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Timby posted:I'm from Chicago, too, but I thought his Caray was unbelievably awful. It went beyond exaggeration to unbelievably absurd, like poo poo you'd see on RuPaul's Drag Race. Wow. That's certainly a take. I'd ask you to explain but I don't think I want to know.
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Sekhmnet posted:I think with Baldwin's approach he's trying too hard to maintain that puckered rear end in a top hat lips thing that trump does. I way prefer the treatment that the weekend updates give to Don jr and Eric, sort of a grapes of wrath for the 1%. They seem to have stopped doing that though and it makes me sad. Baldwin has also openly said that he isn't giving a poo poo anymore and he actively dislikes flying coast-to-coast every week or two to do SNL, so he's phoning it in now.
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Sekhmnet posted:I think with Baldwin's approach he's trying too hard to maintain that puckered rear end in a top hat lips thing that trump does. I way prefer the treatment that the weekend updates give to Don jr and Eric, sort of a grapes of wrath for the 1%. They seem to have stopped doing that though and it makes me sad. Yeah, I can see that (about Baldwin). It's like, I get what he's going for, but he's going to such a clearly visible effort to maintain the facial expression that it just comes off as super-exaggerated. That's my take, anyway. And again, taken in a vacuum, it's actually not a terrible impression. It's not perfect, but Baldwin is not an impressionist. His training is in psychiatry. I would probably still like it if I weren't beaten over the head with Real Clown Trump 5 days a week (or more!) and then once more with Fake Clown Trump every Saturday night.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Anthony Atamatuik found a goldmine with his impression...too bad Baldwin got him blacklisted from TV, because The President Show has predicted almost every single Trump move. Atamatuik found the core of Trump's id, and apparently a lot of it is rooted in the physicality of his stance and demeanor. His impression was so spot-on, that clips from the show get released from time to time and people spend a few hours wondering if it's real. agreed, he's the one guy that actually nails the essence of Trump other than Tim Heidecker's On Cinema/Decker character ultimately I think the Trump impressions suck for two reasons: one, we already live in a bad SNL sketch, the actual news is dumber than anything SNL could come up with so it's dumb to even try. two, you can't really do a funny impersonation of someone with no redeeming qualities whatsoever
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I thought Chase playing Ford the way he did was intentional and exactly the point. Which is whysportsgenius86 posted:They should have Ego Nwodim play Trump because him being impersonated by a black woman would probably upset him more than anything else they could do. is so brilliant. Just have her appear on camera dressed as herself, speaking normally, say "I'm Donald Trump", and then proceed to deliver the most batshit material possible, which is to say, read his transcripts verbatim.
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Laterite posted:I thought Chase playing Ford the way he did was intentional and exactly the point. Which is why At least give her a terrible wig. And I don't mean Kristen.
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New thread going up soon, hopefully tonight yet In the meantime here is uh trivia i guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B5w_5KGSqQ
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pwn posted:New thread going up soon, hopefully tonight yet And here I always thought they were saying that they were mild and LAZY guys!
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I have never seen the real Michael Wolff, but I do enjoy Armisen's take.
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Fred Armisen only has like 2 voices even though he has a sketch comedy show where he plays half the characters.
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Sekhmnet posted:I think with Baldwin's approach he's trying too hard to maintain that puckered rear end in a top hat lips thing that trump does. I way prefer the treatment that the weekend updates give to Don jr and Eric, sort of a grapes of wrath for the 1%. They seem to have stopped doing that though and it makes me sad. i think it's really hilarious that they apparently got the two of them backwards, where Eric is the one who tries to keep his head down, just run the company and don't actively seek out people to say dumb poo poo to, whereas i cannot believe that DJTJr knows how to tie his shoes without someone's help. Apparently junior thinks it's hilarious because he's not the dumb one, and has actually offered to cameo on the show because of this.
