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Brian Williams Hosts
The Last SNL Until …
I am – Hercules!!
NBC News’ Brian Williams hosts the last “Saturday Night Live” before Monday’s planned writers’ strike shuts the show down for the foreseeable future.
Will there be a sketch featuring a crestfallen Jonah Hill moaning about how the strike may have cost him his shot at hosting SNL later this month?
Today’s New York Times describes the witty Williams as a “rabid” fan of SNL. An excerpt from that piece:
[Lorne] Michaels noted one small adjustment made for Mr. Williams’s sake. A planned sketch about edited-out parts of the Harry Potter films featuring the recently outed Dumbledore will not star Mr. Williams as Dumbledore. And the show will surround Mr. Williams with high-quality support, including two big-name surprise guests, one from politics and the other from music.
We also know from the promos that Bronx Beat will be back and that Feist is the musical guest.
11:30 p.m. Saturday. NBC.
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to come up with something, you know, funny.
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HuffPo mentioned Bono being at the set earlier this week... He and Williams worked together in Africa and are supposed to be close, but if he's the guest from music it'd have to be something pretaped like a digital short. Personally, I love Brian Williams when he appears on The Daily Show and I'll definetly be watching tonight to see how he handles SNL.
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Who knew?
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That's the cameo we need!
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1-2-3-4! I declare a thumb war! 5-6-7-8! Try to keep your thumb straight!
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for tonight because of the lineup. Does that mean SNL is great again?
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this is the perfect time for these comedians to prove their true talent. let them write the entire show, no outside help, no writer's crew. seth and amy could write the weekend update. hader could do pacino for half the show and i'd still be dying from laughter. samberg could put together a great short and forget the music guest, i usually turn the channel when that comes on anyway. c'mon guys step up and get it done.
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No new material, just more musical guests, some stand-up comedians, maybe a magic act, whatever. It may actually make the show BETTER!
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Just Bad
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So this is what it takes to put this feeble horse out of its misery? Next up: Leno, get ready to shill for Doritos, again.
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She can act, she can sing (Reefer Madness, anyone), and she's going to be front and center of the 11/12 and 11/19 Heroes episodes. That would fucking rock.
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Dwayne Johnson was supposed to host the next episode of SNL.
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Artie Lange musta scared him straight.
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To write for the show?
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'She's a witch'. That was good for a chuckle. And while I like Feist okay, she's kind of a snooze as a live performer. So don't expect too much.
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Obama didn't say one thing that was funny.
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Brian Williams channels Cliff Clavin. Spooky.
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...so good.
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so far he's one of the best this season! most of the episodes have been SHIT
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I think you mean... "the best so far".
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but ill be damned.... Williams is frakkin funny!
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confirmed on air - ROCK and Winehouse
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Now that was funny coming out of Brian Williams' mouth! LMAO
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...is shockingly good! Who'd have thunk it? And after Amy Winehouse's total fucking meltdown at the MTV Europe awards last week, they must be glad for the strike.
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Anyone who has seen him on Conan knows that he can be hilarious.
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"Original scheduled musical guest Amy Winehouse was forced to withdraw as she has been banned from travelling to the US by the British police after her arrest for cannabis possesion." <br><br> Of course, this IS from wiki so who knows, I don't give enough of a shit about her to actually verify this. If this episode actually happens (with the strike and all), could we get a "live via sattelite" performance?
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They've had him in 5 skits in a row and he's nailed all of them. Make him a regular host. Son-a-bitch got free Cheezy Bread!
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Gotta love the Bono dream sequence. :)
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Figures they'd get it together right before a strike. The gag with BW leaving himself a message was way too telegraphed though. Should've left off the intro or changed it 'return my messages' or something that didn't make the pay-off so obvious.
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so i was looking forward to him hosting tonight. pretty damn good so far. the lame principal was great.
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when she did this on Letterman, she had half of Canada on stage (New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene, etc.) and it blew this performance away. Ah well...
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Not horrible, but the song has been so ubiquitous lately that it's hard to impossible to remotely enjoy.
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Her voice was flawless.
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I too really wish Broken Social Scene were there with her too like when they were on Letterman. Canada represent! The show is pretty good so far, although surprisingly the one thing I usually love on this show The Digital Short was a bit unsatisfactory tonight....
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Nov. 3, 2007, 11:16 p.m. CST
Wow, Amy's hair isn't all ratty for Weekend Update this week.
by Shermdawg
That's a first.
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Did Harry know that Anakin Skywalker and the Invisible Woman would team up in a movie? Or did I miss that story here?
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Man, the wigs are distracting in HD.
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and b will is nowhere to be found. guess he smelled a stinker.
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Oh my GOD. That iPhone spot was fucking CLASSIC. WAAAAY too close to...ahem. Never mind.
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http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/fabulousmoolahpasses
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Ehhhhhh...
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I'M CONFUSED!!!
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We want more Brian Williams!
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debate sketch off the mark, unfunny and unfair.
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And went on WAY too long.
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Lame.
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"i feel it all" is pretty damn fantastic too.
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You mean they actually paid writers to write the crap they have been putting out the last decade or so? For a while there I thought they just had Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz just get baked, dress up in costumes, and just crack themselves up on stage. Since they left, it hasn't gotten much better<br><br> I say keep it going and just let the actors improv the scenes. I don't know if can be worse than sketches like the Falconer.
