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post #121 of 183
3/8/09 at 8:56am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

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Originally Posted by pitchman
Agreed. That was a funny sketch!She was supposed to be Jessica Rabbit, who (according to the WU story) was recently voted "the sexiest female cartoon character of all time." Justin Timberlake also appeared in the same piece as a nerdy fanboy.
The Rock Obama was one of the better sketches this season. Good synergy with the guest. It is already online at
Saturday Night Live - The Rock Obama - Video - NBC.com

I did not recognize Jessica Biel as Jessica Rabbit at all.
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post #122 of 183
3/8/09 at 12:27pm

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

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Originally Posted by pitchman
Justin Timberlake also appeared in the same piece as a nerdy fanboy.
Actually, 'Kathy's' husband 'Irving.'

I couldn't get over the musical guest [Ray LaMontagne], his music was decent enough, but he seemed like a Groundling's improv skit where the setup is "Young Bobby De Niro has been hypnotized and thinks he's Otis Redding."
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post #123 of 183
3/8/09 at 1:44pm

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

In the past years, you can always count on The Rock and Justin Timberlake to deliver the goods when they host. Even though the material may not be good at times, they seem to be open to any idea and they do a good job of performing and remembering their lines.

~T
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post #124 of 183
3/8/09 at 3:26pm

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

The Michael Steele bit on WU had me LOL a lot.
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post #125 of 183
3/15/09 at 5:32am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

Last night, I only got half? of SNL and I don't know why. The first thing I have is the Big Love parody. I don't really like Tracy Morgan, I'm just confused. Did the show come on at 11:30?
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post #126 of 183
3/15/09 at 6:43am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

It came on normally for me. The pre "Live...from New York..." sketch featured Tracy Morgan literally punching his way up to the SNL studios (and included a super brief Tina Fey walk-on.) I checked out of the program around twenty minutes in. The only reason I stayed that long was I was hoping Tina Fey would do something else. Pretty unfunny program all the way around, IMO. As always, YMMV...
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post #127 of 183
3/15/09 at 7:01am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

Tried watching for a bit and was reminded how bad this show has gotten.

Think its time for a complete overhaul of the format or let it be put out to pasture.
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post #128 of 183
3/15/09 at 9:14am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

Kristen Wiig played Barbie at age 50 on Weekend Update. It was good.

Tracy Morgan seems to be a lot like Tracy Morgan so, I don't care much for him.
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post #129 of 183
3/15/09 at 11:25am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

I don't understand why people like Tracy Morgan. He's not funny...at all.

Kristen Wiig as Barbie was exactly the same as Kristen Wiig as Bjork a few weeks ago. She's good but needs to be used way less in the show.
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post #130 of 183
3/15/09 at 1:12pm

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

I thought it was one of the better episodes of the season. ASTRONAUT JONES never gets old. And I loved the Barbie sketch.

One thing though, what was up with Keenan during the SCARED STRAIGHT sketch? Every time Tracy spoke, he was mouthing all his lines, like he was reading the cue cards along with him and trying to steal his spotlight.

It was very strange. I've seen him do it in the past too.
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post #131 of 183
3/15/09 at 6:14pm

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

Rocket Dog was fantastic--this season has been so lopsided; a lot of the best sketches turn out to be the 12:50 slot. Maybe they're trying to make that slot less notoriously bad, even though that seems counterproductive and great sketches like Wayne's World premiered there.
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post #132 of 183
3/15/09 at 6:20pm

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

John Cena had a nice cameo at the beginning. I wonder if he's lined up to host since he has a movie coming out.

I didnt see anything different about Keenan during that sketch. If he was moving his mouth, then it's probably his way of acting tough.

~T
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post #133 of 183
3/15/09 at 6:31pm

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

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Originally Posted by Jon Martin
One thing though, what was up with Keenan during the SCARED STRAIGHT sketch? Every time Tracy spoke, he was mouthing all his lines, like he was reading the cue cards along with him and trying to steal his spotlight.

It was very strange. I've seen him do it in the past too.
I've never noticed that before. I played the sketch again and I see what you're talking about. Maybe he and Tracy had to read off of the same card, and he was mouthing Tracy's words so he wouldn't accidentally read Tracy's lines?
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post #134 of 183
3/16/09 at 7:30am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

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Originally Posted by ThomasC
I've never noticed that before. I played the sketch again and I see what you're talking about. Maybe he and Tracy had to read off of the same card, and he was mouthing Tracy's words so he wouldn't accidentally read Tracy's lines?

I checked on line and apparently Keenan always does this. One person claimed that it has gotten to be so noticable that, in a sketch with Kristen Wiig, Wiig was mouthing Keenan's lines to get back at him.

