Weekly SNL thread

[supportivemom]

Roxy- I think you mean Lana Del Rey (sorry if I spelled that wrong)

[FindingNamo]

Supportive, I kept thinking the same thing about Christopher Knight.

I didn't have a problem with the Farrah joke. It wasn't at her expense.

[MrMidwest]

I hope Jon Hamm's bulge hosts this season.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Count me as someone who thinks any outrage over the Farrah joke is misplaced. Like Namo said, it wasn't at her expense. It wasn't even mean-spirited.

I thought the episode was okay. I'm glad the vast throng of supporting players were finally promoted to main players (Taran, Nasim, Keenan, Bobby, et al).

I didn't realize Kate McKinnon was gay until I read it somewhere this summer. I see why they hired her, because she seems pretty versatile, but every character she does is so intense and specific it often seems like she's in a different show from everyone else.

[SNAFU]

Keenan has been a main player for a while. He has been on the show as long as Jason.

Taran made perminent cast member in record time. He is a very strong talented performer. Also one of the more down to Earth.

Bobby seems so happy to be part of the cast now, the uncertainty has lifted, at least for four years.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Oh right. For some reason I was thinking Keenan was still a featured player last year. Thanks for the correction!

PS - Were you involved with those puppets last night? When they came on, I thought of you!

[SNAFU]

Yes, those were 22 hour wonders. Started them at 9 PM friday night, finished them at 7:45 Saturday, just before dress. Honestly didn't think I was going to make it this time.

[CapnHook]

Did you also do the horse heads?

[SNAFU]

Yes. I also build a torso appliance for Seth for a sketch where he was torn in half on the football feild. It was cut at dress.

[nygrl232]

Well done, SNAFU. Those puppets were awesome. So was the sketch.

[Kad]

...Seth MacFarlene's Ryan Lochte was really funny.

[FindingNamo]

Those puppets were great. They really gave the cast something to work with.

[SNAFU]

Personally I thought Hader, not being a puppeteer, was incredible in that sketch. My assistant had to give him a few pointers during rehearsal. I find that character really funny! I would LOVE to see him performing at a childrens birthday party!

[FindingNamo]

I wish SNL would break returning characters out of their sketch formats. I'd like to see Stefon AT New York's hottest club. Or working at Starbucks.

[SNAFU]

I agree. I want to see Stefon in the real world! Would be awesome. Maybe that is a moovie... it worked for Stewart Smally. Thought that movie was perhaps one of the better realized ones in the SNL cannon. Go Senetor Franken!

[CapnHook]

I'd love a series of vignettes where Stefon stalks Seth Myers around Rockerfeller Center. These could easily replace Andy Samberg's videos. Plenty of locations to shoot them to make it different: the cafeteria, writer's table meetings, rehearsals, dressing room, elevator, bathrooms, studio tours, etc.

[strummergirl]

Glad somebody else on this planet likes Stuart Saves His Family!

And putting Frank Ocean on par with Lana del Rey is disrespectful to Frank Ocean, an actually good vocalist versus somebody who like she was on a bunch of barbiturates.

And again, about Stefon, the writers seem intent on making it about Bill doing the impression to cue cards that he has no idea what is written beforehand. Doing pre-recorded work changes Stefon's whole dynamic. Hader's a top performer but the whole role of Stefon is the unpredictability about what he has to say, even for Bill Hader.

[FindingNamo]

I think both could work. I never understood, as far back as the original cast, why they didn't make a movie with them playing their characters all over New York City. Or why they've never done it with any of the other casts that clicked.

I too LOVED Stuart Saves His Family. I also loved the "Daily Affirmations" sketch the week after the movie bombed with Stuart shoving Double Stuf Oreos down his throat.

[strummergirl]

I mean I could see a 'Debbie Downer Takes Manhattan' kind of video sketch really working with the character around real people.

[Brian07663NJ]

Snafu - awesome job on the puppets! I thought of you too when I saw them as well as the horse heads.

At the end of this week's SNL I thought to myself..."WOW amazing episode WITHOUT Kristen Wiig!" Was SO tired of seeing her monotone characters redressed in different plots. I loved her in the beginning but then just got flat out bored with her.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Great work, Snafu!

I didn't think the Farrah joke was in bad taste at all. Seth was talking about a childhood crush. EVERY straight boy had a crush on Farrah!

[Brian07663NJ]

Agree with you TheatreDiva90016...the Farrah joke didn't bother me either. It was in context...but of course someone is bound to be offended.

[beautywickedlover]

I am recording the Special Thursday Weekend Update tonight. I didn't get to watch last Saturday's episode until recently. The highlights for me were obviously the puppet scene and the Ryan Lochte impression.

[CapnHook]

GOP tampon commercial was HILARIOUS. Weekend Update went on forever this week. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a very hip, cool persona that doesn't make him funny. I didn't care for a single sketch he was in so far.

[supportivemom]

^ But I loved the monologue! That boy can move!

[strummergirl]

You think that's just a persona and that is supposed to be funny? He's got more range than that.

His monologue on his first hosting gig, however, cannot be topped.

JGL on SNL, 1st Time