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Return Of The Falconer?? Caw!!!! Kevin Spacey Hosts The Last SNL Of Season 31!! SWEEPS DAY 24!!
In 1992, Ken Mortimer was an advertising executive in Baltimore, Maryland. Then, for reasons known only to him, he left his wife and career and moved deep into the forest. Now, he is known only as … "The Falconer"!!
I am – Hercules!!
THE FALCONER: Ohh, Donald! That tap we set for the coyote has caught yours truly instead! For four days, I have dangled here like a urine-soaked pinata! If only a gaggle of Mexican children weilding sticks would come along and put me out of my misery!
DONALD squawks.
THE FALCONER: That's not racist! Pinatas are of Mexican origin!
DONALD squawks.
THE FALCONER: Fine! A gaggle of children of all creeds and colors! Look! Just go! Get me a knife! an ax! Anything I can use to cut this rope! Hurry! I, Ken Mortimer, must LIIIIVE!!!
“Saturday Night Live” doesn’t air live for another seven hours, which is a lifetime in SNL terms. Final sketch selection doesn’t begin until 10 p.m. ET, following dress rehearsal.
But our mole inside 30 Rockefeller Plaza suggests there is a Falconer sketch in contention. It could be the first Falconer sketch in more than a year.
We might also see the return of The Assholes and Vincent Price.
Tonight definitely brings Kevin Spacey’s first stint as SNL host in nearly a decade. His last time was Jan. 11, 1997, about 18 months after “The Usual Suspects.” In those days, foreigners like Norm Macdonald and Mark McKinney in the SNL cast.
Musical guest tonight is Nelly Furtado, back for the first time since Jan. 13, 2001. She’s pretty! Her new album, "Loose," streets June 20.
11:30 p.m. Saturday. NBC.
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so is he gay or not?
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The Falconer is a consistently funny sketch. And didn't we already have one this season when Jason Lee hosted? I seem to remmber him having an affair with Donald.
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sort of like Donald.
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The_Comedian - was that the one where the falconer was in bed with Lee? That one caused my jaw to drop...it's not every day you see a bed with a man...
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er...typo..... it's not every day you see a bird IN bed with a man. :-)
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Have you tried the new Cajun Chicken Furtado from Jack in the Box? Spicy!
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so very much that we induce a state of self-hypnosis that tricks us into thinking it so.
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Over-reliance on recurring characters in almost identical sketches is the most widely criticized part of the show!
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His turns as Christopher Walken and Walter Mathau in the Star wars screen tests last time he hosted are classics. I hope they give him a chance to shine. Speaking of Walken, why didn't he host this year? I would have rather seen him than Alec Baldwin again.
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I love Spacey as Walken reading for Han. Spacey could screw ducks in midflight and that'd be okay on the strenght of that sketch alone.
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I still like SNL and don't mean to take this off topic, but it's Saturday and there's no new JLU article, talkback or episode, and there never will be again and I am sad about that. Sorry. *** Kelly Bundy was a teenage whore in a movie called "Streets". So is the new Nelly Furtado album going to teen-age whore itself? Seriously, we as a culture have voted and it is official: we hate Variety-speak. Please confine posts to conventional American English. No skeins, no 'streets'. Please. *** Also, not looking forward to a Falconer movie, so let that just die, okay?
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May 20, 2006 5:26:07 PM CDT
Just another reason to keep flying away from this show.
by nate champion
It's been more than a decade since a genuine laugh was found on SNL... PUT IT OUT OF ITS FUCKING MISERY ALREADY!!!!
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Nelly Fur-Taco. Mmmmmm... Kissyfur.
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Spacey's impressions rule.
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May 20, 2006 6:20:35 PM CDT
His Kenobi Mathau and Hammond's Dreyfus C3PO were great
by george newman
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Hadn't thought about him in awhile until Herc mentioned him. Seems like all he's doing now is voice work.
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I mean that "Like A Bird" video? *sigh* Breathtaking. Loved "Turn Out The Lights", which made her a two hit wonder. Is there a third hit on the way? We shall see. And as far as her reclaiming her hot title, she looks to be back in shape after that "baby incident". :P God, I love me some FURTADO. Hey, I don't mean to make fun of her or her kids, buuuut...if one of them ever does somethin stupid, how much ya wanna bet someone will say this: "What's a matta wit that kid?" "He's, like y'know...special" "Special? Special how?" "Y'know, like *whispers* furtaded." "Oooooh."
