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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: vansmack on October 30, 2005, 11:59:00 pm
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This discussion will inevitably turn into how much SNL sucks, but I noticed something this weekend that I thought was forbidden.
The musical guest was in a skit. Now, on the rare occasion that the musical guest is also the host, it's OK, but I can't remember another time when the muscial guest was also in a skit.
I'm pretty sure I've also read (maybe Jay Mohr's book about his stint on SNL?) that it's was a major no-no. Any one else know?
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I've seen it happen several times. Even a couple of Rolling Stones appeared in a Billy Goat ("pepsi pepsi pepsi!") skit.
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yeah but how often is the musical guest knobbing the guest star?
i'm pretty sure they were a package deal.........
i'm also pretty sure i've seen snl when that's happened before though just can't think when..........helpful i am......... ;)
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i'm an avid SNL watcher, and while extremely rare; it does happen on occasion.
when Ashlee Simpson was first on the show (yes, the whole lipsynching ordeal. meh heh heh...), she appeared in the opening monologue sketch.
also, when Pink was on once she as well participated in a sketch or two...i remember reading an article somewhere that she talked about having relatives that worked as writers on the show or something like that.
so who knows. i guess it all depends on what kinds of connections you have as a musical guest...
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Beck was in a sketch with kevin spacey a few years ago. It had something to do with pot. This was a weird episode...I think also the one where John Cleese and Michael Palin did a depressing rendition of the Dead Parrot sketch. Probably the worst Monty Python moment ever.
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SP were in a skit in 98.
i don't think it's really _that_ unusual that recently that the musical guest will be in one... at least recently.
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ok is it ok at this point in the thread to start bitching about how snl sux and when it started to go downhill? or not quite yet? :D
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Originally posted by muschi:
ok is it ok at this point in the thread to start bitching about how snl sux and when it started to go downhill? or not quite yet? :D
hold on just a little longer, man.
I'm pretty sure Paul McCartney appeared in a few sketches when he was a musical guest. I think Steven Tyler did too.
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Aerosmith was in Waynes World sketch
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Michael Stipe was in a skit as a Christmas Fairy.
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Originally posted by distance:
SP were in a skit in 98.
SP (1998): one song, one skit.
Zwan: two songs.
GREAT move, SNL. :roll:
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Originally posted by Chip Chanko:
I think also the one where John Cleese and Michael Palin did a depressing rendition of the Dead Parrot sketch. Probably the worst Monty Python moment ever.
That was an awful version.
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On the season opener, they did a little skit before Kanye West went on stage. He is walking from his dressing room to the stage when he runs into Mike Meyers (who was on tv with him during the "George Bush doesn't care about black people" comment.) Not sure if this exactly counts as a skit, but I have to say it was a pretty funny moment.
Mike Meyers to Kanye- "Hey, been to any good telethons lately?"
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Originally posted by pickup hiccup stickup:
Originally posted by muschi:
ok is it ok at this point in the thread to start bitching about how snl sux and when it started to go downhill? or not quite yet? :D
hold on just a little longer, man.
I'm pretty sure Paul McCartney appeared in a few sketches when he was a musical guest.[/b]
Paul McCartney on the Chris Farley show...classic.
Remember when you were in the Beatles? That was awesome!
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Originally posted by kcjones119:
Aerosmith was in Waynes World sketch
and a superstar skit.
but SNL sucks now...
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Mick Jagger playing Keith Richards was one of the better skits.
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Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
Originally posted by distance:
SP were in a skit in 98.
SP (1998): one song, one skit.
Zwan: two songs.
GREAT move, SNL. :roll: [/b]
wasn't the one song 'perfect'?
i hated that song.
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Originally posted by distance:
wasn't the one song 'perfect'?
Yeah. I wasn't ever a big perfect fan either, although I did like when they played it on Letterman, that was a good version.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Mick Jagger playing Keith Richards was one of the better skits.
That one was hilarious.
There was Madonna in that Wayne's World sketch/dream sequence, but I'm not sure if she was the host that night.
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a season ago or so, kelly clarkson (musical guest that night) showed up in a skit. now, there have been plenty of times when musicians are in skits, but may not be the musical guest. like madonna's done it a few times- wayne's world, an episode of coffee talk (which also had barbara steisand in it). i think my favourite one (besides mick jagger playing keith richards on weekend update), is where paul simon (as host/musical guest) remembers everyone he meets on a street from every show he's played, but can't remember who art garfunkel is when he shows up.
that being said, i don't remember when the musical guest was in so many skits and was a relatively big part of certain sketches.
