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“Saturday Night Live in the ‘80s: Lost and Found,”
is a well-researched and interview-packed two-hour 2005 look at the post-Bill Murray era that gave us Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Chris Guest, Robert Downey Jr., Joan Cusack, John Lovitz, Phil Hartman and many another pop-culture icon.
The tale of the show’s fall and rise during that decade is fascinating, and it’s fun to see it illustrated with first-person accounts and well-chosen clips.
Featured in new interviews are former cast members Gilbert Gottfried, Gail Matthias, Denny Dillon, Tim Kazurinsky, Mary Gross, Robin Duke, Gary Kroeger, Jim Belushi, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Jon Lovitz, Victoria Jackson, Terry Sweeney, Nora Dunn, Kevin Nealon, Carvey and Piscopo (who has somehow grown to resemble Hello Deli proprietor Rupert Gee), frequent host Danny DeVito, writers Lorne Michaels, Al Franken, Tom Davis, A. Whitney Brown, Robert Smigel, Conan O’Brien, Don Novello, Andy Breckman, Bob Tischler, Margaret Oberman, Andrew Smith, David Sheffield and Barry Blaustein, manager Bernie Brillstein, producer Dick Ebersol, and talent coordinators Laurie Zaks and Neil Levy.
(Those NOT interviewed, sadly, include the late Charles Rocket, Eddie Murphy, Brian Doyle-Murray, Brad Hall, Rich Hall, Christopher Guest, Dennis Miller, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Michael Hall, Jan Hooks, Randy Quaid, Tom Hanks, Ben Stiller and Larry David.)
SNL LOST
“Lost and Found” kicks off with creator Michaels’ decision to depart the hugely successful SNL after five years. In a hilarious 1981 “Weekend Update” clip, Franken deplores both NBC’s “horrendous” decision to replace Michaels with Jean Doumanian, the show’s non-writing talent-booker, and NBC’s subsequent decision to replace Doumanian with Dick Ebersol, a non-writing NBC exec. (Undisclosed in the doc is that writers Franken, Tom Davis and Jim Downey were Michael’s choices to succeed Michaels as SNL showrunners.) “Okay, now, who do they pick to rectify the original error? Someone who knows what he’s doing? Someone like me, Al Franken? No, they picked Dick Ebersol. I know Dick and I can tell you that he doesn’t know dick. Okay, now the show’s going to be a little better. No English-speaking person could do a worse job than Jean.”
Ebersol, relates writer Andy Breckman later in the doc, “was the only guy in the business I ever heard turn to somebody else and say, ‘Was that funny? I just don’t know.’ He would just admit, ‘I don’t know.’”
We’re reminded of how avidly potential cast members clamored for a shot at the start-over SNL, which in its first five years had turned Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray into movie stars. Matthias reveals that one of her auditions lasted eight hours.
We’re reminded that Bill Murray returned to guest-host and appear in horrible sketches during the show’s first post-Michaels season. There’s a clip with him on a couch with Rocket, Risley, Piscopo and the others, talking with them about how much everybody hates the show since he left. “Yeah, I read that stuff,” laments Murray. ‘Saturday Night Live is Saturday Night Dead.’ My favorite, though, is ‘Vile From New York.’”
“Aristocrats” star Gottfried, who provides a lot of memorable commentary, remembers the loathing that greeted the post-Murray era: “It was like if, during the height of Beatlemania, you were going to remove the Beatles and have a whole new group of Beatles.”
Gottfried also laments his season’s poor craftsmanship. Doumanian, he says, “always stuck me as the type of woman who would watch a Marx Brothers movie and go, ‘Well, I like Margaret DuMont. But who are those weird gentlemen running around?’”
We’re reminded that the early Ebersol years, even though they brought back writers like Alan Zweibel and (briefly) Michael O’Donaghue, were plenty lame, with Kazurinsky ad-libbing alongside monkeys and Piscopo discovering endless excuses to drag out his Sinatra impersonation. (Piscopo’s Sinatra stylings appear particularly pathetic when compared to the much more pointed version Phil Hartman would offer on the show a few years down the line.)
