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vb68
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NASCAR airs tonight in primetime instead of a classic episode.  I would hope they scrap the scheduled repeat in the regular show slot and air the full Chadwick Boseman episode.  That would be the righ

saber5055
saber5055

That was a blast from the past. I photographed a Ray Charles concert some years ago (before he died, heh) for a magazine I worked for. I sat on the stage steps, just a few feet from him. (He was the f

Pete Martell
Pete Martell

Jan Hooks would have been 63 yesterday. Robert Smigel, longtime writer and occasional onscreen player, wrote a lovely series of tweets about her, and also managed to get a Jan sketch he thought highly

peeayebee

peeayebee

I just watched this ep. I had seen the WSS sketch before, and it's still great. "Do you know 'While You Were Singing I Got Stabbed in the Head by a Puerto Rican'?"

 

I was really charmed by how Bob Dole and Norm MacDonald interacted. Just really enjoyable.

 

For some reason I really liked the Shopping Home Network sketch. Everyone was so committed. It was just really silly. I think Chris Kattan isn't generally liked by fans, but I've always liked him. (I haven't seen all that much of his stint at SNL.) Here I thought he was really good, funny and completely in character.

DXD526

DXD526

Not a real strong episode. Hardball was funny, and so was Weekend Update, but the rest, meh. One of the major problems was McCain himself. It's pretty obvious the guy has zero sense of humor and no idea how to deliver a joke. He weighed down every sketch he was in. As a comic, he's a longtime politician.

 

It was great seeing Tina and Jimmy at the Update desk again. They may well be the best WU team ever. Them, or Tina and Amy. I loved 30 Rock, but Tina was born to do WU.

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JakeyJokes

JakeyJokes

Tonight was the season opener of 1993, with Charles Barkley and Nirvana. I absolutely loved it. Barkley's always been one of the better athlete hosts. There was a Phil Hartman as Clinton opener, a Stuart Smalley sketch with Muggsy Bogues, the Gap Girls (my favorite!!), and a Coffee Talk with Linda Richman.

 

They showed both performances of Nirvana which is rare for an hour version. The second song was "Rape Me" and I had read somewhere that NBC told them that they couldn't do that song, and Nirvana agreed to it and then decided to do it anyway. RuPaul was there for the good-nights, but he wasn't featured in the hour version.

helenamonster

helenamonster

Caught the second half of the episode. Saw both of Nirvana's performances, Weekend Update, and the donkey basketball sketch. I'm guessing they aired it cuz of Nirvana, as they showed both songs. Kurt Cobain died a few months before I was born, so I missed the phenomenon. It was cool to see them. 

JakeyJokes

JakeyJokes

I was born in the late '80s, so I knew OF Kurt Cobain but completely missed the grunge movement (my coming of age was a few years later, guided by TLC and Alanis Morissette). I watched the songs with captioning so I could get all the lyrics -- very dark stuff, and I can see how teenagers were so enthralled by it.

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absnow54

absnow54

For anyone with the Logo network, they've been playing marathons the past few weekends. I don't know what seasons they have the rights to, but every week they've gone back a little further in time. So far they've aired seasons 30 through 40. I missed the seasons from the mid to late 2000's because I was in college, so it's been fun to see the Hader/Sudeikis/Samberg/Wiig early years. That was such a tight cast. Probably one of the best ensembles along side the original cast, the 80s golden era, and mid-late-90's Ferrell years.

DXD526

DXD526

Barkley trash talking Barney will never fail to make me laugh.

 

Nor will Barkley throwing an elbow at Barney. He was winning, he really didn't have to do that!

 

Stuart Smalley was so underrated (and made one of the best SNL movies, Stuart Saves His Family). So funny. I wonder how Sen. Al Franken feels about him now?

JakeyJokes

JakeyJokes

I am enjoying the LOGO reruns -- The Fey/Fallon era was a pinnacle for me -- but I will gripe about them insisting on airing the Paris Hilton episode. I swear E! aired it nonstop when they had the rights. It's not that good, and Tina openly trash-talked her on Howard Stern later that year.

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helenamonster

helenamonster

I am enjoying the LOGO reruns -- The Fey/Fallon era was a pinnacle for me -- but I will gripe about them insisting on airing the Paris Hilton episode. I swear E! aired it nonstop when they had the rights. It's not that good, and Tina openly trash-talked her on Howard Stern later that year.

 

"Is Maya Rudolph Italian?"

Asp Burger

Asp Burger

Help with a sketch, please. i'd be eternally grateful, or at least long enough to click "like" on your post.  

 

Era: '90s.  

 

This was a commercial parody for a floor cleaner (something with pine or lemon in it), with a woman talking about how things that used not to be important to her have become important to her now that she has a home of her own and a family. We expect her to stop, but she keeps going on with too much information about her lurid past of substance abuse and crime. Whenever she stops talking, we hear background singers singing in high, ethereal voices about the floor cleaner.

 

At the end she says something like, originally her plan was to con this divorced-with-kids guy she married and leave with his money, but now she thinks she'll stay. Then she starts mopping and we see her arms are covered in tattoos. 

 

I cannot find a trace of this, and I don't remember which SNL woman was in it (Ana Gasteyer? Molly Shannon?). I remember it being pretty funny.  

