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| From | erhoek@comcast.net |
| Subject | SNL |
| Date | Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:49:26 +0000 |
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. I actualy stopped watching the show when Jimmy Fallon was being featured because there was not enough room on stage for his ego and anyone else. I was glad to see his true talents recognized in his taxi /cop movie with Queen latifah. God help us if Hollywood starts inundating us with Jimmy Fallon movies. At least Anthony Michael Hall's "talent' was showcased in Sixrteen Candles before we were forced to painfully watch him on SNL.
I only catch SNL on occasion when the music guest is i.m.o. worthwhile such was the case when Franz Ferdinand appeared a few weeks back and Neil Young this week. As always there is still too much filler. I would have agreed with the baby-boomer nostalgia legend theory about the original 1st seasons after watching the 45 minutes or so to which they were trimmed down on comedy central but some NBC affliates were running entire original episodes late at night around 2000 or 2001.The episides I saw at that time made me come to the conclusion that the CC 45 minute versions left in more of the crap skits. That is the full episodes retained several clever and funny skits excised from the cc ones for whatever reason..probably time constraints. Funny that i can only remember the music guests from those (Sun Ra,B52s,DEVO,Elvis Costello were a few that come to mind) . I also saw a few episodes of the Julia louis Dreyfus,Brad Hall,Eddie Murphy,Tim kazurinsky era and saw Larry David (who was one of the writers at that time) used as an extra in one sketch. Larry probably wrote himself into the sketch heh heh
Btw...Larry quit SNL and walked off the set in huff at that time only to realize he had nowhere else to go and showed up to work the follwing Monday and acted like it never happened. He used that scenario as a storyline for an episode of Seinfeld with ,I believe,George (whom he based on himself)doing something similar.
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From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Coxe" <audities@gmail.com>
> >
> > And speaking of bad comedy - will some please cancel Saturday Night
> > Live.
> > Please!
>
> Why? The current cast is the strongest one they've had since I was a
> teenager (the Myers/Carvey/Hartman era, my pick for the best and most
> consistent period), has more strong female members than it's ever had
> before, and the show invariably has at least a couple of utterly
> hilarious sketches per episode. (Last week's "Lazy Sunday" video is
> already being posted around half of the Internet, as is Smigel's Phil
> Spector parody starring Darlene Love, "Christmastime for the Jews.")
> I know it's always fashionable to hate on SNL, but I've seen wretched
> seasons of this show, and there hasn't been one for a while.
>
> Speaking of DVD releases, I would love to see Shout! Factory release
> box sets of the early SNL seasons, because it would put paid to one of
> the biggest ongoing TV myths: the first five years of SNL were AT
> LEAST as uneven as any seasons since, and quite often descended into
> absolute crap. Seeing these episodes distilled into 30- or 60-minute
> packages has caused people to forget the 30 to 60 minutes of garbage
> that have been excised. Well, that and the usual boomer nostalgia.
>
> S
>
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