SNL May: Adam Sandler & Shawn Mendes, Emma Thompson, Paul Rudd & DJ Khaled

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

Seagal was so bad, guys. gently caress that episode.

# ? Jun 2, 2019 20:02

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 17:04

stratofarius: May 17, 2019

Didn't one writer say Berle was treating SNL like The Muppet Show?

# ? Jun 3, 2019 17:55

An Ounce of Gold: Jul 13, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

Let me remind you that Nancy Kerrigan once hosted...

# ? Jun 3, 2019 18:40

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

stratofarius posted:

Didn't one writer say Berle was treating SNL like The Muppet Show?

He basically went all "I'm Milton Berle, bitch!' on everybody despite the fact that his fame ship had sailed over a decade before.

# ? Jun 4, 2019 00:22

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

Mister Kingdom posted:

He basically went all "I'm Milton Berle, bitch!' on everybody despite the fact that his fame ship had sailed over a decade before.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, �MISTER TELEVISION� HIMSELF � MILTON BERLE!!

- Don Pardo�s actual announcement

# ? Jun 4, 2019 01:59

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

Gag reel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcj-7mfdMTk

# ? Jun 13, 2019 00:05

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

A season recap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVv4sRXkBW4

They also uploaded a bunch of 70s sketches today, so that�s nice.

Finally, all 151 cast members as 1st generation Pokemon. A few highlights

Demonstrating the veracity of Vulture�s knowledge, Charles Rocket was not the first person to drop tye F-bomb on SNL. That dubious honour belongs to 047,

which is accurate enough

I�m glad Emily Prager doesn�t get forgotten.

The best match I�ve found so far.

# ? Jun 16, 2019 03:25

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

Mister Kingdom posted:

He basically went all "I'm Milton Berle, bitch!' on everybody despite the fact that his fame ship had sailed over a decade before.

To be fair, he had an enormous penis.

# ? Jun 16, 2019 03:32

Timby: Dec 23, 2006; Your mother!

Has there been any word on cast changes? Usually a few weeks after the season finale, that's when they announce people moving on. I figure McKinnon's got one more season at most, and Kenan insists he's staying on the show despite having his sitcom (which will likely be canceled after five episodes), but I haven't read anything about anyone else.

# ? Jun 16, 2019 03:34

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

BigBallChunkyTime posted:

To be fair, he had an enormous penis.

Alan Zweibel reminisces

quote:

He says to me: �You mean you never saw it?� I said, �Uh, no, I don�t believe I did.� Then he said, �Well, would you like to?� And before I had a chance to say, �Not really� or �Can I think about it?� or whatever, he parts his bathrobe and he just takes out this � this anaconda. He lays it on the table and I�m looking into this thing, right? I�m looking into the head of Milton Berle�s dick. It was enormous. It was like a pepperoni. And he goes, �What do you think of the boy?� And I�m looking right at it and I go, �Oh, it�s really, really nice.�

At which point Gilda [Radner] opens the door to the dressing room. It�s like an I Love Lucy sketch, but this honestly happened! She opens the door to his dressing room just in time to see me looking into his dick saying, �Yeah, it�s really, really nice.�

Timby posted:

Has there been any word on cast changes? Usually a few weeks after the season finale, that's when they announce people moving on. I figure McKinnon's got one more season at most, and Kenan insists he's staying on the show despite having his sitcom (which will likely be canceled after five episodes), but I haven't read anything about anyone else.

Haven�t heard anything. Davidson certainly sounds like he thinks he�s being fired.

# ? Jun 16, 2019 03:49

Timby: Dec 23, 2006; Your mother!

pwn posted:

Haven�t heard anything. Davidson certainly sounds like he thinks he�s being fired.

Lorne loving loves him, I figure Davidson is safe for at least another year.

# ? Jun 22, 2019 21:54

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

https://i.imgur.com/deANznS.mp4

Fun video of Farley and Kenan, with Chris's brother Kevin.

# ? Jul 15, 2019 20:19

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

GreenNight posted:

https://i.imgur.com/deANznS.mp4

Fun video of Farley and Kenan, with Chris's brother Kevin.