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The problem with the impressions aren't the impressions themselves. It's that SNL as an institution has no interest in doing any actual critique of who these people are or taking any sort of stand, making them so inoffensive that some of these presidents even showed up on the show alongside whoever was imitating them. If the person you're making fun of feels comfortable appearing on the show with you, you're not critiquing them or parodying them or anything like that. You're just putting on some makeup and doing a funny voice.
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stratofarius posted:The problem with the impressions aren't the impressions themselves. It's that SNL as an institution has no interest in doing any actual critique of who these people are or taking any sort of stand, making them so inoffensive that some of these presidents even showed up on the show alongside whoever was imitating them. If the person you're making fun of feels comfortable appearing on the show with you, you're not critiquing them or parodying them or anything like that. You're just putting on some makeup and doing a funny voice. Pretend I found and posted the pic of Trump flanked by impressions, not feeling the least bit diminished.
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Heidi Gardner and Chris Redd have been promoted from featured players to repertory.
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Chris Redd is like a funnier Martin Lawrence.
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GreenNight posted:Chris Redd is like a funnier Martin Lawrence. That's not exactly a high bar.
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Sep 25, 2019 14:12
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Literally the post above yours.
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Timby posted:Literally the post above yours. Yeah, but you didn't include the Tweet.
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Heidi Gardner and Chris Redd are being promoted to full repertory status https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAKHFjtb8uM
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pwn posted:Heidi Gardner and Chris Redd are being promoted to full repertory status
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Heidi has been the best part of the show for me since she joined.
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Yeah, my wife and I both enjoy Heidi a lot. Her Instagram influencer reminds me of the students we teach, so that always cracks us up.
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tarlibone posted:Strictly speaking, Carvey's Bush, Hartman's Reagan, and Ferrell's Bush Light were not that good as impressions/impersonations. They just picked a few mannerisms or speech patterns, magnified them to the point of caricature, and then went with that. I think we remember them as being great because 1) they were pretty much all we had at the time other than Rich Little's "comical" offerings and other one-off, not-commonly-seen, more serious takes; and 2) they were not overused, but were still seen often, especially in reruns, especially once the show was syndicated and hour-long episodes started airing on Comedy Central and the like. So, on the first run, we saw them just often enough, then we had them drilled into our memories in reruns, and we liked them then, so we like them now. that's what i was saying. they exaggerated actual characteristics in a funny way even if it wasn't accurate to reality. there were jokes. baldwin just recites tweets word-for-word. this, for example, is maybe the best political sketch snl has ever done: it creates a caricature of reagan that ran against his public image that also probably reflected private reality and put responsibility for war crimes back on his shoulders. it also runs a little long and includes an unnecessary celebrity impersonation so it's a quintessential snl sketch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wfPlgKFh8
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I love that Reagan skit. Even as a kid, that was one of my favorites. I loved the doddering old man bit suddenly morphing into the hyper-competent mastermind, and Hartman does it very convincingly.
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I asked you guys for help on this one a while back and then it ended up being unfinished for like a year and a half and I finally got around to completing it. Saturday Night Live: The Best Final Sketches
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Gavok posted:I asked you guys for help on this one a while back and then it ended up being unfinished for like a year and a half and I finally got around to completing it. this is good as hell
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Gavok posted:I asked you guys for help on this one a while back and then it ended up being unfinished for like a year and a half and I finally got around to completing it. And the other is the omission of Monster Trucks and Funny Cars (S22E11, David Alan Grier/Snoop Doggy Dogg)
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Coroner's Office is still one of my favorites. Somehow, it goes unmentioned, but the best part is when Jeremy Renner suggest they pull the sheet back a few times so he can make a bunch of guesses, and the detective says that that's not how it works... but Bill Hader snickers and says, "I kinda wanna see what he's gonna say!" I remember watching that when it was live, and I just about died. I still remember that scene, and that part from it. It was the perfect prelude to the most ridiculous part of one of the more ridiculous sketches ever. And mercifully, they never repeated it with a different host. They would have ruined it.
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