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OK I'll start. That was probably the unfunniest SNL I have ever seen. The Indigo Girls skit was painfully bad as was the "Lance can't run" Ironman thing.
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The host really makes a difference. I didn't see this past week, but it seems that SNL saves their better material for when they have a bigger host.
Example - the Catherine Zeta-Jones episode was pretty funny, a week after the cringe-inducingly bad episode with Napoleon Dynamite.
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Wow. Thanks for answering my question. Now I'm going to go back and find where I read that....I'm almost certain it was Jay Mohr's book and he was talking about a skit he had written for Bono, but I'm not even 80% certain.
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Originally posted by the Pharmacist:
OK I'll start. That was probably the unfunniest SNL I have ever seen. The Indigo Girls skit was painfully bad as was the "Lance can't run" Ironman thing.
Agreed. But Tina Fey's "smoke pole" joke is in my top 3 Tina Fey Weekend Update jokes of all time.
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Kelly Clarkson was in a skit as a busker on the subway. Can't remember the guest host, but she wasn't even banging him.
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Jon Bon Jovi/Joey Santora and Sting both did different skits but the same subject. They were interviewing two dancers to appear on their video or something, and they would come out to the band song and imitate it by dance ridiculously. I believe Chris Katan was one of the two, those were hilarious.
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Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by the Pharmacist:
OK I'll start. That was probably the unfunniest SNL I have ever seen. The Indigo Girls skit was painfully bad as was the "Lance can't run" Ironman thing.
Agreed. But Tina Fey's "smoke pole" joke is in my top 3 Tina Fey Weekend Update jokes of all time. [/b]
there are 2 others?
i miss norm...
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Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by the Pharmacist:
OK I'll start. That was probably the unfunniest SNL I have ever seen. The Indigo Girls skit was painfully bad as was the "Lance can't run" Ironman thing.
Agreed. But Tina Fey's "smoke pole" joke is in my top 3 Tina Fey Weekend Update jokes of all time. [/b]
there are 2 others?
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Paraphrasing...When Bono was at the White House he asked Bush to fight AIDS and cancel third world debt. Bush asked Bono to get back with Cher.
Pretty funny.
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Originally posted by eros:
The host really makes a difference. I didn't see this past week, but it seems that SNL saves their better material for when they have a bigger host.
Example - the Catherine Zeta-Jones episode was pretty funny, a week after the cringe-inducingly bad episode with Napoleon Dynamite.
i haven't really found any of the last 3 to be very funny. it's very hit-or-miss these days. usually if it's not funny by the end of the first 30 minutes, it's not going to get any better.
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Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by the Pharmacist:
OK I'll start. That was probably the unfunniest SNL I have ever seen. The Indigo Girls skit was painfully bad as was the "Lance can't run" Ironman thing.
Agreed. But Tina Fey's "smoke pole" joke is in my top 3 Tina Fey Weekend Update jokes of all time. [/b]
That and 34% of Americans believe that Adam and Eve road dinosaurs to church on Sunday.
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Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
there are 2 others?
They showed a picture of a really large Rosie O'Donnell when she got "married" to that chick and, Tina made the announcement on weekend update. Then she said "And to celebrate, they're eating out."
Wait for it......
There you go. That was damn funny.
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Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
That and 34% of Americans believe that Adam and Eve road dinosaurs to church on Sunday.
That was a good one too. Horacio was terrible in his 2-week stint, but his joke about clowns and Cancer was hilarious.
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
I believe Chris Katan was one of the two, those were hilarious.
Chris Katan & hilarious ???
Those two things should never be uttered in the same paragraph.
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Neil Young did a cameo as a dope fiend in a skit last Saturday.
However, this (http://orangehat.org/archives/2005/12/18/snl_lazy_sunday_video.php) was the highlight of an otherwise unremarkable SNL.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Neil Young did a cameo as a dope fiend in a skit last Saturday.
