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#375Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/4/12 at 8:55amI thought the Australian movie and that ridiculous mountain one were the only bombs of the night. I even liked the hotel check out skit in a kind of British humor way. The last sketch, for some reason, had me laughing harder than almost anything else all night.
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#376Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/4/12 at 10:17amThe mountain sketch only worked because you could see each one of them almost crack up inside. It was so ridiculous that they had a tough time keeping it together, especially Louie CK.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#377Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/4/12 at 10:23amI thought the mountain sketch was awful and not in a good way but in the opposite way. The last skit worked because it was funnier than most of what we had seen before, besides the Lincoln film, the opening monologue, girl at the party and I think one other bit.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#379Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/7/12 at 10:25pmI can only hope that they do "Diane Sawyer drunk on the air" this weekend.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#381Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 12:14amThe slop-n-swish video was HILARIOUS.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#382Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 1:07amGood opening bit. Homeland parody was dead on. Pharoah on Weekend Update. Everything else fell flat especially McD sketch
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#383Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 1:13am
Love Bobby as Drunk Uncle! Thought it was a very strong show actually.
"Why did the chicken cross the road? To get away from the immigrants!"
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#384Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 1:21amThe opening sketch and the monologue were the best to me. I was hoping they would do the march though during the Les Miz song. I love Anne Hathaway! She looks really cute in that haircut.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#385Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 7:50am
Bill Hader's Mandy Patinkin was dead-on.
Rhianna really can't sing at all, can she?
Updated On: 11/11/12 at 07:50 AM
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#386Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 8:16am
Thought it was the best show of the season. Everything was fun!!
Anne was perfection and love.
Except Rihanna. God she's whiny useless. Her first performance reminded me of those Karaoke kiosks at Six Flags where you can sing and have groovy cheap green-screen images on back.
#387Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 8:50amWow, did I watch a completely different episode? I thought last night was an (almost) all-around bomb. The Homeland sketch was dead-on and the only completely funny sketch of the night. I thought the cold open was PAINFUL and the jokes on Weekend Update were weak. Seriously, for the first show after the election, I was super disappointed.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#388Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 9:59am
Sloppy Swish, McD's, Jay as Obama on Update, and the Ellen sketch were all at the top of my list.
Why does Rhianna keep coming back, though? Ugh. At least her backdrop gave something interesting to look at!
#389Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 10:16amI missed most of the show because I fell asleep. I know, so why should I have an opinion? Well, I woke up as Rhianna was performing and thought I was watching a completely different program because of the background. I went to change the channel to make sure I still had NBC on. It was too much.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#390Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 11:04am
I'm glad someone else liked the McD's sketch. "Badda ba ba ba go kill yourself!" The Ellen Show sketch and the last sketch from last weekend are two examples of pretty good post-Update sketches. Anne got in "trouble" last time she played Katie Holmes, so it was funny to see it again.
The opening was not funny enough. I figured it would be more biting, and between that and the monologue, I thought this would turn into Jason's last show. The girlfriends talk show was sad. I know she has barely been there, but Aidy does not seem to bring too much to the table.
At first, I thought the Mokiki sloppy swish video was trying too hard to fill the Lonely Island void, but it was great!
And is it me, or does Taran not have that bad of a singing voice?
#391Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 11:15amI loved the Mokiki video and was thrilled Anne did Katie Holmes again. That HOMELAND bit was HILARIOUS ad I actually really loved the Romney opening. I laughed really hard at that one.
#392Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 11:36am
Loved Girlfriends (though it ended kind of abruptly), McDonald's, Mokiki (it was so odd that it worked), American Gothic (Hathaway and Sudeikis made it work) and Homeland.
Everything else was painful, which, thankfully, wasn't a lot. The Ellen sketch wasn't funny, save for Hathaway's dead-on Holmes, which was only on for 10 seconds.
I will say that Cecily Strong has become the new MVP of SNL. No matter what she's in, I always laugh.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#394Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 12:22pm
I thought the Mitt Romney Cold Opening was pitch perfect! It was funny, a bit sad and poked some fun at the Romneys. There is no fun at being cruel and kicking someone when they are down.
As much as I didn't like Mitt, I do kind of feel a bit sorry for him that he was so wrapped up in his own bubble of entitlement that he and Anne were probably designing the White House China instead of bothering to write a concession speech.
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Updated On: 11/11/12 at 12:22 PM
#395Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 1:11pm
I think I laughed twice during the cold open: the line about Paul Ryan carrying Wisconsin and the Trump joke. As someone else noted, I guess I was expecting it to be more biting. The whole milk bit seemed weak and reaching. Even McKinnon, who's been brilliant as Ann all season, seemed out of it--but I'd blame the writing there. She wasn't given anything to do.
The Girlfriends sketch was embarrassingly bad. The McD's sketch had a few isolated laughs, but it didn't sustain any momentum.
I clocked out after Weekend Update; apparently, it seems like most of the good stuff happened after that point. Maybe I'll check it out on Hulu later today.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#396Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 1:15pmI don't think The Ellen Show sketch is on Hulu. They usually leave one sketch off, and that was it.
#397Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 2:56pmI found it pretty funny overall--the Ellen sketch seemed spot on to me--and a rare SNL skit I wish had gone on a bit longer.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#398Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 3:03pmDoes anyone else hope Vanessa gets to do at least one more Miley Cyrus Show? It could be about her hair and planning her three weddings.
#399Saturday Night Live!
Posted: 11/11/12 at 4:24pmWyn - I wish there could be a full Miley Cyrus show. I love it! There is always good, ridiculous Miley material!
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