35 Years of Saturday Night Live

Bathgate66Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
edited October 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
The new season began last night, and sadly, in my opinion, not even Megan Fox AND U2 couldnt save this episode.
Also, this was the very first episode without Darrel Hammond- who had a long list of recurring characters that we will all miss.

The skits last night were, overall average at best .
-- The airplane skit was terrible.
Fox and Kristen Wiig as stewarddesses just didnt do it.

--The Russian Bride skit was good.
Will Forte , Bill Hader, and Fred Armison -
these 3 regulars together with Fox- this one was laughable.

--The SNL Digital Short
usually Andy Sambergs here, but not this time.
Will Forte is twisted,
Megan Fox purposes to him and alltho he's beeped out you can clearly see him respond " No F'ng Way "
This guy is twisted !


-- I dont know how that guy Keenan whats his name( the black chubby fella ) still has a job after all these years ? ?
I guess Lorne Michaels likes this guy. 99 % of this guys stuff is, well, just awful.


-- Weekend Update was the usual with Seth Meyers ( the new head writer since Tina Fey departed )

--The Biker Chit Chat skit
the very first skit of this young girls SNL career,
and she drops an F Bomb in this skit.
The entire skit was utilizing the word " fricking "
and i mean everything was fricking this and fricking that and the mighty F Word busted thru there live on TV. We are afterall, creatures of habit guess she couldnt help herself.
wonder if she'll get fired. or fined.


-- The Transformers sketch was okay strictly for the fact that brian austin green makes a cameo as one of the transformers.


U2 played the usual 2 and 1/2 songs live as they closed out the show as usual.
Breathe & Moment Of Surrender from No Line On The Horizon,and the show ccredits went up and the show siigned off with Bono swinging from his glow in the dark steering wheel microphone for Achtung Babys Ultraviolet .That was pretty awesome .


thoughts ?
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    my friend's text last after watching the show:

    "i forgot about my SNL season premiere mantra:'Wow, they had all summer and this was the best they could come up with?'"

    and i agree...weekend update, which is usually the bright spot in the show, wasn't great...but that the way the show has been for a very long time now...some shows are great but most are stinkers


    and that chick will go down in snl history for saying fuck for only the second time in the shows history nd it was her very first appearance...granted, it was totally understandable...there is no way in my first skit ever and i had to say friggin' constantly that i wouldn't slip up and say fucking' :D
  • SNL hasnt been decent in.....oh...I dont know.....

    30 years??????

    I cant believe this show is still on.....seriously....

    The original crew, and first 1-3 years were classic........It has been crap ever since....

    I have watched MAYBE 40 minutes of SNL in the last 25 years.....
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • Bathgate66Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    norm wrote:
    my friend's text last after watching the show:

    "i forgot about my SNL season premiere mantra:'Wow, they had all summer and this was the best they could come up with?'"

    and i agree...weekend update, which is usually the bright spot in the show, wasn't great...but that the way the show has been for a very long time now...some shows are great but most are stinkers


    and that chick will go down in snl history for saying fuck for only the second time in the shows history nd it was her very first appearance...granted, it was totally understandable...there is no way in my first skit ever and i had to say friggin' constantly that i wouldn't slip up and say fucking' :D



    can you refresh my mind
    who was the first to drop the F bomb again ?
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Bathgate66 wrote:
    can you refresh my mind
    who was the first to drop the F bomb again ?

    charlie rocket in 1981 i think...i think paul schaffer did once too :)
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    actually it's been said 7 times previously :shock: :lol:

    The word "fuck" has been said several times live on the air: during a sketch in 1980, Paul Shaffer said "fuckin'" instead of "floggin'"; in 1981, Charles Rocket, said "I'd like to know who the fuck did it" during a "Who Shot JR?" parody and on the same night Prince sang the lyric "Fightin' war is such a fuckin' bore"; in 1990, singer Morris Day of The Time said "Where the fuck this chicken come from?" and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith sang "feedin' that fuckin' monkey on my back" during their performances; in 1994, Michael Stipe of R.E.M. sang "Don't fuck with me" and Adam Horovitz of Beastie Boys sang "So won't you fuckin' listen" in their performances and in 1997, Norm MacDonald accidentally said, "The fuck was that?" after flubbing a line during "Weekend Update".

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072562/trivia
  • i think everyone that is on there should be fired. they suck.
    I'll be back
  • I liked last season a lot.
    This opening episode didn't do it for me.

    The Thursday Update Show, however, was really funny.
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  • SNL hasnt been decent in.....oh...I dont know.....

    30 years??????

    I cant believe this show is still on.....seriously....

    The original crew, and first 1-3 years were classic........It has been crap ever since....

    I have watched MAYBE 40 minutes of SNL in the last 25 years.....

    Yeah, Eddie Murphy sucked.
    The Dana Carvey-Phil Hartman-Mike Myers-Jon Lovitz era sucked.
    The Chris Farley-David Spade-Rob Schnieder-Adam Sandler era sucked.
    Will Ferrell sucked.