However, this (http://orangehat.org/archives/2005/12/18/snl_lazy_sunday_video.php) was the highlight of an otherwise unremarkable SNL.
that video was HILARIOUS ... and i thought it was a pretty good SNL all-around ... neil young sounded horrible
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However, this was the highlight of an otherwise unremarkable SNL.
there were so many reasons that should have been beyond awful, but i'll be goddamned if it wasn't one of the best things on that show in years.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
However, this (http://orangehat.org/archives/2005/12/18/snl_lazy_sunday_video.php) was the highlight of an otherwise unremarkable SNL.
i definitely agree with this. it made me forget how terrible most of the rest of the show was. as bad as the short really was, we found ourselves laughing so much.
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Totally agree about the Narnia "rap" video. Ridiculously funny! That new guy has potential to be a stand-out cast member. Same with the other new guy who does spot-on impersonations. He did a great Pacino and an incredible Vincent Price this season.
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Is it my imagination or does Rhett look like Neil Young?
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Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
Is it my imagination or does Rhett look like Neil Young?
What has Neil Young ever done to you?
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Your imagination is getting the best of you again.
Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
Is it my imagination or does Rhett look like Neil Young?
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
this (http://orangehat.org/archives/2005/12/18/snl_lazy_sunday_video.php) was the highlight
That was supposed to be entertaining??? ...Because it really blew goats.
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Originally posted by Hanover Fiste:
That was supposed to be entertaining??? ...Because it really blew goats.
I will trust your opinion on this matter, as I am certain that you have a great wealth of experience in blowing goats.
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Now I know what to buy GGW for XMAS! (http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/goat.html)
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I have blown a few goats in my day, and it was a lot more fun than watching that video.
Originally posted by Hanover Fiste:
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
this (http://orangehat.org/archives/2005/12/18/snl_lazy_sunday_video.php) was the highlight
That was supposed to be entertaining??? ...Because it really blew goats. [/b]
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
I have blown a few goats in my day,
Even I find that an offensive way to speak of your bitch wife.
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Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
Now I know what to buy GGW for XMAS! (http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/goat.html)
So long as you don't buy me a "pre-owned" one off of eBay...
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
So long as you don't buy me a "pre-owned" one off of eBay...
I can only afford the manual. (http://cgi.ebay.com/Billy-Goat-CE-Quiet-Blow-Blower-Operators-Manual_W0QQitemZ4376822439QQcategoryZ42229QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
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umm wrong thread....
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
Now I know what to buy GGW for XMAS! (http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/goat.html)
So long as you don't buy me a "pre-owned" one off of eBay... [/b]
Oh, come on now. Isn't that asking a bit much? Don't you have to die first to get yourself a virgin goat?
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This (http://www.wimp.com/homophobe/) clip is way better than that lame SNL clip
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Getting back to the topic, did anyone else see Will Farrell doing the Blue Oyster cowbell thing during Queens of Stone Age's performance of "Little Sister" earlier this year? The band were clearly amused.
I also cracked up when they did the thing when Charles turned himself into a tampon for Camilla and they dressed Mick Jagger up in a powdered wig as a butler and he brought the box of Tampax in for Camilla (played by Julia Sweeney). That was hilarious.
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SNL hasn't been the least bit funny since Belushi left.
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Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Michael Stipe was in a skit as a Christmas Fairy.
I'm sure he had to test his talents to fill that role. :roll:
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
this (http://orangehat.org/archives/2005/12/18/snl_lazy_sunday_video.php) was the highlight
That was awful. Still it was the best rap track to come out this decade.
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Chill out!
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December 27, 2005
Nerds in the Hood, Stars on the Web
By DAVE ITZKOFF
The New York Times
For most aspiring rappers, the fastest route to having material circulated around the World Wide Web is to produce a work that is radical, cutting-edge and, in a word, cool. But now a pair of "Saturday Night Live" performers turned unexpected hip-hop icons are discovering that Internet stardom may be more easily achieved by being as nerdy as possible.
In "Lazy Sunday," a music video that had its debut on the Dec. 17 broadcast of "SNL," two cast members, Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg, adopt the brash personas of head-bopping, hand-waving rappers. But as they make their way around Manhattan's West Village, they rhyme with conviction about subjects that are anything but hard-core: they boast about eating cupcakes from the Magnolia Bakery, searching for travel directions on MapQuest and achieving their ultimate goal of attending a matinee of the fantasy movie "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."
It is their obliviousness to their total lack of menace - or maybe the ostentatious way they pay for convenience-store candy with $10 bills - that makes the video so funny, but it is the Internet that has made it a hit. Since it was originally broadcast on NBC, "Lazy Sunday" has been downloaded more than 1.2 million times from the video-sharing Web site YouTube.com; it has cracked the upper echelons of the video charts at NBC.com and the iTunes Music Store; and it has even inspired a line of T-shirts, available at Teetastic.com.
