1 SNL is still right on the cutting edge of 70's humor.

2 That sucked

3 you could see it though?

4
Remember several years ago when Deniro & Joe Pesci did a surprise walk-on to the set of Weekend Update?

It was pathetic.

5 OT: This is what happens to a President who's too socialist for the Right, but not enough for the Left.  Oh, and a failure.  http://huff.to/h03WOp

Yes, that goes to HuffPo.

6 Blizz man sux What's up with that is awesome Vini is awesome too But yeah, it all seemed kinda lazy. Especially the "I'm a big fan of movies butnot deniro sketch." Bobby Monyihan should stick to being snookie.

7 SNL is still right on the cutting edge of 70's humor.

Whaaaaa????

C-I-L-L ....kill my landlord ...kill my landlord

......wasnt a portent of the 21st century Blank Panther Movement?????

8 What movie is DeNire pimping?

9 SNL ceased being worth a shit a long time ago. In fact all TV became shit a long time ago.

10 The third Meet the Parents

11

Not realistic. We all know that Cankles doesn't wear skirts.

By-the-by that part was sick and wrong. Sick and wrong.

12

The third Meet the Parents

Good Christ, nooooooooooooooo!

13 you could see it though? Posted by: ace © at December 06, 2010 03:56 PM (nj1bB) yes

14 Dumb and dumber. 

WTF.  Slow day?  Obama is caving and we're not craving stupid fucking NBC. 

NBC, remember they own MSNBC?

The enemy!

15

In fact all TV became shit a long time ago.

Hey, we're pretty good despite the fact that we're forced to continually plug  MSNBC and it's endeavors.

16 >>>What's up with that is awesome >>>Vini is awesome too I used to think so, but these sketches have been used an awful, awful lot, especially What Up With That. They're good sketches, but to me, overdone, and without any way to change them up or go further/more outrageous to get additional mileage out of the joke. I guess special guest Mothra was a nod to that, but just of the basic type of other weird, random special guests. Blizz Man is like that, too, but I just like the basic schtick of it enough to still enjoy it the... what, 10th time he's been on? But I don't really laugh at the Blizz Man anymore. I just smile amusedly. This whole season has really been chiefly about re-running old sketches, over and over. They do that a lot, but I'm noticing they've hit an especially big rut this season. Their Big New Ideas every week is to re-run a Penelope sketch, a Vinny Vedecci sketch, a What Up With That, etc. Or a Vincent Price sketch, which I used to love, but... getting creaky.

17 The Hillary junk-shot was hilarious.

18
.... now THAT was a long snapper.

19 In fact all TV became shit a long time ago.

Posted by: Vic at December 06, 2010 04:00 PM (e4sSD)

Agreed. The only shows I enjoy anymore are American Pickers and Pawn Stars but that's only because I like antiques and shit like that.

I just hope they don't devolve into wussified slapfights to boost ratings.

20
I just hope they don't devolve into wussified slapfights to boost ratings.

Yeah THAT would be wrong......

21 Please explain why we're supposed to care about SNL. Honestly, 1975 was 35 years ago. SNL 2010 isn't exactly cutting-edge social commentary or an insightful reflection of the current zeitgeist. And yet, we regularly get these posts on right-wing websites, trying to convince us that "OMG, SNL is on our side on this one!" If SNL was a horse, they'd have taken it out behind the barn and shot it 20 years ago, if not sooner.

22 you could see it though?

No.

23 In fact all TV became shit a long time ago.

There was a pretty good line on Fringe last week. The essence was that if a girl is willing to boink you but only to further some ulterior purpose of her own, she has a vagenda.

24 Hey Ace, feel better, email me a shipping address. 

I still have 36 750's of valu rite in my garage! I sent you the receipt!

At least 24 can be yours!

Kemp

25 3 lame "jokes" in 3 minutes. Fine work, SNL. Like a boss.

26

oh since this point doesn't really count [sowwy, ace!], I'll link this.

lil' Stevie Dreihaus here in OH-2 got the boot when Ohio went red. awww, yeah. anyhoo, this little bitch has filed suit against the Susan B. Anthony non-profit saying they....wait for it....are 'depriving him of his livehihood' because we gave him the boot.

[SBA ran ads saying that he supported federally funded abortions via his HC vote]

how rich is that??

27 SNL ceased being worth a shit a long time ago. In fact all TV became shit a long time ago.

Got old, didja?

