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a new study bible! posted:Also the lottery sketch ventures into the least funny thing that modern SNL always does which is when something wacky happens and then someone has to read a line that goes like “uhhhh, did something wacky just happen?!?” I liked this sketch but yes even it suffered from not-playing-it-straight syndrome. People here love Kenan but he's guilty of doing this a lot.
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Cyril Sneer posted:I liked this sketch but yes even it suffered from not-playing-it-straight syndrome. People here love Kenan but he's guilty of doing this a lot. i will habitually forgive Keenan for any bad sketch he does cause he was a staple of my childhood. Mikey Day does a bad sketch? who is this guy? i didn't grow up watching him on SNICK, get him out of here
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thrawn527 posted:Has Kate appeared yet this season? I don't remember last week's much, but I can't recall her in the Kim K episode. They even replaced her as Lindsey Graham. She's filming that Tiger King biopic. Which is the biggest reason nobody's leaving. They don't have to, as recently as 3-4 years ago if you wanted to do anything not related to SNL you had to get Lorne's blessing which he was very stingy with. It was just a cover to get rid of them but not having that blessing was the reason given for Killam and Pharoah's firing. Now after bending the rule to keep Davidson sober and alive everyone is pretty much allowed to skip a month of shows or so when they want to work on a project.
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a new study bible! posted:The rawr XD randomness of the lottery sketch was really annoying, YEP I’m glad others enjoyed it but there was nothing that worked for me. Agreed with the rest of your review overall. I would say watch the Ladies’ Night and Please Don’t Destroy videos and you’ve seen everything worth watching. And I suppose the Costco Meeting cut for time sketch if you need something live (which didn’t actually make the live show.)
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a new study bible! posted:Also the lottery sketch ventures into the least funny thing that modern SNL always does which is when something wacky happens and then someone has to read a line that goes like “uhhhh, did something wacky just happen?!?” https://twitter.com/ruby_the_rube/status/1447591160071950341?s=21 https://twitter.com/ruby_the_rube/status/1447592375082127366?s=21
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a new study bible! posted:Also the lottery sketch ventures into the least funny thing that modern SNL always does which is when something wacky happens and then someone has to read a line that goes like “uhhhh, did something wacky just happen?!?” it reminds me of when you laugh at something a little kid does, they recognize it, then repeat to do it over and over at every opportunity or even when no opportunity. Even you get tired of reacting and they either learn to tell it to someone new, get new material, or move on. I bet the first time or two they did the "over-explain own jokes" thing it _was_ funny. But they've done it so much it just makes them seem to not have joke confidence, like, oh I said something maybe too weird, better couch it by having them acknowledge that!
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it almost makes me miss madtv where they committed so hard to characters they couldn't stop from doping them a dozen times a season. I hadn't seen this sketch and when Chevy came on screen in work clothes I was really expecting a meta joke or a premise wink but he was just like "live from new york at the end of a sketch, even though it wasn't a 15 minute long political softball game. Khanstant fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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pwn posted:https://twitter.com/ruby_the_rube/status/1447591160071950341?s=21 God drat this made me just look up the Wolverines sketch and now I'm trying to remember the last time someone took a pratfall on stage. Maybe Beck and Kyle at some point? I'm sure Melissa McCarthy did when she was hosting. Anyone know off their head?
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Honestly, with Cecily still there, John Cena in the building, and Kim’s bottomed-out affect: they really should have done a “Sharky Crystals” porn star skit. I always laughed at the 'we're former porn stars!' sketches. I wonder if Vanessa Bayer was the one writing them since they stopped doing them when she left.
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Sekhmnet posted:I always laughed at the 'we're former porn stars!' sketches. I wonder if Vanessa Bayer was the one writing them since they stopped doing them when she left. God I loved those skits. That one line that went something like "I'm a female activist / I was banged so hard I broke the glass ceiling" cracks me up just thinking about it.
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The Nastier Nate posted:Keenan
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Sekhmnet posted:I always laughed at the 'we're former porn stars!' sketches. I wonder if Vanessa Bayer was the one writing them since they stopped doing them when she left. I was totally expecting one of these because why else would you have Kim K on the show but of course I was quite disappointed.
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The Nastier Nate posted:i will habitually forgive Keenan for any bad sketch he does cause he was a staple of my childhood. Mike Day gets a pass from me purely because he was in those David Blaine Street Magic videos from like 20 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTqsV3q7rRU
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frogbs posted:Mike Day gets a pass from me purely because he was in those David Blaine Street Magic videos from like 20 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTqsV3q7rRU Holy poo poo, I wouldn’t have recognised him at all. I remember that from forever ago.
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Mikey Day corresponding as a World War 2 solider bits are usually pretty funny.
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frogbs posted:Mike Day gets a pass from me purely because he was in those David Blaine Street Magic videos from like 20 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTqsV3q7rRU Every couple of years I remember this and it blows my mind every time. LEAVE US ALONE, DAVID BLAINE!!!
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Every couple of years I remember this and it blows my mind every time. I think I hear the phrase "CHEEZ ITS" in my brain daily for some reason, it just pops up from time to time. Also worth noting, these were all done in one take!
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the david blaine stuff is the right way to do the thing SNL does wrong all the time where something weird happens and then the straightman has a reaction, because A) the straightmen here are funny and B) theyre being directly impacted by the strange events rather than just standing off to the side awkwardly and observing them.
