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NBC'S 'SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE' RETURNS NOVEMBER 7 WITH POP & COUNTRY SUPERSTAR TAYLOR SWIFT AS HOST AND MUSICAL GUEST
UPCOMING SHOWS: November 14 – January Jones/ Black Eyed Peas; November 21 – Joseph Gordon Levitt/ Dave Matthews Band
New York, NY – October 30, 2009 - "Saturday Night Live" returns in November with three straight shows, beginning November 7 with Pop & Country superstar Taylor Swift taking the stage at studio 8H as both host and musical guest.
In 2008, Swift sold more albums than any other recording artist in all genres of music and her singles top both the Pop and Country radio charts. Her sophomore release, "Fearless," was voted 2009's Album of the Year by the Academy of Country Music and has spent more weeks in the #1 position atop Billboard's Top 200 all-genre CD sales chart than any other album this decade. She's had gold and platinum albums in sixteen countries, and her career record sales now top 10 million albums worldwide.
Making her SNL debut, January Jones will host November 14. Jones currently stars in AMC's critically acclaimed Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award-winning series, "Mad Men." Her performance has earned her a 2009 Golden Globe nomination for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama." Jones is set to begin production on two back to back features first starring with Nicolas Cage in "Hungry Rabbit Jumps" and then with Liam Neeson in "Unknown White Male." Jones stars opposite Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Kenneth Branagh in the film "Pirate Radio," opening November 6.
Three-time Grammy award-winning recording artists, The Black Eyed Peas, will be making their second appearance on SNL. Their most recent album, "The E.N.D.," helped The Black Eyed Peas make music history, with the longest successive stay at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart with 26 consecutive weeks at #1. The single 'I Gotta Feeling' took the top slot for 14 weeks, while 'Boom Boom Pow' spent 12 weeks at #1. This is the longest consecutive stay for an artist in the Billboard chart's 51-year history.
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt hosts SNL for the first time November 21. He recently received rave reviews for his performance in the critically acclaimed film, "(500) Days of Summer," as well as for his directorial debut with the short film, "Sparks." Gordon-Levitt is currently working on Christopher Nolan's "Inception" opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and will next be seen starring opposite Lynn Collins in "Uncertainty" and opposite Natalie Portman and Rainn Wilson in "Hesher."
For the first time in almost a decade, the Dave Matthews Band will be taking the SNL stage. DMB recently completed a sold-out U.S. five-month tour. In the summer of 2009, the band released their first studio album in four years, "Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King," which debuted at # 1 on Billboard and went Platinum shortly thereafter - tying DMB as one of the only two musical groups to release five consecutive studio albums at #1.
"Saturday Night Live" is from SNL Studios in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels. Steve Higgins and Marci Klein are producers. Ken Aymong is supervising producer. Seth Meyers is head writer. Don Roy King directs.
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UPCOMING SHOWS: November 14 – January Jones/ Black Eyed Peas; November 21 – Joseph Gordon Levitt/ Dave Matthews Band
New York, NY – October 30, 2009 - "Saturday Night Live" returns in November with three straight shows, beginning November 7 with Pop & Country superstar Taylor Swift taking the stage at studio 8H as both host and musical guest.
In 2008, Swift sold more albums than any other recording artist in all genres of music and her singles top both the Pop and Country radio charts. Her sophomore release, "Fearless," was voted 2009's Album of the Year by the Academy of Country Music and has spent more weeks in the #1 position atop Billboard's Top 200 all-genre CD sales chart than any other album this decade. She's had gold and platinum albums in sixteen countries, and her career record sales now top 10 million albums worldwide.
Making her SNL debut, January Jones will host November 14. Jones currently stars in AMC's critically acclaimed Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award-winning series, "Mad Men." Her performance has earned her a 2009 Golden Globe nomination for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama." Jones is set to begin production on two back to back features first starring with Nicolas Cage in "Hungry Rabbit Jumps" and then with Liam Neeson in "Unknown White Male." Jones stars opposite Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Kenneth Branagh in the film "Pirate Radio," opening November 6.
Three-time Grammy award-winning recording artists, The Black Eyed Peas, will be making their second appearance on SNL. Their most recent album, "The E.N.D.," helped The Black Eyed Peas make music history, with the longest successive stay at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart with 26 consecutive weeks at #1. The single 'I Gotta Feeling' took the top slot for 14 weeks, while 'Boom Boom Pow' spent 12 weeks at #1. This is the longest consecutive stay for an artist in the Billboard chart's 51-year history.
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt hosts SNL for the first time November 21. He recently received rave reviews for his performance in the critically acclaimed film, "(500) Days of Summer," as well as for his directorial debut with the short film, "Sparks." Gordon-Levitt is currently working on Christopher Nolan's "Inception" opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and will next be seen starring opposite Lynn Collins in "Uncertainty" and opposite Natalie Portman and Rainn Wilson in "Hesher."
For the first time in almost a decade, the Dave Matthews Band will be taking the SNL stage. DMB recently completed a sold-out U.S. five-month tour. In the summer of 2009, the band released their first studio album in four years, "Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King," which debuted at # 1 on Billboard and went Platinum shortly thereafter - tying DMB as one of the only two musical groups to release five consecutive studio albums at #1.
"Saturday Night Live" is from SNL Studios in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels. Steve Higgins and Marci Klein are producers. Ken Aymong is supervising producer. Seth Meyers is head writer. Don Roy King directs.
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I mean, how many SNL viewers are gonna tune in and say "Who the hell is that?"?
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if they'll do a segment where she tells a guy that she's better for him than his current girlfriend.
