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mllaneza posted:That's a great book in a great series, totally worth reading the whole thing. Amusingly, the first book in the series started out as a Star Trek fanfic. Now she's got more Hugos than Heinlein. It really is a very fun series. Military Sci-fi meets A Comedy of Errors and never having 45 pages of weapon descriptions.
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Thomamelas posted:It really is a very fun series. Military Sci-fi meets A Comedy of Errors and never having 45 pages of weapon descriptions. Oh boy is it time to take a break during a tense starship battle to ramble for several pages about a weapon system, only to end the long weapon description with "If only either side had this weapon..."
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Speaking of him, Pratchett would turn that into such a killer punchline.
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I'd be surprised if many authors didn't get their start writing fanfic. Back in the day it wasn't like there was much of a distinction in pre-copyright times, anyway. Also I feel people forget how much of a sense of humour Star Trek had.8one6 posted:I wouldn't hold It's Pat against anyone who worked on it (except maybe for Lorne Michaels). It's an SNL film based on a sketch from the era where SNL writers managed about half a good joke a week so anything that did get a laugh was run into the ground. I do wonder how many people at this point have literally only heard of SNL from the joke about their Gordy's Home sketch in Nope.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I do wonder how many people at this point have literally only heard of SNL from the joke about their Gordy's Home sketch in Nope. Every now and then a sketch of theirs on YouTube gets reshared, it's not that unknown outside the USA. Presumably it's the good ones that get uploaded, like Meet Your Future Wife and Black Jeopardy, and not the duds.
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There's an official SNL yt channel that posts classic sketches but some of them aren't very good. But like most things SNL it's down to personal taste.
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SNL could really benefit from being available on streaming but I think there are a bunch of issues with that related to the music. Though really I would just love an archive of those musical performances.
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The funniest thing snl did this century was their pitch-perfect recreation of the 70s-era barely pornographic porn on late-night 80s Cinemax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg7I-fVLm7I The over-literal just-barely-wrong translation, the weird pace of the dubbing, the color-palette, the soft focus: it’s literally just a reconstruction of the past on the level of the WNUF Halloween Special. The only thing out of place is a 90s Cinemax bumper.
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Call me basic but Star Wars Undercover Boss still makes me laugh (though 90% of it is because Adam Driver loving nails it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaOSCASqLsE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPpcfH_HHH8 Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, and Alec Baldwin doing a perfect send up of NPR in the 90's.
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Thomamelas posted:Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, and Alec Baldwin doing a perfect send up of NPR in the 90's. Those skits were consistently funny, but it's hard to wrong with four minutes of sweaty balls innuendo.
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SNL has some of the most talented writers and actors in the business working on it. But the nature of the show means it's a miracle that they ever manage the occasionally good skit. It was developed during a time and place when everyone was on a lot of cocaine, and I'm not sure it actually works without amphetamines. (Though John Mulaney recently showed that it isn't entirely an issue of the past.) You just can't produce that amount of content in that short a period while having to follow a million rules to appease sponsors and Lorne Michaels' friends and expect anything more than what we get. It's no wonder that the pre-recorded skits are by far the funniest and most popular stuff the show has produced in the last 20 years. They actually let people like Lonely Island and Kyle Mooney/Beck Bennett create things in their own style with time to work on it. Meanwhile, 30 Rock and I Think You Should Leave are pound for pound two of the funniest shows ever created. To me, SNL is just a training ground for decent creators, but it's really dire and I straight up can't make it through an episode anymore.
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Nobody has actually watched a live episode on Saturday night of Saturday Night Live in 15 years. It exists through sheer momentum and collective consciousness
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Yeah I like the Beck/Kyle's weird little movies and the pre recorded stuff and the popular stuff on YouTube so tried watching the actual show. Yeeesh.
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MokBa posted:SNL has some of the most talented writers and actors in the business working on it. But the nature of the show means it's a miracle that they ever manage the occasionally good skit. It was developed during a time and place when everyone was on a lot of cocaine, and I'm not sure it actually works without amphetamines. (Though John Mulaney recently showed that it isn't entirely an issue of the past.) You just can't produce that amount of content in that short a period while having to follow a million rules to appease sponsors and Lorne Michaels' friends and expect anything more than what we get. The Other Two is also an incredibly funny show created by SNL writers that sadly just ended its run.
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Henchman of Santa posted:The Other Two is also an incredibly funny show created by SNL writers that sadly just ended its run. Oh yeah lol I can't believe I didn't bring it up. The new season has been my favorite comedy of the year. Too bad the showrunners brought over Lorne's toxic environment!
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The rule of thumb is apparently that if it's a satire, especially of the entertainment industry, then it's being run by people who embody the worst elements of that industry.
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That Will Ferrell sketch where they're music teachers singing operatic versions of rock songs and saying "hot mic" That Fred Armisen one where they're an aging punk hardcore band at a modern wedding and they do the Suicidal Tendencies bit in the middle both fun and good
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I think for you to make good comedy you have to be a bit of an iconoclast and SNL is the definition of an institution in pop culture at this point so I'm not really sure it's possible for SNL to be good.