Wholesome classic

So the old clips have kept on coming all Summer so far, now with 30% more non-first five years material!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGMViVk0NoQ
Bill Murray proselytizes on behalf of American comedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en5V5jM6XCc
This is from season 5, and I find those episodes kind of fascinating for how they seem both familiar and alien, with all the writers being promoted to featured status, and sure let's throw Paul from the band in the mix, too. This weird bit is from the Strother Martin episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpS1bNBaw2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h2jZtuRuic
Who says we forgot the Ebersol years?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIu4velMMMU
Who says we forgot the Doumanian year, holy poo poo I can't believe this exists on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYeH2yFK-Nk
Another Doumanian era clip, but you could be forgiven for not knowing if you aren't a turbo nerd. Murray came back to host his first time on what would be Jean's final episode, and this revival of a beloved OG cast bit was amongst the highlights in an otherwise-dreary season

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRyCQcu0ygE
One of the very first sketches I remember watching, when this episode was rerun, late in the Summer of 1992. It's not as uproariously funny to me now as it was when I was 10, but still, I'm glad that it's seeing the light of day, again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSDb_BNxu5k
A rare sketch from the dreaded season 20, in 1995. Fun fact: This was Molly Shannon's first episode, she was a mid-season addition to the featured player roster. It was also the beleaguered Janene Garofalo's final episode as a cast member.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU_Gd623HJo
This is the from the last season of the first five years, but it�s one of my all-time faves. It loses a little something out of context; seeing this oddball 10-to-1 sketch pop up at the end of the night definitely leaves more of an impression than a linked clip.

Check out tons more already added and to be added in the coming weeks at the SNL Youtube page.

Edit: How could I forget??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Gh_IcK8UM
Featuring a bit near the end I don�t remember seeing before :monocle:

pwn fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Jul 16, 2019

# ? Jul 16, 2019 10:35

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

There was a sketch on SNL in the 80s (I'm 99% sure) where superheroes were having a debate on the proper way to fly. Superman tried to defend his way as the best way (parallel to the ground, hands extended), while the others argued against it. The last scene showed all of them flying in various ways with at least one in a sitting position.

Anybody recall this?

# ? Jul 16, 2019 22:14

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

Mister Kingdom posted:

There was a sketch on SNL in the 80s (I'm 99% sure) where superheroes were having a debate on the proper way to fly. Superman tried to defend his way as the best way (parallel to the ground, hands extended), while the others argued against it. The last scene showed all of them flying in various ways with at least one in a sitting position.

Anybody recall this?

I wanna say that was Catherine O�Hara in 1991, but I�ll double check.

Yes! I can�t locate a copy of the sketch itself but it is briefly reviewed here

quote:

We then went to a meeting of The Justice League Of America where a collection of superheroes judge other superheroes as if it were The People's Court. The main case in this sketch is against Catherine O'Hara for flying in the standing position simply because the members of the League think that it looks too strange.

# ? Jul 16, 2019 23:06

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

pwn posted:

I wanna say that was Catherine O�Hara in 1991, but I�ll double check.

Yes! I can�t locate a copy of the sketch itself but it is briefly reviewed here

That sounds like it.

# ? Jul 16, 2019 23:30

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

pwn fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Jul 30, 2019

# ? Jul 30, 2019 11:57

sexpig by night: Sep 8, 2011; by Azathoth

it's gonna whip a lot of rear end when De Niro wins for doing a terrible Mueller impression and has another v. brave moment of saying 'Trump is...bad????' to the friendliest possible crowd.

# ? Jul 30, 2019 14:12

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

Viewers of this weekend's rerun may have noticed a memorial card at the end:

Phil Hymes, Who Lit 'Saturday Night Live,' Dies at 96

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Phil Hymes, a veteran lighting director who became a major, if irascible, backstage figure with �Saturday Night Live� for his strong opinions about stagecraft he liked and comedy he disliked, died on July 29 in a Manhattan hospital. He was 96.

His son, Jeff, said the cause was complications of bladder cancer.

�He was a force to be reckoned with, and his presence and strength were something I came to rely on,� Lorne Michaels, the longtime executive producer of �S.N.L.,� said in a statement. �He will be missed, but if God has him now, despite all the arguing, heaven will be much better lit.�

Mr. Hymes joined �Saturday Night Live� in 1976, in its second season, bringing with him decades of experience at NBC, much of it spent in live programming beginning in the early 1950s.

He remained with the show until early 2018, after nearly 42 years of putting up lights and designing the look they gave to sketches, monologues and musical numbers.

Several months later, at 95, he accepted an Emmy Award, his first since 1965, for outstanding lighting design and direction for a variety series.

�If I had known it would have come at this frequency,� he said when he accepted the award, �I�d have gotten a bigger display cabinet.�

Brutally honest with a sharp wit, Mr. Hymes was known to stop rehearsals at �S.N.L.� when he felt that something � whether it was a performer�s dress, hat, hair or makeup � did not look right under his crew�s lighting.

