SNL with Jennifer Holliday repeats this weekend! — Page 2

#26

re: SNL with Jennifer Holliday repeats this weekend!

Posted: 9/3/06 at 12:27am

Also not her Broadway debut, by the way.

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#27

re: SNL with Jennifer Holliday repeats this weekend!

Posted: 9/3/06 at 12:33am

Never said it was. Though to get technical, I guess, it was her first real, original (you know what I'm saying) play.

Hot damn! Will someone turn off the geriatricity.

#28

re: SNL with Jennifer Holliday repeats this weekend!

Posted: 9/3/06 at 12:36am

No it wasn't.

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#29

re: SNL with Jennifer Holliday repeats this weekend!

Posted: 9/3/06 at 1:32am

I just saw it! As many times as I have heard her sing that song, I still always get a little choked up. I wish I could have seen her in "Dreamgirls" back then.

Updated On: 9/3/06 at 01:32 AM

#30

re: SNL with Jennifer Holliday repeats this weekend!

Posted: 9/3/06 at 1:33am

I noticed that Darlene sang the Christmas song too. It was in the credits, which I had never paid attention to before (after the cartoon), but for some reason, her name caught my eye and I freaked out. It was a song that was like, "Christmas For the Jews" or something.

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#31

re: SNL with Jennifer Holliday repeats this weekend!

Posted: 9/3/06 at 2:08am

The Jennifer Holliday episode is on here is GA right now.

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#32

re: SNL with Jennifer Holliday repeats this weekend!

Posted: 9/3/06 at 3:03am

It's finally on here.

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#33

re: SNL with Jennifer Holliday repeats this weekend!

Posted: 9/3/06 at 3:52am

Saw it and now I am hyped up.
(Love your avatar MrMidwest!)

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#34

re: SNL with Jennifer Holliday repeats this weekend!

Posted: 9/3/06 at 6:26pm

Did anyone else see it? I was a tad bit underwhelmed.

(Had to fast forward through all the sketches. I had forgotten how bad SNL was back then. And here I had been thinking the more recent shows were bad. SNL in 1982 was dreadfull!)

#35

re: SNL with Jennifer Holliday repeats this weekend!

Posted: 9/3/06 at 6:35pm

I saw it, just because I happened to be up. Amazing! I don't think that would happen today for even the biggest breakout performer. A performer doesn't get seen on SNL now unless he/she/they are a big pop success. Too bad!

#36

Darlene Love and CARRIE

Posted: 9/3/06 at 6:41pm

BSoBW2 - so, you state that the flop CARRIE didn't launch any careers? It's just a footnote for a Betty Buckley and Darlene Love remark?

Well...I'm sure you've heard of some other cast members who were also in CARRIE and who've managed to do a few things here and there since then:

Charlotte d'Amboise
Linzi Hately
Scott Wise
Sally Ann Triplett
Joey McNeely
Mary Ann Lamb
Lillias White

#37

Darlene Love and CARRIE

Posted: 9/3/06 at 6:56pm

"Charlotte d'Amboise
Linzi Hately
Scott Wise
Sally Ann Triplett
Joey McNeely
Mary Ann Lamb
Lillias White"

Hardly the first show for most of them. Their careers had been launched well before they were cast in SCARRIE.

#38

SNl

Posted: 9/3/06 at 7:16pm

I enjoyed the performances, even if they were a bit more subdued than usual. I also liked the Andy Kaufman Elvis bit (that chest hair, lol). Plus, I've always thought Joe Piscopo was kinda sexy.

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"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter

#39

SNl

Posted: 9/3/06 at 10:30pm

"A performer doesn't get seen on SNL now unless he/she/they are a big pop success. Too bad!"

Same back then. She had a pop radio hit with that song.

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#40

SNl

Posted: 9/3/06 at 10:32pm

BrodyFosse - I was joking. Carrie is one of my favorite shows.

But the show did nothing for most of them. Even ended a certain actor's career. Well, maybe that was more of Debbie Allen. But still...

#41

SNl

Posted: 9/3/06 at 10:36pm

this weekend we got jack black in bosotn.

#42

SNl

Posted: 9/3/06 at 10:37pm

Jack Black was on SNL at the normally scheduled time from 11:30 - 1:01.

#43

SNl

Posted: 9/3/06 at 10:38pm

Yes - proving that if he had taken over as Ruprecht, we would have forgotten all about that Butz guy.

Black is an incredible performer.

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Updated On: 9/3/06 at 10:38 PM

#44

SNl

Posted: 9/3/06 at 10:49pm

I agree Rath (my love), Jack Black, if they do yet another movie of Scoundrels, should play the role! I thought that the first time I saw the episode.

As for the Jennifer one: what a flashback for me! I'd forgotten that Christine Ebersole was in it. Not that she had much to do.

Jennifer was something else. I mean, they did not know what to do with her. When I saw it at the taping, she was great. But, damn, the camera was not kind. The director must have been going nuts trying to find the best cuts. Unfortunately, she looked like Madden in drag.

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#45

SNl

Posted: 9/3/06 at 10:52pm

Tom, when I saw DRS, Butz was nothing but an imitation of Black for me. I kept seeing him in the role - and really wanted to.

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