Gothamist: SNL: Out of the Old, In with...Very Little?

Samiam

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:03:24 -0500

Janine Pirro's lack of Prosecution In Harrison, N.Y. at another typically drunken house party when a fight broke out. One guy punched another guy, who fell backwards onto the concrete patio and hit his head hard. Rather than calling for an ambulance, the kids at the party rushed around throwing away all the alcohol and cups, destroying the evidence that they had been drinking, then concocted a story about how he had somehow hit his head in a nearby park. They finally did take the kid to the hospital, but it was too late, and he died from the head trauma. It was acknowledged that he might have survived had they called an ambulance straight away and had not tried to orchestrate a cover-up. None of them went to jail because Janine Pirro orchestrated a cover-up.

blah

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:37:14 -0500

God, these are lame posts. And that was a lame article.

human hair bawl

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:15:32 -0500

The promo's for 30 Rock are more funny than any of this weeks skits. Dane Cock?????

Vanessa

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:14:49 -0500

"jimmyfallonitis" Eat me.

RAB

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:22:56 -0500

If they had any wit at all, the opening skit should have been something about Bush addressing the nation, when suddenly Lorne Michaels would come out and tell the audience "That remote in your hand is a crack pipe...and for god's sake, keep holding it!" And so on, doing a parody of the Judd Hirsch speech. That really would have been the only clever response.

anonymass

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:43:31 -0500

Totally agree on Phil Hartman. Super Colon Blow...enough said. News Radio was probably my favorite show of all time - Joe Rogan notwithstanding. Back to Dane Cook for a moment. Dane:comedy what Shake Shack:food. Discomfort usually followed by barfing involved with both.

jads;klf

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:33:12 -0500

Didn't Parnell leave to do a movie?

Chris

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:50:41 -0500

One thing I'm grateful for is that they pared down on the musical sketches. For the last few seasons, every other sketch has involved some boring musical number. It was as though SNL hit rock-bottom. Then again, the fact that they pared down on musical sketches may also be a testament to how untalented the cast is now.

Samantha T

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:27:03 -0500

Teddy N., you and I are cut from the same cloth. Phil Hartman was the king of that show. I was very, very bummed when he died. I thought he was the funniest thing alive.

chippy

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:13:08 -0500

The Wells Fargo sketch was clearly an advertisement. Why else would they use an actual bank name? They didn't poke fun at Wells Fargo at all, really, if you think about it, Wells Fargo's answering woman was presented as unrealistically helpful and wonderful. Can SNL sink any lower????

x-new yorker

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:36:17 -0500

SNL bit the shark a long time ago. Since they have no serious competition at their time slot, Michaels has no incentive to make neccessary radical changes to amp up the laughs and the relevance. He's probably under the delusion the the show is still good because it keeps getting renewed. I do admit that I will tune in to watch weekend update cause Amy Poehler is a hottie.

seamus

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:25:18 -0500

SNL is like a pro sports franchise. Some players contribute, even star, for years before moving on to new teams. Other folks never make it off the bench. And some years SNL is the NY Yankees, other years its the KC Royals. SNL was undeniably funny its last couple years with Will Ferrell, and undeniably lame the last three seasons or so. This seasons looks last-place already. 0-1. By the way, can they perhaps get one non-white person on screen, or maybe one person who knows the difference between George Allen and a Texas cattle rancher?

Tom

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:11:59 -0500

I actually thought the Water jug skit was the only funny skit of the entire episode minus the dumb "maybe they'll use this on SNL" bit. The Hugo Chavez one was mind-numbingly long and took way too long to get to the punchline. Firing Parnell was dumb as he was one of the only guys on the show that could straight man without cracking up. Oh, and he was in the most popular skit of the last five seasons. Great casting decision. The Killers sounded embarassingly bad after their really good performance last season. And people don't like GWB... way to be cutting edge, guys. You couldn't have taken cracks at Janine Pirro's mess or pedo-publicans?

a

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:33:26 -0500

What's funny is that every year since the first cast was rotated out, people have said it is going down hill. Basically whenever you start watching SNL, those are the good years.

Toby

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:23:23 -0500

I rather watch Studio 60 than SNL. NBC would be better off repeating the original, actually funny episodes from the 70s. Think they used to run late Saturday night/early Sunday morning and they were really better written and performed and held up pretty well. I am guessing the more recent vintage stuff will not hold up as well thirty years on.

Teddy N

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:14:54 -0500

Late 80s to early 90s was the best IMHO (maybe because I began watching SNL at that time) Dana Carvey Nora Dunn Phil Hartman (my favorite SNL actor, RIP) Jan Hooks Victoria Jackson Jon Lovitz Dennis Miller Mike Myers Kevin Nealon Chris Rock Julia Sweeney Adam Sandler Rob Schneider Chris Farley Tim Meadows David Spade SNL has been going downhill since then (with a few exceptions)

deb

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:10:16 -0500

The show blows, plain & simple. Lorne Michaels is clearly behind the times, (gee, can we a suburban-safe Paul Simon playing on the show AGAIN? Even he was terrible last time he was on...Lorne, what IS your target audience anyway?) Everyone's on You Tube & Myspace these days. Not to mention the TIMING of their skits is awful. Any kid with a videocamera in their dorm room can screen a better weekly show in my opinion.

Matt and Danny are totally my new TV boyfriends.

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:40:17 -0500

Just Tivo Studio 60 and rescreen it again on Saturday nights. Problem solved.

jj

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:37:50 -0500

It always kills me when the season opener is lame like this one was. These writers have all summer to come up with 1 good sketch a piece, and they can't deliver?

MissPinkKate

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:36:20 -0500

I'm just glad Horatio Sanz is gone. Watching him crack a smile and laugh in every skit got real old, real fast.

Urban Thought

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:58:40 -0500

This show has been going down hill for years. I only wonder when they will revamp the show with fresh ideas and substance.