SNL December: Emma Stone, John Cena, Casey Affleck with Rock, Country, Rap

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MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

Winkie01 posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/805278955150471168

lol

Oh my god go run the country poorly and stop watching SNL you loving idiot. Go tweet your support for a Palestinian state or something.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:23

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 15:36

Shneak: Mar 6, 2015; A sad Professor Plum
sitting on a toilet.

Winkie01 posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/805278955150471168

lol

Did he get to the part of the episode where high school theatre kids say "sad" as a punchline?

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:23

SpiderHyphenMan: Apr 1, 2010; by Fluffdaddy

Listen. Rachel from Friends has become unstuck in time.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:24

Maxwell Lord: Dec 12, 2008; I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.; Grimey Drawer

Okay this had to happen.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:24

Macdeo Lurjtux: Jul 5, 2011; BRRREADSTOOORRM!

I guess it's cold in the studio.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:26

Maxwell Lord: Dec 12, 2008; I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.; Grimey Drawer

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

I guess it's cold in the studio.

Aniston's always like that.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:27

Maxwell Lord: Dec 12, 2008; I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.; Grimey Drawer

I like this sketch.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:31

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

Just make it fast!

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:32

SpiderHyphenMan: Apr 1, 2010; by Fluffdaddy

This isn't great, Dan.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:32

Vakal: May 11, 2008

Emma Stone always reminds me of the succubus from the first VHS movie.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:33

Maxwell Lord: Dec 12, 2008; I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.; Grimey Drawer

And I have been slowly dying!

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:38

SpiderHyphenMan: Apr 1, 2010; by Fluffdaddy

yknow there are certain revelations that came out today that make this sketch timely in the worst way

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:38

Shneak: Mar 6, 2015; A sad Professor Plum
sitting on a toilet.

I can't believe this is recurring already.

I'll take it.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:39

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

Then I blew him.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:40

Winkie01: Nov 28, 2004

hahahaha then i blew him

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:40

Kammat: Feb 9, 2008; Odd Person

Kate McKinnon is a national treasure

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:41

pwn: May 27, 2004; This Christmas get "Shoes"

I'm the band miscue

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:43

SpiderHyphenMan: Apr 1, 2010; by Fluffdaddy

oh my god.

Iconic.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:44

SpiderHyphenMan: Apr 1, 2010; by Fluffdaddy

pwn posted:

I'm the band miscue

I really wish this was playing next week so the kid could have been introduced with John Cena's music.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:44

Edward Mass: Sep 14, 2011; 𝅘𝅥𝅮 I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
Friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen𝅘𝅥𝅮

Alpaca sighting!

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:53

Shneak: Mar 6, 2015; A sad Professor Plum
sitting on a toilet.

Alpaca getting that paycheque tonight.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:54

pwn: May 27, 2004; This Christmas get "Shoes"

Was that the same one backstage in the monologue?

Also I can't imagine there's time for another bit. Just gonna be a band shot.

Yep

# ? Dec 4, 2016 06:57

pwn: May 27, 2004; This Christmas get "Shoes"

Oh my god Gena Rositano's death stare at the dude who walked off stage early.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 07:01

ArtVandelay: Jul 13, 2004

Well that was quite an experience I was sitting 5 feet from Paul feig and questlove the whole show.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 07:14

pwn: May 27, 2004; This Christmas get "Shoes"

ArtVandelay posted:

Well that was quite an experience I was sitting 5 feet from Paul feig and questlove the whole show.

Here's a bunch of bumper photos

And two other screens for fun

# ? Dec 4, 2016 07:55

ArtVandelay: Jul 13, 2004

The best thing was how much Kate had everyone cracking up during that equality for women sketch. Every time the camera wasn't on one of them, they were practically on the floor laughing.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 07:55

pwn: May 27, 2004; This Christmas get "Shoes"

If you're interested in classic (if not sorta square) sketch comedy...

quote:

Here comes the judge! Decades excitedly announces the addition of Rowan & Martin�s Laugh-In to our schedule. This groundbreaking ensemble comedy is a wild and funny portal back to psychedelic 1960s. Its of-the-moment catchphrases, unique sketches and topical humor, the influential series continues to live on in hosted comedy and variety shows today.

