When was the last time the monologue didn't?

The Steve Martin one in the 90's.

"Ladies and gentlman..... [insert celeb name here]!!!!"

Crowd applauses wildly. Star humbly waves and smiles.

Crowd dies down.

Celeb: I'm so happy to be here, hosting for my FIRST TIME!

Crowd applauses wildly. Star humbly waves and smiles.

Crowd dies down.

Celeb: Most of you know me from [whatever].

Crowd applauses wildly. Star humbly waves and smiles.

Crowd dies down.

Celeb: And soon I'll be in [whatever], coming soon!

Crowd applauses wildly. Star humbly waves and smiles.

Crowd dies down.

Celeb: But first I wanted to say...

Random SNL cast member (CM) runs on the stage, interrupting.

CM: ...Celeb! Celeb!

Audience cheers for whatever reason.

Celeb: [hands on hips] CM! [looking straight ahead to the camera as s/he speaks to CM] I'm trying to do my monologue!!1

CM: [looking straight ahead as well] I know, but I have an unfunny premise that involves some kind of idol worship of your personality that robs you of any chance to be interesting in your monologue.

Celeb: Well... okay. Go ahead.

CM: You know how you're gorgeous/handsome/crazy/married to another celeb?

Celeb: [acting pleasant but confused] Sure.

CM: Well wouldn't it be clever if I pretended to have that quality?

Celeb: [wanting him to do that] I don't want you to do that at all!

CM: Here goes! LA LA LA LA LA.

Celeb: Oh my goodness! Collective Soul is here, ladies and gentleman! We'll be right back!

Audience cheers at a volume far disproportionate to how uncreative the "skit" they just witnessed was.

Wow... You... you... you nailed it...

Jake Gyllenhaal with the 'nope. juss reg'lar cowboys' and breaking into the Dreamgirls song was pretty good.

Oh c'mon now, theres plenty of cool monologues..."Connery" coming out to needle Pierce Brosnan, the John Heder mono with the characters from Napoleon Dynamite, Ferrells return...theres too many to mention.

I started in on Grandpas cough medicine way too early yesterday & barely made it past "Seductive Dog", which was great. I'll have to catch it later this summer.

Saturday Night self bump, i just found this one, i'll watch it for the first time here in a sec...i betcha its funny.

I have no idea who's hosting the re-run tonight...











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The blonde chick from My Name Is Earl.

And the opening monologue was exactly how I parodied it.

So ****ing predictable. Hard to believe this show used to be halfway good.

Hey, you know what else amuses me?

When the host of the show is the straight man in every sketch. :thumb:

Amy Poehler's damn good, though.

Kinda scary how right on that monologue is.

I do still enjoy many of them, though great deal of them are just crap.

I agree 100%, its the worst show ever.

Looks like no SNL tonight, so heres a best of Matt Foley montage...





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Who's Matt Foley? :doh!:

Alrighty, that Foley montage was butchered, heres a best of Christopher Walken...







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Just teasin' ya! I love SNL. Even the past 3 years. Some good, some bad and some great.

Just like always...

Why, one of Farleys most famous characters of course...come on man...get with the program!!!

:)

Ladies and Gentlemen...Harry Carey...





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Caray. Unless you meant this guy:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../HaryCarey.jpg

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WTF? They're putting gay-azz wrestling on instead of SNL tonight?

I dont like it either, juvenile male soap operas take precedence over biting social commentary???


McMahon carries a huge wallet... :shrug:

One of my all time favorites. That sketch always makes me laugh.

The first time i watched that, my sides hurt & i could hardly see straight...it was one of those where you KNEW Will was gonna be huge.

Never seen that before. THAT was funny stuff.... :)

LMAO

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We get a great summer rerun tonight, Alec Baldwin hosting w/ Aguilera for music.

Baldwin is so funny, that they've always wanted him to be a cast member.

Heres one of the best Phil Hartman characters EVAH!!!


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Nirvana on SNL...


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Repeat tonight

Season's over. There's gonna be repeats until October.

I think this is a spoof of something, but I have no idea what. It still made me laugh a lot.

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I havent even seen that one yet & i have absolutely no idea what its spoofing either.

My first thought was "this looks stupid", then i started laughing out loud.

I'm digging up this fossil because the Late Night Wars have had me thinking about some of these old SNL 'Late Night' skits, Carvey might be the single most underappreciated player they've ever had.

He had a lot of memorable characters, this among them...

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Sorry bout the ads, those bastards... apparently you cant embed from the SNL page anymore... is it ALL about money anymore?/yes

Carvey was incredible on the show.

I wish SNL wasn't on NBC. I think Conan would be an incredible host to have on there right now.

I hadnt thought of that, an excellent idea.