You can watch the Scared Straight sketch here

Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Scared Straight
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post #135 of 183
3/16/09 at 7:59am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

While Tracy Morgan can be funny. I find Keenan to be completely unfunny. He kills most skits he's in.
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post #136 of 183
3/16/09 at 9:45am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

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Originally Posted by AnthonyC
Rocket Dog was fantastic--this season has been so lopsided; a lot of the best sketches turn out to be the 12:50 slot.

This is frequently the case, as Lorne tends to front load the beginning of the show with sketches that have popular characters or wide-appeal concepts. The last half hour is reserved for weird skits that appeal to narrower tastes but are sometimes gold if you like that kind of thing.
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post #137 of 183
3/16/09 at 12:32pm

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

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Originally Posted by pitchman
I checked out of the program around twenty minutes in. The only reason I stayed that long was I was hoping Tina Fey would do something else.

I had a longer wait for Astronaut Jones.
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post #138 of 183
3/16/09 at 2:45pm

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

I just don't get Tracy Morgan. he is just irritating. I really think he is the reason a lot of people don't watch 30 Rock.
He clearly can't act. That is why he only plays himself on SNL and now 30 Rock.
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post #139 of 183
3/16/09 at 3:39pm

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

Tracy Morgan is HILARIOUS! He is a stabbing robot.
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post #140 of 183
3/16/09 at 3:48pm

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

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Originally Posted by ThomasC
Maybe he and Tracy had to read off of the same card, and he was mouthing Tracy's words so he wouldn't accidentally read Tracy's lines?

That's a charitable explanation.
I'd just call it moving your lips while you read.
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post #141 of 183
3/17/09 at 1:36pm

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

I'm not a fan of Tracy's characters, like the animal guy who can't say his own name right (he says "Fellows", but the graphic says "Fellow"), the astronaut, etc.

The digital short was again one of the few decent moments- "look at those jokers, turd burglar, numbnuts..."
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post #142 of 183
3/29/09 at 6:54am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

Last night, there was a rerun on SNL, but next weeks musical guest is "Pheonix". Is this Joaquin's "rap" group? If so, it should be hilarious. I'm a big fan of his, but he's really losing it. He's already been made fun of on the Oscars and SNL. I'll just wait and see if it's him.
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post #143 of 183
3/29/09 at 8:43am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

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Originally Posted by xfile94
Last night, there was a rerun on SNL, but next weeks musical guest is "Pheonix". Is this Joaquin's "rap" group? If so, it should be hilarious. I'm a big fan of his, but he's really losing it. He's already been made fun of on the Oscars and SNL. I'll just wait and see if it's him.
Nope, it's a rock band from France.
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post #144 of 183
3/29/09 at 4:15pm

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

Thanks for telling me. I've never heard of that group, though. I always watch SNL anyway, so I'll see them.
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post #145 of 183
3/30/09 at 10:39am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

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Originally Posted by xfile94
Last night, there was a rerun on SNL, but next weeks musical guest is "Pheonix". Is this Joaquin's "rap" group? If so, it should be hilarious. I'm a big fan of his, but he's really losing it. He's already been made fun of on the Oscars and SNL. I'll just wait and see if it's him.

Joaquin isn't really "losing it". It is all an act. A poorly performed one at that, if you ask me. He is shooting a documentary with Casey Affleck, and this fake meltdown of his is the subject. It isn't for real.

It wouldn't surprise me if he turned up on SNL, as Andy Kaufman did. The difference was, Kaufman was a lot more intelligent.
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post #146 of 183
4/1/09 at 9:14am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

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Originally Posted by ThomasC
Nope, it's a rock band from France.


Darn, you're right. I was kinda hoping it would be Joaquin, even if it is all fake.
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post #147 of 183
4/5/09 at 7:13am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

Haven't watched all of last night's episode yet but the opening sketch was horribly tedious. The "Fast and The Bi-curious" was hysterical though
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post #148 of 183
4/5/09 at 10:13pm

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

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Originally Posted by ChristopherG
Haven't watched all of last night's episode yet but the opening sketch was horribly tedious.

I thought it was dead on, though, closer to documentary than parody.
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post #149 of 183
4/6/09 at 6:04am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

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Originally Posted by Chris Lockwood
I thought it was dead on, though, closer to documentary than parody.
Unfortunately the website mentioned in the skit http://www.toughbastard.org/ only goes to NBC's main SNL site.

I was quite surprised by Phoenix, they were quite good.
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post #150 of 183
4/6/09 at 6:17am

Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 34

Phoenix were very enjoyable. For the most part the show really blew, though. Weird ending
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