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Fleet Foxes Is SNL’s Last Musical Guest Of The Bush Era!!
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Rosario Dawson hosts, presumably in a bid to squeeze a few more dollars out of "Seven Pounds." Former SNL head writer Adam McKay is about to launch “You’re Welcome, America” on Broadway so maybe Will Ferrell will drop by as well?
Harmony-happy indie rock quintet Fleet Foxes is the musical guest. They sound like this:
Sketches I enjoyed from last week:
11:30 p.m. Saturday. NBC,
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I'm not familiar with the band but they sound pretty good. Thanks for the videos Herc.
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I can't really explain why. Just something about her I reckon.
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Rosario Dawson -> Butter face or hot? Discuss
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I don't. Fleet Foxes are pretty okay. I can dig it. Now I hate to be THAT guy, but I find Rosario Dawson to be a satanically hot. AND I also hate to be the first guy to cite Alexander, but here I go. Alexander. FEW woman in Hollywood have a vicious body like that AND are fairly adequate in the movies they're in. C'mon! Who has a body like THAT? Really! Well, besides the redhead in Mad Men. That's my wife.
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was pretty great, all around... at least for me it was. That said, I dig Rosario Dawson.
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When you can catch the good stuff on Hulu the next day? Though... there have been some good skits, lately. I like where it's going... for the first time in two decades.
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No, not even he holds the power to do that.
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That would be a fine show.
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Jan 17, 2009 6:00:40 PM CST
I'm not a fan of Fleet Foxes, maybe their performance will chang
by flim springfield
I find them pretty dull.
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Just give me a video loop of her dancing on the rooftop to that Jackson 5 song. Bouncy, bouncy!
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They're a novelty band, at best. Oh boy, they do harmonies. Sort of like the Beach Boys. But without all that pesky talent.
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SNL political satire only works (f at all) when it makes fun of the President. However, the producers of SNL are not going to have the cajonies to poke fun at the First African-American President, especially given the clear political loyalties of most of the writing staff. Instead, you'll get toothless stuff like that "I'm cool" skit from right after the election.
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Hilarious...
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Jan 17, 2009 8:20:42 PM CST
catlettuce- yeah, cause they NEVER made fun of Clinton...
by flim springfield
Obama has been hard to mock because he's incredibly dull, not out of "political loyalty".
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There was a review on here recently - must have been for Seven Pounds I guess - in which she was referred to as one of the most beautiful women in the world, or words to that effect. I just don't get it. She does absolutely nothing for me personally.
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I gotta disagree with you there, catlettuce4. There will be ways of finding humor in Obama even if they aren't necessarily obvious yet. I found the Obama Cool sketch from several eps ago to be hilarious and a good starting point for how to deal with him, at least while he is in the honeymoon phase. Just let him fuck up (note: I am a fan of the man), and there should be plenty to mine.
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is my favorite band of '08 :) Maybe my favorite band of the milennium, we'll see! lol
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that opening might be the worst I have ever seen. Waaaaaaaay to long
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terrible opening sketch... and the monologue isn't looking too hot either.
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so who cares if it's funny tonight... betting it won't be.
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I love when latinos say something spanish they immediately turn "Super Spanish". Imagine if I did that when I said german words? Jesus I'd be arrested.
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still fucking hot.
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the cast and writing this season? With the exception of the Jon Hamm ep, it's been abyssmal.
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What is that called? Splack?
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I've already had enough Kenan... he's about to ruin Rosario for me.
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Please tell me Keenan won't be in every sketch like he was last week.
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that's all it was last week, and most of them aren't that good at it.
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Who out there is disappointed that her overalls are covering half of her tank top?
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I am fucking tired as shit with all the fucking hip-hop and ebonic culture shoved down our throats. Actually this skit is a good commentary about that. However, still not funny.
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batting .250 so far if you include the intro and monologue.
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remember when then digital shorts were good.
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this show is going down in flames in front of our eyes. not one laugh from the audiance.
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This was the opening half hour, so this was their BEST material of the night. Try to imagine the potential horrors of the 12:30-1:00 block.
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or works on cars, or drinks beer, or has sex with women? Or if the just sit around eating quiche all day and drink white wine spritzers, and think of ways to rip off Neil Young.
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very sorry.....
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they let the dirty hobos that hang around the back of the building come inside from the cold and le them sing on camera! Let's hope they don't piss on the stage
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Jan 17, 2009 11:16:02 PM CST
70s folk-rock is dull as hell when you're not stoned.
by flim springfield
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They just ripped off the Office. "It's not a pyramid scheme."
