Saturday Night Live Premiere Tonight

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 10/1/05 at 3:57pm

Anyone else excited?

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 10/1/05 at 4:34pm

quite

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 10/1/05 at 4:45pm

I'm trying to be excited, but last season was so bad. I am aprehensive, but hopeful.

[Jon]

Posted: 10/1/05 at 4:50pm

Steve Carell is:

1: funny on The Daily Show
2: funny on The Office
3: funny in movies
4: funny as a guest on talk shows

If he is NOT funny tonight on SNL, it is clearly the show's fault, not his.

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 10/1/05 at 4:55pm

Oh no, it was Carrell who I was depending on to make it watchable.

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 10/1/05 at 4:57pm

woo!! i forgot! thanks for reminding me! i'm so excited now. what time does it start exactly?

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 10/1/05 at 5:40pm

11:30 P.M. Eastern

[jam_man]

Posted: 10/1/05 at 6:34pm

I'm still not sure - I'll either watch SNL or Sunset Blvd. on TCM. Also at 10:30 (central). Errrrr!

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 10/1/05 at 6:37pm

The beauty of Tivo, watch one, record the other!

Or, record both and go to sleep!

[jam_man]

Posted: 10/1/05 at 7:20pm

Alas, I am Tivo-less. Though I'm supposedly on a waiting list for when Charter Communications gets a Tivo-like thing in our area. But it's been like that for AT LEAST 3 or 4 years.

[BabyJohn]

Posted: 10/1/05 at 8:54pm

I love SNL! It is in a rut but ITS STEVE CARRELL! And Amy, Maya,Rachel, and Tina may it watchable for me...All of them are Real funny to me...

MAYBE ITS JUST ME???

[FosseBoi]

Posted: 10/1/05 at 10:59pm

I hope that this season is a TON better than last season! I cant WAIT to see what they have in store for my girl Maya! They BETTER give her some GREAT stuff!

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 10/2/05 at 12:31am

they just made a Fiddler joke on Weekend Update

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/2/05 at 12:32am

My roommate and I turned it off like halfway through. We got really bored, unfortunately.

[Prisoner 24601]

Posted: 10/2/05 at 12:32am

Fiddler joke:

Rosie O'donnel has joined Harvey Fierstein and the cast of Fiddler on the Roof... consequently, the roof is now sagging.

Updated On: 10/2/05 at 12:32 AM

[Calvin]

Posted: 10/2/05 at 12:37am

I must say: I thought the Girls Gone Wild: Katrina segment was in poor taste. Too soon.

[Prisoner 24601]

Posted: 10/2/05 at 12:38am

yeah... it wasn't my favorite either

[Jon]

Posted: 10/2/05 at 9:02am

I tried for about 15 minues. Kanye West was great - the rest was unwatchable.

It was intersting that when they mentioned Harvey and Rosie in FIDDLER, they went for the fat joke rather than the gay joke. Political correctness, I guess.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 10/2/05 at 10:09am

Or maybe they just knew it would be cliche.

Anyway, I wasn't extremely impressed with the premiere, but SNL has always been hit and miss in my opinion. I'll continue to watch.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 10/2/05 at 10:16am

Turned it off after the JetBlue skit when it became clear that the opening monologue had set the tone - not funny, and not going to get funny.

[TheHumanTorch]

Posted: 10/2/05 at 10:40am

yeah....Steve Carell is such a funny guy I feel really bad that THIS is the show he's hosting.... I love Kanye...he can do no wrong...although I wish he sang Diamonds from Sierra Leone...

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/2/05 at 11:10am

What a miserable show this was. They need to give it a decent burial and turn the light off. 30 years is too long.

All they are doing now is recreating news events, instead of bringing comedy to them. There is no "clincher" to their sketches.

In the Jet Blue sketch, there was nothing funny. It was 10 minutes of nothing.

The sketch with the couple fighting in the restaurant went nowhere. What was the comic payoff?

They need to ditch Debby Downer. They no longer put her in situations that make her character funny.

The only thing I thought was funny was the pre-recorded Morgan Stanley commercial. It was funny because the real commercials are so annoying and their spoof of it was great.

The funniest thing SNL could do now is to introduce Tina Fey to the unemployment line.

Updated On: 10/2/05 at 11:10 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/2/05 at 12:07pm

"The funniest thing SNL could do now is to introduce Tina Fey to the unemployment line."

I know you've never been one to let facts get in the way of your strongly stated opinions, Goth, but Tina Fey had nothing to do with last night's episode what with her being on maternity leave and all. Writing was supervised by Seth Meyers. But whatever.

As usual, the TV Funhouse was very funny. I thought the TV Land Variety Vault sketch was funny, especially Maya singing the Helen Reddy-ish song. Debbie Downer was clever, in that she met Bob Bummer, and I thought Carrell was great in that. Considering there was nowhere to go with Debbie after the first sketch, I thought it was good they came up with some new direction.

I always like musical monologues, so I enjoyed the opening more than many in this thread.

Kanye West running into Mike Myers backstage was hilarious. "Kanye, I haven't seen you since, gosh, when was that?" "The telethon?"

West's songs were great.

Just my opinion.

[Pippin]

Posted: 10/2/05 at 1:15pm

I loved Horatio Sans on update

" I love watching bears screw"

He can make anything hilarious.

OH, and the two new guys were great! that hadder guy's pacino impression was dead on.

[beacon1]

Posted: 10/2/05 at 2:19pm

Will Horatio always sub until Tina returns?

I'm not fond of his style. He always looks like he has walked in with no rehearsal so he is fumbling along. He cracks up at his own lines and very obviously reads the cards.