    :roll:
    SNL has always gone through lulls, but to act like it's sucked since Chevy Chase left is silly. In fact, I'd say some of the eras mentioned above were actually better than the original era.

    Like I mentioned earlier, SNL had a good year last year ... it milked the election for a lot of funny bits.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • SNL hasnt been decent in.....oh...I dont know.....

    30 years??????

    I cant believe this show is still on.....seriously....

    The original crew, and first 1-3 years were classic........It has been crap ever since....

    I have watched MAYBE 40 minutes of SNL in the last 25 years.....

    Yeah, Eddie Murphy sucked.
    The Dana Carvey-Phil Hartman-Mike Myers-Jon Lovitz era sucked.
    The Chris Farley-David Spade-Rob Schnieder-Adam Sandler era sucked.
    Will Ferrell sucked.

    :roll:
    SNL has always gone through lulls, but to act like it's sucked since Chevy Chase left is silly. In fact, I'd say some of the eras mentioned above were actually better than the original era.

    Like I mentioned earlier, SNL had a good year last year ... it milked the election for a lot of funny bits.
    Chris Farley
    Dana Carvey
    Mike Myers
    Lon Lovitz....

    I never found any of these goofballs funny....Just My opinion....

    Will Ferrell is nothing but a fucking fool....I find nothing...and I mean NOTHING he does/did funny......Actually he is the most Unfunny guy on the planet....

    Adam Sandler is #2 in the most Non-Funny guy on the planet.....
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • QuarterToTenQuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,642
    every skit just seems so forced, as if they are trying their absolutely best
    to be funny, but it just isn't no matter how hard they try.

    it will never get any better than this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHaA4RePosY
    Nice shirt.
  • I didn't realize Darrell Hammond is off the show now. Bummer.
    Last season was pretty funny. I loved Bill Hader when he did that Dateline guy. I'm still quoting that one! I think Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader & Fred Armisen are all hilarious! I like Andy Samberg, I wait on him regularly, so I'm biased there, haha! Last season when Anne Hathaway was on was probably one of my favorite episodes in years and anytime Justin Timberlake comes on it's a special treat. Oh and when Forte & Wiig do that skit where they are the office geeks going out for a drink after work, love it! Or Wiig doing Suze Orman?? "Where the F did you get that jacket?!"
    I cannot stand Keenan! I FF through all his skits. He's terrible, blech!
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • kenny olavkenny olav Posts: 3,319
    SNL has always had its ups and downs, including in the early days. I'm glad it's still around. I missed last night's premiere, unfortunately, although I'm currently unable to tolerate U2.
  • adam42381adam42381 Kernersville, NC Posts: 2,515
    I agree with most of the posts above. Last night's episode was terrible. They have the entire summer to come up with great material and I didn't laugh once throughout the entire episode. The only time I remotely chuckled was during Keenan's sex tips video skit and I don't like Keenan at all. At the end I was barely paying attention when I heard the new girl drop the F-Bomb. I did a double take and replayed it a couple times to make sure I wasn't hearing things. Kinda funny that her F-Bomb during an otherwise terrible skit was the only memorable thing from the entire season premiere.
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  • xavier mcdanielxavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,320
    I haven't watched consistently since 1993. It really began slipping in the 1993-94 season, the one that opened with Charles Barkley hosting and Nivana as the musical act.
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  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    For me, SNL stopped being consistently funny when Will Ferrell left. I didn't watch the season opener. I think Kristin Wiig is the funniest one on there from last season. Her Target Lady skits kill me. Fred Armisen used to be my favorite of this generation, but he hasn't been nearly as funny in the shows I've seen the past few seasons.
  • gabers wrote:
    For me, SNL stopped being consistently funny when Will Ferrell left. I didn't watch the season opener. I think Kristin Wiig is the funniest one on there from last season. Her Target Lady skits kill me. Fred Armisen used to be my favorite of this generation, but he hasn't been nearly as funny in the shows I've seen the past few seasons.
    Replace Will Ferrell with Norm MacDonald and your first sentence is correct.
  • YourDirtisMyfoodYourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,655
    Okay, I watched the first episode all the way through to the end of Weekend Update because my tape ran out. Yes, I'm still a geek from the 90s who uses the VCR and VHS tapes. I need to get 8 hour tapes because sometimes I'll tape a show and the tape is half way thru. I'll get into the 21st century one of these days.


    A couple of quick observations: Don Pardo is back!?!!!! That is awesome. Don't ever retire, Don!

    I now know why Kristen Wiig won't do Weekend Update with Seth. Because if she did, she wouldn't be able to do funny bits like that tourist character. She is tremendously funny and the new star of the show.

    Megan Fox is ridiculously pretty. I didn't like how she introduced U2 and they had already begun to start the song while she was talking.

    Any chance of Kataan reprising Mango for Lady Gaga next week?

    And how can anyone claim the last 30 years weren't good? April of 1994 was the Best Episode Ever with Emilio Estevez and Pearl Jam. Solid episode. Plus Farley and Swayze was around that time as well. Also, did Vedder say during Not for you "Never once for you, fuck you, this is not for you?" Sounded like it back then but just going on memory. It was either that or "for you" but can't remember.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    SNL hasnt been decent in.....oh...I dont know.....

