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Martin short is a very unfunny man who famous people really want me to think is funny
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Jiminy Glick was pretty funny to teenaged me when it came out.
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Oct 17, 2023 04:35
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he was born and bred to be the face of canada at epcot
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Oct 17, 2023 04:40
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I fuckin’ loved The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley when I was a kid. A nice one two punch of kooky with Pee Wee’s Playhouse on Saturday mornings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5VsIkoyAR4
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Oct 17, 2023 04:47
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haljordan posted:Steve Martin dressing up like an Egyptian and dancing around was apparently a monumental moment in comedy history, pop culture is fuckin' bizarre.
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Oct 17, 2023 04:48
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i think i just saw worse - Colbert with Covid, delivering his monologue from home in front of a (pretty lovely looking) curtain and no crowd told to laugh.haljordan posted:Steve Martin dressing up like an Egyptian and dancing around was apparently a monumental moment in comedy history, pop culture is fuckin' bizarre. great prologue for the Reagan 80s - just dumb entertainment with a solid dose of racism
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Oct 17, 2023 04:55
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Vegetable posted:Martin short is a very unfunny man who famous people really want me to think is funny
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Oct 17, 2023 05:12
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Martin Short is fine but only in small doses. Only Murders In The Building does a fantastic job of never QUITE giving us Too Much Martin Short. As for the King Tut song, it has a legit satirical point it's trying to make which puts it head and shoulders above most of the milquetoast common-denominator writing on SNL these days.
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Oct 17, 2023 05:16
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SNL had some well-defined competition for the 14-24yo demographic in the 80s/90s. On one of the few nights of the week when kids/teens could hang out or stay up late with some more freedom, you had some option for programming to watch that was 'edgy'. Music centric metal heads were tuning into Headbangers Ball at the same time on MTV. Fox was doing Mad TV. You had USA UP All Night for campy movies with comedy hosts. The weirdos were watching whatever late-night PBS, TNT, or TBS had to offer as counter programming. Does any channel have anything in that window, anymore? I vaguely remember Fox trying to do the ADHD line-up on Saturdays around the SNL timeslot as their Adult Swim thing. Is Adult Swim's Saturday Anime schedule (?) still a big thing when it's airing live?
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Oct 17, 2023 05:17
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Haschel Cedricson posted:Martin Short is fine but only in small doses. Only Murders In The Building does a fantastic job of never QUITE giving us Too Much Martin Short. no, i watched the first season of this and several episodes had too much martin short
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Oct 17, 2023 05:23
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martin short is an incredible entertainer. as a master of ceremonies or as a guest on a talkshow, he's truly top tier. as a comedian exclusively he's just ok.
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Oct 17, 2023 05:29
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snl is a victim of its own success. imagine watching like happy days then turning on snl. it would blow your mind. but now everything is unfiltered and uncensored that snl has no more space or boundaries to push on a major network. so they leaned heavy into silly stuff but even that was done better. so what can snl do other than bow out? all this was true 25 years ago. they get celebrity guests and that's it. but social media has occupied that space too. the music industry is zombified so who can they feature? it's a dead format.
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Oct 17, 2023 05:33
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Haschel Cedricson posted:Martin Short is fine but only in small doses. Only Murders In The Building does a fantastic job of never QUITE giving us Too Much Martin Short. Agreed, it's Short's best performance in years.
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Oct 17, 2023 05:36
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You know a better weekly show for guest celebrities to show up and have a chance to play against type? Law and Order.
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Oct 17, 2023 05:41
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watching that Turn On video posted a couple days ago reminds me, it's time to bring back The Television Wheel (AKA the original XBOX) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meqonUzc-pI Joel left MST3K to bring us this masterpiece e: episode begins about 12 min in if you don't want to watch the prologue
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Oct 17, 2023 05:44
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JediTalentAgent posted:Does any channel have anything in that window, anymore? I vaguely remember Fox trying to do the ADHD line-up on Saturdays around the SNL timeslot as their Adult Swim thing. Is Adult Swim's Saturday Anime schedule (?) still a big thing when it's airing live? its a zombie timeslot for new max originals. they spent a shitload on original animes that keep getting delayed (uzumaki is totally coming out you guys) and adult swim is a just a rick and morty production pipeline now
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Oct 17, 2023 05:54
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I thought the Rick and Morty guy got outed as a horrible sex pest? Are they just posting through it? I never watched but I assumed they canceled it when that news broke
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Oct 17, 2023 05:59
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great big cardboard tube posted:I thought the Rick and Morty guy got outed as a horrible sex pest? Are they just posting through it? I never watched but I assumed they canceled it when that news broke They fired and replaced him
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Oct 17, 2023 06:02
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The funniest thing about Steve Martin is that he’s such a socially-awkward introvert off-camera that it’s been said “to be alone in a room with Steve Martin is to be in an empty room.” I’ll also go to the mat for Only Murders in the Building, it’s been a very fun mystery comedy series. It’s also the only boomer-detective-show I’ve seen where all the jokes are at the expense of boomers
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Oct 17, 2023 08:05
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Jelly posted:this is a very terrible opinion Why? Because it doesn't take into account the feelings of people with bad taste it might hurt?
