You can see the video excerpts here.
For some reason I watched the rest of the show last night. Trust me, just watch the excerpts at the link, you didn’t miss much in the rest of the show.
You can see the video excerpts here.
For some reason I watched the rest of the show last night. Trust me, just watch the excerpts at the link, you didn’t miss much in the rest of the show.
100% agreed . . .SNL has become so lame . . . . somewhere John Belushi is crying.
Bladderwin makes me puke! Father of the year!!!
SNL of yesteryear – Belushi, Crystal, Chevy, Eddie, Chris and many, many others. Those were the days. Except you can keep Frankin. I bet the greats of years ago don’t even bother to watch anymore.
I’m guessing the leftists roll in the ailes laughing at the inane humour that SNL has been serving up since it’s glory days. Otherwise, nobody else finds it the least bit funny.
Saturday Night Live stopped being funny right around the time I quit smoking pot. Perhaps if I started again…
This was a loss all around. A loss to SNL fans who wanted to see something funny, and a loss to Palin/McCain who got no redemption or anything the least bit sympathetic – it was all putdown of McCain and Palin with no punchline.
Dob Dole was funnier.
Other than McCain himself, who has been classy at times, the McCain campaign has been a dead loss. Combined with the visceral hatred that so many media types have for republicans right now, and the outcome in October is obvious. As I’ve said elsewhere, the US is strong enough to survive this, and the Republicans need 4-8 years to rediscover themselves while Obama tries to turn the US into something like a EU member nation.
I don’t generally watch the show, and most of my exposure has been from clips posted online but, SNL has had its funny moments over the past few years but from what I have seen they (typically) happen when they have a guest who is so talented that they steal the show. The problem SNL has is that most of the writers or performers who have talent leave, which results in mediocre (or worse) writers and performers.
My wife and I watched the whole show. I don’t think we laughed once. I don’t see how anyone thinks they are funny. Yes I long for the days of Belushi et al.
Palin looked bored and discouraged. I think she expected they were going to do something funny.
SNL has stayed way too long, they’re no longer relevant, or funny, just rather pathetic.
Hard to believe a show that once had actors who could do great bits like “Samurai Delicatessen” has sunk so low.
Well…I only watched the clips, here not the whole show.
Palin again showed grace. Hope Baldwin ate crow.
And I thought the rap was funny:
“plumbers…pull your pants up”
C’mom people lighten up!
Just want to add…I’ve watched as many SNL as ’22 minutes’..which is in the single digits.
Apple to apples:
SNL has survived without federal funding.
[quote]Saturday Night Live stopped being funny right around the time I quit smoking pot. Perhaps if I started again…[/quote]
Fritz,
That comment sounds like an Insider, the SNL production was funny when the Exec Producer was the friendly green Giant & Snowman.
Lorne is now the Crack-er-Jack dispenser that needs to arrange standby service such that any flat-Liner bodies are found in NJ Motels.
SNL has an insider story that begs telling, film @ 11:00
Having never watched the show, SNL, I didn’t know what to expect. It was so boring I almost missed the segment with Governor Palin. Thanks for putting a link up Kate, I slept through the first half of the thing, I missed the Baldwin part. The swearing on the show was distracting. No humour, no good jokes…junk, trash..stupid (as in IQ)..I thought the slurs on the Eskimo people ware very lame, the cloistered media gang have obviously never met any Eskimo people; I have! The Eskimo people have a dry sense of humour that sends simple minded souls, like myself, into gales of uncontrollable laughter. Unlike the Obama outfit, they don’t try to jamb their jokes down your throat, they just state their observations in a dead pan way and you can laugh – or not.
The little skit at SNL was aimed at the Eskimo people and I think they are stupid to mock a very superior force of intellect and funny. Stupid and ignorant, IMO.
ummmmm…jema 54. Well said. I also have had the pleasure of meeting and working with Eskimos(or Inuit if your PC). A hell of a lot of white honky trash could learn some lessons from them.Without guilt,I may add.
What’s it been? 20 something years for SNL?
Might have to watch it someday.
