Christine Ebersole SNL Castmember- Page 2

[ifuweregay93]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 3:46pm

Have you even SEEN the show latley, ljay?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 3:58pm

People who don't watch SNL always say how unfunny it is.

"I remember her as being the resident dumb blonde at a time when the show wasn't very funny at all."

You're thinking of Victoria "I didn't mean to offend anybody when I said Obama had many of the attributes of the Antichrist, it's just eschatology" Jackson.

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 4:11pm

At a performance of Grey Gardens in July 2007, the guy behind me said "She was on SNL?! This must be a comedy!" His wife: "The only reason why she was on it is because her husband was a producer of the show"

Now, she and her current husband Bill Moloney, were not married until 1988. Her first marriage ended in 1981. She was on SNL for the 1981-1982 season.

Oh, did I forget to say that her first marriage was to Peter Bergman. Star of the soap opera the Young and the Restless??? I never knew he was a producer of SNL in the early 1980's!

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 4:17pm

"Worse than its become now? The show hasn't been funny in years."

I wish I was young again when I knew everything.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 4:23pm

I know it was several years ago, but my point remains valid. More recently, I tried to watch it when Sarah Palin was in it and it was still bad.

But to each their own.

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 4:54pm

I have this image of a great-grandmother sitting around listening to her children and her children's children complain about how bad the current economy is.

Great-Granny sits silently and thinks to herself... "I've been through the DEPRESSION.. you youngin's don't know SH*T!"

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 4:55pm

Well, sometimes the fun comes from seeing people crack up on live TV, although when Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz did it in every single one of their sketches it grew tiresome.

Maybe the episode wasn't bad, but a subconscious aversion on your part to Sarah Palin.

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 6:56pm

I think the show has moments in every new episode that are truly hilarious and then there are truly horrendous sketches. But you gotta take the J*zz in My Pants' with the Gerties.

[logan0215]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 8:01pm

What are you talking about Spork?

The Disneyland Debbie Downer skit is an absolute pisser and was one of the high points for the show in the past decade/decade and a half. At that point the show had Tina Fey writing, Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sans cracking each other up in the Jeffrey's skit, Amy Poehler, as well as Maya Rudolph doing Whitney Houston and Oprah. You must be joking.

The Palin skits were hysterical but the remainder of the shows were awful. Kristen Wiig tries her best to carry every skit she's in but the writing is simply put: terrible. It's a shame such a talented comedienne is wasted in this current incarnation of the show.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 10:26pm

People who had the tv on with those episodes onscreen who DIDN'T laugh at those sketches were reading, or surfing the net, or updating their Live Journals as they "watched." I've done it myself, surfed the web for 90 minutes and then said, "That wasn't a good episode," only to catch it on rerun and realize what I missed by not paying attention.

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 11:27pm

"I wish I was young again when I knew everything."

You seem to write that a lot in threads around here, and each time I read it, it feels more ignorant than it did the previous time. Now I am sure you are old, and I'm sure you have seen a lot, and I am sure you have a lot of experience to back up a lot of your opinions. Just because not everyone here has the same amount of life experience as you, does not necessarily mean that their opinions are any less valuable than your own.

In this particular case, the opinion that SNL has not been funny in years is a widespread opinion. Critics have been panning it for some time and ratings have been down. This year there was a slight increase in ratings due to the election, but they are no longer as high.

A couple seasons back Lorne Michaels was told he had to either let some people go or produce fewer episodes in a season in order to reduce funds on a series that NBC saw as failing at the time. That is the season they lost Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell. I say this not because I am young and feel I know everything (though nearing 30 doesn't feel so young anymore). I say this because I am able to do research, I am able to look back at the ratings and see the decline through the years, and because every Saturday night I turn on channel 5 and watch SNL and say to myself, "Wow, this really isn't very funny. Why do I keep watching this anyway?" The answer to that question of course is, after twenty-six years, I have become a creature of habit.

sources can be found here: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117950383.html?categoryid=1238&cs=1&s=h&p=0

and here: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0764445/news?year=2006

I hope that when I am old I do not become one of those old people that believes the youth of the country know nothing.

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 11:52pm

True, I say it often because I remember a time when I had such strong opinions about things I couldn't possibly know anything about.

SNL is a topical show.. the times inform the comedy. So even if you happen to catch the episodes with Ebersole now... unless you watched them AT THE TIME you'll NEVER get the full impact of the cultural context..

I'm pretty sure the person whose post I commented on was too young to have watched the Ebersole season. If I'm wrong and he did watch them AT THE TIME, I apologize. I also apologize to that person If my remarks offended him, I think he should know by now I have a fondness for him and little ribbing shouldn't be taken personally.

That said...

I DID see the episodes with Ebersole and they WEREN'T Funny. It was an astonishingly LOW point for a show I've been watching nearly all my life. Yes, even WORSE than the most recent "bad years."

Also... if you watch SNL long enough.. you'll find a interesting trend.. every 5 years or so there .... hell.. every 3 years or so.. Someone starts the "It used to be so funny, what happened?" conversation...

I have heard this over and over and over and over and over again in the DECADES of watching this show.

So.. when I say.. I wish I was young again when I knew everything... It says more about a place in MY PERSONAL LIFE than it says about anybody else.

But if I seem to recognize that "phase" in someone else... that is just that.. it is someONE.. not "the youth of the country."


So kindly stop taking my specifics and turning them into YOUR generalities.

Thank you.

Updated On: 1/23/09 at 11:52 PM

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 11:55pm

Oh, and Debbie Downer was one of the most hilarious f***ing things that has ever happened on SNL.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/23/09 at 12:09am

Ya know what, lil Jimmy? I saw the first "Saturday Night Dead" headline the week after Chevy Chase quit halfway into Season 2. Yep, back in 1976. The opinion may be widespread, it isn't correct.

[jpbran]

Posted: 1/23/09 at 12:12am

http://listoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/09/snl-clip-of-day-debbie-downer-does.html

So freaking funny... And getting indignant about something like this about a late-night sketch show with "Firecrotch" guest-hosting ("unprofessonial) is just bizarre.

I'd actually say it's one of the joys of "live" performance. (And was actually more common on Carol Burnett's show than SNL...)

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/23/09 at 12:38am

I remember watching SNL when Christine Ebersole was on and liking her very much. She seemed kind of out of place, but I loved whenever she sang. I do not recall the specifics of any skit she did, but I have always known who she is because I was introduced to her on SNL way back when.

Phyllis Rogers Stone and I watched the first episode of SNL in September when Sarah Palin was first parodied, and we laughed till we cried at some of it. (I love the commercial for "Jar Glove.") I saw another episode where Will Forte played MacGruber and I thought I was practically having convulsions I laughed so hard. (I had never seen any of those skits before, so I had no idea it was an ongoing gag.)

Sometimes I don't find the show funny at all. Sometimes I do. It has some very talented people working on it, IMO. But to categorically assert that any show "has not been funny in years" and claim it "is a widespread opinion" is irrational because humor is subjective.