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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: VOR on October 31, 2004, 08:13:54 PM
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Absolutely had to be the worst episode I've ever seen. The only part remotely funny was the initial OBL broadcast/translation. The animated bit where McCain suffers flashbacks and wigs out a-la Apocolypse Now was funny, but way over the top of the wierd scale.
What's happened to that show over the years? It used to make me roll of my couch laughing...now I just look at it the way a guy might look at his first date if she farted loudly in a restaraunt.
O.o
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Try Mad TV. It's falling too, but I still think its better than SNL.
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I tried to watch SNL last night, I lasted through 3 skits and eminimim.
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Chris Farley died, Tim Meadows actually retired after 20,000+ years, Dennis Miller is doing his own thing, a bunch moved on to movie careers (David Spade, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, and many others). The rest of the greats have moved on.
Basically the new cast sucks bellybutton and has sucked bellybutton for quite a few years now. Horatio Sans is ass, and Jimmy Fallon, how the shreck did they find him anyway? Sandler clone - and a horrible one at that.
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My standard is the original cast, seen live, and even those "greats" you mention were barely watchable.
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and G.E. Smith left the band, really miss his guitar
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Originally posted by Lizking
My standard is the original cast, seen live, and even those "greats" you mention were barely watchable.
Included in "the rest" would be:
Murray
Kaufman
Belushi
Hartman
Aykroyd
Murphy
Short
Carvey
Lovits
Meyers
Nealon
even Rob Scheider :)
I consider all casts pre-1994 to be golden and the casts pre-1984 to be in a league of their own :)
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They even had women!
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I can count the number of times I've laughed out loud during SNL on one hand.
Most overrated pile of crap ever.
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Originally posted by Tarmac
I can count the number of times I've laughed out loud during SNL on one hand.
Most overrated pile of crap ever.
It used to be really funny. I don't watch it anymore beacuse 1) it isnt funny anymore and 2) it isnt interactive like my comp is :D
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They're not easy to remember :)
Radner, Jackson, um, Kurzizowski or something?
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I still enjoy SNL. It's not the same show it was 25 years ago because, well it's 25 years later. I think you guys just hate Tina Fey's liberal views. Guess what? The show has ALWAYS been liberal. They have ALWAYS parodied the sitting President, Republican or Democrat from Gerald Ford to Bush, Jr.
You want badly written, seriously unfunny SNL? Look to the Eddie Murphy / Joe Piscapo years. The current crop is plenty talented.
BTW, the Smigel cartoon was great. You really have to feel sorry for McCain. Being saddled by the RNC with campaigning for a man he does'nt respect has to be hard for him to swallow. (Exactly the point of the cartoon.)
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It isn't the lefty perspective that turns me off. They'll make fun of anybody almost equally across the board. What I don't like is that it just isn't funny anymore. The skits are awful, the cast is mostly awful, and the new charachters they've come up with like that fat rapper and the hyperactive kid wanting her ears pearced are just awful. The Smigel cartoon might have been funnier if it were more scripted instead of just playing with the same sound clips over and over. I got the point of the cartoon just fine.
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Did you see the story 60 Minutes ran about SNL tonight? It followed the show from Monday to air. They pick 10-15 skits out of 40 or so. They then thin that out by the audience reaction during Dress. Comedy is probably the hardest artform to create. Add to it the fact that the show is live (the only one on TV) and it's a very tough row to hoe.
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No, I didn't catch the 60 mins story and didn't know how they chose their skits. Maybe it's just me, then. I'm not exactly in touch with what's popular these days. I don't even think of Eminem as an artist after hearing his performance last night. (But I wish I had his bank account)
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Once again we find common ground. I can't stand Eminem.
On a side note, the story was filmed last week when the Ashlee Simpson fubar occurred. I can kinda buy her story of a hoarse throat now. She had big trouble singing during Dress on the 60 Minutes story because of her throat. I really don't care about it tho.
I thought she was lipsyncing her first song as well when I watched it live. During a closeup it just did'nt look right, but I thought it may have been because of an 8 second delay being used. If you watch a live event when a delay is used you can often see pic and voice out of sync while the delay builds from 0 to 8 secs.
