SNL in TROUBLE- Page 3

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 2:08am

Oh that was the Harry Caray sketch. That sketch reminds me of the sorts of bizarre questions I always ask people:

"If the moon were made out of barbecued ribs, would you eat it?"

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 2:08am

I gave up after Colin Farrell did the skit with the large roach...

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 2:10am

"LAY OFF ME, I'M STARVIN'!"
- Chris Farley in Gap Girls
Updated On: 12/18/05 at 02:10 AM

[Celestial Entropy]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 2:58am

I expected more out of Jack Black... but, the news bit about Ashlee Simpson was funny.
I was a Tina/Jimmy fan when it came to the "news"... especially when Jimmy would break out the guitar and take popular songs and turn them into parodies.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 8:58am

Comedy is hard because people forget what they laughed about 30 seconds after being in hysterics. For YEARS people I work with have said "Oh, Saturday Night Live sucked last week," and I say, "What about Sprockets?" "Oh that was hilarious! But everything else sucked." "What about the monologue? When _____ said _______" "Ha ha ha! That was really funny but that was all..." "What about the cartoon by Robert Smigel?" "So funny, but the rest of it sucked, SNL has sucked for years."

So all I saw last night was Jack Black's monologue. Very funny. The Dick Cheney as Santa sketch. Pretty good. And the maligned Sbarro in the wind tunnel. I thought that sketch had everything comedy should have. A real life situation (sitting near a door in a fast food place in the winter can be hazardous to your health) and blowing it up big to its illogical extreme(when MeeMaw flew out of her chair I totally LOLed).

Anybody who says the show has sucked all year must've missed the utterly hilarious Alec Baldwin episode from last week. Even the Carol sketch was funny with Alec.

And the Brokeback Mountain joke on the news last week:

"It's the first time in the history of cinema that a western features the good guys getting it in the end."

COMEDY frickin GOLD.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 10:05am

SNL live has been Lame for more than 15 years

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 11:00am

SNL doesn't have to change a thing to make it funnier because it still gets the ratings. Last night's Robert Smigel was priceless!

Some of my favorites off the top of my head are the ones where Will Ferrell and Ana played that corny rock song singing couple. Also, the hysterical parodies of Jeopardy. One of the best things they ever did was the "oops I crapped my pants" commercial.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 11:04am

The monologue was great. The Smigel cartoon was great, and having Love there live was fantastic - would have been a wonderful night to have been in the studio audience.

The Sbarro skit was one of the unfunniest things I've ever seen, and I was quite nervous as it was the first sketch. The spelling bee WAS funny until that nonsense word went on 30 seconds longer than it should have. The Narnia rap was amusing.

And as to the Fey/Fallon-Fey/Poehler comparison question - I prefer Fey/Fallon. They just seemed to have something. Poehler can come off as trying too hard.

Question: am I the only one who thinks Neil Young looks like he just drank some sour milk when he sings?

Updated On: 12/18/05 at 11:04 AM

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 12:13pm

I've come to strongly dislike SNL. But it's a show that will last forever. And while its SOOOOOOOOOOO not fair (how are Will & Grace and Reuinion being axed and SNL is still on), it's going to be this way for quite a long time to come...

[pab]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 12:19pm

SNL has a totally different audience base than those other two shows. If it were in prime time it probably would have been cancelled a long time ago but it does not need as huge an audience as a show in Prime Time needs. The size of its late night audiences will keep it going.

Will and Grace should have ended last season IMO.

[Pippin]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 1:32pm

I thought will forte's sketch was hilarious. one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time!!! I'm also tired of people saying they hate the show. just stop watching it. yes, some things bomb, but some things are genuis, and that is the way that it will always be. even in the first five years, that is how it was. it is hard, first of all to write and do comedy, but think of how you would be if you had only five days to write an hours worth of material. not everything can be rehearsed for two months. give them a break. Snl is an ever changing institution, and I would love to see it go on for thirty more years.

[MarkCohen]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 1:39pm

Speaking of which, I much prefer Mad TV.

Did anyone else see Neil Patrick Harris last night?

[Taryn2]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 1:58pm

I haven't liked SNL in a long time. I think the shows from the 70's and 80's are so much better. For one they used improv alot more, and the actors had such wonderful chemistry.

But i don't think hardly anything on TV is funny anymore.

[442namffug]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 2:05pm

When they have REAL comedians on, the show is not half bad. The writing is always terrible, so that's a constant--a "given", so to speak. However, if they bring talented and FUNNY actors on the show like Mr. Black and Dane Cook, there is potential for a few laughs.

I don't think they would ever cancel the show anytime soon because it still does fairly well in the ratings and is an iconic late-night show.