Kazurinsky describes Eddie Murphy as a “mensch” and “team player” who, as the show’s star, fought to give more screen-time to his castmates. Kazurinsky also relates that “Dr. Strangelove” screenwriter Terry Southern, who briefly joined the SNL writing staff, had a terrific wet bar in his office, and fabulous cocaine, and kept pitching very odd sketch ideas. Julia Louis-Dreyfus remembers she was still a college junior when she was plucked from Chicago’s Practical Theatre to join the SNL cast. Andy Breckman relates that “Seinfeld” creator Larry David only got on sketch on the air the whole year he wrote for SNL.
“Some people resent that I wasn’t as good as John,” notes Jim Belushi, who followed his movie-star brother onto the show during the Ebersol era. “And my answer to that is, ‘Who was?’”
SNL FOUND
We are reminded that Ebersol’s hiring of more established (and expensive) cast members like Billy Crystal and Martin Short was precipitated by Murphy’s departure. Louis-Dreyfus and Belushi remember being reduced to “second-stringers” with the arrival of Short, Crystal and Christopher Guest. (We learn that Crystal and Guest went to college together.) Crystal reveals he very much wanted to do a second season but “nobody else wanted to come back.” Laurie Zaks, an SNL talent coordinator at the time, said she thought that with the departure of Short, Guest and Crystal, the show really was at an end.
Learn that when auditions were being held for Michaels’ first year back, Nora Dunn was working as a waitress in a restaurant right below the audition hall. (Another fact politely left out of the documentary is that Michaels and Dunn became bedmates around the time she joined the SNL cast.) Franken does a hilarious impression of fellow writer George Meyer melting down backstage.
Michaels’ first season back ended with a sketch about the everyone in the cast getting trapped in a fire, and Michaels choosing to rescue only breakout star Lovitz. “Some fo the cast members were kind of mad about that sketch,” remembers writer Smigel. “The ones who weren’t Jon Lovitz.”
Learn that Michaels’ manager, of all people, had to talk Brandon Tartikoff out of cancelling the show following the troubled Anthony Michael Hall-Terry Sweeney season. Learn that SNL was the first writing job for stand-up comic A. Whitney Brown, apparently one of the few writers on the show who didn’t attend Harvard. Learn that Victoria Jackson does a serviceable Lorne Michaels impression! Learn what Don Novello sounds like when he’s not doing Father Guido Sarducci!
Dana Carvey reveals that the Harvard grads would laugh at him when he mispronounced what they’d written for him. Harvard grad Conan 0’Brien reveals that he and fellow writers Smigel and Bob “Mr. Show” Odenkirk were collectively referred to as “the nerds.”
The doc also does a great job of reminding one how funny Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman could be, alone or together. Laugh at Lovitz’ scientist trying to explain physics to Hartman’s Peter Graves. Laugh at Lovitz, as Satan, protesting nerdily as he’s about to get tossed out of “The People’s Court.” Laugh again as Lovitz and Tom Hanks man a street corner, utterly incapable of engaging passing young women in conversation. Laugh yet again as Lovitz, as Tonto, debates the merits of fire with Nealon’s Tarzan and Hartman’s Frankenstein.
Missing entirely is any mention of Ben Stiller (who appeared in about a dozen 1989 installments) or Mike Myers (who also joined the cast in ’89). (Curiously, a “Wayne’s World” logo appears behind the interviewees in the final segment, so perhaps it was decided in the editing suite that Myers’ earliest SNL material would be saved for the inevitable third documentary.)
If “Lost and Found” has a weak link (a “Garrett Morris,” if you will), it’s its many intrusive 15- to 35-second clips featuring the show’s many musical guests. The tunes are spliced in to comment on the show’s ever-changing fortunes, but actually feel like padding and slow the doc’s narrative flow. Even so, these not-altogether-unpleasant interludes are a small price to pay for such an otherwise well-constructed document.
