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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
The Angry Dog Food commercial was funny because it was in bad taste. As was Ambiguously Gay Duo. Except that was screamingly funny.
Also, didja catch the name of narrator for the Solid Gold sketch?
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Hm. . .that could be good. Can this crew manage it? We'll see.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
I liked the skit at the end with Bon Jovi in the early 80's. The band wanted to call themselves something different and he was like "I was thinking of calling the band "Bon Jovi". It was funny.
Bring back John Doe! Or at least resolve the cliff-hanger with a 2hr movie or as an extra on a dvd release.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
I think that it sucks that Foo Fighters only got one song. Where my eyes deceiving me or was that Pat Smear back with the band?
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
Yes, the backstage sketch just dragged and wasn't particularly funny. I think they just wanted an excuse to dress Amy as Kucinich.
Overall, though, this was the best show of the season. Williams was a great host, and even though there was a lot of him playing a parody of himself, he busted out a Bronx accent for one sketch. The Digital Short was almost as good as the Peyton Manning United Way commercial, and Weekend Update was consistently funny.
Of course, they did have 3 weeks to prepare.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
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| Yes, the backstage sketch just dragged and wasn't particularly funny. I think they just wanted an excuse to dress Amy as Kucinich. |
My feelings exactly. Great show otherwise, and it was nice to have a host who seemed prepared for a change, instead of relying on a teleprompter or cue cards. Williams' Bronx fireman was especially good.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
I don't watch the show anymore (for various personal reasons), but for those of you who do, I have some news to share with you.
I don't know how to do the quote from the website thing, but this is what the New York Post announced recently.
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"In its first dramatic move since the beginning of the Writers Guild strike, NBC has fired "nearly the entire production staff" of its struggling, late-night staple, "Saturday Night Live," sources told Page Six.
One tipster told us, " 'SNL' laid off all their staff until further notice. Their production staff, even long-term employees, were let go." Another source confirmed that "90 percent of the 'SNL' staff was fired."
And while The Washington Post reported yesterday that NBC might lay staff off at Jay Leno's "Tonight" show, "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" and "Last Call With Carson Daly" - all of which immediately went into rerun mode on Nov. 5 - those staffers would at least get paid for two more weeks. But an insider confirmed to us that "SNL" staffers got no severance.
Although no official announcement had been made as of last night about firings at any of NBC's late-night shows, multiple sources confirmed to us that "SNL" staffers learned of their axing yesterday morning. Reps for NBC declined comment."
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
And we're back.
Strong show last night, solidly funny with no really memorably stand out skits.
After assuming they put Keenan on a diet to play Obama, it turns out that Fred Armisen is now Obama. Visually, it totally works. The impression itself needs some tweaking.
The highlights for me were Weekend Update and the wedding toast. I did not get Carrie Underwood's outfit for her second song. I mean not only was it a mess, but I didn't even quite understand exactly what she was wearing.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
The Annuale commercial was pretty good, made me LOL.
The new girl isn't too funny, but she does like showing off the ladies.
Too bad Carrie Underwood isn't showing off her legs like she did last April.
I really hope Don Pardo didn't kill himself trying to blow out all 90 of those candles.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
Watching it live and seeing the awful local commercials, "Virgania Horsen's Hot Air Balloon Rides" was just perfect and Wiig continues to be amazing.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
Tina Fey's segment on the Weekend Update felt like a Hillary commercial.
Bring back John Doe! Or at least resolve the cliff-hanger with a 2hr movie or as an extra on a dvd release.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
Bitches get stuff done.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
I do like the "Bitches get stuff done"
The Annualle commercial was right on.
The hour long Hillary commercial was long and pronounced, but the opening debate "we're absolutely in the tank for Obama" was pretty much how I saw the debate too. Even as someone with not that political leaning, the presidential debate came across as a fawning session.
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