    30 years??????

    I cant believe this show is still on.....seriously....

    The original crew, and first 1-3 years were classic........It has been crap ever since....

    I have watched MAYBE 40 minutes of SNL in the last 25 years.....

    Yeah, Eddie Murphy sucked.
    The Dana Carvey-Phil Hartman-Mike Myers-Jon Lovitz era sucked.
    The Chris Farley-David Spade-Rob Schnieder-Adam Sandler era sucked.
    Will Ferrell sucked.

    :roll:
    SNL has always gone through lulls, but to act like it's sucked since Chevy Chase left is silly. In fact, I'd say some of the eras mentioned above were actually better than the original era.

    Like I mentioned earlier, SNL had a good year last year ... it milked the election for a lot of funny bits.
    Chris Farley
    Dana Carvey
    Mike Myers
    Lon Lovitz....

    I never found any of these goofballs funny....Just My opinion....

    Will Ferrell is nothing but a fucking fool....I find nothing...and I mean NOTHING he does/did funny......Actually he is the most Unfunny guy on the planet....

    Adam Sandler is #2 in the most Non-Funny guy on the planet.....

    Will Ferrell may be the most overrated funnyman on the planet, but if you don't think the Chris Farley-Patrick Swayze-chippendale's skit is hilarious, there is something seriously wrong with you.

  • Will Ferrell may be the most overrated funnyman on the planet, but if you don't think the Chris Farley-Patrick Swayze-chippendale's skit is hilarious, there is something seriously wrong with you.
    That skit is funny...No doubt

    Chris Farley is the one guy on my list I could have excluded. The guy had his moments...

    But after a while even he got old. Ya know what I mean???

    The over-weight, clumsy, doofus, thing he had going.....Got old quick.
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202

    Will Ferrell may be the most overrated funnyman on the planet, but if you don't think the Chris Farley-Patrick Swayze-chippendale's skit is hilarious, there is something seriously wrong with you.
    That skit is funny...No doubt

    Chris Farley is the one guy on my list I could have excluded. The guy had his moments...

    But after a while even he got old. Ya know what I mean???

    The over-weight, clumsy, doofus, thing he had going.....Got old quick.

    Well, it's quite an established archetype, going back to Abbott and Costello and undoubtedly even before that. But I take your meaning. There are only so many places that humor can go in the end.

  • Will Ferrell may be the most overrated funnyman on the planet, but if you don't think the Chris Farley-Patrick Swayze-chippendale's skit is hilarious, there is something seriously wrong with you.
    That skit is funny...No doubt

    Chris Farley is the one guy on my list I could have excluded. The guy had his moments...

    But after a while even he got old. Ya know what I mean???

    The over-weight, clumsy, doofus, thing he had going.....Got old quick.

    Well, it's quite an established archetype, going back to Abbott and Costello and undoubtedly even before that. But I take your meaning. There are only so many places that humor can go in the end.
    Abbott/Costello
    Laurel/Hardy
    Jerry/George(Seinfeld was a huge Abott/Costello fan)

    But Farley/Spade just didnt do it for me....
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • YourDirtisMyfoodYourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,655
    Will Ferrell may be the most overrated funnyman on the planet, but if you don't think the Chris Farley-Patrick Swayze-chippendale's skit is hilarious, there is something seriously wrong with you.[/quote]That skit is funny...No doubt

    Chris Farley is the one guy on my list I could have excluded. The guy had his moments...

    But after a while even he got old. Ya know what I mean???

    The over-weight, clumsy, doofus, thing he had going.....Got old quick.[/quote]

    Well, it's quite an established archetype, going back to Abbott and Costello and undoubtedly even before that. But I take your meaning. There are only so many places that humor can go in the end.[/quote]Abbott/Costello
    Laurel/Hardy
    Jerry/George(Seinfeld was a huge Abott/Costello fan)

    But Farley/Spade just didnt do it for me....[/quote]



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  • Gleason/Carney
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • YourDirtisMyfoodYourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,655
    Gleason/Carney

    Lange and Stern. :lol:
  • Skipper/Gilligan?????
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • YourDirtisMyfoodYourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,655
    Skipper/Gilligan?????

    lol :lol:


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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    But Farley/Spade just didnt do it for me....


    tommy boy is one of the funniest movies ever! :mrgreen::mrgreen:
  • Heatherj43Heatherj43 Posts: 1,254
    My ex and I lived in Ky when I first saw SNL. He was in the army. Anyway, I came back to Detroit on a visit and they hadn't started getting the show over the air yet. I tried to explain it to them and couldn't. It was one of those shows one has to see.
    There were 2 shows back then that were different than ohter shows. It was something about the way the camera shot the scenes. One was SNL and the other was "All in the Family". I still can't describe the difference in them compared to other shows, but it was huge.
    I can't belive KY got SNL before Detroit.
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