TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[Famous Mortimer]

"Look, a falling star!" with a picture of Murphy behind him was the entirety of the joke (Spade did mention him again a few more times in later shows, I think, but that's the one Murphy referenced). This would have been around the time of "Vampire In Brooklyn" and "Beverly Hills Cop 3", so the joke was absolutely deserved.

If you take out the "Shrek" movies (one good one, one average one and several boring ones) he's done basically nothing this century of any note (the last film of his I liked was "Life" in 1999, and then it's slim pickings back to the late 80s), and I'd have thought he'd want to show just how good he could be in front of that audience. Seeing him as Cosby would have been amazing - if his old standup stuff is to be believed, it's not like he likes the guy anyway. Sandler, who's not been back in a very long time too, at least was ready to do something - and if you take box office into account, has destroyed Murphy for a decade or more.

I've downloaded all the episodes, and watched from Ferrell's first year all the way up to Fallon's last year - me and Mrs Mortimer found that last season a bit of a drag and haven't been back to it for a while, although it'll be fun seeing Will Forte develop. Perhaps I ought to start from the mid 80s and see all that group. Eddie Murphy's "Best Of" video is still the funniest SNL thing I've ever seen though.

[ghostrunner]

Forte's new show is starting in a couple weeks.

He and Garrett Dillahunt need to get cast as brothers at some point.

[Freed Roger]

Forte's new show is starting in a couple weeks.

He and Garrett Dillahunt need to get cast as brothers at some point.

Last man on earth?

Will Forte was great in "Nebraska", by the way.

[33anda3rd]

I'm probably alone in this but I loved MacGruber. Will Forte can't really do any wrong in my book.

Yeah, Sandler came back and was game, but Sandler never got taken down by a cast member who came along later. The Hollywood Minute thing was, as far as I can recall, the only time SNL set out to regularly be mean-spirited toward the people they were poking fun at. It was snide and kind of gross, though sometimes funny.

The beautiful irony of the whole thing is that Murphy, though he has fallen a long way, hit some pretty high highs, and the only thing Spade accomplished post-SNL was being Farley's sidekick. How many SNLers have the careers Eddie Murphy had? 1 in 10? 1 in 20? David Spade is probably a bigger punchline of failure than any punchlines about failure he delivered at the SNL Update desk.

[go birds]

idk Joe Dirt is pretty hilarious imo

[thrill]

MacGruber is incredible.

[MrCrowesGarden]

MacGruber is incredible.

My wife and I went to see it. The only other person in the theater with us was an 80 year old woman who walked out about 15 minutes in.

[Jocephus]

i dont know about that re: spade. yes, when you compare eddie and spade its a pretty far gap. but spade was on that "just shoot me" for its entire run, i think like 6 or 7 years...then he was on rules of engagement for another 6-7 years...though i never watched that one.

im pretty sure i've heard/spade in various interviews, maybe on stern, saying that his hollywood minute act got stale once he become "somebody" (whatever degree of somebody you prefer).

i love this special of his:

rock and spade on stern...i know they talk about the murphy thing a bit in this

[33anda3rd]

ok, Joe Dirt's kind of funny. He has one funny movie in the 20 years since his last team-up with Farley.

He's the guy who peaked in high school, when he was the snide sophomoric one in the crowd of sophomoric humor cool kids. He was one of the big names on SNL with Myers, Sandler, Farley, Schneider, Rock. Of that group all of them, even Rob Schneider, who really truly sucks, have had more successful post-SNL careers. Tim Meadows, Norm Macdonald, and even short-stint SNL cast members like David Koechner, Sarah Silverman, Garofalo, Chris Elliott, are more present in pop media now than Spade is. Considering the change in status the last 15 years between David Spade and Sarah Silverman if we're gonna make a joke about falling stars, well, Spade's a pretty good butt of that joke. Outside doing sophomoric humor when sophomoric humor was in vogue for a few years, he has tanked. He kinda sucks.

[go birds]

I dont think you can say he tanked though, for the reasons Joce outlined above.

14 years in tv, post a successful SNL career is pretty good.

don't get me wrong, he's not leading man in a movie (aside from Joe Dirt, where he was a caricature), but he's not awful