�He said something to Lady Gaga � something nobody would ever say to her, probably about what she was wearing, or her makeup,� Rick McGuinness, a lighting director who shared the 2018 Emmy with Mr. Hymes and Geoff Amoral, said in a phone interview. �Whatever he said, I later overheard her say: �I love him. He tells me the truth.��

A dispute between Mr. Hymes and the rapper Kanye West�s representatives over scenery they had brought to a taping nearly led Mr. West to leave the show altogether after the dress rehearsal.

�He did it all for the good of the show,� Mr. McGuinness said of Mr. Hymes.

Mr. Hymes would sometimes critique, just as acerbically, the show�s comedy. Interviewed this year at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, the comedian John Mulaney, a former �S.N.L.� writer and performer, recalled Mr. Hymes�s tart response to a sketch he had written: �Not your best work!�

Another time, amid preparations for a Christmas sketch set at the White House, Mr. Mulaney and the cast member Seth Meyers were discussing the lighting that should be used for the windows.

�Phil walked through and said, �I lit John Kennedy in the White House,� and walked out,� Mr. Mulaney said.

Mr. Hymes appeared to be referring to the time he set up the lighting for a televised presidential debate between then-Senator Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon in September 1960.

By the end of the debate, Kennedy, tanned and relaxed, appeared to have triumphed over a sickly looking Nixon, who had been noticeably perspiring under Mr. Hymes�s lights.

Philip Frederick Hymes was born on April 19, 1923, in Manhattan to Jacob and Regina (Rothenberg) Hymes. He grew up in Hempstead, on Long Island. His father was a chemist and his mother a homemaker.

Mr. Hymes attended Adelphi College (now Adelphi University) in nearby Garden City � where he acted in plays � until his studies were interrupted by service in the Army Signal Corps in both the European and Pacific theaters of World War II. He returned to Adelphi after his discharge and graduated in 1949. He earned a master�s degree in psychology from Teachers College at Columbia University.

He started work at NBC in 1951. Over the next quarter-century, he lit programs like �Today,� �Your Hit Parade� and �Sing Along With Mitch.� He won his first Emmy for lighting �The Magnificent Yankee,� a 1965 �Hallmark Hall of Fame� television movie about Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the Supreme Court justice.

He also organized the lighting for NBC News�s coverage of many Republican and Democratic national conventions.

During his later years at �S.N.L.� Mr. Hymes was also a lighting consultant to �Late Night With Seth Meyers� and �The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.� He occasionally appeared onstage on �S.N.L.,� in one instance credited as �Old Man in Viagra Sketch.�

In addition to his son Jeff, he is survived by his daughter, Janna Hymes; another son, Thomas; five grandchildren; and a sister, Florence Snyder. His wife, Virginia (May) Hymes, died in 2011.

Mr. Hymes once described the importance of his craft.

�I�ll tell you this � you can�t have �Lights, camera, action!� without �lights,�� he told Spin magazine in 1993. �You never hear �Sound, camera, action!��

_{E10: Rachel Brosnahan with Greta Van Fleet}

_{E11: James McAvoy with Meek Mill}

_{E13: Don Cheadle with Gary Clark, Jr.}

_{E15: Idris Elba with Khalid}

You can see them all here

# ? Aug 6, 2019 13:18

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

https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/1166033629929254912?s=20

# ? Aug 26, 2019 18:10

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

Eddie will be a loving trip.

# ? Aug 26, 2019 18:23

TheWevel: Apr 14, 2002; Send Help; Trapped in Stupid Factory

Have any of you guys ever won the SNL ticket lottery?

# ? Aug 26, 2019 18:45

Timby: Dec 23, 2006; Your mother!

Harrelson and Harbour are going to be either magnificent or complete and utter disasters. Leaning towards the latter.

# ? Aug 26, 2019 19:58

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

I hope for the former. Been working hard at being more of an optimist.

# ? Aug 26, 2019 20:04

Timby: Dec 23, 2006; Your mother!

GreenNight posted:

I hope for the former. Been working hard at being more of an optimist.

I really hope so, but Harbour is a one-note actor and Harrelson has been sleepwalking through most of his work for the past decade or so.

# ? Aug 26, 2019 20:06

stratofarius: May 17, 2019

Timby posted:

Harrelson and Harbour are going to be either magnificent or complete and utter disasters. Leaning towards the latter.

Harrelson already hosted and he had that MTV game show sketch that was killer.