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I had no idea that was him, that stare at the camera will never not be funny.
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https://twitter.com/thatweekinsnl/status/1448347811351826434?s=21 Tonight in the That Week in SNL Twitch stream, Steve Martin and Kinky Friedman from October 23, 1976, and the George Carlin, Billy Preston, and Janis Ian series premiere from October 11, 1975. These are live with commercials copies, bootlegged from the NBC master tapes some 20 years ago, and digitized by me from my collection. You’ve seen the streaming/DVD versions, now see the full shows as they originally aired ~45 years ago. The first show is especially notable, as the frustrating omission of bumpers really upsets the original flow. The TWiSNL review of the Steve Martin episode will be up this weekend, wherever you get your podcasts. Be there! pwn fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Oct 13, 2021 |
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What I can't stand about Mikey Day is that weird voice he does instead of an impression.The_Doctor posted:Holy poo poo, I wouldn’t have recognised him at all. I remember that from forever ago. and the other guy is the waiter from the fancy restaurant in It's Always Sunny
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frogbs posted:Mike Day gets a pass from me purely because he was in those David Blaine Street Magic videos from like 20 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTqsV3q7rRU Holy poo poo, I’ve never seen this before, and I just about died laughing. What is SNL doing to Mikey Day that they’re suppressing whatever he may have brought to that?
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thrawn527 posted:Holy poo poo, I’ve never seen this before, and I just about died laughing. What is SNL doing to Mikey Day that they’re suppressing whatever he may have brought to that? I'm not sure! According to this (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2331890/) they were written by Mikey Day and Michael Naughton, maybe Day's written stuff doesn't make it to air that much? More likely, SNL just wants the easiest, middle of the road stuff to make it on air.
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pwn posted:https://twitter.com/thatweekinsnl/status/1448347811351826434?s=21 I'm glad I saw this. I missed most of the night, but that Carlin SNL is something I could watch a million times. Seeing those vintage ads are the cherry on top.
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Laterite posted:Seems like one of the issues is there's increasingly nowhere for a cast member to "go" after SNL, assuming the criteria is "something bigger & better". Feels like Kate, Cicely, Melissa and others have been on the verge of leaving for several years now. Kate's movie career has been a non-starter so far in particular and big studio comedies are largely dead in general. Aidy starred in a critically successful show for 3 seasons but that's over and she's back in the cast again. Melissa at least has a solid stand-up and general artist career going. And those are the "stars" ... what is Mikey Day or Alex Moffat going to do if they leave? The big issue there is there aren't moderately budgeted comedies that take a risk on a new comedic lead anymore. And if they do happen they just look for a bigger star that can say comedic lines.
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SunshineDanceParty posted:The big issue there is there aren't moderately budgeted comedies that take a risk on a new comedic lead anymore. And if they do happen they just look for a bigger star that can say comedic lines. this is kind of off topic, but I was trying to figure out the other day - what was the last mainstream comedy movie that was mainly a vehicle for jokes (as opposed to the 2.5 hour Judd Apatow model that's 20% riffs and 80% drama)? Feel like it was Popstar, and before that, probably a Will Ferrel movie. It's almost disorienting going back to movies like Walk Hard that are wall to wall jokes.
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Puppy Galaxy posted:this is kind of off topic, but I was trying to figure out the other day - what was the last mainstream comedy movie that was mainly a vehicle for jokes (as opposed to the 2.5 hour Judd Apatow model that's 20% riffs and 80% drama)? Bridesmaids? Jumanji?
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TVDB has Leslie Jones hosting October 30th. Not sure from where they’ve pulled that.
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Anyone can mess with TVDB listings, and she doesn't have anything to promote in that time so I'm gonna assume someone's just loving about until it comes from a better source.
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Popstar is the last big comedy I tend to cite as mainstream and packed with jokes. It's almost an SNL film too, but really just by way of Lonely Island. I'm not actually sure what the last good Ferrell comedy was. The Other Guys? That's 2010. Likewise, it's funny seeing Bridesmaids get brought up and realizing that it's over a decade old now too. edit: VV that's true, I've mentioned it to countless people who have never heard of it. I thought it was relatively mainstream because it came out in theaters and had a notable cast, but oof that box office Ror fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Shame the people in charge of marketing and distribution weren’t told it was a mainstream film. It’s so good.
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Barb and Star visit Del Mar was boring as sin IMO.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Shame the people in charge of marketing and distribution weren’t told it was a mainstream film. It’s so good. I saw an interview with Andy Samberg where he was dissapointed in the marketing of the movie because marketing was trying to make Popstar a Justin Beiber parody and he said that wasn't really the case so it didn't really land.
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Tonight SNL is back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2p1teA4j_0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWnfGP8N94Y And the Vintage is Daniel Craig with The Weeknd from S45. https://twitter.com/CraigWeekend/status/1449147071001473024?s=20 Please be there. Won't you?
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a new study bible! posted:Vanessa Bayer was cool. I've always liked her... check out her new podcast with her brother, "How Did We Get Weird?" I don't know how I'd classify their comedy except to say it's very wholesome, she seems like such a sweetheart.
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a new study bible! posted:Vanessa Bayer was cool. I loved her Laura Parsons character.
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