"I've been recognized more times since the Saturday it aired than since I started on the show," said Mr. Samberg, 27, a featured player in his first season on "SNL." "It definitely felt like something changed overnight."
But Mr. Samberg is already well aware of the Internet's power to transform relative unknowns into superstars. In 2000, when he and his childhood friends Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, both 28, who wrote "Lazy Sunday" with Mr. Samberg and Mr. Parnell, were still struggling comedy writers living together in Los Angeles, they created a Web site, the Lonely Island, to house their self-produced skits and video experiments.
"Honestly, almost every single one of the films was done at like 4 in the morning, kind of drunk," Mr. Taccone said. But the short movies they posted on thelonelyisland.com - everything from cartoons assembled from clips of old Nintendo video games to satirical rap videos performed in the styles of their favorite hip-hop artists - also gave the three a place to develop their comic voices without the pressure of having to deliver professionally polished work.
"The Internet allowed us to show people much faster, in a way that you don't embarrass yourself," Mr. Taccone said. "You don't have to hand someone a VHS. It's just on their computer."
These videos also provided the Lonely Island team with careers: through their Internet work, they landed an agent, pilot deals with Comedy Central and Fox, and writing jobs for the MTV Movie Awards. In 2005, they joined "SNL," Mr. Samberg as a performer and Mr. Taccone and Mr. Schaffer as writers.
At "SNL" they found a kind of kindred spirit in Mr. Parnell, who has used the program's "Weekend Update" segment to deliver highly inappropriate rap tributes to some of the show's comelier female guest hosts. "I don't think I ever heard from Britney Spears," said Mr. Parnell, 38, who has been with the show since 1998. "But Kirsten Dunst and Jennifer Garner seemed to really enjoy it, and thankfully not be creeped out by it."
On the evening of Dec. 12, the four wrote a song about "two guys rapping about very lame, sensitive stuff," as Mr. Samberg described it. They recorded it the following night in the office Mr. Samberg shares with Mr. Schaffer and Mr. Taccone at "SNL," using a laptop computer that Mr. Taccone bought on Craigslist.
Then, while their colleagues were rehearsing and rewriting that Saturday's show, the group spent the morning of Dec. 15 shooting their video with a borrowed camera, using the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Chelsea to stand in for a multiplex cinema and Mr. Taccone's girlfriend's sister to play a convenience-store clerk. Mr. Schaffer spent the next night - and morning - editing the video and working with technicians to bring it up to broadcast standards. Finally, at about 11 p.m. on Dec. 17, the four learned from Lorne Michaels, the executive producer of "SNL," that "Lazy Sunday" would be shown on that night's show.
By the next morning, the video had burrowed its way into the nation's cultural consciousness. "It brought a breath of fresh air to the show," Mr. Parnell said, adding that he received a congratulatory phone call soon after "Lazy Sunday" was shown from his co-star Maya Rudolph, who is on maternity leave, and her boyfriend, the filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. "It's something the likes of which we haven't seen on 'SNL' anytime recently."
Mr. Schaffer and Mr. Taccone were also contacted by friends who heard the rap played on radio stations and in bars. And Mr. Samberg found himself in the delicate position of having to explain to his mother that the song's chorus is a play on words involving the name "Chronicles of Narnia" and the word chronic, a slang term for marijuana. "She's like, 'So is it actually about weed?' " Mr. Samberg said. "It makes you think it's going to be about weed, but then it's actually just about 'Narnia.' She's like, 'Oh, I think I get it.' "
While Mr. Parnell anticipates that the buzz surrounding "Lazy Sunday" will eventually die down, he said the video's success would continue to pay dividends for his young collaborators.
"It will have whatever life people are interested in it having, and then it'll pass out of being the thing of the moment," he said. "But it encourages Lorne and everybody involved with the show to trust them more, and to put their stuff out there."
Mr. Schaffer, who has written just two live sketches with Mr. Taccone that have survived the Darwinian "SNL" dress rehearsal process and made it onto the air, said he appreciated the attention "Lazy Sunday" has received. But he also said he expected no special treatment when the show's staff resumes work in January.
