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Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1175
Posted: 1/19/14 at 12:43amI actually laughed into coughing fits during the slumber party scene. I didn't realize Drake would be so completely committed to the comedy.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1177
Posted: 1/19/14 at 11:26am
Drake is charming and attractive.
But, geez, these sketches were all awful.
Ariana Huffington on Weekend Update was the only real highlight for me. "As the busboy said to the waiter, 'Chris Christie is finished already!' "
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1178
Posted: 1/19/14 at 12:15pmThat's so funny, cuz I laughed at every sketch. Different strokes, I guess. Mine just so happen to be face down on a bean bag.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1179
Posted: 1/19/14 at 12:23pmThe only one that I didn't think worked was the Indiana Jones sketch.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1180
Posted: 1/19/14 at 12:41pm
Yea, that one was really bad.
Otherwise I laughed constantly through the rest of the show.
Oh, one other sketch I didn't like: "I Know".
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1181
Posted: 1/19/14 at 12:44pmThe Poetry Teacher?
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1182
Posted: 1/19/14 at 1:16pm
"Are you all right?"
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1183
Posted: 1/19/14 at 1:55pmI wish they'd make a Jacob the bar mitzvah boy movie with Vanessa playing both Jacob and his Mom.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1184
Posted: 1/19/14 at 9:30pmWhen is Seth Myers last night on Weekend Update? I thought it would be last night.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1185
Posted: 1/19/14 at 9:38pmHe apparently said today at TCA he's got 2 more.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1186
Posted: 1/20/14 at 12:50amThe Detention/Poetry sketch was my favorite followed by the Slumber Party one. The Indiana Jones one was THE WOOOORST! It's not funny to have a woman wondering around saying the same two things over and over.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1187
Posted: 1/20/14 at 9:03am
Slumber Party was laugh-out-loud funny.
Drake was great, but the women really captured the 'girls'.
The bit with 'Jacqueline Bisset" in the back of the seats, during Weekend Update was really funny.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
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Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1189
Posted: 1/22/14 at 4:34pm
That illustration omits Tim Meadows, who, like him or not, was the African-American who lasted the longest (or has Keenan Thompson been around longer?)
Also, didn't the entire original cast, not just Garrett Morris, leave in 1980?
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1190
Posted: 1/22/14 at 6:29pmYou're right. They omitted two of the most successful African-American players on SNL, Tim Meadows and Tracy Morgan. But perhaps the point was just to highlight and not point out every single actor. Maybe. I don't know.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1191
Posted: 1/22/14 at 6:40pmThe most important thing to do to support one's argument about lack of representation is to leave out examples that don't back up your point.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1192
Posted: 1/22/14 at 9:23pmDo you think omitting two players is enough to completely disprove HuffPost's graphic? There is no doubt that SNL has a questionable past with casting minorities.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1193
Posted: 1/22/14 at 9:48pmYes, I know, and it looks even questionabler if they leave off two of the longest-serving cast members of color.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1194
Posted: 1/22/14 at 10:37pmSo, I guess there are no funny Latino comics now?
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1196
Posted: 1/22/14 at 10:48pmHmmmmm did In Living Color or Mad TV go through the same scrutiny? SNL had criticism a few seasons back where there were no female cast members. I do not think it is a conscious decision. Looks at their casting pool, The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1197
Posted: 1/22/14 at 11:29pm
I LOVE that media folks who have not given two craps about race are just NOW making a big deal about SNL. They had a black guy for the first five seasons they almost never used. This is not a show that has made any great claims at being representative of the population at large. And obviously, it has taken time for them to get strong women and people of color. They obviously have heard the criticisms and have taken some corrective measures.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1198
Posted: 1/22/14 at 11:58pm
For the record, I was being a wee bit sarcastic. I do think more diversity helps SNL stay fresh long term and help to reinvent itself.
EDIT to make comprehensible.
Updated On: 1/23/14 at 11:58 PM
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1199
Posted: 1/23/14 at 12:02amYou're right it does. Pointing out that leaving off Tim Meadows and Tracy Morgan on that chart is as convenient as Fox News putting little Ds beneath Republicans caught in scandals is not the same thing as saying SNL is a perfectly cast show. Seeing them try to respond to the criticism the way they have is much more heartening than Lena "voice of her veneration" Dunham saying she went to Oberon so obviously she really cares about race matters and, um, it would be more racist for her show to NOT be all-white.
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