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"What the fuck is a Wookie?"
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I mean, who can argue with it being Giselle? Buuuuut Kate Moss on that new camera commercial is unbwelievable. I don't car if she did a Scarface impression before the shoot or not. The reason I think I like her now, because I didn't before, is because she looks like Kate of Kate's Playground fame. :) Oh, and I love Forte, but The Falconer is my least favorite sketch of his aside from his terrible Bush impression. IT'S LAME!!! Hey, you know what wouls be cool? If Spacey did Walken (No gay joke please.) and did a Continental skit, and Walken walked out. That'd be sweet. SWEET I TELL YA! Anyways please let this be the last episode of Fey, Parnell, and Mitchell. Can't stand them. One questiion, have they got the stench of "Colin's Place" out of the studio yet? Yikes. Don't worry, this is my last post til' start time. Hey, COPS airs it's 650th episode tonight!!! Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha gonna do?....
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Please! It's so asking to be spoofed.
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pale in comparison to the Britney's Bungee Cord Baby bit, last night on Conan O'brien. (Or was it Thursday night?)
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This guy's firing has been long overdue. I mean he cracks up in like 9 out of 10 sketches. Although the stumbling tit grab on JLD last week was hilarious. I'm hoping for a good show but it's not likely considering they had a good show last week. I cant remember the last time there were two good shows in a row. Overall this season has pretty much been on auto-pilot but they turned out a few great shows. Like the Natalie Portman, Lindsay Lohan and last weeks show. Kevin Spacey was a good host last time so theres some hope for a good finale.
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May 20, 2006 8:16:01 PM CDT
Wait this far into an SNL talkback and no one has said.
by alonzo mosely
'is this still on, I thought it was cancelled years ago'... You people are slacking...
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May 20, 2006 8:25:50 PM CDT
"Look, I Don't Need This...I Was In 'Jaws', Okayyyy!
by hell's cigarette
That Star Wars skit was totally hilarious and I would love to see Spacey do another impression of Walken. How about an entire show of impressions by Spacey, plus a SNL Digital Short. You have got to have a real stick up your ass to think the "Lazy Sunday" and "A Day In The Life Of Natalie Portman" aren't balls out hilarious...the Digital Shorts are the only reason I'll tune in.
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Listen. Andy Samberg is one of my oldest friends, and Will Forte is about ten years older than me but he is also a longtime friend of the family (many of you may not realize that Andy and Will went to high school about 15 minutes away from each other -- not to mention the axed Jeff Richards, who went to school about five minutes from Forte's school in Walnut Creek. The Bay Area is the new comedy breeding ground!) and let me just say that the biggest problem with SNL is not the cast, it is Tina Fey. Now keep in mind, neither of those guys bitches about her. But she is in fact the one, not Lorne, who really has the say in what gets taken over. In fact, Lorne is grooming Fey to basically be "him" when he goes. And she has tremendous influence. THat's why Amy Poehler is on update. That's why lame sketches get on, ebcause Tina Fey is one of those people who amuses herself first. Don't blame the cast for what gets on the show. It really is not up to them. Tina Fey, ever since 1996 or whenever it was she joined, has been nothing but a cancer on this show. She is fine for update, she can be amusing, but she is one of those drama dorks from high school that tries WAY too hard to be funny and doesn't have the balls or insanity to pull it off.
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britney baby bungee on conan, but it was a man dressed in britney drag. it was also too short, but it was funny, haha! although britney is looking so fat and makeupless these days. she looks 40. we're getting an early preview into her future.
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And Wiig's all sorts a-hot.
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With Fey being the writer/star/producer of that new show she's doing for NBC, does that mean she'll be leaving the show. Whenever other castmembers did their own shows, they always left. Remember, it was the shortlived Michael Richards show that Tim Meadows had a supporting role on that finally got him off of the show.
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Bay AREA! Anyhoo, caman though, even him being a friend of the family, you have to admit that there isn't anything funny about his Bush impressions, but maybe that's just the material they give him...
