OK, I have been watching Saturday Night Live from its debut and it has spawned a lot of careers. The conventional wisdom is it has seen its day but I will say I thoroughly enjoyed tonight's show with Steve Martin an Prince as the musical guest. Was it an aberration or is it renewing itself?
Davydd (Anglicized Welsh name for David...that's all) Real name: David Stovall, Tonka Bay, MN
Certified BPT Taster Pursuing Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches
Long lost Speedway Sparkplug thrashing about in the deep woods of Minnesota
Steve Martin
Prince
But neither was a debut, a career launching performance (a la Devo), or a renewal of SNL's glory. More like nostalgia.
The rest
"Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob." - Federalist 55
“My first reaction as a race car driver was to jump out of the car and use the Foyt technique of driver development - grab him and pound some sense into him.”
"Make way. I'm Reaganing."
I usally tape the shows so I can speed through the carp...
...lets face it---comedy is hard.
90 minutes of comedy is real hard.
But one can always find a gem or two each show.
Last night was way above average.
I would guess it as an accident.
I havent seen more than 30 seconds of any SNL in 20+ years, nothing they do can get a laugh, chuckle or even moment of minor amusement out of me.
It was what I looked forward to all week when I was 13 and had no social life
in 1978.
Stopped being funny around 1981.
So how many Not Ready For Prime Time Players have there been?
Faster than a bullet from a gun
He is faster than everyone
Quicker than the blinking of an eye
Like a flash you could miss him going by
No one knows quite how he does it but it's true they say
He's the master of going faster. -George Harrison
The episode that Dane Cook hosted was pretty good.
Life's too short to worry/Life's too long to wait
Too short not to love everybody/Life's too long to hate
"There are a number of very knowledgeable and entertaining race fans here. There are also a number of morons. Your job is to figure out which is which." - Rev-Ed
Originally Posted by comfortably numb
Agreed. 90 minutes of love comedy very hard each week, but every once in a while they hit a grand slam making the low periods worth getting thru.
SNL is its own worst enemy. As the years grow longer since the original cast was in place, the pedestal on which they have been placed gets higher and higher. Making it that much more impossible for anyone else to match their near mythical level of comedy. Anyone who didn't get the chance to see the shows from the first 5 years would think every single skit was a laugh riot. Truth is, they had plenty of clunkers. You just don't see those skits in the 'best of' collections. Those of you who think the recent years haven't been funny, haven't been watching. Or are just so biased that you're not willing to give it a chance.
Is watching 30 seconds of something really giving it a fair chance?
To a New Yorker like yourself, a hero is some type of weird sandwich. Not some nut who takes on three Tigers!
Strange how different our perceptions are. As I was watching this episode I kept thinking to myself how below average this particular one was. Maybe I was expecting more out of a Steve Martin episode. The film segments were alright, but the live, in-studio skits seemed weaker than normal. The studio audience certainly weren't laughing it up as much as normal.
Here's my problem with the current editions: They've fallen into the formula the show seems to adopt when they can't offer anything better: parodies of Television shows and celebrity impersonations. Whatever happened to the art of situational skit writing? The fine art of comedy writing has really seemed to have really lost it's way under the Tina Fey regime. They've got lazy---more so than usual. It's gotten to where a skit is only as good as the celebrity impersonation.
Also missing is a stand out cast member. Performers like Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Gilda Radner, Eddie Murphy, Mike Meyers, Belushi, etc. could some how elevate weak material just with their presence. No one has really broken out of the new group.
Geeze, Kev, what do you find funny?
"Geeze, Kev, what do you find funny?"
He doesn't know. I love this classic gem; "I havent seen more than 30 seconds of any SNL in 20+ years, nothing they do can get a laugh, chuckle or even moment of minor amusement out of me."
Yeah. That happens when you don't watch.
I'm still waiting for his series of reviews for books he's never read.
Last edited by athos1172; 02-06-2006 at 01:20 PM.
"Foyt's mere presence is a punch in the face, an inoculation against milquestoast corporatism. There wasn't a car anywhere anyhow anytime that Foyt wouldn't put the boot to, and there hasn't been a race devised he couldn't win."
- Jeff MacGregor, Sunday Money
for one night SNL stepped aside and it became a Steve Martin television special for one night.
That's all it was...
BTW is Maya a MILF or what??
Huh?
Leave me alone when you get old there's no telling what will turn you on.Huh?
I only noted that she had increased milk capacity...
...she that she glowed.
Sorry, I am acronym challenged.
"Sorry, I am acronym challenged."
No worries.
BTW = by the way
Thanks athos...
...Je comprend.
I understand...
...though I'm not quite ready for Friendly Village Estates.
Ask your kid... that's what I did.
Hey son what's the deal with all these "MILF in training" t-shirts I've been seeing?
niether am I... I didn't say "GMILF".
Or TFMILF.
Okay... where's my kid when I need to ask him a question??Or TFMILF.
Track Forum Member I Would Love to Forgive.
I thought if you loved me then that meant I didn't have to say I was sorry... that forgiveness was automatic??
Thank you Ryan O'Neal.
"God, I wish I knew how to quit you."
Dang all these guys who keep auditioning for "2 Fat 2 Curious".
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/0....ap/index.html
Too long to post the whole article.
Warning: if you've only seen 30 seconds of SNL over the last 20 years, you may not recognize some of the names.
"The shaggy-haired Samberg has lately become immediately recognizable to viewers. His mock hip-hop video with Chris Parnell about cupcakes and "The Chronicles of Narnia," entitled "Lazy Sunday" (penned with new writers Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer), was a huge hit online, where it was linked by blogs including Gawker.com."
If you haven't seen ^, you should. Very nice.
Lazy Sunday
Better choose your words carefully there pardner, locals here dont take too kindly to any criticism of their show
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