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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
Did everyone else get censored during the Greased Lightning skit?
Or was it just here in Salt Lake?
It is bad enough the NBC affiliate here is owned by the Mormon Church and wont even show SNL. I have to watch it on the local CW channel in SD. But now it seems that even the CW channel is censoring things now?
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
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Did everyone else get censored during the Greased Lightning skit?
Or was it just here in Salt Lake?
It is bad enough the NBC affiliate here is owned by the Mormon Church and wont even show SNL. I have to watch it on the local CW channel in SD. But now it seems that even the CW channel is censoring things now?
I never knew Cream was a bad word!!!!
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How did the skit get censored by the CW? Did they cut out parts? Interesting that they were censoring a skit about censoring.
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I hate that it's got to the point where no one bothers to try to remember their lines anymore (except for the new girl Casey, it seems), so the skits are almost better listened to, than watched.
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To give a bit of credit to the players, re-writes happen up until airtime (and often, during the show), so it's almost impossible for the players to memorize their lines. Thus, the need to use cue-cards.
Been that way since the beginning.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
Thomas; they muted out the word "Cream" everytime one of them said it.
The line in the song is: "You are supreme, the chicks'll cream, for grease lightning". But every time they said the word "Cream", the audio was cut off.
And I couldnt stand how Chrstopher W. never looked at the other actors. It was real bad. I think this should be his last time on this show.
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I haven't like the previous laser cats, but I liked this one.
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I missed the show. Was there an episode of "The Continental"?
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
They probably can no longer do the Continental skits because Walken can't look into the camera. He has to look off stage at cue cards. THe skit wouldn't work without him looking into the camera.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
Love Walken but he's getting worse about no eye contact with his scene mates. Rewrites happen up til the last minute, but that doesn't generally mean every line is brand new. It's no excuse for literally standing there and reading and not even looking at Jason Sudeikis during a scene where he's supposed to be essentially stalking him.
Thought the plant guy was funny, tho and the Walken family reunion was great. Says a lot for someone to have fun with that kind of self deprication.
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> No and that is too bad since it is perhaps one of the funniest things ever done on SNL.
Yeah, I assumed it would be on this episode.
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I think it was out of respect for the original Continental writer. They brought him back whenever Walken hosted to write that sketch, but due to budget restraints, SNL has almost completely cut down on bringing back veterans and freelance contributors.
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Yeah, Walken's reliance on the cue cards was grating, and especially during the "goodbye party/stalker" sketch, but I'm always willing to cut him a lot of slack because he makes up for it with his unusual delivery.
I thought the "Walken Family Reunion" sketch was a bit overdone and just used as an excuse for the cast to show off their "Walken Mimicry Skills" (no one does it better than Kevin Spacey and Jay Mohr, as past seasons have shown, IMHO). However, the "reunion" sketch made me come to the realization that Walken has quite a Noo Yawk accent underneath that oddball delivery.
I can't believe no one's mentioned his "questions from the audience" monologue, which set the tone for the whole evening. I was ROLLING...
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I liked his monologue, but would have preferred a musical number like he usually does.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
Tonight's it's Ashton Kutcher hosting, and Gnarls Barkley providing the musical entertainment.
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I actually enjoyed tonight's musical guest, Gnarls Barkley.
The paralyzed stripper skit was LOL funny.
The "Death by Chocolate" bits were also pretty good.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
Kristin Wiig's nervous fast talking during "Weekend Update" was nothing short of phenomenal. She has a real talent for "nervous" characters. Following that up with Fred Armisen's "comedian" who "comments on current newspaper articles with his own 'unique skew'" was a brilliant stroke.
The "Cougars" sketch affected me in ways I am not ready to deal with. I haven't been that turned on by Cameron Diaz since "The Mask" (which was pretty much the ONLY other time she did it for me).
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Kristin Wiig's nervous fast talking during "Weekend Update" was nothing short of phenomenal.
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I did catch an error -- she says, "It's par for the course. I don't know what that means. Just kidding, it's from golf. Just kidding, it's from tennis."
The sports should be transposed to make sense. I re-watched the bit four or five times before I noticed it. I agree that it was a remarkable feat to pull off live, and yes, I'm just being nit-picky.
I wondered if the Cougars sketch was written for Demi but she didn't want to do it. It makes more sense that way.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
The first half of the show really seemed to have an "older woman" theme, starting with the Cougar Den (which creeped me out while it made me laugh) and continuing with Activia.
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