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Jelly posted:Also Bill Hader, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler. They're still prime. I'm trying to think of it in terms of overall career and influence. Tina Fey might make that list.
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He's also a big art nerd, a few years ago he gave a talk at an Institute around where I live and people got mad because he didn't like, recite every line from The Jerk or whatever
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redshirt posted:I'm trying to think of it in terms of overall career and influence. Tina Fey might make that list.
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Eddie Murphy probably was the biggest success tho, just in pure financial terms, the guy was an absolutely massive star
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I've been hardcore listening to Conan O'Brien's podcast from start to finish and I think he's one of the funniest human beings on the planet and it's a great place to learn more about comedy and comedians. This is relevant because Conan wrote for SNL, knows and makes fun of Lorne frequently, interviews lots of their cast, and has interesting discussions about forms of comedy where he often brings up Steve Martin due to how uniquely serious he is about it.
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pencilhands posted:this is the funniest thing ive ever seen but i guess not on purpose Trump broke their brains and ruined the show for the rest of time.
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Eddie Murphy probably was the biggest success tho, just in pure financial terms, the guy was an absolutely massive star That's my logic as well. Bill Heder is funny as hell and Barry was a good show but Eddie had three straight films open at #1 before he turned 30. edit: He ended up with SEVEN straight films opening #1 haljordan fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Oct 17, 2023 |
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haljordan posted:He's also a big art nerd, a few years ago he gave a talk at an Institute around where I live and people got mad because he didn't like, recite every line from The Jerk or whatever I saw him during a tour of a studio in LA in like 1979. Just walking down the hallway. He held my baby sister. He had gray hair.
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haljordan posted:That's my logic as well. Bull Heder is funny as hell and Barry was a good show but Eddie had three straight films open at #1 before he turned 30. Murray's been consistently headlining films from the 70's on, and over the last few years I assume he gets paid nicely for the smaller roles and cameos. He was never the mega star Murphy was during his run, but he hit pretty big stardom from the Ghostbusters - Groundhog Day window or so.
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mannerup posted:she’s easily the most well known writer of SNL Al Franken has a pretty good claim to it.
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redshirt posted:Murray's been consistently headlining films from the 70's on, and over the last few years I assume he gets paid nicely for the smaller roles and cameos. Eddie was supposed to be in Ghostbusters but turned it down to do Beverly Hills Cop
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haljordan posted:Eddie was supposed to be in Ghostbusters but turned it down to do Beverly Hills Cop In the Murray role I assume? Beverly Hills Cop was great. That was Murphy going to the next level.
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redshirt posted:In the Murray role I assume? Nah, Winston. And Beverly Hills Cop was originally written for Stallone and was a much more straight forward cop action movie. However, Stallone added so much to the script that the budget went way out of control so he bailed and made Cobra instead. Once Eddie came onboard, they added all the humor into the script. edit: Good lord, Cobra made $160 million, how was there no sequel haljordan fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Oct 17, 2023 |
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murray and murphy playing off each other in ghostbusters could have been some magic
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haljordan posted:Nah, Winston. Cobra was awesome and I too was waiting for the sequel that never came. Smelled like a franchise.
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zenguitarman posted:I almost made a separate thread for this, but somebody please explain Steve Martin to me. Nothing to explain, the king tut song is and was terrible
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Bowfinger is hilarious though, I just rewatched it recently
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haljordan posted:Bowfinger is hilarious though, I just rewatched it recently agree, it's an underrated gem
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I feel the same way about Chevy Chase as some goons do about Steve Martin. I mean, sure, I remember liking Vacation and Christmas Vacation (European Vacation sucked poo poo) along with Three Amigos when I was young, but he always had this prickishness to his acting I could see right through even as a kid, and it turned out that he really is a massive prick IRL. I can’t recall ever liking any other films or projects of his other than those three core films, and I haven’t watched any of those in years. As for Steve Martin, Roxanne is an underrated Cyrano de Bergerac adaptation.
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sure okay posted:Modern SNL thread: Lets talk exclusively about ancient SNL lol no one watches that poo poo!
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Don't get me started about Dan Akroyd and John Belushi. I mean I'll watch Continental Divide if it's on but I'll criticize it for the mass media implications it presents. Thankfully this hasn't come up in a while.
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sure okay posted:Modern SNL thread: Lets talk exclusively about ancient SNL
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Steve Martin was also great as gently caress as the sadistic dentist in Little Shop of Horrors. But then again, Little Shop of Horrors fuckin’ rules.
