
They threw an "audience" internerd in for good measure. Based on the way they dressed me: a 13 year-old boy's dream.") was great, but the play on nudie pics got old, quick. First joke ("Feels like being here is a dream. Megan Fox's opening monologue was about guys photoshopping her head onto the bodies of other people on the internet. That makeup job, however, is great, and hysterically accurate. It won me over, but still: I'd expect bigger. Maybe that's what made it so funny: the comedy of being semi-lost in translation, the comedy of foreign diplomacy (inherently funny IRL), and, well, foreigners (easy stuff for SNL). It was lampooning Moammar Gadhafi's rambling UN speech, which is an obscure political flub for SNL to dive into. Opening sketch: a little underwhelming for the first of the season. The saddest news for Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson isn't that they are out of jobs on…įirst guest lineup: Megan Fox and U2. SNL Dooms Two More Women To Lives of Obscurity

Lorne shitcanned Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson, which Brian thinks dooms them to lives of obscurity, and which some people think had to do with one of them being " fat." He replaced them with Jenny Slate and Nasim Perdrad, whom bloggers were blogging about. If you're going to be old and assy, please: now would be the best time to go the fuck away. Why? Because it's live, because there are celebrities in skits, because there's music, because sometimes there's nothing better than staying home on a Saturday night, but mostly because sometimes, it can be funny.
#CHARLES ROCKET F BOMB TV#
Saturday Night Live's still on TV because people still watch it. I got on my Commodore computer and typed a letter about it. And I remember when Charles Rocket said Fuck. (Me, other Oldes:) Jane Curtin/ Dan Aykroyd - now there was a Weekend Update.ħ. (Canadians/Brits/Aussies:) You Americans can't say Fuck on the telly?Ħ. The Tina Fey era was the (Choose one:) Best/ Worst.ĥ. SNL hasn't been funny since _ (insert name) was president.Ĥ. I might have to watch this SNL sometime.ģ. New cast member Jenny Slate's first night on SNL. It bears repeating here, because it was so spot-on: SNL Cast Member Jenny Slate's First Fu*king Show: F-Bomb, Dropped

A commenter made a very astute observation (it happens) about much of the conversation regarding Saturday Night Live these days. Typically, we'll get to this a lot earlier in the day, but there was a special kind of fun going on this weekend.įirst off, let's talk rules. You're back, and with you, you brought some new names, a huge gaffe on the first night, a much-ballyhooed guest star, Jesus, Ghandi, and every bar in Midtown East's favorite band, U2.