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Dammit, I hate these sketches, but I'll admit, I get a smile on my face everytime Sanz says that. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE???
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I fucking hate Horatio Sanz, but I can't help but laugh at this shit.
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But why didn't he pimp Superman Returns during his monologue?
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(1) What does Horatio Sanz have on the folks in charge? Extortion is the only way he could still be on.
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Awesome.
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Suspects thing. "The greatest trick a slacker ever pulled"...etc. WTC is this rap shit? I dare someone to explain how this song is different from the same type from 10 years ago. Damn, she's hot.
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...when did Nelly Furtado become Fergie?
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Oh wowy wow wow wow. Wooooooooooow. Um yep, thats Grade A Milf for ya. Wow. Woooooo.....
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become really hot?
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It's just doesn't ooze the artsy originality of her earlier stuff. I know she was kinda into hip hop back in the day, but this is just crap. She looks good, although, I wish she'd kept her hair color the same.
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Dude, shes was always hot. Well not during the baby period. But now? Wow. Just wow.
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Hilarious! Great stuff!
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But worse.
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What a finale.
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Nice ass by the way
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You dirty bird!!!!!
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Holy dopplegangers!!!
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It got tons of laughs. Are you above that kind of humor? I mean on weekend update. They laugh at themselves. They take comedy so seriously. wait that made no sense, but anyway it's all in fun. don't you see that bankfan? What? you're too good for us now BankyFan. Looks like the Fit hit the Shan.
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but hilarious!!!
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the time machine-ah!
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God, her new stuff fucking sucks. Looks like she will remain a two hit wonder for the time being.
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nobody can do a decent Neil Young impression.
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Because there is no one to talk to. People ask me why, I do what I do. :P Season over, and it was probably the best SNL has seen in 10-12 years. Good stuff. Still has major problems, but hopefully next season it will get back on track.
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That had all the signs of a goodbye from Tina. They did the "Happy 180 shows" bit during WU. Then she wore a shirt at the curtain call With the words "Thank You" on it. She won't be back next year.
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Amy Poehler is gorgeous.
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... and I shall remain == THE FALCONER!!!!
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Please tell me conservatives have more a spine than that. Because SNL didn't start making fun of presidents until Bush took office, it was only when that Mean Ol' Librul Tina Fey took over.
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No matter how NBC spin it, behind the scenes at comedy show shows, are not like cop shows, people will care that there is two on the same channel, and one will win, and I can't say the smart money is on Fey over Sorkin
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...has not gotten to do much of what he does best. The best example I can think of is the spelling bee from the jack black episode. When he was in groundlings, he brought the house down with shit like that.
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Someone who writes her own jokes and then LAUGHS at them? Smirking at your own words doesn't make them funny. Adios, Fey. Maybe Showtime will pick you up after you fail on NBC. Bush will be out of the White House so you may be out of luck for source material.
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...along with a pair of socks. the album isn't a profound achievement but it is a timely protest album. wal-mart is the largest company in the world. pop-culture offers cheap thrills sometimes. is the album really that rediculous? at least neil picked up the torch for a quick recording and release for a segment of society that has been screaming for some kind of representation. i'll bet that that "segment" of society regularily watches snl late on saturday nights. just sayin.
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Amy Poelher seemed to be impersonating a Munchkin.
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The Falconer sketch was conceptually clever, but nothing they said was particularly funny. Can anyone defend the "2 a-holes at a crime scene" sketch? The Usual Suspects thing didn't really go anywhere... Just all in all fucking awful. At least Saturday TV Funhouse was good, if not terribly clever. And DAMN Tina Fey's hubby is a nasty lookin motherfucker.
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i watched the whole episode, and laughed out loud only twice (actually more big laughs than most SNL's of the past 10 years!) ... but those 2 laughs were LONG and HARD. and they were FOR: samberg/spacey "usual suspects" spoof, and "andywalking" --- the kid's GOT IT, like it or not. if tina fey truly is the reason for the recent mediocrity, and she truly is leaving, PLEASE hand the reins over to samberg --- he has the potential to be the funniest SNL alumni EVER (yes, i say that as die-hard a fan of bill murray, eddie murphy, john belushi, adam sandler, and mike myers) ...
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Why does she seem to be trying out for the Black Eyed Peas?