Laugh-In joins the Decades programming lineup beginning Monday, December 5, airing weekdays at 6pm/ET and again at 12am/ET. Find out where to watch in your area. The show was the most-watched program in America from 1968-70, and continually fed pop culture with hip catchphrases over its six seasons. "You bet your sweet bippy!� �Sock it to me!� �Very interesting.�

The sharp and sassy comedy debuted in January of 1968, setting the stage for many of the comedy, sketch and variety series that followed. The show�s regular cast included hosts Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, as well as Ruth Buzzi, Arte Johnson, Lily Tomlin, Goldie Hawn, Jo Anne Worley, Henry Gibson, Richard Dawson and featured guest performers such as Flip Wilson, Jack Benny, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Johnny Carson, Sammy Davis Jr., Tiny Tim, Bob Hope and John Wayne.

Produced by George Schlatter and Ed Friendly, Laugh-In featured a number of talented comedy writers including a young Lorne Michaels, who famously went on to create Saturday Night Live. In a prelude to future elections, presidential candidate Richard Nixon dropped in for an unexpected comedy cameo. Tune in for humor that remains as side-splitting and relevant as it was nearly four decades ago.

There were 140 episodes of the weekly show, so even if it runs just 5 nights a week, you could, theoretically, have the series finished by July.

To provide some backstory on the show, its original editor Art Schneider, and a couple of very cool videos, please enjoy this piece, shamelessly ripped off from Bobby Ellerbee's EyesOfAGeneration.com Facebook page, which should be followed if you've any interest at all in television history and production.

quote:

"Rowan & Martin's Laugh In"...Three Backstories Rolled Into One

(1) Fun (2) Editing on film and videotape (3) The Editor, Art "Jump Cut" Schneider

There is not a better way to illustrate how "Laugh In" was done than to start with this embedded blooper reel, which will be fun and instructive at the same time. As you watch these outtakes, notice the man in the at 1:25 mark with Marcel Marceau (the pantomime king) is the show's creator George Schlatter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98TMYHvR6kM

Believe it or not, the show was simultaneously recorded on black and white kinescope film and color video tape. Using the kinescope footage, Art Schneider (the videotape editor) and George Schlatter cut the show together the way they wanted it to be seen on the air. Only when that process was complete could Art begin to edit the color videotape.

With an average of 400 edits per episode, which no other show had ever attempted, editing "Laugh In" was in a league by itself...as was the editor. As a matter of fact, when Art left NBC after the second year of the show, it took 7 editors to replace him.

To give you and idea how hard it was to edit videotape in those days, here is Art Schneider editing with a Smith Block at NBC. The video will start at the part that features Art, but the whole thing is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzZ4S2gkxaI

Below is a 1989 article from "WRAP Magazine" on Art...

For Art Schneider, A.C.E., it was one of the most memorable moments in his life. Bob Hope was taping a 1965 comedy special
at NBC and Schneider, Hope's videotape editor since the late 1950s, was standing offstage when Hope called him out. "Most of you don't know what goes on behind the scenes during the editing of our show," began Hope. "We have a man in the basement ... who fixes all our mistakes, and we'd like to honor him tonight with the annual Bob Hope Show Crossed Scissors Award for Jump Cutting Above and Beyond the Call of Duty".

To many in the industry, Schneider has always been known as "Jump Cut," the editor's editor, racking up screen credits and awards almost since the beginning of television. As an NBC staff engineer from 1951 to 1968, Schneider edited over 500 variety shows, documentaries, music specials, series and news programs, winning four Emmys in the process. His work helped define the medium.

From the start, Schneider's modus operandi has been to edit quickly, efficiently and seamlessly. To improve video editing in the '50s-a cumbersome process, which involved the hand-splicing of tape, he worked with his colleagues at NBC to develop the first offline editing process as well as an early time-code system. As chief editor of the network's "Rowan and Martin's Laugh In" in the late '60s, he was notorious for his organization and imagination.

