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post #31 of 120
10/12/09 at 5:19am


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Did anybody find anything funny about SNL last night? I watched the whole thing without smiling. Drew Barrymore is an okay host, there's just no good material left apparently. Regina Spektor is allright, too, just not what I like. Gilly is really annoying. Who thought that up?

Thanks for that - you allowed me to put 90 minutes of my life to better use and free up room on the DVR...oh, and totally agree - Gilly is one of the lamest skits ever.

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post #32 of 120
10/13/09 at 10:59am
I thought Regina Spektor was a nice surprise.  You might want to check out the Celebrities Ghost Encounters skit online.  That was probably the best one of the night.
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post #33 of 120
10/13/09 at 2:57pm


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I thought Regina Spektor was a nice surprise.  You might want to check out the Celebrities Ghost Encounters skit online.  That was probably the best one of the night.
 

I love Regina Spektor and saw her on Conan a few years ago when she performed "Fidelity" by herself on the piano. She was great then, but she seemed really nervous on SNL and didn't do nearly as well.

Gilly is pretty much always terrible (except for the reactions by the students), but Gigli was a bit of a nice touch. Vinny Vedecci was pretty good as usual ("ET", heehee). WU was decent, and the digital short was amusing.
Edited by ThomasC - 10/13/09 at 3:07pm
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post #34 of 120
10/17/09 at 9:32pm
Ah, good ol' SNL. So relentlessly unfunny... until it is. :)
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post #35 of 120
10/18/09 at 1:36pm
Yeah that was rough.
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post #36 of 120
10/18/09 at 2:49pm
Sadly, the rehearsal bloopers were the funniest parts of last night's show. 

Now somewhat kinky and distrubing was Shakira dry humping a monitor speaker on-stage.


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post #37 of 120
10/18/09 at 8:25pm
Kristin Wiig is getting overused. Kenan Thompson is just awful in just about everything. Loved Bill Hader's alien sportcaster Greg, and the Beauty & The Beast sketch was kinda funny.
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post #38 of 120
10/19/09 at 3:12pm
I kinda liked some of the sketches this past week (a first for this season).  The Beauty & The Beast spoof made me laugh much more than it should have.

I agree about Wiig -- it seems like they're looking for any excuse to put her on stage in as many sketches as possible.

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post #39 of 120
10/19/09 at 3:46pm
"Thanks for coming."
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post #40 of 120
10/19/09 at 4:06pm
I just watched via Hulu.  All I can say is: Hot mess.
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post #41 of 120
11/7/09 at 10:43pm
Besides the Penelope skit, most of the other skits were okay, with standouts from Scared Straight, and even liked the Bunny Business one.  I would have paid to see Firelight.

That being said, Taylor Swift has a mediocre voice with little range.
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post #42 of 120
11/7/09 at 10:59pm
This was one of the funnier episodes in a while, I thought Taylor Swift did a great job.  I was expecting to see a skit regarding the whole Kanye thing though.

It was good to see Amy Poehler back for "Really". Weekend Update with just Seth isn't the same.


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post #43 of 120
11/9/09 at 6:49am
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Originally Posted by Greg Kettell View Post

This was one of the funnier episodes in a while, I thought Taylor Swift did a great job.  I was expecting to see a skit regarding the whole Kanye thing though.

It was good to see Amy Poehler back for "Really". Weekend Update with just Seth isn't the same.
I was thinking that addressing the Kanye thing in the monologue was enough, though it might have been amusing to have a Kanye lookalike popping into random sketches.

Amy Pohler showing up for Really was quite a welcome surprise.  Overall the show was better than I expected it to be.

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post #44 of 120
11/9/09 at 9:01am
I woulda died if the real Kanye actually interrupted her opening monologue (without her knowledge), and said that so-and-so had the best opening monologue ever.
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post #45 of 120
11/11/09 at 7:41am
 High point for me was Taylor doing Shakira.
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post #46 of 120
11/11/09 at 2:54pm
I thought Taylor Swift was a better actor than singer
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post #47 of 120
11/14/09 at 10:16pm
It actually took flatulence to make SNL funny again, that Rear Window skit had my wife and I laughing until we cried.
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post #48 of 120
11/14/09 at 10:19pm
There is something to be said about getting back to the basics.
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post #49 of 120
11/14/09 at 10:33pm
I thought it was weird that JJ hosted SNL, while Fred Armisen is now married to Elisabeth Moss (Peggy on Mad Men).
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post #50 of 120
11/15/09 at 12:50am
The two biggest laughs for me were, "I gently cleanse his D & B's" during the Today Show sketch, and "pee-pee-pee pee-pee-pee" during "Married Dudes" in the Jon Bovi sketch.  Because pee pee is the opposite of doo doo, get it?

My wife and I lost it during the fart sketch.  But January Jones was so bad I wondered if she was an athlete and not an actor.  Could barely read the cue cards and swallowed so many lines I had to rewind.  She could have sold those farts better as Grace Kelly.

Kristen's sapphic reporter kills me every time.
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post #51 of 120
11/15/09 at 6:52am
Where's the camera? Wow, how for into the show was it before there was a line JJ didn't flub in some manner or another?
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post #52 of 120
11/15/09 at 7:22am
I think the easiest way to explain why cloud girl was so stuck in the 70's was to have her reveal she'd been in a coma since she was 8 years old, which is why all her pop cultural references are stuck in the 70's, but finally woke up.

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post #53 of 120
11/15/09 at 7:35am
Fergie looked like she was punched in the face or something.. so puffy.. I kept thinking "did she get stung by a bee?"
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post #54 of 120
11/15/09 at 7:45am


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Fergie looked like she was punched in the face or something.. so puffy.. I kept thinking "did she get stung by a bee?"

Probably some form of botox around her eyes/cheeks.
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post #55 of 120
11/15/09 at 8:35am
I was surprised at that too, but then I wondered if it wasn't part of her character. But yeah, generally she was not good. Her monologue was especially awkward.
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Where's the camera? Wow, how for into the show was it before there was a line JJ didn't flub in some manner or another?

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post #56 of 120
11/22/09 at 4:37pm
Why was Al Gore on the show? Just wondering. There was nothing remotely amusing about the show yet again, and it was the first time have seen Joseph Gordon-Levitt on anything. I know Third Rock From The Sun was on for three or four years, but that show didn't get my attention at all.
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post #57 of 120
11/22/09 at 5:22pm
The digital short with Keenan as "Reba" made the show worthwhille. HUGE laffos.
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post #58 of 120
11/22/09 at 5:22pm
Gore's appearance was part of NBC's Green Week, which he mentioned in Weekend Update.

 

Ken Tucker's critique of the show was pretty spot on - lot's of effort but not a lot of humor, best illustrated by the "Make 'em Laugh" portion of the monologue.

I have to give JGL props for the back flips, but, again, not really comedy.

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post #59 of 120
11/22/09 at 8:31pm
The digital short was about the only thing I found remotely funny.
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post #60 of 120
11/22/09 at 10:17pm
I don't know why, but I just can't get enough of the "What up with that" skit, it makes me laugh my ass off.
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