28

oopsie. off NBC owned network sock.

29 Honestly, 1975 was 35 years ago. SNL 2010 isn't exactly cutting-edge social commentary or an insightful reflection of the current zeitgeist.

I read a book about SNL a few years ago. If I remember correctly, some time in the 80s, Lorne Michaels deliberately started backing away from the kind of stuff they had been doing with the original cast, and made a decision to go with more character-based stuff.

30 OK the first video i saw was of "weekend at bernies" spoof and that sucked. Now I can see the Wikileaks one and that one sucks also.

31 Why is that seriously unfunny show still on?  The last time it was even mildly amusing, the chicken man was talking pidgin.  It's an irritant that won't go away.  Probably like Ace's persistent jock itch.

32 Only when one of their fat, not-ready-for-prime-time players ODs on smack will SNL become relevant again.

33 Got old, didja?

I agree with Vic.  By the mid 80s even I could see that all TV had become shit.

34 I think they're using Vinni all wrong, it's a good springboard to make un-pc jokes about dirty foreigners and showcase Hader's impersonation skills (like he used to do impersonations of the stars to their faces)...not to have Bobby M run around like a child. And Deniro screwed up the deerhunter line which was funny nonetheless. WUWT doesn't feel old, it's a good hub and spoke for whatever randomness and guests they can stick in (Joseph Gordon-Levitt's future guy from the 80's cameo last year was awesome). I feel that these two sketches are underused compared to the painful Wiig recurrings. No more Gilly, please. Wiig is attractive, but so is Abby and the persian. So, let's get more of them. Blizzman's joke is the same same (like Gilly) because all he does is look like Color Me Badd and rap like the Swedish Chef. Nothing changes.

35

did you guys do a school bake-sale preemption thread last week or is that too controversial??

heh. that sounds so ridiculous to even type. controversial.

36 The obvious answer to wiki-anything is to flood the web with "other" information.

It would be trivial to get the affected countries to join with the US and assign people to create phony released documents, set up websites that claim to have the "official" wikileaks docs, etc.

Did Obama and company do this?  No. They are immature, inexperienced, and don't really care about protecting anything having to do with US sovereignty.

37

What ever happened to being funny for funny's sake? Thinly veiled political commentary or the need to be relevant in pop-culture is what usually kills comedy.

 

38 I haven't watched SNL in like 20 years, so I'm not going to break the tradition.

I did see a snippet of the TSA Dating thing and thought that it almost made me smile, but that's about it.

39

The Hillary junk-shot was hilarious.

Could you see the S'Nuke?

40 The moron Francesa on YES just said it is gonna rain tonight at the Meadowlands???? Is he freaken kidding me? ItÂ’s freezing. The fat ass should get out of the studio sometimes i guess

41 Posted by: Ace at 04:48 PM

Hey, this thing's from the future!

42

Who's gonna be our School Salad Bar Czar?

Say it three times.....I triple dog dare ya!

43 the Blizz-Man

If that's the reoccurring highlight I am so not missing anything.

44

Who's gonna be our School Salad Bar Czar?

 

We should teach the children how to toss their own salads.

45 Got old, didja?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 06, 2010 04:13 PM (PMGbu)

I gave up on TV completely in my 40s, I quit watching most of it in my 30s. Maybe that's old to you.

46 Yeah, that's effing great.  Now, we have to worry about keeping massive amounts of vegetables fresh in our schools by having a salad bar.  We can't do something like  making a deal with Wendy's or anything that would maybe spur the economy or something......we have to put fucking salad bars in schools so the first fatass can feel good about herself......

47 What's Up With That skit is borderline funny.  The part that makes me laugh is that guy dancing in the gym suit.  Who is that?

48 Also, what does "DMZ" stand for?  Da Media Zone?  Whaaa???

49 If SNL is comedy, look forward to future President Obamas even more stupid.  We are a stupid society.  Just STUPID.

50

^{_{Posted by: Sponge © at December 06, 2010 04:27 PM (UK9cE)}}

...and who wins out?

Big Sneeze-Guard, that's who.

51

did you guys do a school bake-sale preemption thread last week or is that too controversial??

My Obama-voting school teacher wife is up in arms about this. 