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covidstomper58 posted:Don't get me started about Dan Akroyd and John Belushi. I mean I'll watch Continental Divide if it's on but I'll criticize it for the mass media implications it presents. Thankfully this hasn't come up in a while. 1941/Neighbors double bill
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You Are A Werewolf posted:I feel the same way about Chevy Chase as some goons do about Steve Martin. I mean, sure, I remember liking Vacation and Christmas Vacation (European Vacation sucked poo poo) along with Three Amigos when I was young, but he always had this prickishness to his acting I could see right through even as a kid, and it turned out that he really is a massive prick IRL. Yeah I can see that, I like Chevy Chase in all the classics , groundhog day the most, and the vacation movies But yes every character he plays there is a little hint of superiority complex and smarminess with EVERY line he delivers Even if the character is supposed to the 180 degree opposite
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You Are A Werewolf posted:Steve Martin was also great as gently caress as the sadistic dentist in Little Shop of Horrors. if you haven't seen the director's cut with the original ending DO IT it's loving amazing and it's crazy that they threw it out because they clearly spent most of the budget on this insane 20 minute finale
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I thought Chevy Chase's portrayal in Lost in Translation was pretty good. When he successfully opened that Chase Bank branch in Japan with Jennifer Lawrence, I was on the edge of my seat.
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TIP posted:if you haven't seen the director's cut with the original ending DO IT I own the blu-ray which has both versions of the movie and it is loving amazing  But I do recall seeing a work print version of the film with the original ending some years before, and I don’t think it was the complete ending.
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SNL, SCTV, and National Lampoon's will always feel like they've got a strange free-flowing crossover with one another. I talked about this in another thread, but take the following: Peter Ivers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ivers Musician, host of new wave/punk scene, roommate of NL creator, close friend of Belushi. After his death, another friend of Ivers (Harold Ramis) ended up doing a TV thing called The Top for a local LA TV station. The description of that is as follows: quote:In the immediate aftermath of Iver's killing, Jove was offered help by Ramis, and together with Flattery, created and made "The Top" for KTLA. The show was a mixture of live music, videos and humor. Performers on the series include Cyndi Lauper, who performed "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and "True Colors". The Hollies performed "Stop! In the Name of Love" and The Romantics performed "Talking in Your Sleep" and "What I Like About You". Guest stars included Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. The host was Chevy Chase, who—dressed as a "punk" of the era—got into a physical altercation with an audience member during the opening monologue. He immediately left the taping. The producers then got Andy Kaufman to fill in for Chase and recorded the host segments at a separate, later, session. It was to be the last professional appearance by Andy Kaufman before his death. "The Top" aired on Friday January 27, 1984 at 7–8 pm. It scored a 7.7% rating and a 14% share. It just feels like this kind of social/professional space was a lot more fluid and active in that time than I noticed or knew.
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covidstomper58 posted:Rob Schneider is looking good, did he do anything after SNL? his dad died in 9/11, the terrorist attack
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Toxic Mental posted:his dad died in 9/11, the terrorist attack So it's been all up and up since then I take it?
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Bad Purchase posted:i saw taylor swift on snl, she became a pretty big star, maybe even bigger than adam sandler Are you saying you discovered Taylor Swift?
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Triikan posted:Are you saying you discovered Taylor Swift? nah, some football player seems to have put her on the map
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Remember when Rob Schneider tried to buy his own Curb Your Enthusiasm type "day in the life" vanity sitcom on Netflix but it was terrible and unrelatable because it was just him being a rich rear end in a top hat and nothing funny ever happened?
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Sinead O'Connor ripped up a picture of the pope on it. And I was like gently caress YEAH. Then I realized she wouldn't be back like Nirvana, so in retrospect as a viewer, I might have preferred she hadn't done that. I don't disagree with her decision, but it might have been better for me if she appeared more often after that.
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covidstomper58 posted:Rob Schneider is looking good, did he do anything after SNL? he was good in seaquest
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zenguitarman posted:I almost made a separate thread for this, but somebody please explain Steve Martin to me. Only Murders in the Building season 1 wasn’t the worst but holy cow slogging through S2 wasn’t fun. I get it, Martin & Short are friends but it’s boring as hell. caleb posted:Remember when Rob Schneider tried to buy his own Curb Your Enthusiasm type "day in the life" vanity sitcom on Netflix but it was terrible and unrelatable because it was just him being a rich rear end in a top hat and nothing funny ever happened? A local casino bought non-stop radio ads for his appearance and played clips, he was leading with observing how cash for gold stores imply we’re all carrying gold around and it’s a problem. Pete Holmes told that joke a decade ago and it was a tiny bit, not the highlight of his whole show.
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