"The thing about 'SNL,' " Mr. Schaffer said, "is that all of this could happen, and we could still come in on Monday morning with zero ideas. No matter what, that's intimidating. We could use all the help we can get."
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For what it's worth, Eminem was also in one of those Chris Kattan dancing sketches a few years back.
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The best SNLs skits are the one where they take one idea, drag it out into a 5 minute skit, and then do it over and over again for years. Those are the ones the audience always goes "woo" for.
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Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
The best SNLs skits are the one where they take one idea, drag it out into a 5 minute skit, and then do it over and over again for years. Those are the ones the audience always goes "woo" for.
I hate to agree with Dr.Mood, but he's correct on rare occasions like these.
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Musical Guests:
Kacey Musgraves (10/2)
Halsey (10/9)
Young Thug (10/16)
Brandi Carlisle (10/23)
Saturday
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Musical Guests:
Kacey Musgraves (10/2)
Halsey (10/9)
Young Thug (10/16)
Brandi Carlisle (10/23)
Saturday
Point of order: are any of these musical guests going to actually preform on Saturday local time? I think not.
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Musical Guests:
Kacey Musgraves (10/2)
Halsey (10/9)
Young Thug (10/16)
Brandi Carlisle (10/23)
Saturday
Point of order: are any of these musical guests going to actually preform on Saturday local time? I think not.
I only watch SNL clips on Tuesdays after the show airs.
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Musical Guests:
Kacey Musgraves (10/2)
Halsey (10/9)
Young Thug (10/16)
Brandi Carlisle (10/23)
Saturday
Point of order: are any of these musical guests going to actually preform on Saturday local time? I think not.
I guess you'll have to travel to Michigan to watch...
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Musical Guests:
Kacey Musgraves (10/2)
Halsey (10/9)
Young Thug (10/16)
Brandi Carlisle (10/23)
Saturday
Point of order: are any of these musical guests going to actually preform on Saturday local time? I think not.
I guess you'll have to travel to Michigan to watch...
Are they still doing the live coast-to-coast thing?
But if you want to be pedantic about it, the performances are in NYC and it will be Sunday morning.
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Are they still doing the live coast-to-coast thing?
9:30 on the West Coast on Oct 2.
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Musical Guests:
Kacey Musgraves (10/2)
Halsey (10/9)
Young Thug (10/16)
Brandi Carlisle (10/23)
Saturday
Point of order: are any of these musical guests going to actually preform on Saturday local time? I think not.
I guess you'll have to travel to Michigan to watch...
I would have to travel to one of four specific counties in the upper peninsula of Michigan for this to fall on Saturday as 98% of Michigan falls in the same time zone as NYC/DC.
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I would have to travel to one of four specific counties in the upper peninsula of Michigan for this to fall on Saturday as 98% of Michigan falls in the same time zone as NYC/DC.
TIL...
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But if you want to be pedantic about it,
isn't this the boards raison d'être
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I don't think she was naked, but I did appreciate the effort to make me think she was naked.
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I don't think she was naked, but I did appreciate the effort to make me think she was naked.
agreed...watched last night and was pretty darn hard to tell if she wasn't
some were saying it was a forest gump ref to that scene with Jenny
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I don't think she was naked, but I did appreciate the effort to make me think she was naked.
IMO she was functionally naked (good band name?). she might have been wearing pasties, mercain, etc. but the guitar and crossed legs were hiding all that anyways. whether she was truly naked or not is academic (and i have an advanced degree in that field of study... ;D ).
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Man, I'm getting some creepy old guy vibes in this thread.
It seems only fair that they would make Young Thug appear naked as well.
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Man, I'm getting some creepy old guy vibes in this thread.
Not going to speak for the others, but she 100% qualifies for half my age plus 7 for me.
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Man, I'm getting some creepy old guy vibes in this thread.
Not going to speak for the others, but she 100% qualifies for half my age plus 7 for me.
I'm not sure what that means. What does her age have to do with you possibly being a creepy old man?
I was accused of acting like a creepy old man toward Erika Wennerstrom, and she's 44 (to my 54).
Of course I kid. I've met each of you, and you're all true gentlemen.
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Of course I kid. I've met each of you, and you're all true gentlemen.
Space lies all the time...
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I don't think she was naked, but I did appreciate the effort to make me think she was naked.