EXTRA FOOTAGE:
The new disc comes with an excellent extra, more than 57 minutes of clips and new interviews that did not find their way into the documentary NBC aired. This material delves into morals of the era, how drug use among the cast and crew had diminished and the era’s censorship policies, among other things.
Tom Davis remembers returning to the show in 1985 and being told by Jim Downey that he wasn’t permitted to light up joints at the office anymore. Gilbert Gottfried and Tim Kazurinski relate that in the year Charles Rocket ultimately used the word “fuck” at the end of a live broadcast, the words “freakin’,” “friggin’” and “scumbag” were verboten. Kevin Nealon explains that all this changed because NBC fired its SNL censors as a cost-saving measure, a fact Nealon made note of live during a “penis song” sketch.
Lorne Michaels and Conan O’Brien observe that SNL couldn’t get much milage out of the political landscape during Reagan’s second term because it all seemed like old material, and that the show finally found firmer footing as the 1988 Bush-Dukakis race began to heat up.
Learn that Phil Hartman was highly resistant at first to the idea of playing Barbara Bush. Learn that Terry Sweeney, who claims to be the first openly gay performer on network TV, was far less reluctant to tackle Nancy Reagan. A. Whitney Brown offers a great story about how Lorne Michaels defused charges that the show trafficked in homosexual stereotypes.
Learn that female cast member Denny Dillon was a fan of Jean Doumanian’s fleeting months as showrunner because Doumanian was nurturing of the female cast members’ aspirations. Learn that the number of female hosts declined precipitously during the Dick Ebersol era.
The writer-performer relationship is examined. Gottfried despaired for his status on the show when he learned he’d be playing a role that could have literally been supplied by wads of rolled-up newspaper.
There’s a segment on how the show’s overwhelmingly white writing staff struggled with creating roles for black hosts and cast members. The tale is told of the “Mr. Monopoly” sketch that got Damon Wayans fired. (Amazingly, Michaels invited Wayans back to perform a bit of his stand-up act later in the season!)
Gottfried, who makes great sport of the “genius” headline writers who tackle SNL, relates that people are surprised when they learn he was on the show. He says when people ask what sketches he was in, he claims participation in the cheerleader sketches with John Belushi and Jimmy Fallon. Writer Andy Breckman says he thinks a viewer always remember only the sketches that aired during that viewer’s sophomore and junior year of high school.
Skipping along a couple decades, Universal launches what could become an annual tradition with Saturday Night Live: Best of ‘06/’07. The $12.99 disc features an audio commentary by cast and writers and bonus sketches that were taped during dress rehearsal but never utilized on air.
The sketches:
1) Nancy Pelosi (Kristin Wiig), just prior to assuming the role of Speaker of the House, makes adjustments to her office’s dress code. Noted Republican Jim Downey tells us this is one of the kinkier pieces he’s written and that he’s used the phrase “Moloch, Lord of Fire” perhaps five or six times over his four-decade career at SNL. Downey describes Will Forte and Fred Armisen as perhaps the show’s two most courageous cast members.
2) Jake Gyllenhall, during the show, notices during the monologue some cowboys in the audience, then launches into a number from “Dreamgirls.” Seth Meyers says he wrote the gay cowboy bit on Tuesday but the song didn’t become a component until the Friday before the show.
3) Tony Bennett (Alec Baldwin) welcomes Kevin Federline (Andy Samberg) and impressionist Anthony Bennedetto (Tony Bennett) to his show. The commentary on this sketch is (maybe?) another sketch performed by cast and writers, including perhaps Will Forte and Fred Armisen.
4) A basketball team captain (Peyton Manning) recommends fleeing at halftime. John Lutz and Will Forte disclose they originally wrote this sketch for the previous show’s host, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who would play a female basketball coach.
5) “Bronx Beat” welcomes Frank O’Connor (Gyllenhaal), author of a book about biking trails. Sketch writer Emily Spivey joins Poehler and Rudolph to reveal that Betty and Jody are based on someone named Jody in the show’s hair department.
6) Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake sing of a dick in a box. Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone (all members of The Lonely Island comedy concern that forged “Hot Rod”) who co-created this digital short, reveal that Timberlake served as choreographer. Learn that parts of it were shot on the set of “Late Night With Conan O’Brien.”
7) Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers welcome the judge from Danni Lynn trial (Fred Armisen), Peter O’Toole (Bill Hader), Poehler’s Aunt Linda (Wiig). (I love Aunt Linda; she kills me.) Amy claims the judge is her least favorite Fred Armisen character. Learn that Samberg originally suggested the “Really?” segment because Meyers uses that word a lot. Learn than writer Jonathan Lutz played the Amish guy with the blackberry.
8) Homeland Security agents (Dane Cook, Jason Sudeikis) explain to airport security officers that three ounces is the magic amount when it comes to liquids and gels allowed in carry-on luggage. (This is my favorite sketch on this collection; it is perhaps the single funniest thing with which Dane Cook has ever been associated.) Seth Meyers, who wrote the sketch, reveals that Maya Rudolph’s voice in the sketch is one of his favorites in all of SNL history.
9) D.J. Dynasty Handbag (Kenan Thompson) welcomes new co-host T’Shane (Andy Samberg) to “Deep House Dish.” Jon Lutz and Will Forte claim the sketch’s set cost $500,000.
10) Julia Louis-Dreyfus runs afoul of a boom operator (Sudeikis) while filming a mammogram PSA. Brian Tucker and Sudeikis, who wrote the sketch, reveal its inspiration was the boom operator he worked with on “30 Rock.”
11) A contest winner (Maya Rudolph) offers an eccentric rendition the national anthem just prior to the fifth game of the World Series. Writer Jon Lutz and Rudolph reveal this sketch emerged from an “American Idol” clip package Rudolph saw.
12) At an “Apprentice” press conference, Donald Trump (Darrell Hammond) demonstrates that he can’t get Rosie O’Donnell off his mind. Writers Jon Lutz and Paula Pell reveal meeting Trump when he hosted SNL provided some inspiration.
13) The A-Holes explain to an adoption agent (Jeremy Piven) that they want a Muppet baby. Writers Sudeikis and Wiig reveal that the name of the Jeremy Piven’s character was named after Sudeikis’ high school pal.
14) Peyton Manning exploits and abuses the youth group for whom he volunteers. Writer Meyers reveals this had to be shot between 9 a.m. and noon on Friday. Akiva Schaffer worked on it also.
15) Ludacris recruits the legendary rapper Blizzard Man (Andy Samberg) to help with a recording. Writers Schaffer, Taccone and Samberg reveal Matt Murray worked on this sketch as well. Learn that Luda invited Samberg to reprise his role at a charity event.
16) Samberg, Hader and Shia LeBeauf brilliantly parody, of all things, the 2005 second-season finale of “The O.C.” in which Marissa Cooper bulleted Ryan Atwood’s brother to the tune of Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek.” Learn from Schaffer, Taccone and Samberg that they all very much enjoy “The O.C.” and that the short was shot very early the day of the show in a hotel room near 30 Rock. Learn also that the Wiig “beat” and the cops “beat” were made up as they were shooting.
17) A “Most Haunted” investigator (Hugh Laurie) is haunted by his own flatulence. Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and writer James Anderson reveal the intial thought was to have an actual ghost fart.
18) Gyllenhaal thanks The Shins, who don’t perform on this compilation.
Commentary tracks aside, extras include:
1) Dress sketch: ‘Virginica’ (4:29) The Kenan Thompson character attends a society function. Peyton Manning and Andy Samberg play two of her foils.
2) Dress sketch: ‘Five O’Clock’ (3:50) Justin Timberlake plays a Toy Mart employee who’s a little too excited about his work schedule. Fred Armisen, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph play fellow employees.
3) A sampling of poorly performing dress-rehearsal “Weekend Update” gags (5:45), many of which never made air.
4) ‘Dick in a Box’ Uncensored (2:43).
5) Photo Gallery.
