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 Posted: Sep 14, 2008 - 06:21 PM
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| Nothing up on YouTube as of yet, but as soon as it is, I'll link it here. |
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Posted: Sep 14, 2008 - 08:08 PM
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I watched the Priceline plug. It was cute and naturally Bill is always cute. I haven't had an interest in SNL since '92 and I would be willing to stay up all night if Bill would be host again after his contract with ABC is up. So please pretty please, Bill, would you be interested in that some day? We all would love to be reminded that we need to get a life again!   |
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Posted: Sep 14, 2008 - 08:21 PM
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| angel wrote: | | I watched the Priceline plug. It was cute and naturally Bill is always cute. I haven't had an interest in SNL since '92 and I would be willing to stay up all night if Bill would be host again after his contract with ABC is up. So please pretty please, Bill, would you be interested in that some day? We all would love to be reminded that we need to get a life again! |
Amen, Sister!! |
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Posted: Sep 14, 2008 - 08:27 PM
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I don't think it's up to Bill to decide to be a host; he has to be asked.
Also I'm going to see if I can get Bill to talk about his SNL piece. I do believe it was supposed to be something else.
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Posted: Sep 14, 2008 - 08:28 PM
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| Paul wrote: | I don't think it's up to Bill to decide to be a host; he has to be asked.
Also I'm going to see if I can get Bill to talk about his SNL piece. I do believe it was supposed to be something else.
-Paul |
Now I'm curious. I look forward to hearing what happened. |
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Posted: Sep 14, 2008 - 09:26 PM
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YEAH !!!!..I suffered through the whole show...and then went ...DAMNIT..
they cut the piece....  |
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Posted: Sep 14, 2008 - 09:30 PM
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| I sure hope they ask him and I can't wait to hear what Bill has to say about what he thought he was going to get to do on SNL. Intriguing! |
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Posted: Sep 14, 2008 - 10:03 PM
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| Paul wrote: | I don't think it's up to Bill to decide to be a host; he has to be asked.
Also I'm going to see if I can get Bill to talk about his SNL piece. I do believe it was supposed to be something else.
-Paul |
Very interesting Paul. Can't wait to hear what he has to say. He's always so good, it was fun watching him last night ...heck it's fun watching him on any show he does.
Like someone else said I don't watch much SNL anymore but for Bill I tuned in.
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Posted: Sep 14, 2008 - 10:35 PM
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| rdb wrote: | I found the first few minutes and Bill's part to be the only funny things on that show.
I finally had to leave the room in disgust. 90% of what I heard and saw was not funny, and much of it made no sense whatsoever.
If this is what is being passed off as comedy- this country is in BIG trouble. About all I could say is that it seemed that they were trying to create a "modern" imitation of Laugh In- and failed miserably. |
I want to closely align myself with your comments, rdb. SNL of the past 10 years is the worst! Remarkably and incredibly bad! It`s almost beyond comprehension that it is still on the air. |
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Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 12:32 AM
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| I miss Chevy Chase and the gang. |
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Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 12:59 AM
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I haven't really watched SNL since they killed Buckwheat |
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Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 01:43 AM
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All I can say is, that unless Bill had other business in NY to tend to, that was a mighty long trip to take for a minute or two blurb appearance.  |
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Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 01:54 AM
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| Gornman wrote: |
I haven't really watched SNL since they killed Buckwheat |
Amen to that! Also, Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood, absolute SNL classic!
SNL hasn't been worth much since these guys left:
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Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 02:59 AM
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"Silly"
Michael Phelps/Lil' Wayne
A great Digital Short and a solid Weekend Update are high points, but the rest of the mostly mixed bag of sketches bring it down and make this overall a pretty mediocre season opening show.
Hey, thanks for reading this review!
I'll be judging the episodes by rating each sketch from 1 to 4, then adding all ratings together to give an overall rating to the show. I won't be rating the musical guests, but I'll mention them in the review.
9-13-2008 Season 34 Episode 1
Host - Michael Phelps
Musical Guest - Lil' Wayne
"Sarah Palin & Hillary Clinton" - Season 34 of SNL opens with a very direct address by Alaska Governor and Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin (Tina Fey) and New York Senator Hillary Clinton (Amy Poehler). Typical jokes were moderately funny, but not especially biting. Palin is clueless and Hillary is ambitious. Fey's impression is fairly funny, down to the Alaskan accent. But, unimaginative presentation doesn't do the sketch any favors. It's also worth noting that this bit contained the first of three references to meth in this episode. Meth is the big humor reference of 2008! - 2
No changes to the opening title sequence that I can see. I guess we'll have to wait another year before they upgrade the titles.