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Critical darling, yet boring as hell music. Indie music used to be ground breaking, but now they all sound the same.
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...but whenever Kristen Wiig is in the scene, I can't take my eyes off of her. That Gillie sketch was pretty slow, but her dancing to the theme song was the funniest damn thing ever.
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how the hell did she do thaat?
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just kidding.............
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although that would be hard as fuck to do. Just kidding.
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Creative, talented, and one of the only cast members working to build characters
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Not really funny, but impressive...
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I'm laughing more at the goose bit than I have any right too.
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that digital short was TERRIBLE, and the goose was, well...
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The best seasons were when the cast was fucked up. A point I don't think has ever been examined. Herc?
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that could have been written by my college spanish class. It sounded like the audience didn't get it. I think it was maybe only funny if you hated spanish class.
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it'd explain alot
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A smart idea for a sketch
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The hosts this week and last week did a fine job performing on the show. In fact, I'd say that they both did better than many of the cast members. Too bad the writers aren't giving them anything worth a shit to work with.
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So the demographic they are targeting are people who hated spanish class?
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Jan 17, 2009 11:35:39 PM CST
Drugs don't make a difference, the show's always hit and miss.
by flim springfield
Even the early "classic" years had a lot of duds.
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Joel McHale and The Soup--FUNNY.
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True------but the ratio was better with drugs than without. Oh shit, the View.
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Energetic, throwing herself into the sketches...too bad she isn't getting very good material.
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in my estimation...ci.
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I've never believed any of his characters--he's always on the edge of breaking character...
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Jan 17, 2009 11:41:46 PM CST
Rosario's boobs did a good impression of Salma's boobs.
by flim springfield
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It seems like if you were needing a token black cast member, there would be some better options out there somewhere.
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Live Rust instead. Fucking brilliant album.
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I'm borderline on how much I actually like them, but I wish to god SNL would put on more musical acts like this instead of Ashlee Simpson, Kanye West, and Taylor Swift & her Emo Goth Jamboree. Get outside the box, Lorne!
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they sound more like Crosby, Stills, and Nash
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Fleet Foxes is WAY better than the top 40 crap...in fact that last number they played was pretty damn cool.
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biggest laugh for me of the night. As well as, Forte's page cut.
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different - it is good to be exposed to new things - and I thought Ms. Dawson tried very hard. Otherwise, that was the worst SNL of the last couple of years.
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Couldn't have put it better.
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Jan 18, 2009 12:12:11 AM CST
The Gilly skit should have had a Looney Tunes-style outro.
by flim springfield
The skit seemed inspired by old cartoons and should have played it up, instead it seemed flat.
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whyyyy?
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I could care less about SNL most times, that being said, a lot of you just watched tonight just so you could have something to bash on a saturday on the forums here... truly.. un rad
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...but I watch to enjoy, and it just seems like when SNL is good, it can be reeaally good. But when its off, its just so empty and hollow. Tonight wasn't horrible, but it definitely skewed toward the negative. Which is a shame, because Ms. Dawson did seem like she was having fun. She said in the outro that she hoped that got across to the audience. Her exuberence got across, but the quality of the material was a little subpar.
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...am I the only one who found Sudekis Gervais impression to be aces? That's right. ACES.
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has got to stop doing her schtick. every god damn character is the same and it's getting really old really fast. she's way to funny to keep doing these awful character(s).
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I forgot to dvr it tonight but sounds like I didn't miss much.Last weeks was awseome and Legendary as the best episode of the season to me.Hugh Lauries or jon hamms shows was the worst to me so far this season just because they had so little to work with and laurie just looked bored
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Now that Amy Poehler is gone lets not do anymore completely retarded characters like Gilly.
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The Clinton example tends to actually prove my point more than not. SNL is never particularly good at satire based on political positions. Instead, its most successful presiential bits are based on obvious and broad comedy archetypes: Ford was clumsy, Reagan was old, Bush Sr spoke funny, Bush Jr was stupid...and Clinton was a fat horndog. In other words, caricature. However, caricature as a form of comedy is way to radioactive when dealing with the first black president. There is, simply put, no way in hell that SNL is going to dare go for a cheap laugh that might open them up for charges of racism even if unmotivated by race. So you'll get, at "best" stuff like "I'm cool" which will give his supporters a chuckle but no actual comedy.