It’s a big week for sketch comedy on DVD, and Human Giant: Season One comes with a whole disc full of bonus feaures, including:
* Early live footage;
* 90 minutes of deleted scenes and improv;
* Unaired “Shutterbugs” and “Illusionators” sketches;
* Excerpts from MTV’s Human Giant marathon featuring Bob Odenkirk, Will Arnett and Michael Cera; and
* Sneak previews of sketches from the series’ upcoming second season.
The main disc features commentary by producers, cast and guests Mary Lynn Rajskub, Bill Hader and Patton Oswalt.
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Lots of good stuff SNL,Hogfather....hate the Archie stuff always have
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Comin at ya!!!
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...not Lonely Town. Just sayin'.
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When was the last time it was truly funny and just ya know not stupid?
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Just sayin'
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Shouldn't the tagline be something like 'expect nothing, because what you expect won't happen?'
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One of the only good things to come out of MTV in recent years! I need to pick up this dvd set, this show is genuinely hilarious.
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I unexpect the expected, that way I'm always surprised.
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Didn't you read the write-up? According to Andy Breckman, SNL was funny when you were in high school. And that sounds about right.
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Could be butter since i was in school when it first appeared
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Now that I've read the book?
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we get that you feel the need to shit on the show every time AICN posts, but honestly - your criticism is about 30 years too late, and since we all kind of expect your snide comments, not all that shocking either. What amuses me is that you obviously still watch the show, despite how much you claim to hate it. So Morollan, Creamery Butter, and the rest of you that put us to sleep with your shite, go ahead, rush on out to Best Buy, grab your new copies of the DVD releases so you can come back and tell us what a waste of money they are....schmucks.
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Amazing show from the Great White North. Can't wait to get my hands on it.
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Go Bender, Go Bender, Go Bender...
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Wow, I didn't think TV Funhouse would ever make it to dvd. Awesome! "I'm taking the pipes."
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oh wait...OH NO!!!
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This just made my year.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes. The greatest show Comedy Central tossed away. Some of the bits may have dated themselves, but whats not to love about drugging, screwing, tail chasing ani-pals?? And extra kudos to the late Goulet and Ritter for joining in on the fun. Always loved the interaction with live animals...it's about fuckin time!!
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heards it was decent but haven't seen it.
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eew...
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...a show like SNL is supposed to make fun of everybody...not shamelessly suck the Clinton's dicks before an election
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will give me DVD cover nightmares!! And yea Roy Thinnes!! Like how that cover for The Invaders is in no way representative of the series. Even the saucer design is entirely wrong. And it was more Invasion Of The Body Snatchers than War Of The Worlds..
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Do you think they will ever release this on dvd? I had it on tape at one time but I borrowed it to a friend who moved away before I could get it back from him. It was an SNL complimation of all the musical guests and some musically influenced sketches. I have the 25th anniversary still on tape and though it's great - Bill Murray's Nick musical number at the beginning was awesome - the music bits are way shorter and not as varied.
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They let 25 staffers go from their scripted comedy division and merging drama series and 'current programming' units into one group.
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Sadly Comedy Central usually aired it in the middle of the night. The Harlem Globetrotters Christmas cartoon is a riot! The Black Sabbath toon was beyond funny as well. Wonder Showzen owes a lot to TV Funhouse. Fucking genius show...That's why it didn't last. The masses are asses.
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Mar 04, 2008 12:38:52 PM CST
Gary Gygax passed away?!? Can anyone confirm/deny/debunk this?
by indyjonez100
I'm starting to see in several posts on the internets that Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons & Dragons has, according to one quote "failed his saving throw against death" can anyone confirm or deny this as a bad joke?
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What is the appeal of this ugly, pug-faced midget bisexual lady? Why is she so popular again? O just don't get it. I get Carmen Electra. I don't get Tequila. Yuck! I would hope to lose on that "dating" show.
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Talk about photoshop, that photo has definitely been doctored
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Finally we get MST3K: The movie on DVD!!! Yay! This is the best news all day! No more shitty VHS copy
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I just remember Porn for kids, Porn for kids tune. Which showed kids dancing and singing this tune. Classic. Then when it was reaired the edited it down to Porn for everyone, Porn for everyone and took out the kids reference.
