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    HelloStuart

    [1741]Jul 25, 2012
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    TheDiamondDog wrote:

    HelloStuart wrote:


    Finally, some Year 38 news:


    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/saturday-night-live-weekend-update-thursday-seth-meyers-353526


    I loved them in 2000. Did they do em in 2004? I cannot recall.

    Not in 2004, no. The WUT's you're thinking of aired after the election and ran for 20 minutes after a super-sized "Friends."
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    avmon

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    HelloStuart wrote:
    TheDiamondDog wrote:

    HelloStuart wrote:


    Finally, some Year 38 news:


    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/saturday-night-live-weekend-update-thursday-seth-meyers-353526


    I loved them in 2000. Did they do em in 2004? I cannot recall.

    Not in 2004, no. The WUT's you're thinking of aired after the election and ran for 20 minutes after a super-sized "Friends."
    I remember that one. It also had a credit sequence that spoofed that of "Survivor" which just had it's first season the previous summer (though I didn't start watching it until years later...)
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    HelloStuart

    [1743]Jul 26, 2012
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    avmon wrote:
    HelloStuart wrote:
    TheDiamondDog wrote:

    HelloStuart wrote:


    Finally, some Year 38 news:


    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/saturday-night-live-weekend-update-thursday-seth-meyers-353526


    I loved them in 2000. Did they do em in 2004? I cannot recall.

    Not in 2004, no. The WUT's you're thinking of aired after the election and ran for 20 minutes after a super-sized "Friends."

    I remember that one. It also had a credit sequence that spoofed that of "Survivor" which just had it's first season the previous summer (though I didn't start watching it until years later...)

    ...and aired opposite the second (a/k/a "Outback") season. In the early 2000s, Thursdays at 8/7c was a race for third place; "Friends" and "Survivor" combined for a 72 share or something like that.
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    avmon

    [1744]Jul 26, 2012
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    Just watched on the C-Span video library, Al Franken's eulogy of Tom Davis. In particular, I liked his ancedote about writing that piece about Julia Child bleeding to death and how both Tom and Dan Aykroyd handled the bloodletting on that sketch. Then at the end, Al reads his friend's piece for a literary magazine that literally said, "Dead people are people, too". Quite touching and I'm glad he read it. The entire thing was 21 minutes.

    Edited on 07/26/2012 2:42pm
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    drudager

    [1745]Aug 3, 2012
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    Short little Q & A on Kevin Nealon:


    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/01/entertainment-us-kevinnealon-idUSBRE8700D020120801

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    HelloStuart

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    Another Year 7 writer has passed. That's three in nine months.


    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/mark-odonnell-dead_n_1748799.html?ir=Culture

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    JustinRAn

    [1747]Aug 7, 2012
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    Who hasn't broken character?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/the-funniest-snl-crack-ups_n_1745337.html?utm_hp_ref=comedy
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    drudager

    [1748]Aug 10, 2012
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    Jason Sudeikis might bolt 'Saturday Night Live'


    http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-the-campaign-jason-sudeikis-new-20120809,0,7419820.story

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    JustinRAn

    [1749]Aug 10, 2012
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    He's been might-bolt since April.
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    HelloStuart

    [1750]Aug 10, 2012
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    drudager wrote:

    Jason Sudeikis might bolt 'Saturday Night Live'


    http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-the-campaign-jason-sudeikis-new-20120809,0,7419820.story

    I predict he'll stay until mid-season.
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    TheDiamondDog

    [1751]Aug 11, 2012
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    HelloStuart wrote:
    drudager wrote:


    Jason Sudeikis might bolt 'Saturday Night Live'


    http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-the-campaign-jason-sudeikis-new-20120809,0,7419820.story
    I predict he'll stay until mid-season.


    Once Romney hopefully loses the election, then he won't be too needed.


    Hey, am I the only one who thinks Andy would have played Paul Ryan? I see a bit of resemblance.

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    drudager

    [1752]Aug 12, 2012
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    HelloStuart wrote:
    drudager wrote:

    Jason Sudeikis might bolt 'Saturday Night Live'


    http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-the-campaign-jason-sudeikis-new-20120809,0,7419820.story

    I predict he'll stay until mid-season.