Bees

Bees

For some reason that era of SNL (late 80s) seemed to do an amazing job with sports stars as guest hosts. The Gretzky episode is a classic as is the Walter Payton/Joe Montana episode and even though they weren't the best actors, the show worked with it and made some absolute classic sketches (Wakiki Hockey and Sincere Guy Stu for example).

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cpcathy

cpcathy

Wow, I was really bowled over by how unfunny the Gretzky episode was! Just goes to show you how different opinions can be on this show! I thought the Waikiki Hockey sketch was wretched and even WU with Dennis really really a drag. I guess I didn't remember how mean he could be. Not all those 90's episode were classic.

Fex

Fex

Yay! A "Classic" episode that was actually old! Woody Harrelson hosting Thanksgiving 1989, which was also the week the Berlin Wall came down. There was an awesome episode of Sprockets.

For weekend update, Dennis Miller had a running "gobble, gobble" joke. They flashed a picture of a turkey, he said "gobble, gobble". A picture of Joseph Goebbels, he said "goebbel, goebbel", etc. But I didn't "get" them all. I wish I could find a list!

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WendyCR72

WendyCR72

Last night also reminded me of a few things:

Victoria Jackson was annoying.

Jan Hooks was underrated.

And Phil Hartman should still be with us, damn it. Between his Jack Nicholson and Frankenstein bits, he just rocked.

And hey, Woody Harrelson had hair!

 

ETA: Kind of surreal to think when this originally aired, I was just 17 and in my senior year of high school. Eeep!

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JZL

JZL

On 4/21/2016 at 6:09 AM, Asp Burger said:

Help with a sketch, please. i'd be eternally grateful, or at least long enough to click "like" on your post.  

 

Era: '90s.  

 

This was a commercial parody for a floor cleaner (something with pine or lemon in it), with a woman talking about how things that used not to be important to her have become important to her now that she has a home of her own and a family. We expect her to stop, but she keeps going on with too much information about her lurid past of substance abuse and crime. Whenever she stops talking, we hear background singers singing in high, ethereal voices about the floor cleaner.

 

At the end she says something like, originally her plan was to con this divorced-with-kids guy she married and leave with his money, but now she thinks she'll stay. Then she starts mopping and we see her arms are covered in tattoos. 

 

I cannot find a trace of this, and I don't remember which SNL woman was in it (Ana Gasteyer? Molly Shannon?). I remember it being pretty funny.  

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/97/97clemonglow.phtml

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wknt3

wknt3

15 hours ago, cpcathy said:

Wow, that was not a funny episode. I love Woody, but the only amusing sketch was the cowboy sketch.

And Dennis Miller is overrated, in my opinion. Give me Seth Meyers as a solo anchor any day.

I was thinking the same thing. It was nice to see an episode that was more than a few years old though if only to remind us that "back in the day" they had all the same problems of overused recurring characters, bad writing, cast members who played everything the same, etc. And I really like Dennis Miller WU, but except for the runner this gobble gobble runner this one really felt flat. I thought it was interesting to see that the bits that I've seen in specials and that stood out as better than meh (lonesome cowboys, and Trazan, Tonto, Frankenstein Thanksgiving) were buried at the end.

12 hours ago, WendyCR72 said:

Last night also reminded me of a few things:

Victoria Jackson was annoying.

Jan Hooks was underrated.

And Phil Hartman should still be with us, damn it. Between his Jack Nicholson and Frankenstein bits, he just rocked.

Have to agree on all of this (although I'd add the present tense as well for Victoria Jackson) especially Phil Hartman. What a loss for comedy. 

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vb68

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I have it on the DVR but haven't watched it yet. Busy weekend.   This is my favorite era of the show, i.e. my cast that I came of age with the show. 

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Jan Hooks was underrated.

I know I'm a broken record on this, but she's the most underrated person ever on the  show simply because she's as talented as anybody who's ever been a cast member, including Phil.  Indeed she was the Ginger Rogers to his Astaire. 

 

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Remember when Dennis Miller wasn't a whackjob?

Boy I do.  It's hard to remember now, but I use to be excited for his take every week. This was way before Jon Stewart or Colbert. I have never seen anyone's ideology shift like his did.

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Phishbulb

Phishbulb

That Lifetime talk show sketch that Jan Hooks and Nora Dunn did was so quietly funny in the way it mocked the inane chit-chat typical on talk shows aimed at women. Everything was so low-key but hilarious to me in a kind of Bob and Ray-esque way.

"Now how long does it take you to make miniature rice?"
"A long time...it's really almost not even worth it"

They sort of predated the NPR ladies by about 10 years.

Mumbles

Mumbles

Just gotta chime in on the Jan Hooks love. She was wonderful. She could do anything - I think she did BOTH Tammy Faye Baker AND Jessica Hahn! - and whatever sketch she was in, she improved it, even if it was a small background role (eg her Mary in the It's a Wonderful Life parody). She especially shined when paired with Nora Dunn. The Sweeney Sisters continues to be one of my top five recurring bits. 

As Christmas is coming up, I think of one of my favorite wacko Holiday-related sketches, the Carl Sagan Global Warming Christmas, where she is paired as Crystal Gayle with Phil Hartman's Isaac Asimov to sing "Silver Bells." It's a delightful fever dream of a sketch, Myers does Sagan, Tom Thanks plays a befuddled Dean Martin and Dana comes out as a spacy dreamy Paul McCartney.

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