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The next campaign for an SNL host: Carol Burnett (CNN.com)
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#25The next campaign for an SNL host: Carol Burnett (CNN.com)
Posted: 5/11/10 at 8:43pm
Like the Jane Lynch idee. I've thought she's be great for this spot for a long time.
OOO OOO she could do a bit on NPR for tossed salad! Or how to properly teabag or- cheeze the mind boggles!
#26The next campaign for an SNL host: Carol Burnett (CNN.com)
Posted: 5/11/10 at 9:13pmBetty was amazing, but it wouldn't have been as good if she didn't have the amazing supporting cast that they brought back. So step one for SNL should be to find people who are talented and funny enough to deliver a show like that every week without having to bring back old cast members.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#27The next campaign for an SNL host: Carol Burnett (CNN.com)
Posted: 5/11/10 at 9:15pm
I'm starting a Facebook page for "Mickey Rooney as SNL Host".
His "Andy Hardy in the Old Folks Home" skit will be a gas. And he can have Liza Minnelli join him for a Mickey and Judy skit.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#28The next campaign for an SNL host: Carol Burnett (CNN.com)
Posted: 5/11/10 at 10:02pmHow about "Campaign to put SNL out of its misery since they've only had one semi-funny episode in years?"
::bust a move::
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#30The next campaign for an SNL host: Carol Burnett (CNN.com)
Posted: 5/11/10 at 10:46pmWahhhhhtt Wahhhhhhhh!
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#31The next campaign for an SNL host: Carol Burnett (CNN.com)
Posted: 5/11/10 at 11:41pm
I spent the beginning of this year convalescing, so I had a lot of time on my hands, and I watched many episodes from the first five seasons of SNL and boy, were there some clunkers. Everyone always harkens back to a time when "SNL was funny" and oddly, it's always different eras, depending on who is doing the pissing and the moaning.
The one thing I noticed about the early seasons was the wide pool from which they'd pick their hosts. Maureen Stapleton hosted it, for Christ's sake! And she bitched on camera about the show not given her enough tickets and how her kids had to watch it on a monitor. Awe. Some.
I'd love to see SNL go back to bringing more edge to their hosts, but I'd prefer that well-meaning Facebookers stop their quest to turn it into the Parade of Ancient Comedians/ennes.
#32The next campaign for an SNL host: Carol Burnett (CNN.com)
Posted: 5/11/10 at 11:48pm
When I lived in Vegas, I'd record a lot of the reruns on E! The earlier seasons didn't have any fun - just oddball skits with weird hosts. I remember Weekend Update being as boring as any news broadcast.
(But an 8 year old Drew Barrymore was delightful!)
"I want a lap dance from an octopus."
-JG2
-JG2
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#33The next campaign for an SNL host: Carol Burnett (CNN.com)
Posted: 5/11/10 at 11:55pmWell, the first group of performers on the shows were baby boomers who had grown up with television (the first generation to do so) and were trying to skewer as many conventions and break as many taboos as they can. I was teething when the show started, so I can only speak from watching the reruns but some were hilarious, others not so much. And that's they way it's mostly been for 35 years. Some seasons were pretty much sh*t across the board (1985-86) comes to mind, but mostly it's always had its ups and downs.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#34The next campaign for an SNL host: Carol Burnett (CNN.com)
Posted: 5/12/10 at 12:02am
But the times were different when it first aired. Our parents had "Laugh-In" but we had "SNL". And it was live, so anything could happen.
It was live vaudeville, brought into our living rooms and it was late at night after our parents went to bed, so it was taboo. That's why I wear glasses today. My parents didn't want us watching it, so we had to sit really close to the tv and play the sound low so our parents wouldn't know we were watching it.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#35The next campaign for an SNL host: Carol Burnett (CNN.com)
Posted: 5/12/10 at 1:16amSNL is like Broadway. People have always said it's going downhill even when it's thriving. I will say for the time being though, they need to get some much stronger women in there (and they need a black woman so Keenan can stop playing them all) to even out the sausage parade they currently have.
#36The next campaign for an SNL host: Carol Burnett (CNN.com)
Posted: 5/12/10 at 1:29am
"That's why I wear glasses today."
OK ,but what about the hairy palms?
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
#37The next campaign for an SNL host: Carol Burnett (CNN.com)
Posted: 5/12/10 at 6:35pm
I think it would be great if SNL let Carol Burnett host as if it were her old variety show, with the cast of SNL as her "regular players."
Add in some cameos by Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway, and Bernadette Peters.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#38The next campaign for an SNL host: Carol Burnett (CNN.com)
Posted: 5/12/10 at 7:26pm
That ain't gonna happen.
SNL has it's own format, Carol's show wasn't live, it was live to tape then played to a live audience for further sweetening.
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
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