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In the fuuul yo a spittie spittie yo to the wizzzzzhite castle yo yo YO castle fart flastle doey doey to the yo to the yo the la la la huzzah modder fooker lallala oooh spacey to the ffffooooo collection random stone the block yo party yo yo yo yo yo
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They made more Clinton joke on SNL than any other president in history. So it's not just a "librul" conspiracy, they'll make a joke whenever they can.
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kevin spacey IS kevin spacey.
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Like they have for the past twenty-five years (but this one really sucked bad).
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Sanberg and Wiig
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and I normally don't laugh at The Falconer but that was so stupid and silly I was cracking up. And Tina Fey shakes her rump - you gotta like that!
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that last song came straight from a bad 80's club. Not taht the first one was anything less than god awful.
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they should have totally ripped on superman returns. some bald jokes..some gay tights jokes...SOMETHING!
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AHAHAH!! Her album is titled--HAHA---LOOOSEE!! HAHAH!!!. Oh, I agree there Miss nervous hair-flip. Can't you leave your scalp alone for three seconds? Fergie should sue is all I'm saying.
Seriously though, I really hope Nelly's new sound takes her far, I mean it worked so well for Jewel and all.
Oh, terrible TERRIBLE episode by the way.
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1) One difference: Leno has never done anything funny, and neither have you. When you write Mean Girls, you're on nearly equal footing and can comment.
2) "just shut up and entertain"? Have you seen any of the first years of SNL? SNL's always been a politically-provocative show to some capacity. Of course, some of that went away in the shithole Reagan 80's. Still, it's naive of you to say that comedians and entertainers can't or shouldn't provoke. It's also douchebag-esque. Just sayin'. -
Notice how liberals never say that about smart conservative comedians like Dennis Miller and, um...... Dennis Miller? Interesting.
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...to Lafeyette in 15 minutes. And Lafeyette to Walnut Creek in 5 minutes. I went to St. Mary's High, and my girlfriend went to Carondelet. That could take me up to 40 minutes during the wrong time of day. And thusly, I am so far off-topic only one other person will know what the hell I am talking about.
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I wasn't talking about how "the majority of comedians are liberal", and I'm not even sure if that's the case. And of course the vast majority of comics don't inject politics into their act. Political humor has it's audience, but I think there are more comics who would rather make EVERYONE laugh than just people in blue states. What I meant was that liberals seem to be able to accept humor and satire for what it is more than conservatives do. When Norm MacDonald and Colin Quinn made fun of Clinton on Update, I never heard any of Clinton's supporters telling them to "shut up and entertain".
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I think when they came up with that sketch they had recently watched the Doctor Who episode where Rose went back in time to save her father and then fucked up so they had to go back in time again and there were two copies of them. Then they began writing the skit from that starting point and another writer on the staff started remembering (consciously or not) an episode of Sealab 2021 they watched a couple years ago where Dr. Quinn and Stormy kept going back in time and trying to save Sealab from an explosion over and over again, always failing to convince their counterparts in time, getting blown back into the past, and trying again and again, accumulating dozens of copies of themselves until the episode ended. Not that the SNL sketch didn't have a laugh or two, but those other two tv episodes were too fresh in my mind to let me fully appreciate it.
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...and I'm surprised none of the scarface haters mentioned the moment on Update with Fey and Poehler and the on screen graphic reading "talking urinals". Come on, you pervs and Fey haters had to love that.
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50. -are you Mc SURE?! lmao! that Samburg is one funny fuck. They better give him more face time because he's the only one i laft at saturday night. "Its Carol" was good, only because Sans is a fat bastard and seems to make anything stupid enough to giggle at. "if you touch my chest, i'll drop my drawers!" lmao. see? funny. i fucking hate that SNL only seems to have 5 eps in a season, and a 2 month break in-between episodes. they are only hurting themselves. i'd watch it all the time if it was new, but it always seems too hard to figure out if its new or not. *yawn*
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Hope they are both back next year. There's more talent in their respective scars and backfat than you haters have in your parent's whole basement.
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I'm one of those that will be happy if Tina Fey is indeed gone for next season. I thought Spacey playing the straight man to Horatio's over-the-top Carol was what made that skit work, and The Falconer was hillarious. That's all.
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