SNL general discussion thread
#626
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Re: SNL general discussion thread
^^ Well they've had the other two "stars" on more recently.
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#630
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-do...niers?ref=home
Aside from wondering why they're even giving this asshat a platform, if I were a writer on this episode, I'd troll the fuck out of him all night.
Aside from wondering why they're even giving this asshat a platform, if I were a writer on this episode, I'd troll the fuck out of him all night.
#631
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Re: SNL general discussion thread
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-do...niers?ref=home
Aside from wondering why they're even giving this asshat a platform, if I were a writer on this episode, I'd troll the fuck out of him all night.
Aside from wondering why they're even giving this asshat a platform, if I were a writer on this episode, I'd troll the fuck out of him all night.
That guy Gillis was an actor that was hired then fired in a couple months for racism?
Now they hired him to host?
#633
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Re: SNL general discussion thread
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-do...niers?ref=home
Aside from wondering why they're even giving this asshat a platform, if I were a writer on this episode, I'd troll the fuck out of him all night.
Aside from wondering why they're even giving this asshat a platform, if I were a writer on this episode, I'd troll the fuck out of him all night.
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#637
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If Pete Davidson, Dana Carvey, and David Spade are cool with Shane Gillis I assume he is welcome in the comedy community.
#638
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Too bad Mark Ruffalo will never host SNL unless he changes his mind
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...203348148.html
Mark Ruffalo has never hosted “Saturday Night Live,” and he doesn’t think he’ll be asked to again after turning down Lorne Michaels.
On Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast on Monday, Ruffalo told the host that he’s “scared” to take up the gig and he’ll probably “never be asked back” after he rejected Lorne Michaels’ invitation to Studio 8H.
“I’ll never be asked back,” Ruffalo said. “I don’t think Lorne Michaels likes it when you say no. It just scared the living s–t out of [me]. I don’t know.”
Ruffalo specified that reading live on-camera from cue cards is what causes him the most anxiety.
“It scares me. I’m dyslexic. I’m not gonna lie. You don’t lie on this show,” the actor said, and Maron asked him how dyslexic he was. “I’ll lose where I’m at on the page. When I hear about how that show works, changing things at the last second, and I want to be good at it. I’ve been watching that my whole life and like, I don’t want to be the guy, the host who sucks. I owe Lorne Michaels more than that.”
Trying to find a silver lining, Maron suggested that Ruffalo might be better memorizing lines instead of reading them from the cards — but no dice.
“I have the double whammy. I’m dyslexic, and I have a hard time memorizing stuff. Like, I have to start so early,” Ruffalo said.
“What am I going to do? Ginkgo, now it’s wasabi. I chase all the memory s–t,” Ruffalo said. “I try everything. I’ve tried everything across the board.”
On Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast on Monday, Ruffalo told the host that he’s “scared” to take up the gig and he’ll probably “never be asked back” after he rejected Lorne Michaels’ invitation to Studio 8H.
“I’ll never be asked back,” Ruffalo said. “I don’t think Lorne Michaels likes it when you say no. It just scared the living s–t out of [me]. I don’t know.”
Ruffalo specified that reading live on-camera from cue cards is what causes him the most anxiety.
“It scares me. I’m dyslexic. I’m not gonna lie. You don’t lie on this show,” the actor said, and Maron asked him how dyslexic he was. “I’ll lose where I’m at on the page. When I hear about how that show works, changing things at the last second, and I want to be good at it. I’ve been watching that my whole life and like, I don’t want to be the guy, the host who sucks. I owe Lorne Michaels more than that.”
Trying to find a silver lining, Maron suggested that Ruffalo might be better memorizing lines instead of reading them from the cards — but no dice.
“I have the double whammy. I’m dyslexic, and I have a hard time memorizing stuff. Like, I have to start so early,” Ruffalo said.
“What am I going to do? Ginkgo, now it’s wasabi. I chase all the memory s–t,” Ruffalo said. “I try everything. I’ve tried everything across the board.”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...203348148.html
#639
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Re: SNL general discussion thread
Perfectly reasonable explanation that he is dyslexic and doesn't think he can perform live reading off cue cards. It doesn't have to be for everybody.
#640
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Besides he'd probably blurt out all the punchlines half way through the sketches.
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#642
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I wonder if they would or try to get Jenny Slate to host the show?
She like Sarah Silverman both had more success when they left the show.
Jenny said it was not a right fit and she did not get fired for dropping a F bomb.
She like Sarah Silverman both had more success when they left the show.
Jenny said it was not a right fit and she did not get fired for dropping a F bomb.
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#645
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Re: SNL general discussion thread
Dana Carvey apologized about this 1992 sketch with Sharon Stone on his podcast with David Spade
https://deadline.com/2024/03/dana-ca...ne-1235865481/
I want to apologize publicly for the security check sketch where I played an Indian man and we’re convincing Sharon, her character, or whatever, to take her clothes off to go through the security thing,” he said, adding, “It’s so 1992, you know, it’s from another era.”