IMO she was functionally naked (good band name?). she might have been wearing pasties, mercain, etc. but the guitar and crossed legs were hiding all that anyways. whether she was truly naked or not is academic (and i have an advanced degree in that field of study... ;D ).
Confirmed Nudity. https://variety.com/2021/music/news/kacey-musgraves-nude-snl-naked-performance-1235080825/ (https://variety.com/2021/music/news/kacey-musgraves-nude-snl-naked-performance-1235080825/)
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I don't think she was naked, but I did appreciate the effort to make me think she was naked.
IMO she was functionally naked (good band name?). she might have been wearing pasties, mercain, etc. but the guitar and crossed legs were hiding all that anyways. whether she was truly naked or not is academic (and i have an advanced degree in that field of study... ;D ).
Confirmed Nudity. https://variety.com/2021/music/news/kacey-musgraves-nude-snl-naked-performance-1235080825/ (https://variety.com/2021/music/news/kacey-musgraves-nude-snl-naked-performance-1235080825/)
Hmm, now I question the veracity of sweets degree....what what your dissertation on?
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I don't think she was naked, but I did appreciate the effort to make me think she was naked.
IMO she was functionally naked (good band name?). she might have been wearing pasties, mercain, etc. but the guitar and crossed legs were hiding all that anyways. whether she was truly naked or not is academic (and i have an advanced degree in that field of study... ;D ).
Confirmed Nudity. https://variety.com/2021/music/news/kacey-musgraves-nude-snl-naked-performance-1235080825/ (https://variety.com/2021/music/news/kacey-musgraves-nude-snl-naked-performance-1235080825/)
Hmm, now I question the veracity of sweets degree....what what your dissertation on?
this article is tangential to my analysis, which still stands. whether she was actually naked is irrelevant: to the observer, she was.
look, i get it, this is a new field of study for you. the analogy here is someone who is being introduced to the concept of Schrödinger's cat. "what do you mean, it's both alive AND dead?" - a normal response from a newb. you'll get there, eventually.
and for the record, the title of my dissertation was "HERsute: A Temporal Analysis of Body Hair and the Female Form in Printed and Online Media, From the 1970's to the Present". i can send you a copy, but best to use a personal email address (preferably a throwaway account that you can plausibly deny ownership of...)
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to be fair kacey was practically naked in the star-crossed film...that white number she was wearing at one point left little to imagination..
<checks self into creepy old guy therapy>
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Last weekend's Saturday Night Live premiere makes history with the series' lowest ratings ever.
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Last weekend's Saturday Night Live premiere makes history with the series' lowest ratings ever.
Lowest premier ever or lowest episode ever?
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Lowest premier ever or lowest episode ever?
It's a bit tricky, because "ratings" are only based on the 18-49 demographic and done by Neilsen, and in that case, it's the lowest ever. Though, that's not too much of a surprise now with streaming so popular in that demographic (NBC was quick to point out that it was the first to air stream live on Peacock, but that is laughable). It was both the lowest rating slide year-to-year for a Premiere and the lowest Premiere ever. Scarlett Johansson's 2015 episode remains the lowest watched episode of all time - 4.7 million viewers. There were 4.9 million viewers last weekend.
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Lowest premier ever or lowest episode ever?
It's a bit tricky, because "ratings" are only based on the 18-49 demographic and done by Neilsen, and in that case, it's the lowest ever. Though, that's not too much of a surprise now with streaming so popular in that demographic (NBC was quick to point out that it was the first to air stream live on Peacock, but that is laughable). It was both the lowest rating slide year-to-year for a Premiere and the lowest Premiere ever. Scarlett Johansson's 2015 episode remains the lowest watched episode of all time - 4.7 million viewers. There were 4.9 million viewers last weekend.
My wife signed is up for a free Peacock trial so my kid could watch it live instead of on YouTube Sunday. We don't get NBC.
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Lowest premier ever or lowest episode ever?
It's a bit tricky, because "ratings" are only based on the 18-49 demographic and done by Neilsen, and in that case, it's the lowest ever. Though, that's not too much of a surprise now with streaming so popular in that demographic (NBC was quick to point out that it was the first to air stream live on Peacock, but that is laughable). It was both the lowest rating slide year-to-year for a Premiere and the lowest Premiere ever. Scarlett Johansson's 2015 episode remains the lowest watched episode of all time - 4.7 million viewers. There were 4.9 million viewers last weekend.