52 And 90% of the show was just old sketches, though one of them, the Blizz-Man, is still kinda funny. Kinda. I mean, this is like the tenth Blizz-Man sketch and they're all exactly the same


Well, that's pretty much how all SNL sketches work, if they get a good reaction to something they run it into the ground , sometimes to the point of making a wholly unnecessary movie.

53

My Obama-voting school teacher wife is up in arms about this. 

Umm, I'm sure your wife is quite lovely, but this is what got her up in arms??

54 LOL, speaking of jumping the shark; Obama wants us "To meet the Sputnik moment".

He has some really dumb advisors and is missing something himself.

55

My Obama-voting school teacher wife is up in arms about this. 

Umm, I'm sure your wife is quite lovely, but this is what got her up in arms??

Posted by: laceyunderalls at December 06, 2010 04:30 PM (pLTLS)

I guess when Obama started messing in her backyard she took notice.

56

and who force feeds salads to the kids during the summer when school's out? at nighttime??

from what I hear the salads at McDonalds [where most of these poor kids eat] have more calories than a Big Mac.

57

...and who wins out?

Big Sneeze-Guard, that's who.

But .....sneeze guards are made of plastic...and plastic is derived from OIL!!!!!!  BIG OIL!!!!  BURN EXXON MOBILE!!!!!  They're killing our children through the school cafeteria!!ELEVENTY!!!11!!!!!!!

58 The salad bars are just cover for the replicator pods we'll use on your children. Which look sorta like acorn squash.

59 Heh, you just got Bidened

60 I guess when Obama started messing in her backyard she took notice.


My wife doesn't like me messing with her backyard very often either.  Well, unless she's drunk.......

61 rom what I hear the salads at McDonalds [where most of these poor kids eat] have more calories than a Big Mac.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at December 06, 2010 04:33 PM (pLTLS)

They do if you use the dressing.

62 And, um......Mobil....sorry big oil company.

63 DeNiro has been playing DeNiro for thirty years.

64

Our elementary school has a salad bar. Has had one for all 4 years we've been there. So, the concept isn't exactly new to some schools. How they keep the items germ free is beyond me and I don't really think they do, but honestly considering all the other petri dishes lurking all over the school, the salad bar is the least of the worries. Now if you want to talk about how they can't keep the milk from spoiling so some kid is always puking up spoiled milk in the lunchroom, that would be nice to solve.

Also, bake sales, does anyone have a link that definitively says this will be affected by the child nutrition blah de blah bill they just passed?

O/T, yeah, sorry.

65

I feel so sorry for his kids.

Can you imagine their own personal hell?

Girls that age have enough self-esteem issues. Figure in a food nazi mother and they're just fucked. The one is skinnier than a pole so she'll be fine. But the younger cute as a button one?? Only a matter of time before she keeps tupperwear of 3 day old puked hidden under her bed so Mom doesn't hear the toilet continually flush when she finally purges out the bad fat. BAD FAT!!!1!1!! 

66

I haven't watched SNL in about, oh, let's see, 35 years.  Back then it was funny....sometimes.....maybe.  So I guess it hasn't changed much.   Nice to know I haven't missed much.

67 LOL, speaking of jumping the shark; Obama wants us "To meet the Sputnik moment". He has some really dumb advisors and is missing something himself. Posted by: Vic at December 06, 2010 04:32 PM (e4sSD) Well if your mommie was a commie, it was a big moment

68 Posted by: laceyunderalls at December 06, 2010 04:30 PM (pLTLS)

Actually, it's common among public education types (I'm related to several).  Obama could raise taxes to 90%, defund the military, retreat in AfPak and Iraq, sell nuclear material to Iran, and start paying "reparations" to the black community, and they wouldn't care.

Alternatively, if they're "liberal" teachers: Obama could institute a 10% flat tax on all income brackets, defund the EPA, bomb Iran into radio-active glass, and sell all the nukes we're getting rid of due to START to Israel, and they wouldn't care.

But suggest something that changes their world, and they'll have the politician's head, if they can.

Nothing matters but that they don't have to be subject to performance-based pay raises, they don't have teach more than 24 (really 22) kids at a time, and that they get their 30 minute lunch break every day ('cause, you know, we in the private sector never work through lunch or work late into the night to get stuff done). 

They're mad because they think (rightly) that this will put more strain on school budgets- which means their benefits get more expensive and they're less likely to get big raises.

69

"To meet the Sputnik moment".

 What is this supposed to mean? Is this some, "we need our own space race for this generation" reference?