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It did make me laugh just a little. It was just too drawn out. Too many 'Gilly's from the teacher and a little too much mugging for the camera, but otherwise I kinda liked it. But the other characters she does have to go. Just kidding. Not really. No seriously, never again, please. And the other one who tried to one-up everything that's ever said to her is kinda funny until she takes it way too far and it completely stops being funny. And she does it every time. The just kidding not really character is beyond any hope and should never come back.
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more then ever. We are all living in grim times but we all need a laugh. laughing at the bankers expense is where the satire remergence will begin. It will be hard to laugh at obama. and anyone who does will be regarded as a racist. There are rumours(unsubstantiated ones) that there is more to the relationship between Oprah and obama. There is an article about it in todays sunday independent Living section. Oliver callen has been tearing our leader and govt to peices as a bunch of druken bozos. www.rte.ie/2fm/nobnation. there was one sketch where described them as them as the drinks cabinet.
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Another band made "popular" entirely by critics. Seriously, everyone I know bought the Fleet Foxes because they were on every top ten list from Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone to Pitchfork. And nobody I know actually listens to it. Nobody. Nor will they even consider buying their next disc. Just like the Arctic Monkeys.
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Greatest sketchs were the ones with the two blokes in the peterborough office who thought they americans and said Damn alot. very funny stuff.
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But now she seems to just be doing annoying, repetitive characters with goofy faces. OK, now it's stabbing with pencils. So, the next thing will be increasingly violent, then? Ugh. I liked Doogie's show, but this one wasn't so great. I appreciate Rosario-cleavage in at lest three sketches, though.By the way, I always believe bad audiences not getting jokes ruin some things. Like the fact that her comments in the Aladdin sketch were, I think, meant to be a shot at Robin Williams, not just the Genie character.
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I find their success bewildering and baffling. They are friends with kelly osbourne. I am not touching them with ten foot barge pole. The osbournes are returning to tv. in what is called a variety show. it will include comedy sketches. ITV have really gone to hell if they are looking to the osbournes for entertainment. That Jon Culshaw impersonation of ozzy got really tired very quick. I turned on the tv and saw a bunch of actors running round the place with large cardboard cut outs of Ozzy and and families Heads. and that was a kids show apparently.
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While I think that part of the lack of making fun of him could maybe be attributed to the dem/lib leanings of TV folks, but I also do think that he is too boring to make fun of. Or at least, he doesn't have many mannerisms to play up, etc. I don't know if he makes for a good "character" yet.
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I find the Fleet Foxes are infinitely more talented. The Arctic Monkeys were just cashing in on the last decade or so of Brit-pop, but Fleet Foxes seem to know their rock and roll history and do a good job of combining it in their songs. Of course, the Arctic Monkeys are still popular in the UK and we will see where the Fleet Foxes end up.
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...my earlier posts tried to make clear that a general sympathy for Obama's politics was only one factor that made it difficult for SNL writers to make fun of him. The other factors are his race and the fact that there's no readily identifiable "trait" they can use to caricature him at this point. I don't think the Obama-friendly writers at SNL see him as "boring," however so that's not going to be the hook.
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I managed to catch their performances last night. As someone who has never given them a listen (despite the indie-press hype), I have to say I was rather impressed. It's a real treat to see a young band build their songs around vocal harmonies as opposed to indulgent instrumentation or production. The vocal arrangements (and songs) were pretty damn cool.That being said, I thought it was pretty obvious that they are heavily influenced by Crosby, Stills, and Nash (Young). I wonder how many young hipsters even know who those guys are...
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I have lost count of the amount of bands that have been hyped from one week to the next. I am all for bands sending there demos to radio stations. Dave fanning started all this over 30 years ago in Ireland when he was on 2fm. Ireland has enormous musical talent. Its indie scene has produced some fine talent. but nowadays its getting too much. Three current Irish indie bands are Fight like apes, Meath band ham sandwich and Irish rap band(dont laugh at that idea) Messiah J and the expert. Indie press tends to bombard the irish public with these groups to the point where by the end of the week, there is a whole new lot of bands by the next week. Indie press does gig guides. so you can follow them. They almost always end up in the us. where they crack. and you never hear from them again. Everyone is always looking for the next big thing.
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Jan 18, 2009 11:39:33 AM CST
If you want something indie, there are better choices out there
by garbageman33
MGMT, TV On The Radio, Cut Copy, Band of Horses, Frightened Rabbit, Bon Iver, LCD Soundsystem, The National. And that's just off the tip of my head. If you really want to introduce your audience to something new, why just regurgitate what the press has already introduced them to?
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...but remember that Obama has to clean up the mess made from the last 16 years.