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Oct 17, 2023 09:22
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The King Tut song: You have to remember, it was 1977 or whatever. TV was a vast wasteland of whitebread lameness. Heck, TV went off the air - there was no TV after like 1AM, it just turned to static after some patriotic song! It was different time, a less funny time. And so, this white dude with gray hair singing about King Tut (The mummy and associated items from King Tut's tomb was big news around then too, hence the topical satire) had America rolling. It was making fun of something in the news, with a historical/cultural edge. Questions? Comments?
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Oct 17, 2023 14:27
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Oct 17, 2023 14:43
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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
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Oct 17, 2023 14:55
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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 When someone mentioned this to him, he reportedly went, "Well, EXCUUUUUUUSE MEEEE!"
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Oct 17, 2023 17:55
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Back in my day people were saying SNL wasn't funny, but they kept watching it in case there was a Celebrity Jeopardy skit.
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Oct 17, 2023 18:24
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haljordan posted:This remains the greatest thing ever written about SNL (and perhaps TV in general): Whoa that’s a great read thanks for sharing. Crazy how in 1995 random New Yorkers were getting prank calls from Sandler & Farley. Then they got fired at the end of the season?! Incredible time capsule of someone trying to shame Farley into calming down during meetings when his clips are probably the only thing anyone looks at from that season in present day. Still weird how Lorne Michaels is a gatekeeper for 50 years for American comedy with huge cultural impact, not because of talent but mostly just being there when the place opened. Didn’t know until that article mentioned it his penchant for surrounding himself with young assistants he sometimes marries.
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Oct 17, 2023 18:26
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It's okay. I'm not watching it because it's not funny to me but if it makes people chuckle and they enjoy their time watching it then I'm happy for them
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Oct 17, 2023 18:28
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Anyone who gets a meeting with Lorne has to wait outside his office for like an hour and a half no matter what, because he's a petty shithead
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Oct 17, 2023 18:28
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Friend of mine likes watching old SNL episodes due to how weird some of them end up being. He sent me a clip of a sketch from the Phil Hartman era which is about a family after eating Thanksgiving dinner, where they sit on the couch, talk about how much they ate, undo their belts, and each fall asleep. There are absolutely no jokes throughout the entire thing. But the YouTube comments are nothing but people saying, "Man, what a classic! They don't make sketches this good anymore!"
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Oct 17, 2023 18:43
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if i catch anyone enjoying snl, that’s it, they’re toast
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Oct 17, 2023 18:44
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Gavok posted:Friend of mine likes watching old SNL episodes due to how weird some of them end up being. He sent me a clip of a sketch from the Phil Hartman era which is about a family after eating Thanksgiving dinner, where they sit on the couch, talk about how much they ate, undo their belts, and each fall asleep. There are absolutely no jokes throughout the entire thing. makinnnnnnnnnnnggggggg copieeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssssss
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Oct 17, 2023 18:47
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snl would've been canceled in 1980 if it weren't for eddie murphy, and it would've been canceled in 1996 if it weren't for will ferrell
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Oct 17, 2023 18:50
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DaveWoo posted:snl would've been canceled in 1980 if it weren't for eddie murphy, and it would've been canceled in 1996 if it weren't for will ferrell And the woman producing SNL in 1980 had to basically be forced to take Eddie, she wanted Robert Townsend instead haljordan fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Oct 17, 2023 |
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Oct 17, 2023 18:51
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DaveWoo posted:snl would've been canceled in 1980 if it weren't for eddie murphy, and it would've been canceled in 1996 if it weren't for will ferrell Who’s keeping it alive now?
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Oct 17, 2023 18:52
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BATS FLY AT MOON posted:Who’s keeping it alive now? Indifference and inertia
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Oct 17, 2023 18:52
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GolfHole posted:makinnnnnnnnnnnggggggg copieeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssssss It's kind of amazing how big that character became considering the first appearance bombed hard. Anyway, I liked the Google interview bit in the new episode. Though, "Character takes an embarrassing poo poo" is a punchline SNL uses a LOT in the last decade.
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Oct 17, 2023 18:54
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Gavok posted:Anyway, I liked the Google interview bit in the new episode. Though, "Character takes an embarrassing poo poo" is a punchline SNL uses a LOT in the last decade. 
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Oct 17, 2023 18:56
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GolfHole posted:makinnnnnnnnnnnggggggg copieeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssssss You likea da juice?
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Oct 17, 2023 18:57
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haljordan posted:Indifference and inertia yeah pretty much lol seriously, though, the current cast really is missing any kind of breakout stars right now; the closest i can think of is james autsin johnson, who does good political impressions but who really wants to hear trump rambling for the four hundredth time?
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I like how people use hilarious 30 Rock scenes to demonstrate that SNL isn’t good.
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