Al Frankin….What a great example of how being a fine comedian and writer DOES NOT translate to being a fine leader.
Now if only the rest of Hollywood would view Frankin as an example and keep their ‘world view’ opinions to themselves.
What the hell ever happened to gravitas?
I’m damned if I’ll vote for any would-be leader who sucks up for votes by playing straight man/woman on a comedy show. That leaves me with nobody to vote for since Stephen Harper is my MP, and even he allowed himself to be sucked in by the little twit from 22 Minutes. (I do admit that his quip, “Do you like handcuffs” was pretty good but, that’s not what I want in a leader.)
Where and when did this bullshit start anyway? The first example that I can remember was Preston Manning clowning around with Air Farce at a Reform Assembly (convention) in Vancouver. Anybody know of an earlier example?
I used to say that I’d send a $2,000 conation to the first politician to kick Mary Walsh’s ass on camera. Meant it too, but I never had to pony up.
Barf.
Palin in 2012. First female president.
According to SNL, the world begins and ends on the borders of NYC.
Just couldn’t see the point in Sarah Palin’s appearance on SNL. She took all the verbal slings and arrows hurled her way by Alec Baldwin “like a man,” but had no comeback.
The only person who enjoyed it was Baldwin–and he was probably getting paid.
What did either Palin or McCain gain?
Nothing that I can see (except that it is true, as Baldwin pointed out) that Palin in person is “hotter” than Tina Fey.
they shot the moose !!! outrageous. LOL !!!
p.s. my brother informs me he bagged 3 deer at the same spot we saw 100s of them when I visited BC in March
if Palin takes the VP spot Tina Fey just got an extension on her career
on the other hand she should have waited them out till after the election. unless the calculation was made she might already be a has-been by then. we shall see in 2 weeks time.
havent watched SNL since . . . pammy anderson hosted.
I watched the whole show too. What a sad excuse for comedy SNL has become. I remember when it was a funny show, many many years ago. Perhaps if they dropped all the political sneering from their skits they might find some actual humour!
I gotta agree with RW @ 5:28pm. Palin in 2012 (whether McCain wins or loses in 2008)
I thought the skit set in the Japanese restaurant about the chick who couldn’t shut up about the guy proposing to his girlfriend was hilarious. His date drags her behind the lobster tank. Ha ha ha She comes back with a lobster in her mouth. Ha ha ha ha ha. Flips around. Ha ha ha ha ha Then bashes through the shoji screen Ha ha ha ha ha ha Returns with slats in her mouth and paper stuck to her clothes. Ha ha ha ha ha.
The thing is, a similar thing happened to me except it was a guy who couldn’t keep a mild secret. He totally blew his attempts to be coy about being in on a potentially explosive secret but persist in conversing about it by edging the subject without actually exposing anything. It cracked me up to see that portrayed in exaggerated form.
Also the rap song supposedly to have been sung by Palin but picked up instead by Amy Poehler, herself pregnant but not letting that slow her one bit, was utterly hilariously Palinesque.
“All you plumbers pull your pants up !”
“Wooooooooah”
“All you plumbers pull your pants up !”
“Wooooooooah”
Ha ha ha ha ha.
It made me love both Poehler and Palin even more. Damn, she was beautiful.
But other than that, agreed, the show is hopelessly stupid.
I quit watching SNL after Chris Rock, Adam Sandler and that gang left. In the 90’s it was all about MAD TV but that show sucks now also.
That being said, I didn’t watch the hole show, but I did see the rap. “Classic Material”(LONS), my wife and I are still laughing about it. When her husband and the Eskimos(her posse) showed up, I thought I’d wet myself. The Cypress Hill bit “lalala la lalala laaa” gave the gangster part of it some authenticity. It is nice to see people who do satire, and other types of entertainment that finally have a clue about the last 20yrs of music, unlike the Boomers who still think they and their music are somehow still relevant.
“Anybody know of an earlier example?”
Does Pierre Trudeau doing a pirouette behind the Queen count? Or Bill Clinton playing the saxophone on the Arsenio Hall show?