70

Posted by: somebody else, not me at December 06, 2010 04:36 PM (7EV/g)

You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?

71 I so look forward to the day that the D'ohbama's aren't messing with my life anymore......

72 My hunch is that Obama's favorite M&M's are the red ones.

73

Bah. Fucking Disney Channel is running ads more often now in between their shitty shows featuring Michelle encouraging the yutes to eat veggies.

My 6 year old niece was on board with that for part of the summer until just recently, when she got sick of carrot sticks and started eating like a normal American again.

No shit? Kids don't like veggies? There's a fucking news alert for the First Fatass.

74 O/T  Has anyone else been seeing the commercials on TV about becoming a member of the 'glamorous' CIA?

They make it seem like it's all 'cloak and dagger' awesome and want you to go to a website and find a job or something.......

75 I gave up on TV completely in my 40s, I quit watching most of it in my 30s. Maybe that's old to you.

It implies you're ahead of the curve.  My condolences.

76 Bah. Fucking Disney Channel is running ads more often now in between their shitty shows featuring Michelle encouraging the yutes to eat veggies.


Yeah, Nickolodian (sp?) has my daughter all 'peace' and 'green' and shit.  I offset the lunacy as much as I can (she no longer worries about AGW), but it's a tough gig.

77 What is this supposed to mean? Is this some, "we need our own space race for this generation" reference?


It was a dumb ass slogan.

Story at Fox.,

78 Bah. Fucking Disney Channel is running ads more often now in between their shitty shows featuring Michelle encouraging the yutes to eat veggies.

Grade schools with a high broccoli consumption. Yeah, that's a good idea.

79 ***What is this supposed to mean? Is this some, "we need our own space race for this generation" reference?*** common lefty refrain to support a massive spending orgy to accomplish some nebulous goal...translated "we need to spend $4 trillion to solve made up global warming problems." etc.

80 A woman on my facebook page wrote favorably about Moochelle's plea for the fat kids and at the end asked all of us:  "What can we do to help the kids"?  I wrote back:  "Get the friggin' government out of their lives".  Still haven't seen a responding comment. 

81

common lefty refrain to support a massive spending orgy to accomplish some nebulous goal...translated "we need to spend $4 trillion to solve made up global warming problems." etc.

 

Nah.  It's spending 4 trillion dollars to try to find something, anything the muzzies contributed to civilization.

82 A woman on my facebook page wrote favorably about Moochelle's plea for the fat kids and at the end asked all of us:  "What can we do to help the kids"?  I wrote back:  "Get the friggin' government out of their lives".  Still haven't seen a responding comment.

That's why I refuse to put anything political on my FB page.  I didn't really want the page in the first place.  I'll be damned if I turn it into a flame war between me and a bunch of liberal fucks that I haven't seen in 20 years or more that found me only because I accidentally put my graduation year in it and they wanted to see what my loser ass turned into.......

83 The guy in the green shirt looked more like Assange than the other guy.

84 Yeah, Nickolodian (sp?) has my daughter all 'peace' and 'green' and shit.  I offset the lunacy as much as I can (she no longer worries about AGW), but it's a tough gig.

Posted by: Sponge © at December 06, 2010 04:46 PM (UK9cE)

Yeah, Nick is just as bad. When they aren't teaching children to be materialistic, opportunistic and sexual whores, they are doing their best to mindfuck the next generation with all this Marxist Green nonsense.

I hate these fucking people.

85 SNL didn't even capture my jazz hands!

86 I thought it was great, especially when it turns out to be Biden at the end.

And whoever does Obama finally learned to say "uhh" a lot and bob his head back and forth like a meth addict at a tennis match.  Still not a great impression, but it's a lot better than it used to be.

87 It would have been funnier if they had the guts to make fun of Obama instead of Hillary. T

88 O/T Pat Bowlen has fired McDaniels.

89 Why on earth would you watch SNL when you could be spending you night productively by looking at internet porn???

90

My biggest problem with SNL is that it is so incredibly obvious that performers are reading their lines from cue cards. Even in some great past bust a gut skits (The Census Taker) it is abvious that both parties are looking past the person their supposed to be talking to and reading a card. Usually you can even watch their eyes scan back and forth as they read.

You would think that pros would be a little better prepared and the regulars at least would be better at this.

91 I see they still have the guy who can't do an Obama impression doing an Obama impression.