TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[jim]

I can't even tell you who was there with who and what years it was. I just know I liked some skits and characters. I know I liked the Talageda Nights guy, I liked the guy now or recently that does Stefan, I liked the lady that was the old lady on all the medicine chasing kids off of her yard and going to the pharmacy, etc... I remember skits, not so much eras. Dana Carvey was great. The old stuff pretty much sucks except for Mr. Rogers Neighboorhood with Murphy just isn't very funny imo.

[MrSaigon]

You know who gets lost in the shuffle of the recent women, is Ana Gasteyer. She did some hilarious stuff, like NPR and the Culps (both of which got worn out) and she did it without being so big like Shannon and Wiig (both of whom I like a lot, but felt could be a bit hollow in their bigness).

[haltz]

Some years are more hit and miss, sometimes the appeal is too broad, but it's always funny. Hader and Forte were great. That Jay-Z sketch with Mike O'Brien was hilarious. Kate McKinnon seems insanely talented. I've just never thought it sucked.

Kyle Mooney seems really underused (there are a whole series of these on youtube which are all amazing).

[33anda3rd]

That Jay-Z sketch with Mike O'Brien was hilarious.

The Monsters sketch he did was pretty fantastic too.

When he was in Chicago he went by Pat O'Brien, everyone knew him as POB. He was on The Reckoning, arguably the best long-form improv troupe of the last 20 years--since Upright Citizens and The Family--and he did two groundbreaking sketch shows at iO before he did Second City. One was called Misled, was him and Pete Grosz of Colbert/Veep/Late Night With Seth. Amazing, the best-written sketch show I've ever seen. His last 1.5 years in Chicago, every Sunday at midnight he did a full hour of brand-new sketch, most of it solo, sometimes with a special guest. No one in the improv community said "Who's your favorite improviser?" back then. They said "Who's your favorite improviser, after POB?" It was a given that he was your favorite. When we all went out after shows for drinks he went home early and wrote. He was not just the funniest, he was also the hardest working. When he came back for the Just For Laughs fest a few years ago and did a special POB Show with Seth Meyers, you looked down the bar in the theater, who was there, and it was like Louis CK, Hannibal, Mulaney, Kevin Dorff, Jon Glaser, and about 10 other people I'm forgetting.

The Chicago Rats stuff he did online with Tim Robinson is rad too.

[Jocephus]

i hate to be a liberal elite monster, but i gotta say...and im not trying to turn this political...but seriously...within the 1st 5 mins of the SNL red carpet show on NBC to be interviewed, who shows up with alec baldwin, Sarah Palin. this woman, who has made thousands/millions railing against the "liberal media" and "hollywood elites" is the first person interviewed on this show. this woman who ripped hollywood elites for not being able to strap up chris kyle's boots...sorry but damn...

[go birds]

What the heck was Chevy chase on?

[Jocephus]

hah yeah, that was kinda weird...i think he's just getting/is noticeably old

[Jocephus]

JT has proven himself an entertainer, etc but he just bugs me

[go birds]

Pretty good monologue thus far

[Freed Roger]

GDT of SNL*. Lawdie do we need baseball back.

*looking forward to seeing this thing