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What sucks is that this is a really solid performance. but for the subject matter
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pwn posted:These loving lyrics Thanks for being whoi you are, by the way, poo poo is nuts
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Mar 3, 2019 06:58
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So how much does the Jackson estate get for changing the lyrics to black or white?
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Mar 3, 2019 06:59
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Kammat posted:Timing feels really off this week. Is there going to be a second performance? pwn posted:It is being squeezed a bit. I wouldn’t be surprised if the last segment is a band shot  Zeluth posted:Thanks for being whoi you are, by the way, poo poo is nuts
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Mar 3, 2019 07:01
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The American Dream posted:So how much does the Jackson estate get for changing the lyrics to black or white? I want a black person to ride a swim swammer with me. *First Look*! ( I get to live the good life_
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Mar 3, 2019 07:03
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Well, after an uncharacteristically smooth night at the hands of the virtuoso running Master Control at my station, the streak ended. Because, to be fair, there were probably a LOT of stations who got messed up by the timing of the last internal break. I’ll upload the clip in an hour or so. Suffice to say, it was a surreal end to the night
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Mar 3, 2019 07:04
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pwn posted:What sucks is that this is a really solid performance. but for the subject matter Why are your standards so low?
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Mar 3, 2019 07:06
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That must have been a big screwup on time, i wonder what the :55 skit that we missed was.
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Mar 3, 2019 07:22
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I forgot how much I missed "What's That Name." First name: $5 Next round: $250,000 Perfect! Also nice to see Reese Da'WHAT get another chance to shine.
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Mar 3, 2019 07:33
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Cyril Sneer posted:God this music blows donkey dick Musical guests the past few years have been so very bad. To me it's often flavor of the month hip hop acts or mom-rock or this country poo poo. Do hosts have any say on what bands perform? Could Mulaney actually like this?
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Mar 3, 2019 08:04
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pwn posted:Well, after an uncharacteristically smooth night at the hands of the virtuoso running Master Control at my station, the streak ended. Because, to be fair, there were probably a LOT of stations who got messed up by the timing of the last internal break. I’ll upload the clip in an hour or so. Suffice to say, it was a surreal end to the night https://vimeo.com/321026639 https://vimeo.com/321026639 SNL made the last "act" (an in memoriam card) so short that it confused the local station operator (and likely many others as well.) So they were 60 seconds late in rolling the last internal local break. As the break is only 75 seconds in length, they had missed most of the window already, so that break covered whatever little there was for goodnights, the 5 second network promo, and the 35 second terminal break. It was cut off when the next program began. After a full minute, the operator should have just cut their losses and let the show finish, rather than clumsily try to run the break so late. They have to write it up in the discrepancy report anyway, and those ads will be made-up at a later date. Anyway that was a fun show. Nights like tonight remind me why I keep watching SNL
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Mar 3, 2019 08:17
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Millions of Crows posted:Musical guests the past few years have been so very bad. To me it's often flavor of the month hip hop acts or mom-rock or this country poo poo. As I understand it, hosts generally don't have any say on the musical guest unless they really plead a great case; it essentially depends on who will be in the area of New York on their concert circuit on the date of the show. It also doesn't help that the acoustics in Studio 8H are terrible and not at all conducive to musical performances.
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Mar 3, 2019 08:40
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Millions of Crows posted:Musical guests the past few years have been so very bad. To me it's often flavor of the month hip hop acts or mom-rock or this country poo poo. We did have Paul Simon earlier this season who was (of course) very good, but he probably has a standing offer from Lorne to play SNL whenever he wants. I don't think the hosts have any say at all, even former cast members and writers like Mulaney. At least not since the John Belushi Fear fiasco which despite being the second-best live performance in SNL history resulted in $20k damage to the set. The best SNL live performance will forever be Gloria by Patti Smith btw edit: found better video of Patti Youth Decay fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Mar 3, 2019 |
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Mar 3, 2019 08:47
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I’m 80% sure that Bill Murray insisted on Lucinda Williams when he hosted in ‘99, and 100% sure that Dan Ackroyd insisted on The Tragically Hip when he kinda-unofficially-co-hosted with John Goodman in ‘95. But those are OG alumni perks, I’d imagine.
