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This remains the greatest thing ever written about SNL (and perhaps TV in general): https://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/47548/ And trust me, if you think SNL is bad now go look up some of the episodes from the 1980/81 season. Holy gently caress. It was after Lorne got canned/left the show so they hired Jean Doumanian as producer. She didn't even want to hire Eddie Murphy!!!! Charles Rocket straight up used the n-word uncensored during a sketch and was met with 10 seconds of total dead silence from the audience. Bimmi posted:Even in the glory days, the musical guests were the only good reason to watch SNL. If you wanted funny, you watched SCTV. Rage Against the Machine was forcibly ejected from the premises after only doing one song because they hung an American flag upside down and the crew got all pissy about it. They were also booked as the musical guest on an episode hosted by Steve Forbes, which is probably the funniest SNL bit of the last 25 years. Elvis Costello pulled a great move too when he suddenly stopped playing the song his label forced him to play and ripped into "Radio, Radio". He got banned for awhile for that one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD_24nDzkeo haljordan fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Oct 17, 2023 |
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Jelly posted:Paywalled, but I want to read it Oh it just loads normally for me, that's weird.
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It's such a brutal piece but only because the guy who wrote it had total access to everyone at SNL and just wrote down what they said, word for word. poo poo like this:quote:“Someday, Chris,” Downey continues, still in his deadpan mode, “your son will be in a library with a friend, and he’ll pull down the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature. ‘Oh—January to March 1995. Hey, Dad’s in this one!’ ‘What’s it for? The ‘Fatty Arbuckle incident’—where he had that incident with the girl, and he was tried?’ ‘No, this is the one where he farts!’”
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Oct 17, 2023 00:47
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pencilhands posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-_ZDrypec Yeah this is cringe to the one billionth power. Either that or Alec Baldwin holding up a "YOU'RE WELCOME" sign at the end of the season finale a few years ago....I guess we should be thanking him for his terrible terrible Trump impression and taking a spot away from someone who actually deserved a shot?
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Jelly posted:are we still doing phrasing? Hiyoooo!!! Also I like how the armorer on that movie was apparently hungover and had coke/meth on her lmao
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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 01:40
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Who is the single biggest star to ever come out of SNL? Gotta be Eddie Murphy, right?
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Oct 17, 2023 01:47
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Murphy was the first (and probably only) cast member to host the show while still a cast member, I guess that's why he goes to the top of my list.
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Oct 17, 2023 01:58
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Apparently Eddie Murphy was fuckin' FURIOUS over this joke from David Spade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdRfl0W6qbM&t=160s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm2cnYDcwkE Jelly posted:Sandler is top 5 as well. Sandler is definitely way up there, that guy has the rarest form of power in Hollywood: He can actually make careers.
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Oct 17, 2023 02:00
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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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Oct 17, 2023 02:10
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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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Oct 17, 2023 02:13
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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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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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Bowfinger is hilarious though, I just rewatched it recently
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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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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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BATS FLY AT MOON posted:Who’s keeping it alive now? Indifference and inertia
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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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I wonder how much it costs to produce a typical SNL episode, apparently the pay for both performers and writers is notoriously lovely so I wonder if that's a factor in its longevity (plus what the hell else would NBC run at 11:30pm on a Saturday)
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Yeah true it's a guaranteed paycheck that won't bounce, which a million comedians currently working lovely clubs would brutally kill each other for
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MrQwerty posted:I mean, Robinson got elevated from writer to player, knew he wasn't working as a player, so he went back to the writer's room before he left. Guaranteed paychecks are nice. My thinking was more that the execs kind of just renew the show out of habit because it's not a huge hit to the bottom line even when the ratings are real bad
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Oct 17, 2023 19:17
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Hyrax Attack! posted:As streaming culture gets more mainstream & old school networks are desperate for anything the youngs might watch that isn’t sports no way they’re gonna cancel something nearly all Americans have seen once or twice. The very first year the Superbowl goes streaming only, broadcast TV is done for. It'll happen a lot sooner than you think.
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Oct 17, 2023 20:03
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GIMME GIMME GIMME THE BALL BECAUSE I'M GONNA DUNK IT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-uSWAJd9GE
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:I still can’t believe Jack Handy was actually the writers name lol. Deep thoughts was always good. Because, hey, free dummy.
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