    I think it would show a lot of class & restraint if he did not stay until midseason but actually declined the role & moved on before the season starts. Which we all know SNL has done nothing but pro-Obama sketches with no teeth or criticism.
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    Ruckhappy

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    drudager wrote:
    HelloStuart wrote:
    drudager wrote:


    Jason Sudeikis might bolt 'Saturday Night Live'


    http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-the-campaign-jason-sudeikis-new-20120809,0,7419820.story
    I predict he'll stay until mid-season.
    Which we all know SNL has done nothing but pro-Obama sketches with no teeth or criticism.


    Stale, lame canard disproven many times. Why bother to dredge up that crap again? Jim Downey thinks that Obama is funniest when played as a straight man. Jim Downey is a noted Republican. No partisan bias, just apolitical judgement on how to best satirize the president.


    Anyway, if Jason is lobbying for a promotion, he's not planning to stay just half a season. For half a season he's not getting anything out of Lorne except a raise. Sounds like Jason is making an all-or-nothing pitch to extend for a full season or even longer. Maybe he knows that Seth is leaving, after all, and wants the head writer job.

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    drudager

    [1754]Aug 12, 2012
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    Ruckhappy wrote:

    drudager wrote:
    HelloStuart wrote:
    drudager wrote:


    Jason Sudeikis might bolt 'Saturday Night Live'


    http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-the-campaign-jason-sudeikis-new-20120809,0,7419820.story
    I predict he'll stay until mid-season.
    Which we all know SNL has done nothing but pro-Obama sketches with no teeth or criticism.


    Stale, lame canard disproven many times. Why bother to dredge up that crap again? Jim Downey thinks that Obama is funniest when played as a straight man. Jim Downey is a noted Republican. No partisan bias, just apolitical judgement on how to best satirize the president.


    Yet they made the Clintons look like white trash. SNL has been incredibly protective of Obama. I think old man Jim Downey is getting soft in his years. There's nothing "funny" about Obama being portrayed as a straight man. Show me where they made fun of Obama - and him turning into the Hulk wasn't a shot, either.
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    drudager

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    Ruckhappy wrote:
    Downey is a noted Republican. No partisan bias


    I know who & what Jim Downey is.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtNHuqHWefU


    They beat the hell out of Joe Biden, yet Obama seems to get off unscathed. And no, I don't watch Fox news. Undecided

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    HelloStuart

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    drudager wrote:

    Ruckhappy wrote:
    Downey is a noted Republican. No partisan bias


    I know who & what Jim Downey is.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtNHuqHWefU


    They beat the hell out of Joe Biden, yet Obama seems to get off unscathed. And no, I don't watch Fox news. Undecided

    Downey writes most of the political material, but he's not the only one. Seth and Sublette have penned topical sketches, too.
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    Ruckhappy

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    Downey is the 800 lb. gorilla of the SNL writer's room, though. After decades at SNL he's not going to pimp himself out by denying that the show is giving Obama a partisan pass, if he thought that was happening.

    From the SNL perspective, projecting out what they'll write about this fall, the most interesting development is that Romney just picked a veep nominee who really does advocate Medicare "death panels." You think that Downey will let that pass un-skewered?

    I haven't read much about Sublette, but somewhere I read that there are other avowed conservatives among the current SNL writers besides Downey. Seth, though he's quiet about it, is pretty clearly liberal in his politics.

    Anyway, SNL has not been "incredibly protective" of Obama. It's just a ludicrous allegation that gets more silly each time it's repeated. No one else has been able to get a handle on lampooning Obama's personality either. Six late night shows--8, if you count the Daily Show and Colbert--with some of the best comedy writers in the biz, have been trying for four years to find something about Obama they can satirize, and they've mostly come up blank. It has nothing to do with partisan bias. Comedy writers have been grumbling for a while that Obama is just too careful and smooth and well-spoken to be nailed.
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    mrjimmyjames

    [1758]Aug 12, 2012
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    Well, it wouldn't kill them to find someone to play him who can actually impersonate Obama well and have some of the mannerisms down. That would be a start.

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    rishabhpb

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    mrjimmyjames wrote:

    Well, it wouldn't kill them to find someone to play him who can actually impersonate Obama well and have some of the mannerisms down. That would be a start.


    They already have Jay... maybe they don't think he can carry the first five minutes of the show over a whole season.
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    Ruckhappy

    [1760]Aug 13, 2012
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    Jay's Obama is a lot less funny than Jay thinks it it.
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