SNL 10-6

[Mizzougrad96]

Typically, the only good hosts are the regular hosts... John Goodman, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Ben Affleck or former cast members. I remember Spade hosting a pretty good one two years ago or so...

Every now and then, there's a surprise. This used to be a spot where every A-lister would do anything to host. Now, the best they can hope for are fans of sketch comedy, like the aformentioned bunch, B-listers, athletes and singers who want to prove they can act or be funny, hence Jon Bon Jovi hosting this week's.

 

[shotglass]

Retool the show the way you're talking, and it won't be SNL. The whole concept is 90 minutes live, with the possibility of the Ashlee Simpson moment, or Charles Rocket saying **** on the air. It's not a taped show.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Hell, these days they'd be lucky to get Colin Quinn back...

 

[ArnoldBabar]

Hell, these days they'd be lucky to get Colin Quinn back...

I hear he's working on Remote Control: The Movie.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I've seen Quinn working on material at the Comedy Cellar. He's probably funnier than all but 2-3 members of the current cast...

 

[shotglass]

He always left me cold.

 

[DanOregon]

I thought week 2 was better than week 1, a bit more topical. But even if the actors come up with a character Like Hammond's Fred Thompson and Armisen's Jack McCoy, they still need to have something to say. Like the Lou Dobbs bit as well.
Do you ever get the impression that too many sketches are recreations of things a writer experienced that week that they thought were hilarious, like the two kids growing up so fast,. They always seem to lose something in the translation.

 

[playthrough]

They gotta find better writers. I don't know the market for comedy writers; do all the good ones get scooped up for movies? Sitcoms? You picture the best actors SNL has ever had doing some of these sketches, and I can't imagine them being better.

Glad I still have the Peyton Manning episode on the DVR, I'll fire that up when I want to see good present-day SNL.

 

[BYH]

I remember watching the show Hanks hosted back in 1988 and that's when it hit me that SNL was damn good again. I can think of two skits from that show just off the top of my head -- "Jew, Not a Jew" and "Mr. Short-Term Memory" -- that were classics.

Later that season they had Leslie Nielsen host another classic show. That show debuted the very first Wayne's World as the last skit of the night -- the slot reserved for what's perceived to be the weakest skit of the show.

Mr. Short-Term Memory was awesome. "Hey how are the Red Sox going to do this year?" "We just talked about that."

I thought Wayne's World debuted between 12:30 and 1, but not as the last skit of the night. I was always under the impression the worst skits aired between 12:30 and the last skit...I thought they saved the last skit for something decent. You know, a good lead-in to "Showtime At The Apollo."

There will never be another Wayne's World...b/c anything remotely funny ends up in the first 15 minutes. No way something that funny emerges from the last half-hour ever again.

 

[DanOregon]

they've tried, repeatedly to duplicate Wayne's World with the Junior High talk show and the web cast sketch with Fallon, both extremely lame.
The Chevy Chase sketch left me both sad that Chase was on again (kind of like the college kid who comes back to the high school parties or the Uncle who moves in with you because his wife left him) and even more sad that he was one of the funnier people on the show.
Do they have anyone who can do Obama and doesn't it seem that they are treating Rudy with kid gloves?

 

[shotglass]

Actually, I liked the webcast sketch ...

 

[DanOregon]

I can't think of a good character that has been developed in the last few years. I kind of liked Amy Poehler Gilda Radner-rip off with Horatio Sanz "rick, rick" but the big H is gone. Wiig's Ms. One-better is okay, but really I can't think of any sketch that gets applause when it opens.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

Actually, I liked the webcast sketch ...

... and I liked "Wake up, Wakefield"

 

[MacDaddy]

Hell, these days they'd be lucky to get Colin Quinn back...

I hear he's working on Remote Control: The Movie.

Ken Ober signed on, but Kari Wuhrer was too busy with her Skinemax filming schedule.

 

[Bob Slydell]

Without reading all three pages, I liked the stoner pilgrim skit and Spoon. Weekend Update is usually pretty good, but Chevy Chase stopped being funny about 15 years ago.

I think it's the writing. The cast is not up to par either, but the writing is just so lame.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Hell, these days they'd be lucky to get Colin Quinn back...

I hear he's working on Remote Control: The Movie.

Ken Ober signed on, but Kari Wuhrer was too busy with her Skinemax filming schedule.

I'm guessing they can't afford to bring Adam Sandler back...

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I can't think of a good character that has been developed in the last few years. I kind of liked Amy Poehler Gilda Radner-rip off with Horatio Sanz "rick, rick" but the big H is gone. Wiig's Ms. One-better is okay, but really I can't think of any sketch that gets applause when it opens.

I just remember the ovations you would hear in the background when you would hear

"And now it's time for Church Chat..." or the strange music they played before Hanz and Franz or the cable access sign they would show before Wayne's World.

It might be almost a decade since there has been a really, really good regular sketch... I never thought the cheerleaders were funny, even though I think Ferrell is brilliant. You might have to go back to Farley's "Van by the river" or some of Myers' final years (Coffee talk, Sprockets) to find something that qualifies.

 

[txsportsscribe]

Hell, these days they'd be lucky to get Colin Quinn back...

the most unfunny snl cast member ever.

 

[King Of All Media]

Hell, these days they'd be lucky to get Colin Quinn back...

the most unfunny snl cast member ever.

I heard a roast where they said "Colin Quinn was devastated at the suicide of Charles Rocket, because he now becomes the worst living SNL member."

Actually, he's better than most of the current cast.

 

[DanOregon]

I can't think of a single funny thing Jason Sudekis has done, he's kind of like a poor man's Jeff Richmond or Chris Parnell.