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Haunted Elevator was originally good, before it became a meme. History of Punk and Chucky Lee Bird were good.
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Chrpno posted:That Fred Armisen one where they're an aging punk hardcore band at a modern wedding and they do the Suicidal Tendencies bit in the middle Probably my favorite skit of the last decade is when Fred Armisen hosted in 2016 (?) and the episode ended with like the entire cast as a large 70s band just playing a silly song. It was barely a parody of the era but we were high as poo poo, and it was the hardest the show ever made me laugh. The only recent skit I've seen that I genuinely loved was the Mario Kart/Last of Us parody. But a lot of that I think was just the novelty of seeing such specific references from my childhood.
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David S Pumpkins makes me laugh a lot but I can also admit it's extremely stupid at the same time
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Well if we're talking about sketches from when Fred Armisen hosted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie6LpKOJVf0 One of my favorites, partially due to the long build-up.
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does SNL still do digital shorts? cause those used to be by far the most popular videos they'd come up withAbsurd Alhazred posted:Haunted Elevator was originally good, before it became a meme. possibly hot take, but there was literally one amusing moment in that sketch and it was when it was revealed david pumpkins had a middle name edit: wait, upon further contemplation, let me amend that to two amusing moments, with the other being when pumpkins asked "any questions?" Paper Tiger posted:Well if we're talking about sketches from when Fred Armisen hosted: glad someone else thought of this one 
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If we're talking about Fred Armisen on SNL, he sure did a lot of blackface.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I think for you to make good comedy you have to be a bit of an iconoclast and SNL is the definition of an institution in pop culture at this point so I'm not really sure it's possible for SNL to be good. Ah, like The Simpsons.
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Peter Dinklage singing about space pants (and Gwen Stefani flubbing her line during the number) will live forever in my heart. Besides that, I haven't cared about SNL since we'd occasionally watch it in college in the early 90's.
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With snl it's at least interesting to learn which hosts have a knack for sketch comedy. Like yeah, everyone expects Bieber and Lohan to be awful, and it's no surprise that Steve Martin and the Monty Python guys turned out great. But then you get hosts like Seth Macfarlane, Justin Timberlake and Peyton Manning being surprise hits. While legendary comedians like Milton Berle, Bob Saget, and John C. Reilly were just awful.
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Anne Hathaway, Bruno mars and Emma stone could straight up be cast members
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The Rock kills in his SNL appearances. After his first one I thought he might have a good career as an actor post-wrestling. After the second I was sure of it.
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mllaneza posted:The Rock kills in his SNL appearances. After his first one I thought he might have a good career as an actor post-wrestling. After the second I was sure of it. Considering his body of work, what's it like to be proven incorrect?
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The rocks had an incredibly successful career as an actor. He’s just not a good actor.
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oldpainless posted:I should bring back my rock avatar Just half.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Ah, like The Simpsons. There is a bit of a parallels in that when SNL and The Simpsons came out they were so outside the norm of what had been on TV it made them iconoclastic. I also think SNL got a huge boost in the late 90s when Comedy Central used to play the one hour versions of the show and so all the weaker skits got cut, so people remember the better skits better. I mean the awful mid 90s stretch still shows through how bad things got but like youtube after it allowed people to see the best parts. SNL is at its best, in my mind, when its a smaller cast of comedians who haven't hit the mainstream yet but have a bit of experience behind them.
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Henchman of Santa posted:SNL could really benefit from being available on streaming but I think there are a bunch of issues with that related to the music. Though really I would just love an archive of those musical performances. Also all the blackface
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Mooseontheloose posted:There is a bit of a parallels in that when SNL and The Simpsons came out they were so outside the norm of what had been on TV it made them iconoclastic. I also think SNL got a huge boost in the late 90s when Comedy Central used to play the one hour versions of the show and so all the weaker skits got cut, so people remember the better skits better. I mean the awful mid 90s stretch still shows through how bad things got but like youtube after it allowed people to see the best parts. Yeah this was a huge factor. The lag on new SNL episodes wasn't even very large you'd be seeing episodes from 1999 in 2001 on Comedy Central for a spell, and they'd trim it down to the best of that week. It wasn't amazing but it gave the impression the show is much stronger than it actually is.
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I have to credit Comedy Central SNL reruns with getting me into David Bowie because I saw an episode with Tin Machine as the musical guest in the mid 90s after school one day lol
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:He was a child star who ended up becoming difficult to work with. There's a good chance he went through some serious poo poo and that poo poo will will eventually be acknowledged Every time I hear about a former child star or woman actor who is “very difficult to work with” or “nuts” I now wonder which Hollywood potentate abused them. Gosh I wonder why this industry rife with hard drug abuse and unchecked sexual abuse has so many “crazy” people working in it. I guess being an actor just leads to mental illness. Certainly noting about having to let Harvey Weinstein gently caress you or let your co-workers rape you or let your narcissist parents steal all your money to keep your job has anything to do with it. Amazing how producers and directors just zero in on the crazy kids EVERY SINGLE TIME, what are the odds?
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