I'm beginning to really hate NBC, after going through this thread, basically all vids are removed & unless i'm more buzzed than i thought, you cant even embed an SNL vid from their homepage anymore, like you could just a few short months ago.

They are some joy killing mother****ers.

How the f**k is SNL still on the air. It hasn't been funny in about a decade. Maybe longer.

Oh, wait, that's right. It's NBC.

That network sucks so much ass they should change their logo from a peacock to a tossed salad.

Honestly, the thought that SNL hasn't been funny in forever is about the biggest stretch you can have.

They have some really great material on there and some talented people. Just because it's not Belushi, Sandler, Farley or Ferrell, doesn't mean it's not funny.

It's not great anymore but it still manages to hit a home run every now and then.

I've tried to watch it repeatedly over the years. Whenever I turn it on, I watch it for a while, think, "none of this is funny", and turn it off.

The longer the show's been on the air, it seems the shorter the length of time it's funny per night. Originally the whole thing was funny. In the 80s, it was funny for the first half. In the 90s, it was the first quarter of the show. Now, not even the opening monologue or first skit seem funny.

It's not necessarily their fault. When the show first started, there was little outlet for comedic writing. Now? Six billion cable channels (including Comedy Central). Comedy shows like "The Simpsons", "Family Guy", and "South Park". Late-night shows like Conan, Ferguson, and Kimmel. Movies. The media has become so dense and varied that it's stretched the good writing thin. JMO.

Consistency has never, ever been SNL's strong point, even with their best casts. It has to be extremely hard to put on a new, live 90 minute comedy show 30 weeks a year. It's amazing that they're successful as often as they are, really.

Its hitting a dinger right now...

I don't know who Blake Lively is, but I'd like to hit her with MY dinger... :hump:

Excellent point.

I haven't watched it much, but the SNL shorts with Justin Timberlake are pretty much the only good stuff I have seen in years on that show, but I haven't watched a whole SNL in years.

They've had some incredible casts, from the first Chase-Belushi-Ackroyd-Radner years to the Eddie Murphy-Joe Piscopo years to the one incredible year they had Billy Crystal-Christopher Guest-Martin Short-Harry Shearer but I think the absolute best lineup the ever had was around 1989 when they had Phil Hartman,Dana Carvey,Jon Lovitz,Nora Dunn,Jan Hooks,Dennis Miller,Kevin Nealon and their BACKUP players were Chris Rock,Chris Farley,Mike Myers,and Adam Sandler. Holy crap!!!
That was the era, from like 1986 to 1994 when I wouldn't miss a moment.
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Yes I likey the dress she almost had on to open the show.
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Which former cast member has had the most success?

I would guess it would have to be Mike Myers.

Murphy or Sandler I would think.

Best way to watch in online w/HULU. You get to pick the clips you wanna see. I watched the Lawrence Welk one with the freaky little hands chick about 5 times with my son. Laughed our butts off. That and McGruber with Charles Barkley. Funny stuff.

Bill Murray.

My guess in terms of box office dollars would be Eddie Murphy.

Even though he sucks now.

Sandler is probably getting close to him though.

Great point, even the new guys were top notch.

I was just thinking the Waynes World, Austin Powers and Shrek. But I forgot Eddie Murphy was also in Shrek plus a ton other successful movies and stand up. It has to be Eddie Murphy hands down.

Tough to beat this:


Film
Year Film Role Notes
1982 48 Hrs. Reggie Hammond
1983 Trading Places Billy Ray Valentine
1983 Eddie Murphy Delirious Himself Also Producer
1984 Best Defense Lieutenant T.M. Landry
Beverly Hills Cop Det. Axel Foley
1986 The Golden Child Chandler Jarrell
1987 Beverly Hills Cop II Det. Axel Foley
Eddie Murphy Raw Himself Also Producer
1988 Coming to America Prince Akeem/Clarence/Randy Watson/Saul
1989 Harlem Nights Quick (Real Name Vernest Brown) Also Director and Producer
1990 Another 48 Hrs. Reggie Hammond
1992 Boomerang Marcus Graham
The Distinguished Gentleman Thomas Jefferson Johnson
1994 Beverly Hills Cop III Det. Axel Foley
1995 Vampire in Brooklyn Maximillian/Preacher Pauly/Guido Also Producer
1996 The Nutty Professor Professor Sherman Klump/Buddy Love/
Lance Perkins/Cletus 'Papa' Klump/
Anna Pearl 'Mama' Jensen Klump/
Ida Mae 'Granny' Jensen/Ernie Klump, Sr. Also Producer
1997 Metro Insp. Scott Roper
1998 Mulan Mushu (voice)
Doctor Dolittle Dr. John Dolittle
Holy Man G
1999 Life Rayford "Ray" Gibson Also Producer
Bowfinger Kit Ramsey/Jeffernson 'Jiff' Ramsey
2000 Nutty Professor II: The Klumps Professor Sherman Klump/Buddy Love/
Lance Perkins/Cletus 'Papa' Klump/
Anna Pearl 'Mama' Jensen Klump/
Ida Mae 'Granny' Jensen/Ernie Klump Also Producer
2001 Shrek Donkey (voice)
Dr. Dolittle 2 Dr. John Dolittle
2002 Showtime Officer Trey Sellers
The Adventures of Pluto Nash Pluto Nash
I Spy Kelly Robinson
2003 Daddy Day Care Charles "Charlie" Hinton
The Haunted Mansion Jim Evers
2004 Shrek 2 Donkey (voice)
2006 Dreamgirls James 'Thunder' Early
2007 Norbit Norbit Rice/Rasputia Latimore-Rice/Mr. Wong Also Producer
Shrek the Third Donkey (voice)
2008 Meet Dave Starship Dave (Spacecraft), Captain
2009 Imagine That Evan Danielson
2010 A Thousand Words Post-production
Shrek Forever After Donkey (voice) Post-production

