it just came outta nowhere and stole the show (mind you a fell asleep before Neil performed his first song); I wish I could watch it again!

Was that one of the dudes from Ween or was I out of it?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Not a Ween member; it was one of the new cast members (aka "featured players.") And, yep, this video was one of the few high points of the show.

― James, Monday, 19 December 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

they should make a bunch of videos like that, compile 'em on a DVD and hawk 'em from nyc phone booths

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

actually, the funniest part of the show was the stupid spelling bee skit, with Will Forte spelling the word Business: BUSFHTKWLEKNQEHENKALQQQQKJANQQQQQQQQQNQKSH

My issue is that the cast is too big now, and they have to have all these suprise guests, Johnny Knoxville and Tracy Morgan?

Fred Armisen was onscreen for like 2 seconds.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 19 December 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

that narnia thing was funny. chris parnell is a good rapper!

the spelling bee thing was funny as well.

fred armison is the bomb!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 19 December 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

I liked the spelling bee sketch, and the opening and Jack Black's King King song. The video and the Smigel film were great. But that's about a half hour of good stuff. The other sketchs didn't get a laugh out of me, and that bit in the pizzaria was awful and way too long.

I'm pretty sure Horatio Sanz wasn't on at all.

― James, Monday, 19 December 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

the funniest part of the pizzaria skit -- the one that made up for the silliness of the whole thing -- was rachel dratch dressed up like an old woman getting blown away and earlier shouting "SON OF A BITCH!!!"

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

yeah i thought this was the only funny show of the season so far. i also laughed at the christmas tree skit... "50 feet".."we don't have fifty foot trees" ...."when you get them in, tuesday?"

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

narnia song
http://youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

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