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C'mon, show some range. Play someone other than yourself or someone like you.
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that's how i roll...
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Good stuff.
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It's the producers who are calling the shots on this one.
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for once i want more!
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get Ebert and Roeper after SNL??? I'm in Kentucky and they show it after SNL.
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...considering QL only had two reoccuring cast members. And he doesn't seem to be either Scott Backula or Dean Stockwell. I AM OFFENDED BY THIS.
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Get off the Hillary ice train and board the Obama Express, bitches!
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it works..
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He's gonna turn into the next Alec Baldwin for this show. The Quantum Leap jokes were hysterical. Too bad the other cast members killed it.
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there's no stink left even.
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The rest of the show however was the same LAME ASS shit SNL has been doing for years. That's why SNL stands for S-till N-o L-aughs
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Feist truly blows.
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...you'll know he's a pretty funny guy.
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to have sex with Sarah Silverman... except lately Sarah Silverman is too skinny to have sex with anything except a spider-monkey, which is why she and Jimmy play Scarbble all night.<p>Note to Feist and anyone else: once you sell your song as a commercial, you don't get to promote it on SNL any more (Unless you're U2).<p>Amy Winehouse's bad tattoos creep me out and Dwight "the Rock" Euphemismforpenis already hosted SNL, so we're just as well off without that one.<p> the funniest bot: Al Gore springing into action and... wait, that was an ad for "30 Rock". Then, the Dr. Who parody... no, wait, that was Dr. Who on PBS at 1:00. Okay, the funniest line was Seth's "Did you see that, he got my tie." Which, you'll notice, isn't actually a funny line. Well, okay, the iPhone ad was funny. Kinda.
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Nov. 4, 2007, 1:31 a.m. CST
Williams = funny, good actor, good at characters & reading que c
by Orionsangels
He's was actually a good guest. Not bad.
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Talkbackers who post sarcastic remarks, where they act surprise about SNL still being on the air. Are about as old and lame as SNL itself. SNL will always be unfunny. But it will out live all of us. Too bad.
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a few thousand bucks, I assume. i don't know what the ads for - who pays attention to commercials any more? :ets say a department store or a credit card or something. But I know I've heard that first song she did a lot, and I don't listen to modern radio.<p>Orionsangel, actors read off "Cue" cards, a queue is like a ticket line, and I think "que" is Mexican for "What?" <p>Pod, the Candice Bergen hosted Christmas episode with musical guest Frank Zappa was excellent, therefore you are wrong. But let us agree to disagree; taste is subjective after all.
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who watch the show every week just so they can critique in detail why it isn't funny since Phil Hartman left or whatever, what will you all do until the strikes over? Of course there's always Spike Feresten, I can't believe that shitfest has writers.
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is like having a sports guy host. i have no idea who they are. And MOST of William's sketches were about him being Brian Williams. Which is only funny or only makes sense if you know who he is. <p>So if he's Brian Williams, than who's Brian Dunkleman?
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He needs his own show outside of the news. If he did something like the original Office... it'd be a hit. For some reason I kept thinking that he would've been right at home in Dr. Strangelove.
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Vicnameless- Up in AK, KTUU doesn't follow up SNL with Ebert & Roper, a musical show called Fearless Music comes on. I really liked hearing Obama say "Live From New York..."
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Hillary's gotta get even, but how? Emcee an Eminem concert in Detroit???
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pretty funny, especially Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton and Horatio Sanz as Bill Richardson. Obama did OK as Obama. Brian Williams did surprisingly good: the NY fireman was good. Feist live is not as good as it should have been: I agree the Letterman appearance was good, the best live one of her I have seen. Her videos are good: 1234 and Mushaboom (the red scarf-outdoor woods-flashing scenic-sunset one, not the flying-in the city one (although the reaching through the mirror to draw on her reflection as it drew on her was neat)).
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That's all I have to say about that.
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Im really out of it. I was wondering how everyone knew Brian Williams sucked before the show even aired!
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Call me when Rush Limbaugh hosts.
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The Dem debate behind the scenes sketch seemed to make a reference directly to a Rush Limbaugh-esque idea. Brian Williams says something like, "We in the media have all ready decided we want Hillary to win."
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Lousy new format, lousy show. 13th may be unlucky for them.
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the show alwyas makes me laugh out loud a couple times. If you want BAD SNL let's think back to the Sandler years.... Also, this is the best group of cute guys the show has ever had!!!!!!!!
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Brian Williams is a master of deadpan... great stuff.
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If you listened to the rest of the sketch carefully, he states that he was on the episode TWICE in the same episode and that's it--not a recurring character. That was the joke.
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Press release from Loren Micheals about the future of SNL during this strike, yes?
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That was funny.
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QL went off the air about 15 years ago yet it seems it is the best, maybe only, job he's had since then until being the pricipal in a teen drama on the CW.<p>Most surprising line of the night (surprised they got away with it) was during Bronx Beat: "Do you know mouth-to-mouth? How about ass-to-mouth? Does your mouth go south?".<p>I guess they felt they had to do a debate sketch but they should have tried harder. It was a meandering mess that went on way too long. Instead of doing behind the scenes before the debate they could have done the debate with everyone attacking Hilary with the stuff they were discussing, like saying she is anti-mexican if she disagrees with Sanz's character. Just random, non-sensical stuff. Or have the debate moderator be Kristen Wigg's crazy one-up-you character.
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