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Mar 3, 2019 09:01
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Youth Decay posted:The best SNL live performance will forever be Gloria by Patti Smith btw What the everloving gently caress is going on with the camera work there, or is it just some bizarre cropping changes to avoid a takedown? Holy poo poo, I got a headache after like 20 seconds.
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Mar 3, 2019 09:16
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pwn posted:I’m 80% sure that Bill Murray insisted on Lucinda Williams when he hosted in ‘99, and 100% sure that Dan Ackroyd insisted on The Tragically Hip when he kinda-unofficially-co-hosted with John Goodman in ‘95. Yeah if you have those SNL ties and sufficient fame you can probably dictate who the musical guest is, provided you can get them to play and they aren't completely obscure. I figure most of the times your Bill Murrays and whatnot can arrange for a high-profile music guest so it's kind of a win-win. I figure even the super famous people and musicians who have hosted are used to operating within the machine of a given show and not trying to impose their will on it. There's got to be a few jerks who have been real jerks about it and tried to get their way, thrown a fit about it, etc. in the show's history though.
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Mar 3, 2019 09:22
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Timby posted:What the everloving gently caress is going on with the camera work there, or is it just some bizarre cropping changes to avoid a takedown? Holy poo poo, I got a headache after like 20 seconds. Yeah tons of snl music on YouTube has fuckery like that to avoid the takedown. Makes them near unwatchable.
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Mar 3, 2019 09:33
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Timby posted:What the everloving gently caress is going on with the camera work there, or is it just some bizarre cropping changes to avoid a takedown? Holy poo poo, I got a headache after like 20 seconds. Yep it's cropped to avoid a copyright claim. The original version used to be on Youtube years ago but was taken down so that's the only one I could find there. But then I remembered that Vimeo exists. https://vimeo.com/67301422
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Mar 3, 2019 10:14
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Oh, I forgot, Walter Matthau didn’t want none of that jingly-jangly rocker roll music, so he had Garrett Morris sing a straight Opera.Timby posted:What the everloving gently caress is going on with the camera work there, or is it just some bizarre cropping changes to avoid a takedown? Holy poo poo, I got a headache after like 20 seconds. I’m gonna geek out about SNL directors here for a moment longer. I may never know why Wilson was absent for three seasons (1986 – 1988,) but I do know that Paul Miller, the guy who replaced him, definitely provided a hit of juice, which the show badly needed at that point. Whoever’s decision it was to start featuring the house band in 1986 (probably Lorne’s,) Miller got some of the greatest and most dynamic band shots, really utilizing that big home base stage. When Wilson returned in ‘89, the shots continued, but they lost some of the jazz, and the band was no longer featured during the goodnights. Beth McCarthy took over in 1995, and band shots receded into the background over the next few years. Again, likely not the director’s sole decision; the director takes cues from Lorne, and Lorne has suits breathing down his neck about what he puts on their network (Don Ohlmeyer — the same Don Ohlmeyer who fired Norm MacDonald — reportedly didn’t care for G.E. Smith, either, and was the one who fired him in ‘95.) Uh, anyway, here’s the vanilla version of “Gloria” https://vimeo.com/67301422 https://vimeo.com/67301422 Edit: beaten!
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Mar 3, 2019 10:24
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pwn posted:and Lorne has suits breathing down his neck about what he puts on their network (Don Ohlmeyer — the same Don Ohlmeyer who fired Norm MacDonald — reportedly didn’t care for G.E. Smith, either, and was the one who fired him in ‘95.) I strongly doubt Lorne has suits breathing down his neck anymore, considering he basically owns NBC's weeknight late-night block, SNL and and like a half-dozen sitcoms due to air on the network. He's got them by the balls, and he knows it. It's all a matter of which band can realistically make the trip to 8H, because most mid-major touring acts aren't going to go there for a pair of five-minute performances when they can make a few hundred thousand bucks, at minimum (for example, ZZ Top's minimum booking fee is around $100,000, and no one will ever think them relevant nowadays), playing at the Barclays Center or MSG or whatever. Edit: It's the same reason that Letterman always had a notably more difficult time of booking guests than Leno, because the bulk of TV and film production was happening in California, whereas they would only be in New York on a press junket or for leisure or rarely for a shoot. Baldwin has openly said he doesn't want to play Trump anymore because flying cross-country every week is exhausting. Timby fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Mar 3, 2019 |
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Mar 3, 2019 10:40
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https://twitter.com/mulaney/status/1102137533431984130 That gem has been sitting on the shelf for 10 years. Mulaney needs to host every season to pull out long buried sketches.