"To edit 'Laugh In', we had to adapt the technology to our concepts and not vice versa," says Creator and Producer George Schlatter. "At the time, video editing was primitive and considered a technician's job. Art helped change that. It became an artistic job."

Schneider's ambitions once lay elsewhere. When he was 18 and a model-airplane enthusiast, he entered the University of Southern California with the goal of becoming an aeronautical engineer. He explains, however, that he couldn't master the math required for the field. "I changed my major three times before I finally settled on cinema studies," he recalls. "There's not much math in that."

Schneider soon found he had a knack for cutting film, and it was during his senior year that a professor introduced him to an NBC executive searching for a film editor. "The job they offered was simple-editing leaders onto kinescopes, but they didn't want to spend the time training beginners how to edit," recalls Schneider. "They wanted someone who already knew how to do it."

A four-hour job interview led to what would be a 17-year career at the network. Although eventually he became the network's supervising editor, he began as a "Group 2 Engineer", hand splicing videotape and film, and operating kinescope machines and cameras because the term "editor" was not officially sanctioned by NBC until the '60s.

Schneider worked constantly, averaging 40 to 50 shows a year and racking up such credits as 51 Bob Hope shows, three critically acclaimed Fred Astaire programs, and specials starring Judy Garland, Pat Boone, Milton Berle and Jack Benny. "My USC training in cinema really helped," he says-particularly for specials, "which were tricky. You couldn't just grind them out like you might on a series. The star wanted to put the best foot forward."

In 1967, Schlatter, a former colleague from NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour, approached him with the 'Laugh In' pilot. "I thought it had a funny name and a pretty thick script," Schneider recalls, "but I said, 'Fine, I'll do it.' " The script was four inches thick, to be exact, and, at a time when 80 edits an hour for video was considered excessively complicated, Laugh-in weighed in at about 400. "It was a gargantuan task," says Schlatter, "and 'Laugh In' may have been the first show on TV whose editor was recognized for the contribution he brought to the whole."

With its quick blackouts, short sketches and zany music pieces, Laugh-in was an editor's nightmare. Schneider, with Schlatter at his side, spent three weeks of 20-hour-a-day edits to produce the pilot. "At the end of the first assembly [which took five days], George didn't like what he saw. He sat back and cried, 'What have I wrought?' " recalls Schneider, who wound up recutting the program five times. "After the fifth, George was satisfied, but I was still bothered by something that didn't quite click. I couldn't sleep, thinking about it." Then, as he lay in bed, he had an inspiration:

He would add a tag scene after the closing credits...a discarded piece of footage of Arte Johnson as a Nazi saying, "Verrrry interesting." Not only did Schlatter love the touch, the bit became a catchphrase of the series.

In 1968, Schneider left NBC to form, with Schlatter, Burbank Film Editing (where he continued to work on 'Laugh In'). Schneider left in 1970 to work at CFI, where he stayed until 1976 and helped develop the first CMX 300 on-line editing system. From there he freelanced on a variety of projects, including off-net hours for syndication and documentaries on pollution. In addition, he served on the board of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; became a member of the SMPTE education committee; and began writing (over 50 articles) and lecturing on his profession.

"To be successful," Schneider concludes, "you have to be very, very dedicated. And you have to work your butt off."

Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee

They say that when the original edited 2-inch videotape, replete with hundreds of taped splices, was played back in the Ampex machine, the thing sounded like a machine gun from all the edits.

Laugh-In begins airing on Decades starting Monday December 5 every night at 6/5c and again at 12/11c. Many cable and satellite systems do not carry subchannels like Decades, so you may have to get out your antenna.

# ? Dec 4, 2016 17:52

BigBallChunkyTime: Nov 25, 2011; Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.; Illegal Hen

So how many cast members will be jobbed to Cena this week?

# ? Dec 4, 2016 20:08

Gavok: Oct 10, 2005; Brock! Oh, man, I'm sorry about your...

...tooth?

bad boy in the boy band posted:

So how many cast members will be jobbed to Cena this week?

The episode is there to build up a John Cena vs. Bill Brasky match at WrestleMania 33. They say Bill Brasky can see John Cena.