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Yeah, they made every effort to distance themselves from her too. Seems like if they knew she was having voice problems, they might not have hammered her into the ground on last night's show. It's not like she pulled a Milli Vanilli. I don't really care about the whole thing, though. I can't name any of her songs off the top of my head.
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Originally posted by Octavius
Horatio Sans is ass, and Jimmy Fallon, how the shreck did they find him anyway? Sandler clone - and a horrible one at that.
Horatio is ass??? What's the matter with you, boy, you high on cheddar again?! And him and Jimmy Fallon in any sketch is pretty good, as they inevitably end up cracking each other up, which is fun to watch. But I must admit, I thought the same thing about Fallon the first time I saw him whip out a guitar.
"NOOOO! IS TOOO SEXY!!!"
In any case, SNL just goes in cycles. It's good, it sucks, it's good it sucks, round and round, but one thing always remains the same...every cast masters the fine art of making a skit last forever and ever and evar and . . .
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Saturday Night Live hasn't been on the air in decades. There's a farce masquerading as Saturday Night Live on the air these days, been there since the original cast left. Hell, you could dig up Belushi and Radnor and they'd be funnier than the best Saturday Night Live has since they left.
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I like Fallon and Fey's news, but it's still not as good as Norm Macdonalds Weekend update...
I still like SNL, and still consider Darrell Hammond's Clinton, and Will Ferrell's George W, Carvey's George H. classics
Having never been really exposed to the early days of SNL (except the odd best of special), consider these to be the "better" of the cast from 1990 on:
Will Ferrell
Norm Macdonald
Phil Hartmann
Dana Carvey
Mike Meyers
Kevin Neallon
Rob Schnieder
David Spade
Julia Sweeney
Chris Farley
Adam Sandler
Cheri Oteri
Molly Shannon
featuring: Chris Rock, Chris Kattan, Darrell Hammond
Tronsky
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AND WE'RE BAAAAAACK!
Fallon was great. My favorite bits were the DJ, Dorm Room Webcast and of course Weekend Update. BTW, did you catch him in Band of Brothers? I didn't spot him until the third time I watched it.
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Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
Saturday Night Live hasn't been on the air in decades. There's a farce masquerading as Saturday Night Live on the air these days, been there since the original cast left.
I'll second that. The old shows still make me laugh, even if I know whats coming.
I consider all casts pre-1994 to be golden and the casts pre-1984 to be in a league of their own
The show started sucking asss around 1982 or so. I watched it whenever I could growing up. There was the occasional high point, but it mostly sucked throughout the 80's and 90's.
I said mostly, there were severel comics that can be considered to be the best in their era.
I think you guys just hate Tina Fey's liberal views. Guess what? The show has ALWAYS been liberal. They have ALWAYS parodied the sitting President, Republican or Democrat from Gerald Ford to Bush, Jr.
I couldn't care less what their views are or were. It's comedy, or supposed to be at least. I've always enjoyed their political satire. Through the late 70's, all through the 80's and 90's, and even now.
Granted, GB1 and Slick Willy were the best, but that stuffs always funny.
You want badly written, seriously unfunny SNL? Look to the Eddie Murphy / Joe Piscapo years.
What?? Murphy was fediddlein hilarious. BuckWheat? Damn, I'm laughin now thinkin of his old skits.
Fee Times A Mady?
BuckWheat Has Been Shot?
Damn man, whats wrong with you??
every cast masters the fine art of making a skit last forever and ever and evar and . . .
Thats always been part of their problem. I think Mad TV is starting to fall into that too.
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You really cant base SNL's overall performance on one show. First, yea...some of the great talent has left but they got their footing there. The "great ones" like Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Dana Carvey and many many others came out of there.
Its funny you mention this since after they make some big press thanks to the Simpson chick who called those who lipsync are fakes and shouldnt be in the biz, well, got busted. All on live TV. Wonderful! So, I think everyone was tuning in this week for a good show (since we all missed last weeks, right?) and got a bum episode.
It took my a while to like Jimmy Falon and a few of the more recent ones, too. But if you catch a few episodes, you're bound to catch a good one. It also depends on the guest host and whatever "theme" they are chasing.
Mad TV was pretty good, too. I havent watched it in a long long time.
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SNL dropped off my schedule when LandShark and KillerBees left the show ....