My wife signed is up for a free Peacock trial so my kid could watch it live instead of on YouTube Sunday. We don't get NBC.
How do you not get NBC living in a metro area? Won’t a $8 antenna get you NBC?
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How do you not get NBC living in a metro area? Won’t a $8 antenna get you NBC?
he does, he’s just cheap and lazy
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Lowest premier ever or lowest episode ever?
It's a bit tricky, because "ratings" are only based on the 18-49 demographic and done by Neilsen, and in that case, it's the lowest ever. Though, that's not too much of a surprise now with streaming so popular in that demographic (NBC was quick to point out that it was the first to air stream live on Peacock, but that is laughable). It was both the lowest rating slide year-to-year for a Premiere and the lowest Premiere ever. Scarlett Johansson's 2015 episode remains the lowest watched episode of all time - 4.7 million viewers. There were 4.9 million viewers last weekend.
My wife signed is up for a free Peacock trial so my kid could watch it live instead of on YouTube Sunday. We don't get NBC.
How do you not get NBC living in a metro area? Won’t a $8 antenna get you NBC?
You'd think, wouldn't you? We do have an antenna. We get CBS, ABC, Fox, and a bunch of other stuff. Used to get NBC but can't get it in anymore no matter which way I twist the antenna.
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I don’t believe that is possible
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The transmitter is 11.8 miles away. Aim your antenna NNE at 28.6 degrees.
https://www.antennasdirect.com/transmitter-locator.html
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Edith Puthie
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The 1981 punk rock Halloween riot on SNL
In 1981, Lorne Michaels and John Belushi wanted to get some authentic punks to appear on SNL as audience members for the Halloween episode's musical guest, LA punk band Fear. They called Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi) in DC. They were looking for about 15 people to travel up to NYC and appear on the show. More like 80 punks would descended on 30 Rock.
https://youtu.be/AumYnYlG9fg (https://youtu.be/AumYnYlG9fg)
https://boingboing.net/2021/10/30/the-1981-punk-rock-halloween-riot-on-snl.html (https://boingboing.net/2021/10/30/the-1981-punk-rock-halloween-riot-on-snl.html)
https://www.metafilter.com/193227/Fear-on-Saturday-Night-Live-Documentary (https://www.metafilter.com/193227/Fear-on-Saturday-Night-Live-Documentary)
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Maneskin (https://youtu.be/QN1odfjtMoo) will be the musical guest (https://youtu.be/yOb9Xaug35M) on SNL tomorrow (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmWYEDTNOGUI-GKwYT_fRyX7xWDsiwu0j).
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Thats gonna rock
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Thats gonna rock
Can confirm
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My wife says the guy who just bought a boat reminds her of a certain boardie.
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Thats gonna rock
In a Spinal Tap kind of way.
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Correct. Also similar to (but not the same as) The Struts.
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And just like that… https://t.co/PdnoBvYxS3
LCD Soundsystem on 2/26.
Saturday.
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And just like that… https://t.co/PdnoBvYxS3
LCD Soundsystem on 2/26.
Saturday.
Tonight
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And just like that… https://t.co/PdnoBvYxS3
LCD Soundsystem on 2/26.
Saturday.
Tonight
That douchey guy is hosting
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And just like that… https://t.co/PdnoBvYxS3
LCD Soundsystem on 2/26.
Saturday.
Tonight
That douchey guy is hosting
Shouldn't he be home taking care of the newborn who he had with the woman with whom he cheated on his wife who he refused to have kids with?
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And just like that… https://t.co/PdnoBvYxS3
LCD Soundsystem on 2/26.
Saturday.
Reviews from my fam:
Daughter: This is terrible. It's not even music.
Wife: These are old people. No wonder it sucks. This is white privilege at it's finest.
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Gggrrrrr
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Who knew space had such a hate for white middle aged comics?
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Who knew space had such a hate for white middle aged comics?
I don't really like his music either, but is Mr. Murphy actually claiming to be a comedian too?
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while if LCD's performance on SNL was anything like that recent Christmas special on Amazon it was little more than a bunch of hipsters turning knobs on vintage synths while trying to look cool and james ranting away... that whole special was seriously boring...
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while if LCD's performance on SNL was anything like that recent Christmas special on Amazon it was little more than a bunch of hipsters turning knobs on vintage synths while trying to look cool and james ranting away... that whole special was seriously boring...
