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Weekly SNL thread
Saturday Night Live! #275
Posted: 9/16/12 at 11:47amRoxy- I think you mean Lana Del Rey (sorry if I spelled that wrong)
Saturday Night Live! #276
Posted: 9/16/12 at 11:55am
Supportive, I kept thinking the same thing about Christopher Knight.
I didn't have a problem with the Farrah joke. It wasn't at her expense.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
Saturday Night Live! #277
Posted: 9/16/12 at 1:10pmI hope Jon Hamm's bulge hosts this season.
Saturday Night Live! #278
Posted: 9/16/12 at 1:40pm
Count me as someone who thinks any outrage over the Farrah joke is misplaced. Like Namo said, it wasn't at her expense. It wasn't even mean-spirited.
I thought the episode was okay. I'm glad the vast throng of supporting players were finally promoted to main players (Taran, Nasim, Keenan, Bobby, et al).
I didn't realize Kate McKinnon was gay until I read it somewhere this summer. I see why they hired her, because she seems pretty versatile, but every character she does is so intense and specific it often seems like she's in a different show from everyone else.
Updated On: 9/16/12 at 01:40 PM
Saturday Night Live! #279
Posted: 9/16/12 at 2:16pm
Keenan has been a main player for a while. He has been on the show as long as Jason.
Taran made perminent cast member in record time. He is a very strong talented performer. Also one of the more down to Earth.
Bobby seems so happy to be part of the cast now, the uncertainty has lifted, at least for four years.
Saturday Night Live! #280
Posted: 9/16/12 at 2:22pm
Oh right. For some reason I was thinking Keenan was still a featured player last year. Thanks for the correction!
PS - Were you involved with those puppets last night? When they came on, I thought of you!
Updated On: 9/16/12 at 02:22 PM
Saturday Night Live! #281
Posted: 9/16/12 at 3:26pmYes, those were 22 hour wonders. Started them at 9 PM friday night, finished them at 7:45 Saturday, just before dress. Honestly didn't think I was going to make it this time.
Saturday Night Live! #282
Posted: 9/16/12 at 3:45pmDid you also do the horse heads?
--Aristotle
Saturday Night Live! #283
Posted: 9/16/12 at 3:55pmYes. I also build a torso appliance for Seth for a sketch where he was torn in half on the football feild. It was cut at dress.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/08
Saturday Night Live! #284
Posted: 9/16/12 at 6:38pmWell done, SNAFU. Those puppets were awesome. So was the sketch.
Saturday Night Live! #285
Posted: 9/16/12 at 6:55pm...Seth MacFarlene's Ryan Lochte was really funny.
Saturday Night Live! #286
Posted: 9/16/12 at 7:55pmThose puppets were great. They really gave the cast something to work with.
Saturday Night Live! #287
Posted: 9/16/12 at 8:02pmPersonally I thought Hader, not being a puppeteer, was incredible in that sketch. My assistant had to give him a few pointers during rehearsal. I find that character really funny! I would LOVE to see him performing at a childrens birthday party!
Saturday Night Live! #288
Posted: 9/16/12 at 8:34pmI wish SNL would break returning characters out of their sketch formats. I'd like to see Stefon AT New York's hottest club. Or working at Starbucks.
Saturday Night Live! #289
Posted: 9/16/12 at 9:04pmI agree. I want to see Stefon in the real world! Would be awesome. Maybe that is a moovie... it worked for Stewart Smally. Thought that movie was perhaps one of the better realized ones in the SNL cannon. Go Senetor Franken!
Saturday Night Live! #290
Posted: 9/16/12 at 9:25pmI'd love a series of vignettes where Stefon stalks Seth Myers around Rockerfeller Center. These could easily replace Andy Samberg's videos. Plenty of locations to shoot them to make it different: the cafeteria, writer's table meetings, rehearsals, dressing room, elevator, bathrooms, studio tours, etc.
--Aristotle
Saturday Night Live! #291
Posted: 9/16/12 at 10:35pm
Glad somebody else on this planet likes Stuart Saves His Family!
And putting Frank Ocean on par with Lana del Rey is disrespectful to Frank Ocean, an actually good vocalist versus somebody who like she was on a bunch of barbiturates.
And again, about Stefon, the writers seem intent on making it about Bill doing the impression to cue cards that he has no idea what is written beforehand. Doing pre-recorded work changes Stefon's whole dynamic. Hader's a top performer but the whole role of Stefon is the unpredictability about what he has to say, even for Bill Hader.
Saturday Night Live! #292
Posted: 9/16/12 at 10:40pm
I think both could work. I never understood, as far back as the original cast, why they didn't make a movie with them playing their characters all over New York City. Or why they've never done it with any of the other casts that clicked.
I too LOVED Stuart Saves His Family. I also loved the "Daily Affirmations" sketch the week after the movie bombed with Stuart shoving Double Stuf Oreos down his throat.
Saturday Night Live! #293
Posted: 9/16/12 at 10:43pmI mean I could see a 'Debbie Downer Takes Manhattan' kind of video sketch really working with the character around real people.
Saturday Night Live! #294
Posted: 9/17/12 at 8:16am
Snafu - awesome job on the puppets! I thought of you too when I saw them as well as the horse heads.
At the end of this week's SNL I thought to myself..."WOW amazing episode WITHOUT Kristen Wiig!" Was SO tired of seeing her monotone characters redressed in different plots. I loved her in the beginning but then just got flat out bored with her.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
Saturday Night Live! #295
Posted: 9/17/12 at 3:01pm
Great work, Snafu!
I didn't think the Farrah joke was in bad taste at all. Seth was talking about a childhood crush. EVERY straight boy had a crush on Farrah!
Saturday Night Live! #296
Posted: 9/17/12 at 4:15pmAgree with you TheatreDiva90016...the Farrah joke didn't bother me either. It was in context...but of course someone is bound to be offended.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
Saturday Night Live! #297
Posted: 9/20/12 at 7:47pmI am recording the Special Thursday Weekend Update tonight. I didn't get to watch last Saturday's episode until recently. The highlights for me were obviously the puppet scene and the Ryan Lochte impression.
Saturday Night Live! #298
Posted: 9/23/12 at 12:31amGOP tampon commercial was HILARIOUS. Weekend Update went on forever this week. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a very hip, cool persona that doesn't make him funny. I didn't care for a single sketch he was in so far.
--Aristotle
Saturday Night Live! #299
Posted: 9/23/12 at 12:40am^ But I loved the monologue! That boy can move!
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