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Mar 3, 2019 10:58
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gently caress it, John Mulaney should replace Lorne when his last horcrux is found and destroyed.
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Mar 3, 2019 11:01
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My feed cut off after the second musical act but browsing the thread it seems like there was just an in memoriam and then goodnights, right?
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Mar 3, 2019 13:08
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jojoinnit posted:My feed cut off after the second musical act but browsing the thread it seems like there was just an in memoriam and then goodnights, right? Yup. Seems pretty likely a skit got cut because my local cycled through about 3 spare bumpers.
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Mar 3, 2019 13:10
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Timby posted:gently caress it, John Mulaney should replace Lorne when his last horcrux is found and destroyed. This is actually a great idea.
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Mar 3, 2019 15:57
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Last night's "cut for time" sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP_iVlEyp5M
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Mar 3, 2019 17:35
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DaveWoo posted:Last night's "cut for time" sketch: That's funny as hell. I'm not sure what I'd have cut to make room for it, though. This episode was chock full of good!
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Mar 3, 2019 17:46
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Yeah, that was good.
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Mar 3, 2019 17:53
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Cyril Sneer posted:That jumped out at me too. He's talked a lot about his weird dog in his stand-up specials so I'm guessing the audience were fans of his stand-up. In his last special the audience cheered when he brought up his dog and he joked about how she didn't deserve any applause because she's such a little monster.
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Mar 3, 2019 19:06
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Last nights episode was like a feed from an alternate dimension where the writing isn’t lazy and lovely
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Mar 3, 2019 19:35
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What's That Name was my favorite gameshow sketch since Meet Your Second Wife.
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Mar 3, 2019 20:26
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SunshineDanceParty posted:What's That Name was my favorite gameshow sketch since Meet You're Second Wife. Watch your spelling! I think you meant, "Meat You're Second Wife."
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Mar 3, 2019 20:41
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They fixed some of the audio mix issues for the Bodega sketch before putting it on YouTube, which is nice.
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Mar 3, 2019 21:56
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I am legit afraid that I'll agree to go on a game show some time and then I'll find out it's What's That Name?. I'm terrible with names and always have been... this sketch cuts so close to home!
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Mar 6, 2019 17:09
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tarlibone posted:I am legit afraid that I'll agree to go on a game show some time and then I'll find out it's What's That Name?. I mean the sketch is still incredible, but it’s also really obviously a mary sue written from the POV of the beleaguered unremembered. Get over it, whoever wrote it
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Mar 6, 2019 17:32
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It really seemed more like it was written by Mulaney after having several of those moments (being the forgetter).
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Mar 6, 2019 18:01
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Michael Che and Colin Jost will be hosting Wrestlemania for some reason.
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Mar 6, 2019 23:25
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Push El Burrito posted:Michael Che and Colin Jost will be hosting Wrestlemania for some reason. Because it's awesome? I and many people I know and have met just apologize for the name thing straightaway upon names being introduced. It's also a good icebreaker conversation since so many people are bad with remembering names.
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Mar 6, 2019 23:40
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Propaganda Machine posted:Because it's awesome? Yeah, I wouldn't remember my own name if people didn't yell it all the time. I was at an ~Upper Crust~ wedding a few years ago and they loved playing a game where you'd be introduced to fifteen people and then have to recite all of their names back... I could never be a Beltway Insider... 
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I'm so glad they brought back 'What's That Name'. The Timberlake/Gaga edition of that sketch is one of my favorite of all time, and it seemed like a premise that had been lost to time.
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