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#1176

Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread

Posted: 1/19/14 at 12:43am

I actually laughed into coughing fits during the slumber party scene. I didn't realize Drake would be so completely committed to the comedy.
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#1178

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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!' "
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#1179

Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread

Posted: 1/19/14 at 12:15pm

That'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.
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#1181

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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".
....but the world goes 'round
#1184

Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread

Posted: 1/19/14 at 1:55pm

I wish they'd make a Jacob the bar mitzvah boy movie with Vanessa playing both Jacob and his Mom.
#1185

Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread

Posted: 1/19/14 at 9:30pm

When is Seth Myers last night on Weekend Update? I thought it would be last night.
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#1187

Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread

Posted: 1/20/14 at 12:50am

The 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.
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#1188

Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread

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.
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#1190

Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread

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?
#1191

Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread

Posted: 1/22/14 at 6:29pm

You'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.
#1192

Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread

Posted: 1/22/14 at 6:40pm

The 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.
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#1193

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Posted: 1/22/14 at 9:23pm

Do 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.
#1194

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Posted: 1/22/14 at 9:48pm

Yes, I know, and it looks even questionabler if they leave off two of the longest-serving cast members of color.
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#1197

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Posted: 1/22/14 at 10:48pm

Hmmmmm 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.
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#1198

Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread

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.

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#1199

Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread

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

#1200

Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread

Posted: 1/23/14 at 12:02am

You'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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