Stone said she wasn’t bothered by the sketch, but agreed it was created in a different time.
“I know the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony,” she said. “And I think that we were all committing misdemeanors [back then] because we didn’t think there was something wrong then. We didn’t have this sense. I had much bigger problems than that, you know what I mean? That was funny to me, I didn’t care. I was fine being the butt of the joke.”
“When I was doing the Indian character… there was no malice in it,” Carvey replied. “It was really me rhythmically trying to get laughs. So I just want to say that watching it — comedy needs a straight person and you were perfect in it. You were completely sincere and you made us funny.”
Stone said she wasn’t bothered by the sketch, but agreed it was created in a different time.
“I know the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony,” she said. “And I think that we were all committing misdemeanors [back then] because we didn’t think there was something wrong then. We didn’t have this sense. I had much bigger problems than that, you know what I mean? That was funny to me, I didn’t care. I was fine being the butt of the joke.”
“When I was doing the Indian character… there was no malice in it,” Carvey replied. “It was really me rhythmically trying to get laughs. So I just want to say that watching it — comedy needs a straight person and you were perfect in it. You were completely sincere and you made us funny.”
#646
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Re: SNL general discussion thread
Do performers need to go back and apologize for comedy that was accepted when it was presented, but is now considered inappropriate or offensive?
Especially if their explanation is just going to be that it was a different time and sensibilities have changed since then? Shouldn't people just be able to figure that out without an apology being required?
I listen to the Carvey/Spade podcast, so I know Carvey means it when he regrets it. But I wonder how much it affects current comedians doing new material and trying to move forward in their careers to see the past being examined like this.
Of course, my white, male, cisgendered privilege makes it easy for me to say things were just a joke.
Especially if their explanation is just going to be that it was a different time and sensibilities have changed since then? Shouldn't people just be able to figure that out without an apology being required?
I listen to the Carvey/Spade podcast, so I know Carvey means it when he regrets it. But I wonder how much it affects current comedians doing new material and trying to move forward in their careers to see the past being examined like this.
Of course, my white, male, cisgendered privilege makes it easy for me to say things were just a joke.
#647
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Re: SNL general discussion thread
Old SNL:
Martin Short playing a person with albinism, Christopher Guest playing a gay camp immigrant, Billy Crystal playing Sammy Davis Jr in blackface, and Jim Belushi playing Captain Kangaroo physically assaulting a woman -- in the same sketch!
Martin Short playing a person with albinism, Christopher Guest playing a gay camp immigrant, Billy Crystal playing Sammy Davis Jr in blackface, and Jim Belushi playing Captain Kangaroo physically assaulting a woman -- in the same sketch!
#648
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#649
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Re: SNL general discussion thread
Do performers need to go back and apologize for comedy that was accepted when it was presented, but is now considered inappropriate or offensive?
Especially if their explanation is just going to be that it was a different time and sensibilities have changed since then? Shouldn't people just be able to figure that out without an apology being required?
I listen to the Carvey/Spade podcast, so I know Carvey means it when he regrets it. But I wonder how much it affects current comedians doing new material and trying to move forward in their careers to see the past being examined like this.
Of course, my white, male, cisgendered privilege makes it easy for me to say things were just a joke.
Especially if their explanation is just going to be that it was a different time and sensibilities have changed since then? Shouldn't people just be able to figure that out without an apology being required?
I listen to the Carvey/Spade podcast, so I know Carvey means it when he regrets it. But I wonder how much it affects current comedians doing new material and trying to move forward in their careers to see the past being examined like this.
Of course, my white, male, cisgendered privilege makes it easy for me to say things were just a joke.
#650
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Re: SNL general discussion thread
Do performers need to go back and apologize for comedy that was accepted when it was presented, but is now considered inappropriate or offensive?
Especially if their explanation is just going to be that it was a different time and sensibilities have changed since then? Shouldn't people just be able to figure that out without an apology being required?
I listen to the Carvey/Spade podcast, so I know Carvey means it when he regrets it. But I wonder how much it affects current comedians doing new material and trying to move forward in their careers to see the past being examined like this.
Of course, my white, male, cisgendered privilege makes it easy for me to say things were just a joke.
Especially if their explanation is just going to be that it was a different time and sensibilities have changed since then? Shouldn't people just be able to figure that out without an apology being required?
I listen to the Carvey/Spade podcast, so I know Carvey means it when he regrets it. But I wonder how much it affects current comedians doing new material and trying to move forward in their careers to see the past being examined like this.
Of course, my white, male, cisgendered privilege makes it easy for me to say things were just a joke.
blame the Twitter generation for making a big fuss.