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wtf, you put it in the title, and you didnt put the box up? i'm not reading all that snl crap.
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Mar 04, 2008 1:33:02 PM CST
how is it possible for tila to walk with a head that big
by slappy jones
she has this tiny little body with roger clemens head attached to it.....
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is easily the best sketch comedy show since the State. One of the funniest TV shows out there and it definitely trumps the shitfest that is SNL. The second season opener is available on iTunes and is fuckin hilarious. I'll be picking this set up today!
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YEAH! It's about frigging time. The show when they all went to Vegas and saw Triumph almost made me hyperventilate I was laughing so hard.
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She's her own inner tube.
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Way to trick me into clicking, douche. And all I got was a release date and a link to Amazon. Shame on you! (And bite my shinny metal ass)
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Who would buy a dvd set of that shit? And yeah... she's weird looking and not in an attractive way. Why is she popular again? Hope we never hear of her again, but that's not going to happen...
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what a fucking tool bag
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that is why i clicked on this fucking advertisement!
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Tease you in with "Futurama II"!! or whatever in the hopes that you'll click on the amazon ad and get him a nickel. He's a whore.
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...is the only reason to watch "Trading Spaces." She's the only reason to watch TLC, for that matter.
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I've been waiting so long for the next Futurama movie, so I'm glad this has a date. The first one was honestly very, very well put together.
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I agree with your praise of Human Giant, but saying it's the best sketch comedy show since the State is damning it with faint praise. Really? The State was often concept without comedy. Stella and Wet Hot American Summer both had about the same low laughter/boredom ratio, similar to the first season of Conan O'brien. Viva Variety and Reno 911 have been much funnier, although the writers for those shows turn out movies crap like Night at the Museum. Given all the praise I see here and elsewhere I may have to go out and check out the series if it shows up on DVD but I don't know.
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Similar in that there was high concept without laughs
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other people are saying it, but really: you mention Futurama II in the header, you better fucking have something about Futurama II in here, not just a damned link. sellout.
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Is a great and highly underrated, tragically overlooked period, and not just for the Genius that was/is Eddie Murphy. Seriously. Thank gods this doc. finally gives some due to the period and its participants. (Just like the Marvel Comics Star Wars run is also finally being recognized. Yes, I champion underdogs, but only when they don't suck, even if others think they do!)
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according to an article I read not to long ago she'd consider posing nude if the circumstances were acceptable.- *crosses fingers*
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Nice on the eyes, even nicer to talk to in person - I met her at the Franklin Institute on my way to the 2003 Women's World Cup soccer opener at Lincoln Financial Field in Philly. Fuck the haters, TLC still has not recovered from letting her go for a BS reason.
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You guys are assholes. That's how you thank Herc for providing the release date for Futurama? I, for one, was happy to have that information.
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You thank people for placing advertising on their site now? What the fuck is wrong with you?
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Is there a cute TV personality you haven't stalked in person?
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that great genre television like Battlestar and Lost get really, really, really, really AWFUL dvd box design? I mean literally rip-roaringly disgusting. Do you think it's because they know the superfan will buy it no matter what so they are using it to attract the people who don't give a crap either way?
Do you think we'll ever get a Lost set that looks, god I don't know, like Lost? Ditto for Battlestar?
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Personally, I love Wet Hot American Summer and Stella, but to each his own...and cheers to HST.
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...Why does E! insist on rerunning the crummy Will Ferrell confections? Show the vintage stuff w/ Hartman, Lovitz, et al. The current SNL is a crashing bore (further handicapped with all of the Hillary Clinton endorsements).
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This is a weekly feature of coaxial. It's *always* chock-full of Amazon links. If you haven't picked up on that by now, you're a fucktard.
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matter when season coming out on USA.
Great Doctor Whos coming out too. Loved Ward as the seond Romana, and that Planet of Evil one was pretty cool too. Note there's one scene that implies that the Doctor has had more regenerations than we've seen in the series. Wonder how that works out in Cannon. -
series. This mean anything for the Sara Connor Chronicles.
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