Yea, that would be my favorite era.

An underrated guy that started in that era was Tim Meadows. He was actually one of the longest running guys on the show. Something like 9 or 10 years.

I watched an episode a few nights ago, because I want so much to like SNL. It was the Charles Barkley one. The ONLY times I laughed were at the MacGruber sketches. Apparently they're making a movie from that so I guess they're ready to beat that into the ground.

This show was last really funny a few years after Will Ferrell joined. It got bad with him on it later, but at least he kept it afloat. Since he left, it has been adrift in a sea of lame. The weird part is, it is one of the most talented casts they've had in a while. The writing just sucks. Every sketch is one note and that note is, at best, mildly amusing.

Hey! Conan's out of work! Maybe he can go back to writing for the show and save it from itself!!!

For those of you unfamilar, it looks like the 'Draft Betty' campaign is 'this close' to a reality. Better, bringing an all-star girly cast [Molly Shannon, Tina Fey] to help her shoulder the burden of a 90 minute live show.

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/02/...ite/#more-6280

Good stuff...

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One of my favorites of Steve Martin...

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Jessie J. straight killed it.

It's like Katie Perry and Die Antwoord had a baby.

Those legs. Oh my God, those legs.
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Epic enough to forgive this? ;)


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Party in the USA, really? if theres an award for lameass song titles, this is the clear winner for 2011. She's about to find herself irrelevant... too crazy for the kiddies & too unsophisticated for adults.

But last nights episode was one of the best i've watched in a long time, 'Kings of Catchphrase Comedy' had me in absolute tears, especially the airhorn guy.

I posted that, not about Miley, but referencing the fact that Jessie J. wrote it for her. She's writing for Britney too.

I had no idea who Jesse J was until last night, but i definitely came away impressed with her skill & formidable stage presence. Still, Party in the USA is weak IMO.

I'm starting to think that, when it comes to music, GB still has it all over the rest of us. Started with the Beatles, Who, Zep and Stones. Went quiet for a while, or at least competed on an even playing field. They never did get an epic contribution in LA Metal or Seattle sound. Then I noticed that I liked the modern pop of the likes of Pulp [though The Strokes and The Killers acquit themselves well there] more than most genres. But man, the women are killing it, Winehouse kicked it off but didn't really capitalize, but Duffy, Adele, Sharlene Spiteri, Lilly Allen.

And Li'l Wayne is of worth.

- Eminem

Good rerun tonight, Bridges can pretty much just fart & come out looking cool these days.

Helen Mirren, that silver haired fox & the Foo Fighters tonight, should be a good one. Hopefully they'll find a way to get Helen into something revealing.

*apologies in advance if all f'n commercialed up*

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LMAO

MORT FEINGOLD RULEZ!

Nasim's fever dream [replete with chimps shampooing kitties], immediately supplanted by a Wiig motorboatin' scene.

Kill Me NOW!!

Bobby Moynihan does a mean San the Eagle.

Tied for the best episode of the year IMO.

The tired scuzziness of the strip bar sketch was fucking dead on, thats why i havent been to one in over 15 years... 'she once broke off an engagement with Jack Ruby' LMAO

A complete embarassment. Usually the digital short is a highlight.

The Penis pic sketch was hilarious


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Last nights show was one of the best of the season....There was also the Crunk Ass Easter Festival:



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As sechsy as Katie Perry is, I could spend eternity watching Robyn dance [even with loaves of whole wheat bread on her feet]. A couple years back she was the best part of the Teddybears' cobrastyle, and judging from last night she hasn't lost a step.