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Saturday Night Live Premiere Tonight
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#26Hosts
Posted: 10/2/05 at 2:22pmJon Heder, Catherine Zeta Jones, and Lance Armstrong are some of the upcoming hosts supposedly.
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#29Hosts
Posted: 10/2/05 at 5:06pmAw, this sawked! Unfortunately, MAD TV was even worse...
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#30toothless and tasteless
Posted: 10/2/05 at 9:56pm
Toothless, all of it. And sadly unfunny.
I liked the Will Forte Bush. Buthe Katrina stuff was about the usual (recent) SNL target: celebrity. Really, the new kid doing Pacino (not bad, the voice) and Amy doing Sharon Stone? Ho hum. Is that what the Katrina crisis was about, comedically? Celebrities showing up? Why put down Anderson Cooper, when we have FEMA's Prof. Marvel Michael Brown to take on? Anderson Cooper would've been worthy satirizing had they found something in the man's character worth exploring. Instead, they merely used his presence, and (yawn) made it all about his ego.
As someone said, it would've beeen fine if it had been funny. But you could feel the level of strain,the effort to simply find the humorous lightnight rod, to locate the comedic core. Alas, they did not come close, and the results felt borderline tasteless.
Hey, I love tastless when I laugh. But watching the women flash in the flood water -- that's just lowest common denominator stuff, the easy way out (more JACKASS than SNL), and not worthy of a show that used to take the temperature of the culture, and send it up with blistering honesty. No matter what one says about Katrina, it certainly wasn't all about Anderson Cooper's ego and women flashing their t-ts in the water. Ick.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
Updated On: 10/2/05 at 09:56 PM
#31toothless and tasteless
Posted: 10/2/05 at 10:10pmLove love love Steve Carrell...extremely disappointed by last night's show. Bring back Tina Fey asap!
#32toothless and tasteless
Posted: 10/3/05 at 2:24amSeth Meyers was in charge of writing? WTF?! And is it just me, or do these two new guys look like Jimmy Fallon clones? Are they trying to nab the 12-18 Girl demographic by putting pretty boys on? I just hope they're funny. I'm starting to get the feeling that Lorne doesn't really care anymore.....
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#33toothless and tasteless
Posted: 10/3/05 at 10:32am
onegoodmove has two skits from the premiere.
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"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
#34toothless and tasteless
Posted: 10/3/05 at 12:15pmThe only time I laughed was at the Mike Myers cameo.
#35toothless and tasteless
Posted: 10/3/05 at 5:09pmThat new kid Bill Hader is cute. As painful as it is to watch SNL I'm going to have to just to see him in action.
"I'm the STAR!"--Daniel Reichard during Glory Daze sound check
#36toothless and tasteless
Posted: 10/3/05 at 7:23pmAshlee Simpson is supposebly the music guest next week. That would be interesting...
DF loves the little children, all the children of the world black and yellow, gay or straight, they are perfect in her light DF loves all the children of the world-Dame Fanadette
#37toothless and tasteless
Posted: 10/3/05 at 9:32pmwith that track jacket on Bill Hadar though... CJ you're sooo right.... they're just trying to replace Jimmy Fallon....which is impossible
#38toothless and tasteless
Posted: 10/4/05 at 4:19pmwhy try and replace someone who, in my mind, sucked. Jimmy Fallon never really solidified himself as a solid performer. Sure, breaking on camera can be funny, but EVERY skit, EVERY joke? If he and Horatio Sanz were within 10 feet of each other, they began to laugh, leaving me to wonder just what was so funny. it's just unprofessional to me.
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