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Wow, Hanks is doing another Da Vinci Code movie? Didn't the first two get trashed? Considering how bad Sully was, this could be a lousy year for him. : (

Updated Playtone addy; looks like they moved across town. Has phone numbers, FWIW. http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=105767821

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/why-saturday-night-live-destroys-190600506.html Why SNL destroys Trump but John Oliver & Samantha Bee don't. Allegedly I don't agree with with the thesis, really. SNL was so lame on political stuff for so long, regularly getting it's ass kicked into irrelevance by the likes of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Key & Peele. [sarcasm] But, by gawd, it had Seth Myers and Stefon!! [/sarcasm]

http://www.fanmail.biz/7607.html You used to be able to try to contact him through Playtone, but apparently not any longer.

I really liked this episode, too, but there was too much Trump stuff. WU took a couple gut-punches but they were funny. The product-placement news is very disappointing. Et tu, SNL? But then there's Laura Parson's yelling, "[F]rom this very NETWORK!" Awesome! @ Whoever mentioned the moving bumpers, those are at least two years old now; they just don't do it often.

Huh, wha? "The Angel of Verdun" Rita Vrataski! Anyhow, yes, she's funny. This should be good.

Naw, just the Tina-Jimmy bit. Sorry, I'm not tracking this, what it's in response or reference to. -------------------------------------------------- From what I saw of the show, I agree LMM should be asked back. His energy just draws people in.

ARG. I accidentally deleted my DVR recording having only watched through the campfire-singing sketch. Is there anywhere/way to watch the whole WU without doing a Hulu free-trial?

This was one of the best shows top-to-bottom in forever. Even the newbs contributed. WU continues to rock. Poor Zasheer. She's been on the show over a year now and she's had maybe a half hour of total air time?

Is it possible Lorne figured he could use Beck Bennett to play most of roles Taran had been playing (plus get the vids he makes with Mooney)?

Trump is the easy one. I'm curious how they'll portray Hillary. They haven't always thrown rose pedals in her direction. Cecily as former pageant queen Alisha Machado?

Early on I used to compare-- favorably-- Kristen Wiig to Carol Burnett. And before long I couldn't wait for her to GTFO, for reasons outlined so well by VCRTracking above. I write off some of the antagonism toward the Carol Burnett Show as generational.

The sketch where Obama and Boehner get drunk was pretty good. No one approached the genius of Key & Peele's approach to uncorking Obama, who's cool, collected, and calculating demeanor made him tough nut to crack comedically. They rolled with it but added the character of Luther the Anger Translator.

Is it me, or do those make him look a tad older? I noticed in the pic above with Cazzie, the one forearm is still bare. To each their own, but IMHO tattoos are like Sharpies on a Rembrandt. A practical one might be useful though: Type A+, 0 Allergies, DNR -- and then maybe a little dragon or something just for shits and giggles . . .

http://splitsider.com/2016/07/kristen-wiig-and-zach-galafianakiss-masterminds-is-finally-coming-out-this-fall/ Masterminds is now apparently back on track and due for release Sept. 30th.

She goes full frontal in Welcome to Me.

Couldn't agree more. It's people like Bee (and Oliver, while we're at it) who made WU a laughing stock under the Seth Myers era. With Colin and Michael it's regained some of its bite.

Her line of commercials for this company is some of her best work, imho. She's the perfect choice.

On the now-kaput SNL fansite from whence I came, we did an annual "Guess the Hosts & MGs" contest. Contestants submitted a list of 30 potential hosts and musical guests before the first ep of the season. Any player who was the only person to correctly guess a particular host or MG got two points for it. Otherwise any correct guess was worth a point.

Archive of American Television. http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people I found this because I was looking up stuff on George Carlin after citing him in another thread here. I don't know where to put this but I'd figure people who use this site would be interested in it. His half hour interview by them, done towards the end of his life, is a gem.

What did everyone think of the 41st season in general, as a whole?

Or scatological humor. George Carlin is regarded as one of the funniest comics ever and some of his best bits were about cuss words and farts. "If two people are in and elevator and one of them farts, they both know who did it," is comedic genius on about four levels. It's a scatological/taboo fart joke in an uncomfortably tense situation that's relate-able, it's pristine in its economy and no word is wasted, and lastly, it even has a dash of epistemology and logic for good measure. One of the reasons Python's Ministry of Silly Walks sketch is so funny, so much more than a dumb sight gag, is that it's done in this completely pompous and highbrow context. And we have some of that with the Mr. Bunting sketch with the cloistered uppity prep-school stuffy-schoolmaster setting they borrowed from Dead Poets' Society. In a way it's Silly Walks meets The Black Knight.

Yes, and I started howling again after the head went out the window and got lawn-mowered. Great tag. Anyone see that one coming?

Another good one is "American Hardcore." Some of the people in that one are so, uh, hardcore that to them the Ramones were sellouts. There's plenty of Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins, and many others. Unfortunately, Dead Kennedys refused to be involved and IIRC refused to even allow the band to be mentioned, which is a shame.

Took a gander at the SNL site for what I missed. The Fayetteville song was just filler. WU continues to ROCK. The Maya Rudolph bit went on a little too long but other than that it was great-- esp. with the last bit featuring previously-cut jokes. After suffering all those years with Seth Myers' schmarmy delivery of underwritten tripe, it is soooooo good to see WU back where it belongs.