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tlim
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| IMO, Best skit of the night was Jeopardy. And "Sean Connery" was friggin' awesome. |
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| Wilt wrote: | I thought the Celebrity Jeopardy sketch was fantastic. Martin Short was great, too.
Paul McCartney's singing was really, really bad.
I wonder why Dennis Miller didn't show up. Not invited? Or refused to attend? |
The Dennis Miller we knew from Weekend Update no longer exists. He's more GOP political machine now comedian. |
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Roger O. Thornhill
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| vanexelent wrote: | | Wilt wrote: | I thought the Celebrity Jeopardy sketch was fantastic. Martin Short was great, too.
Paul McCartney's singing was really, really bad.
I wonder why Dennis Miller didn't show up. Not invited? Or refused to attend? |
The Dennis Miller we knew from Weekend Update no longer exists. He's more GOP political machine now comedian. |
His mind is twisted and evil? |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Jimmy Fallon talked about afterparty for this. Sounded amazing. |
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| Wilt wrote: | I thought the Celebrity Jeopardy sketch was fantastic. Martin Short was great, too.
Paul McCartney's singing was really, really bad.
I wonder why Dennis Miller didn't show up. Not invited? Or refused to attend? |
Too busy being an irrelevant Tea Bagger. |
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Haven't really watch SNL since the days of John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris, Chevy Chase and crew days.
That show, like In Living Color, launched the careers of a lot successful entertainers.
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How often is the sequel to a comedy funny? Airplane! was legendary, but the sequels were forgettable (and in fact are forgotten). You can go right down the list of popular comedies that had sequels. There is probably an exception or two to prove the rule.
The same principle applies to SNL. It could never possibly be as original, innovative, and culturally relevant as it was in its early years. This is true by definition -- you cannot pioneer a trail that has already been broken. For sure, SNL had patches when it had original, innovative, and culturally relevant ideas again, but on the whole it was imitating itself. For example, when the show has already generated the shock value of "Jane, you ignorant slut," how do you ever create equivalent shock?
http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi119734297
I'm still amazed that this managed to go out on live, network television. A quarter of a century later, it's still edgy. |
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KobeBryantCliffordBrown
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| Quote: | | Aeneas Hunter wrote: | How often is the sequel to a comedy funny? Airplane! was legendary, but the sequels were forgettable (and in fact are forgotten). You can go right down the list of popular comedies that had sequels. There is probably an exception or two to prove the rule.
The same principle applies to SNL. It could never possibly be as original, innovative, and culturally relevant as it was in its early years. This is true by definition -- you cannot pioneer a trail that has already been broken. For sure, SNL had patches when it had original, innovative, and culturally relevant ideas again, but on the whole it was imitating itself. For example, when the show has already generated the shock value of "Jane, you ignorant slut," how do you ever create equivalent shock?
http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi119734297 |
ROFLMAO!
My best friend of almost 40 years now is named Jon and whenever we speak, the first thing out of my mouth continues to be "Jon, you ignorant Slut."
In any case, I think you are right in general and specifically. OTOH, I think that the saying trash in trash out is applicable as well. The fact is that the gold mine of talent that was on some of those early year SNL's together, at one time was simply comedic genius multiplied.
I've peaked in from time to time over the years and the people on the show just aren't as funny and the writing isn't as funny.
But I think it's mostly the comedians. Once I read an essay from probably the most respected Jazz critic of all time on Billy Holiday and he was criticizing her-tongue in cheek-mind you, for ruining so many songs for him. His argument was that he had in his mind so many great Jazz songs that he thought were just great songs, but only because he had only heard Billie sing them. What he came to realize over time, was that she was the one who turned ordinary songs to great recordings and great songs into the sublime.
How many comedians today could turn that rendition into the long lasting art that it has become, or turn "No hamburgee-cheeburgee, no fry-cheep" or "C-I-L-L my landlord" into that which Jane curtain, Dan Akroid, John Belushi and Eddie Murphy did?
If the early days of SNL had been comprised of a bunch of Garrett Morrises, I don't think it'd be celebrating it's 40th anniversary that's for sure.
I'm still amazed that this managed to go out on live, network television. A quarter of a century later, it's still edgy. |
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Cheri Oteri as Marissa. Likin it a lil bit... The Marissa Tomei look makes every woman who can pull it off a little better than she was before.
Chucklin at Hammond now. That s is...
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Cheri Oteri as Marissa. Likin it a lil bit... The Marissa Tomei look makes every woman who can pull it off a little better than she was before. |
Agree, and it makes Marisa look better afterwards too.
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| C M B wrote: | | non-player zealot wrote: |
Cheri Oteri as Marissa. Likin it a lil bit... The Marissa Tomei look makes every woman who can pull it off a little better than she was before. |
Agree, and it makes Marisa look better afterwards too. |
Where do you wanna shampoo Marisa first?
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Hartman was (bleep) hilarious. His stuttering hick bit in that waitress sketch still has me dying.
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| Well, after the ISIS sketch at least they made it to 40 years. |
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