This is a borderline Space review: you are trying to comment on their SNL appearance that you -- clearly by your opening clause -- did not actually see.
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I actually enjoyed their performance of Yr City Is a Sucker ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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while if LCD's performance on SNL was anything like that recent Christmas special on Amazon it was little more than a bunch of hipsters turning knobs on vintage synths while trying to look cool and james ranting away... that whole special was seriously boring...
This is a borderline Space review: you are trying to comment on their SNL appearance that you -- clearly by your opening clause -- did not actually see.
fine they were as dull on SNL as they were in that special
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the cold open was powerful.
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Japanese Breakfast*
5/21
Saturday
*Does not donate to hate groups
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I was just watching last nights SNL. I overshot skipping commercials and landed in the middle of Jonas Brothers first song. I swear I thought it was another shitty skit.
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I was just watching last nights SNL. I overshot skipping commercials and landed in the middle of Jonas Brothers first song. I swear I thought it was another shitty skit.
I knew it wasn't, but totally said it could be a parody song. Other than the opening, bad episode. Not a Molly Shannon fan
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Someone asked AI to create a dude that young Taylor Swift fans and their moms could like equally and this guy appeared.
he was on SNL a few weeks back and my meh meter blew a fuse
speaking of AI & SNL: the last two episodes of SNL (shane gillis and sydney sweeney) were absolutely horrible - incomprehensibly so. i'm an SNL apologist, i've been willing to put up with their various slumps over the years but the last two shows really make you wonder "who the hell wrote those scripts and thought they were in any way funny?" then someone on twitter put forth the theory that the show has replaced its writers with AI and it all makes sense. no proof tho.
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I thought Shane Gillis was pretty funny and Sydney Sweeney looked good in that white dress.
But yeah the last two episodes sucked monkey nuts.
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This comment is not directed at Space but all the Sydney Sweeney posting on social media makes me realize we are in desperately thirsty times as a society.
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This comment is not directed at Space but all the Sydney Sweeney posting on social media makes me realize we are in desperately thirsty times as a society.
Tell us more of your thoughts on this.
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This comment is not directed at Space but all the Sydney Sweeney posting on social media makes me realize we are in desperately thirsty times as a society.
Tell us more of your thoughts on this.
I don’t think there’s a lot more for me to say — an otherwise polite society is super horny for Sydney Sweeney. That’s the thought.
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This comment is not directed at Space but all the Sydney Sweeney posting on social media makes me realize we are in desperately thirsty times as a society.
Tell us more of your thoughts on this.
I don’t think there’s a lot more for me to say — an otherwise polite society is super horny for Sydney Sweeney. That’s the thought.
i'm sorry, i got distracted... did you say boobs?
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Had to google her. No idea who she was but I understand the sentiment and Space's, as usual, creepy observations.
This comment is not directed at Space but all the Sydney Sweeney posting on social media makes me realize we are in desperately thirsty times as a society.
Tell us more of your thoughts on this.
I don’t think there’s a lot more for me to say — an otherwise polite society is super horny for Sydney Sweeney. That’s the thought.
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This comment is not directed at Space but all the Sydney Sweeney posting on social media makes me realize we are in desperately thirsty times as a society.
Tell us more of your thoughts on this.
I don’t think there’s a lot more for me to say — an otherwise polite society is super horny for Sydney Sweeney. That’s the thought.
Oh, ok, I thought you were going to give us several paragraphs of some kind of psuedo-deep sociological observations on this and how it's indicative of where we are as American men and women and theys in a Trumpian world. Or something like that.
But your answer is more fitting for this post-Hutch Board situation we've moved to.
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Had to google her. No idea who she was but I understand the sentiment and Space's, as usual, creepy observations.
This comment is not directed at Space but all the Sydney Sweeney posting on social media makes me realize we are in desperately thirsty times as a society.
Tell us more of your thoughts on this.
I don’t think there’s a lot more for me to say — an otherwise polite society is super horny for Sydney Sweeney. That’s the thought.
I said she looks good in a white dress. How the fuck, pray tell, is that creepy? She's 26 year old, not 12.
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But yeah the last two episodes sucked monkey nuts.
the season last year I thought was pretty good
I thought Bowen, Cloe, Sarah and ego were funny in many skits
wasn't hitting it out of the park but there were some good laughs
Have not tuned in this season due to how NBC has their streaming app
but after reviews like these, I'm not encouraged