# ? Dec 5, 2016 00:13

ArtVandelay: Jul 13, 2004

Now that i'm back home, i'll tell you about something you thankfully didn't see!

The cold opening Trump/Pence set is on the main stage where Emma Stone comes out. It was 3 walls, with a bunch of wires connecting the back so the Trump Pence sign stayed on the wall. As the cast was being announced, the wall got stuck. Something was wrong the wire, and they couldn't take the sign off the wall so they could move the wall. When it became apparent that they had almost zero time left, about 10 panicked stagehands ran up and started pushing the wall as hard as they can and generally looked terrified. By that point, the entire audience realized there was a race against time that could actually be lost, and there was a lot of gasping and murmering, i'm sure you can hear it on TV. They were able to get all the walls off the main stage by the time the announcer called Mikey Day's name, so about 10ish seconds. It was really something to see.

Edit: Also, it's impossible to believe, but the musical guest actually sounds even worse live than on TV. The acoustics suck I guess. Shawn Mendes sucks, obviously. His 2nd song was one of the worst things i've ever heard. Didn't stop the younger women from going insane.

ArtVandelay fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Dec 5, 2016

# ? Dec 5, 2016 02:13

IRQ: Sep 9, 2001; SUCK A DICK, DUMBSHITS!

ArtVandelay posted:

Edit: Also, it's impossible to believe, but the musical guest actually sounds even worse live than on TV. The acoustics suck I guess. Shawn Mendes sucks, obviously. His 2nd song was one of the worst things i've ever heard. Didn't stop the younger women from going insane.

SNL musical guest that isn't Nirvana or former Nirvana, fast forward, always a safe bet.

# ? Dec 5, 2016 02:23

ArtVandelay: Jul 13, 2004

One more thing. Leslie Jones on update was great. Even better was Michael Che off camera making fun of her the entire time and wildly gesticulating, which is really what made her break. He was loving it. A few times she made him laugh so hard he almost fell out of his chair backwards.

# ? Dec 5, 2016 02:34

jojoinnit: Dec 13, 2010; Strength and speed, that's why you're a special agent.

ArtVandelay posted:

One more thing. Leslie Jones on update was great. Even better was Michael Che off camera making fun of her the entire time and wildly gesticulating, which is really what made her break. He was loving it. A few times she made him laugh so hard he almost fell out of his chair backwards.

This reminds me. Check out Che's Netflix special. His standup is so much better than his Update and I actually think he's stronger than Joost.

# ? Dec 5, 2016 02:37

pwn: May 27, 2004; This Christmas get "Shoes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHlTofir2H0

# ? Dec 9, 2016 00:51

The Muppets On PCP: Nov 13, 2016; by Fluffdaddy

IRQ posted:

SNL musical guest that isn't Nirvana or former Nirvana, fast forward, always a safe bet.

snl's live mixing was pretty decent up until the early 2000s

# ? Dec 9, 2016 01:45

pwn: May 27, 2004; This Christmas get "Shoes"

The Muppets On PCP posted:

snl's live mixing was pretty decent up until the early 2000s

My memory may be faulty, but I think the exact line of demarcation is 2005, when they started doing 5.1 mixing.

And they posted this right after I made my last post--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bopDFdlxodg

# ? Dec 9, 2016 03:14

Victorkm: Nov 25, 2001

pwn posted:

My memory may be faulty, but I think the exact line of demarcation is 2005, when they started doing 5.1 mixing.

And they posted this right after I made my last post--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bopDFdlxodg

Good god that felt so much longer that 2:10

# ? Dec 9, 2016 03:20

MC Fruit Stripe: Nov 26, 2002; around and around we go

That one was terrible, but his promo was good and I think he'll make a good host

# ? Dec 9, 2016 03:33

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

pwn posted:

And they posted this right after I made my last post--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bopDFdlxodg

As a signal flare to WWE fans, that landed right where it should've.

But yeah, twice as long as it needed to be.

# ? Dec 9, 2016 05:25

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 15:36

Propaganda Machine: Jan 2, 2005; Truthiness!

I dunno man, I still laugh my rear end off at that prank call.

# ? Dec 9, 2016 05:31

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