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Re: Saturday Night Live
I love that you're opinionated. I really do. It would just be nice if this thread can focus on the episodes like other television threads do, rather than the constant argument of which generation was better. It's just been done so many times over the years in this thread.
Let's retire it. We can hold hands and do it together."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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"It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Re: Saturday Night Live
So this happened, courtesy of Cecily Strong on Twitter. https://twitter.com/cecilybecily
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Re: Saturday Night Live
Seeing a lot of tweets about a very touching SNL opening tonight. Guessing this Sam Jackson F-Bomb won't make it to the west coast airing...
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Last edited by CMH; 12-16-2012, 02:23 PM."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Re: Saturday Night Live
The F-Bomb was the only thing I laughed at this week. Another poor, poor episode. What on earth was that skit about with the two old friends bumping into each other? Who writes this garbage?Comment
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Re: Saturday Night Live
Eh, I liked it - both that scene and the episode as a whole.
I don't know that the two old friends was necessarily that funny, but I liked that it was just a character-driven thing. No gimmicky hooks to the characters, just two guys playing off each other.
The British thing was funny too, though I don't know if they used the same character name as the Hugh Laurie episode because it was supposed to be the same guy, or if they just thought it would be funny.
I liked Vanessa Bayer's Jewish kid during Update, and the Girl at the Party was funny again, but they are really going to run that into the ground pretty quickly. This is what, three times already?
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Re: Saturday Night Live
Just FYI on upcoming hosts/musical guests (the Jan 26 and Feb 9 are new announcements):
January 19 - Jennifer Lawrence/Lumineers
January 26 - Adam Levine/Kendrick Lamar
February 9 - Justin BeiberComment
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Re: Saturday Night Live
Just horrible yet again in my opinion. They desperately NEED a new writing team. I like Adam Levine so here's hoping next week is better.Comment
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It was an awful episode. Jennifer Lawrence was dreadful as well but I feel she had nothing to work with here.
She did a good enough job changing into a new character and didn't seem to play the same person twice, but the writing was dreadful. The sketches were awful too.
One would think with the time off, they would have time to think of some things. I'm not sure I can see any of the writers from the last couple years being successful somewhere else.
Sent from my mobile device."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Re: Saturday Night Live
In all seriousness, does this show ever get talked about being cancelled? You always read about shows being destined for cancellation or getting renewed. Has SNL ever been under threat?Comment
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Probably not, don't think it's that expensive to produce and not in a very demanding timeslot. The handful of viral videos alone every year probably justify it's existence when ratings don't as thru pay dividends for NBC/Hulu.
Edit: just finished the latest... wouldn't call it horrible but there was nothing memorable at all.
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