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Jan 18, 2009 1:34:16 PM CST
For the most part SNL is good at choosing musical acts.
by flim springfield
Some "hot" pop acts, some on-the-verge acts, some lesser known but critically acclaimed acts. I wouldn't mind seeing more music and less crappy sketches (or better yet- less commercials!)
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Ouch. The suckage was in full effect on Saturday night.
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His Cheney impression is one of the most boring ones he's ever done. They need to find more for him to do. Is it his choice or the show's choice that we barely see him anymore unless a very specific impression is needed, usually Clinton.As for that Cheney sketch, it was repetitive, obvious where it was going and just funny. That may have been one of their more blatant liberal-leaning sketches, since the theme was, "How can Cheney not be sorry for everything he's ever done?" Even if you believe that, it sure didn't make for anything funny. Though it made me think of Jan Hooks' more fun Diane Sawyer.
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I can only speak for what I hear on irish Radio. There was a music conference in Dublin last year or the year before. Louis Walsh complained that no radio station will play westlife songs. but his substantive point was a good one. There are loads of musical talent in Ireland and there wasnt a platform for them. Irish radio was he said full of wall to wall chart music he said. he has a point. Irish Radio stations are dominated by the playlist which comes from the record companies. Which has been replaced by the digital download chart. non mainstream music is called indie or alternative. and you have to wait untill the evening on today fm to hear. or on Jenny Houston's show on 2fm. also on the eveing. todayfm(owned by Billionaire dennis o brien) and 2fm which is owned by rte. are the only two radio stations to go to irish festivals.
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A disaster of Irwin Allen proportions, demonstrative of the show's decline; the forfeiture of Obama humor (zip zingers) portends a grim future for SNL. This sinking ship is about as funny and poignant as an Olsen Twins video.
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During the gilly sketch. At about the 4th time Hader said "Gilly" and she said "what" I said "if they do it one more time i'm done and taking it off the tivo" and they did. Maybe I'll try the show again next year.
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What was with the man ass shot on SNL? That came out of nowhere and wasn't needed. Everyone knows that it is Fred Armisen's ass that we are looking for!
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Saw some people above mention them. Never really understood the hate for the band, I like their "Favourite Worst Nightmare" album, dammit. Seems like I tried to listen to the previous one and didn't like it as much for whatever reason. Whatever. Welcome to Omerica bitches!
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Us hipsters listen to Crosby , Stills, Nash and Young.
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I bought Fleet Foxes and It is one of my fav albums of the year and I know many people who think the same thing. To each there own, if you don't like it don't listen.
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of A Bit of Fry & Laurie. Those two characters are my favourite. It's proof that you can do the same skit over and over and keep it funny, although I'm sure Marjorie would disagree with me.
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there to celebrate frys 50th birthday. those two characters are a lot of peoples fave. The best program on over tv at christmas, beside wallace and gromit was the fab Blackadder doc. They all seem to be doing well and are all well off. except ben elton. It was a very interesting program about the writing process behind the show. There will never be another series of blackadder. Fry spends his time between the UK and his very expensive home in the hills of South africa. Laurie as we know is a star in LA. Tim McInerny is a respected actor. Curtis set up Live 8. and ben elton blew his credibilty on two of the worst musicals ever. We will rock U and tonights the night. the rod stewart musical. at the very end you got the feeling that while they were chums at the start. none of these people would want to spent more than a minute locked in room together ever again. The meet up to meet their adoring fans and answer questions, sign books and dvd. none of these people have to ever work again. if you saw Frys south african villa, you would know why. He part owns a village. He is semi-retired. He does QI. but hasnt done much other work. Rowan is also very wealthy and is currently starring as fagin in Oliver.
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is a history and archaeology expert. and was for a while was head of Equity and was involved in the labour party. Was the ending of blackadder plain sailing. no according to tony robinson. There were two sets. one was at the bbc. and one was in another location. They all had to leave the small theatre where they had recorded the audience bit. race across town to the BBC. And when the cast and crew got there they saw the somme set for the first time and according to tony robinson it was terrible the rushes were even worse. John Lloyd according to himself sat there with his head in his hands in despair. They gave the footage to the shows editor, who slowed the footage down, then re-edited the music and put the drum beat at the end. and added the still of the poppy field. that was how the end of Blackadder goes forth came about.
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Hugh laurie starts goobledooking and stephen fry says now thats a load of nonsense and you know it.
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Stephen Fry played a recurring character on Bones a couple of years ago. I don't think I've seen him in anything more recent. That reminds me, I should check to see if Peter's Friends has been released here in DVD yet.
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