Reply With QuoteWas this last nights episode? Usually the only thing I find funny about snl is weekend news up date. They should really just do a half hour show about that.
...but that Kristin Wiig ending of SNL, one of the best single episodes in a decade ALREADY, really made me misty.
I have read a LOT of Wiig hate lately, but I cannot TELL you how nice it is to see a woman so completely dominate
that show in a way that MAYBE two men have in its entire history (Will Farrel and Eddie Murphy, maybe?), is something
very, very encouraging to me, maybe to a LOT of women.
She could make an unfunny premise funny and a funny premise hilarious. The mere fact that only a tiny handful of people
have been able to do that in the show's entire history says how rare she is.
One of my heroes!
Was this last nights episode? Usually the only thing I find funny about snl is weekend news up date. They should really just do a half hour show about that.
Hate me all you want, 95 % of the time I'm write.
I generally hated her characters, and disliked her and Fred Armissen, but you are correct in her domination of skits. And the last bit was incredibly touching.
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They've never given a departing cast member a send-off like that ever, as far as I can remember.
It made it seem like she was the only one leaving. There have been rumors about Jason Sudeikis and Andy Samberg also leaving, but I have to think they wouldn't give one cast member that kind of party and ignore the others. I'm guessing Sudeikis will stay at least until after the election (they need his Mitt Romney and Joe Biden), and Samberg and the Lonely Island guys will continue making Digital Shorts even if he's no longer in the regular cast.
The musical numbers absolutely rocked, especially Jagger's and Foo Fighters' medley of "19th Nervous Breakdown" and "It's Only Rock and Roll." At age 68, Jagger hasn't lost a thing.
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." --Benito Mussolini
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country." --Thomas Jefferson
I just saw the send-off... that was really sweet.
it was well done (tho I missed it last night, i turned if off during that long "Tea Party Blues". . since I"m not a fan of blues (I know, I know. . just never cared for it). . so went to read instead.
Just watched it on youtube tho.
reminds me very much of the beautiful tribute Steve Martin did, when Gilda passed:
http://classicajays.tumblr.com/post/...rtin-monologue
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"Evil people can do some non-evil things, and most of them do. That doesn't mean they aren't evil." -- JeffereyWKramer
You forgot about Gilda Radner who owned it in a strong female role as did Jane Curtain.
The whole 70's cast pretty much hasn't been topped.
I think Kristen is exceptionally talented myself, though.
"Our history suggests it's better to open the road to riches for those Americans than to raid the gold pot at the end of it."
Found this piece of awesomeness from the season finale after-party... Kristen channels Joan Jett with the Foo Fighters. (Damn, she looks good in that skirt.)
I wonder if Jagger was at this party? Him and Kristen singing this song together would have rocked.
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." --Benito Mussolini
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country." --Thomas Jefferson
Does anyone know if any channels in the UK show up to date SNLs. I know Comedy Central showed classic episodes but I think there is one channel that shows new ones. I think it might be CNBC.
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There's a bit of a difference; first, Jane Curtin never really dominated SNL. She had a few memorable bits, and pretty much set the tone for Weekend Update, shifting it from Chevy Chase's broader approach, and it's been her model that everyone else has followed. Second, Gilda Radner didn't dominate in the same way that Wiig did. She got a lot of air-time because everybody wrote for her; she was the most versatile of the women, and the only one who could keep up with guys like Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi and Bill Murray. Wiig (though I was not a fan of a lot of her stock characters) dominated in a more overt way, simply because there was nobody in the cast who could keep up with her.
In the '70s, if a sketch was funny, it was usually because everybody in it was funny. Aykroyd's conehead was only as funny as Curtin's and Larraine Newman's coneheads, Lisa Loopner was funny as part of a team with Bill Murray's character. With Wiig, usually she's the only funny one in the scene. There really hasn't been much of a sense of an ensemble the last few years, and that's been to Wiig's advantage. She plays the game at a higher level than the rest of her team.
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