"Monologue - Michael Phelps" - Non-performers usually have a rough go on SNL, and 2008 Olympic swimming champion Phelps is no exception. Phelps' mom (Poehler) is sitting in the audience, cheering on her son much like she did during the 2008 Olympics. Then, they take some questions from the audience, and that features the second meth reference in a row. I'm telling ya, meth is so in right now. This was a pretty poor monologue, and would have rated a 1 if not for the appearance of legendary actor William Shatner. It is a rule of entertainment that a little Shatner makes everything better, and his presence bumps this rating up to a - 2
"Quiz Bowl" - Perky high school kids take on religious home schooled kids on a TV quiz show. Slightly funny, but no real build. Kristin Wiig's physicality was funnier than the sketch itself. - 2
"Jar Glove" - The setup goes by a little too quickly, but this was a funny parody commercial where they demonstrate the old, frustrating way of opening jars as Wiig makes the standard mild frustration facial expressions. Then, the commercial shows the frustration going to ridiculous extremes. Solidly funny concept and well shot. - 3
"Swim Team" - Will Forte reprises his inspirational coach character, now coaching a swim team. Forte's focus and physicality makes this work and gets a good response from the crowd. Unfortunately, it's the same punchline as last time. While the studio audience seemed to like it, I'm docking it half a point because it's basically a repeat. - 2.5
"Ugly Kids" - Another virtual repeat as Wiig and Phelps play two ugly pre-teens trotted out at a get together of their parents. The friends in the sketch make appalled faces, while the kids act obnoxiously awkward and dumb. There's really no joke or build beyond that, so this sketch is the first clear miss of the night. - 1
"Musical Guest Lil' Wayne" - Pretty good, I have to admit that I liked the second rapper better than Lil Wayne himself, but this was an okay jam.
"Weekend Update" - The first few news jokes fell flat, then Will Forte came out as a character called Alaska Pete and did a commentary about Sarah Palin, which was quite funny. Again, Forte's focus is really great. The second section of news jokes went much better than the first. Then Fred Armisen came out and did his Nicholas Feihn character, the stand up improv comic. It's really a one joke character (Feihn can't ever really begin a thought, much less complete one) but honestly, Armisen does halting speech so well it doesn't matter because it's funny. The third set of news jokes marks the third and final meth reference of the night, then Andy Samberg did a commentary as the notoriously lame newspaper comic strip character Cathy. There's not much to it beyond Cathy's frazzled hair cliches. Even with the first set of jokes and the Cathy commentary bringing it down, this Weekend Update still scores a solid - 3
"The Charles Barkley Show" - Kenan Thompson as Charles Barkley in the standard celebrity talk show format so familiar to SNL. Thompson makes it work well, though. His lines are funny, especially his "werewolf like fear of silver." The TV production crew composed entirely of small children was also another funny, surreal touch. I liked the sketch.- 3
"T Mobile" - A rare live commercial parody, written in much the same structure as the "Jar Glove" earlier in the night. Despite the same "take it to the extreme" humor approach, it was a hit with the audience and I found it very funny as well. - 4
"Digital Short - Space Olympics" - A music video by Andy Samberg, this is another impeccably produced original comedy song and one of the best produced cheap special effects segments so far on Samberg's series of shorts. The humor of the song recalled Adam Sandler as well as classic Weird Al Yankovic, but is distinctly the ever improving musical work of Samberg. The skewed ridiculousness of the lyrics and fresh concept are very entertaining. As far as I'm concerned, it was easily the high point of the night. Well done! - 4
"Uno Pizza"- Bobby Moynihan, the new guy on the show, who is already being hyped because of his slight resemblance to founding SNL player John Belushi, takes the center stage for the first time as an obnoxious waiter who has many different ways of describing a strange pepper smell in the air. In truth, it sounded basically like Moynihan was doing a stereotypical loud black woman. It was mildly received by the audience, but I'm sure the SNL staff is going to relentlessly press this character upon us, so prepare to see him again, and again, and again. As for me, I didn't think the sketch was all that great, or the character all that intrinsically funny. - 2
"Musical guest Lil Wayne" - Lil' Wayne's second song sounded too much like the first, he even starts it with the same vocal effect on his mic. I thought it was pretty weak.
"The Michael Phelps Diet" - Phelps stumbles and coughs through an unfunny one joke sketch. Phelps consumes a lot of calories, so for non athletes, his diet is entirely inappropriate! The cast tries gamely to generate laughs, and this would have rated a 2 for their efforts, but, as a Shatner appearance giveth, a Jared from the Subway commercials appearance taketh away. - 1
Final thoughts - A great Digital Short and a solid Weekend Update are high points, but the rest of the mostly mixed bag of sketches bring it down and make this overall a pretty mediocre season opening show.
Final rating - 29.5 out of a possible 48 61% Funny
STILL NO CLIP-JUST THIS |
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