# ? Aug 26, 2019 20:06

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

Timby posted:

I really hope so, but Harbour is a one-note actor and Harrelson has been sleepwalking through most of his work for the past decade or so.

Maybe Harbour has surprising comedy chops and Harrelson's True Detective stunt wasn't over a decade ago. Not like SNL can only have Justin Timberlake as hosts.

# ? Aug 26, 2019 20:10

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

Timby posted:

I really hope so, but Harbour is a one-note actor and Harrelson has been sleepwalking through most of his work for the past decade or so.

Did you see Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein?

# ? Aug 26, 2019 20:14

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

Do they usually plan the hosts 4+ months in advance?

# ? Aug 26, 2019 20:20

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬

Harbour feels like an odd booking, timing wise too. Stranger Things 3 long done by then, and ages before the Black Widow movie drops. If he was a huge name it wouldn't matter, but October has movies coming out for Joaquin Phoenix, Antonio Banderas, Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Angelina Jolie etc.

You will notice I left De Niro's name off this list. I don't want to encourage anyone.

# ? Aug 26, 2019 20:27

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

BigBallChunkyTime posted:

https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/1166033629929254912?s=20

Why are there only 3 episodes in 12 weeks at the end there? There's going to be so many in 2020 now with the election too.

Also where the gently caress is Lizzo?

# ? Aug 26, 2019 22:29

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

Shneak posted:

Why are there only 3 episodes in 12 weeks at the end there? There's going to be so many in 2020 now with the election too.

Also where the gently caress is Lizzo?

Because it is not a finalized list.

I would have thought this was self-evident, but my friend just now asked: No musical guests for November or December? :ughh:

# ? Aug 26, 2019 22:44

Hockles: Dec 25, 2007; Resident of ~~Camp Blood~~
Crystal Lake

Eddie is just going to perform "Party All the Time" twice.

# ? Aug 26, 2019 23:23

carticket: Jun 28, 2005; white and gold.

Hockles posted:

Eddie is just going to perform "Party All the Time" twice.

Only twice?

e: I really hope they have a party all the time skit.

# ? Aug 27, 2019 00:15

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Hockles posted:

Eddie is just going to perform "Party All the Time" twice.

If he doesn't do "Boogie in Your Butt" then what's the point?

# ? Aug 27, 2019 00:35

Hockles: Dec 25, 2007; Resident of ~~Camp Blood~~
Crystal Lake

Mr. Powers posted:

Only twice?

e: I really hope they have a party all the time skit.

Well, yeah. There are only two musical performance segments.

# ? Aug 27, 2019 00:45

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

pwn posted:

Because it is not a finalized list.

I would have thought this was self-evident, but my friend just now asked: No musical guests for November or December?

That's when you tell him the host is also the musical guest in those cases!

# ? Aug 27, 2019 01:02

Stabitha: Mar 11, 2005; You lookin' at me? Don't.

Codependent Poster posted:

Did you see Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein?

I loved every strange little bit of it. If anyone hasn�t seen it, check it out on Netflix. It�s only 30 minutes long.

# ? Aug 27, 2019 08:22

The Illusive Man: Mar 27, 2008; ~savior of yoomanity~

TheWevel posted:

Have any of you guys ever won the SNL ticket lottery?

My fiancee won about two years ago, the Kumail Nanjiani episode. They give you about a week's notice before the episode you get tickets for so be ready to go on a dime.

# ? Aug 27, 2019 12:07

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 17:04

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

Former SNL musical director Katreese Barnes died last week.

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Katreese Barnes, a former musical director of Saturday Night Live, has passed away. She was 56. Barnes's brother, Jerry Barnes, told the New York Times that his sister had lost a decades-long battle with breast cancer.

Barnes and her brother released three albums in the 1980s as the R&B duo Juicy. She was hired as pianist on SNL in 2001 before working her way to the role of musical director. During her tenure on the show Barnes won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics twice, first in 2007 for The Lonely Island's "Dick in a Box" and again in 2011 for the �I�m Not Gonna Sing Tonight� musical monologue delivered by Justin Timberlake.

SNL writers including John Mulaney and Seth Meyers have paid tribute to Barnes following news of her death. �Katreese was great,� Meyers tweeted. �Sketch writers, many with no rhythm and terrible voices, would come to her with song ideas and she would turn them into gold.�

Mulaney, meanwhile, wrote on Instagram that Barnes would "write beautiful and hilarious songs out of my tone deaf warbling of lyrics. She was patient and funny and a musical powerhouse."

She did not receive an on-air mention in this past week�s repeat.

# ? Aug 27, 2019 13:58

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