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So, when can expect her usual blank stares. I bet the people who worked 20 years at SNL that never got on screen are cringing talking to fucking Swift.
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jugs
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the host being well-suited to host SNL. So we get Taylor Swift.
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Them boys is tasty.
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Last time Walken was on SNL he was hilarious, but in every single sketch you could tell he was staring at cue cards. He really didn't even bother to look where the other actors were. It actually added a little hilarity to it in a way.
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Walken has more talent in his left nut.
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Live, for an hour and a half. If there is one thing I need, it is more January Jones on my television set. My goodness she is sexy.
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not many people watching NBC, either...
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overprocessed cynical tripe. We've seen it at least a hundred thousand times before. If you are over 16 years old and listen to that you should be ashamed of yourself.
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People will get around to watching on dvd and punch themselves for not watching it sooner.
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They probably couldn't get Christina Hendricks on because she'd knock over too many props and accidentally render people unconscious when she turned around and smacked them with her gigantic breasts.
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Not since Clarke Peters as Lester Freamon on THE WIRE have I seen a character so brilliantly underplayed. She turned Don Draper into a quivering wreck a couple of weeks back without even straining her voice...
Can't wait to see how she interacts with Wiig, and maybe they'll even let Abby Elliot out of her basement cage for more than her usual three minutes. It could happen. -
Nov 07, 2009 7:21:51 AM CST
You know Kanye's gonna let you watch this week's SNL and all...
by voice o. reason
...But Beyonce's episode was one of the greatest of all time.
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Maybe, but January Jones is getting more widely known and this month is on the cover of a major magazine.
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I was hoping Tits McGee from Mad Men was hosting. That's her name right? Tits McGee?
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Jon Hamm was one of the best guest hosts ever on SNL. I don't think Betty Draper will even come close but maybe the enevitable Mad Men skit will be funny, maybe.
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is going to be on in some way (not sure if he is hosting or musical guest yet) in December
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Write a horrible sketch with Horatio Sanz, get high right before the broadcast, and giggle like two schoolgirls throughout the sketch. Both those two morons got more laughs when they unprofessionally broke character (on a near weekly basis) than they did for any joke actually in the script.
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Good thing she listened to Ashton Kutcher and quit acting. She is far more relevant than he is right now. Kutcher has gotten more attention in recent years for what he Twitters than anything he has done on screen.
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I am reminded why I quit watching SNL years and years ago. Now that is irrelevance.
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If she does the whole show in the nude.
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Hader is pretty funny
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Where's the Carl Ballantine Talkback!? Haven't you learned your lesson by never posting an Ed McMahon Talkback! Carl Ballantine was funny as hell and a pioneer in the art of Comedy/Magic! R.I.P. Old Friend!
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how much do they pay the audience to laff at that shite
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It's easy, over done, months late, and worn out, so SNL will be all over it
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that were left out of LOTR in The Hobbit, Taylor Swift will be Goldberry. My prediction.
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they should have Forte's Hamilton interrupt Swift at some point and do the Kanye thing.
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She's gonna start talking about how excited she is o be there etc, and someone will interrupt. They will probably have 4 or 5 people interrupt her in differnt ways before she announces herself as the musical guest. It's sad, and easy, and dumb, but I'd bet money that is exactly what happened. SNL is no longer interested in not doing the easy gag. She walked in on Monday and that was the first thing decided. Do the interruption bit for the monologue and leave it be te rest of the night. If on the intensely slim chance that isn't what they do, the digital short will be about interruptions. Those are the only two options SNL will come up with
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I'll probably watch that instead. Dated, yes...but 50x funnier than the current SNL.
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...address the whole Kanye issue in some way, but it'd be more interesting if they did a skit portraying Swift in a negative light (spoiled/vengeful) regarding the incident. As it is, those of you who guessed they'll have a bunch of people interrupt her during the opening monologue are probably correct.
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who could not see that coming? As usual, I'll pass...
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I'll tune in for Joseph Gordon-Levitt, he's talented. Surprising no on has acknowledged that yet.
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no one*
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He was basically relaying a truth about SNL, that it's futile to memorize your lines as they are changing until right before the show.
Also, I guess I was naive in guessing that Elisabeth Moss would be the next Mad Men star to host SNL, especially considering who she is married to.
And the SNL Broadway bit wad hilarious, but it's definitely funnier if you're a part of that world. I do wish they would have let NPH say more than just "Rent," as he was in it and could have probably come up with better jokes. -
Just when the audience thinks you've ignored it, that's when you hit them with it.
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It's sad, maybe, or at least it's telling that Family Guy is about a million times more relevant than SNL.
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please explain how the broadway bit is the least bit funny the vast majority of americans could give two shits about what happens to broadway the majority of new yorkers dont give a shit about what happens to broadway, as most cant afford any of those overpriced shows
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suck on that bitches.
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Best Mad Men line ever.
Hamm was awesome. The commercial for "Don Draper's guide to picking up women" was awesome.
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....here's to Gruber.
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After "What's Up With That" a couple of weeks back, I noticed that Kenan is flat-out hilarious when he plays over-the-hill, utterly clueless black guys trapped in their own world (the "Sex Advice Video Guy" is another one)...NEVER when he plays young, hip, "African-Americans".
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she thought it a good idea to associate with the kind of douche bag that finds it funny to paint a swastika on his shirt. Now I'm hoping Kanye interrupts every single sketch. What can I say, I'm petty like that.
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It's good luck, unless you're a nazi...
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Since no one's mentioned it, what do you think the chances are that they get Kanye to introduce her as the musical guest?
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I know from an inside source. I shouldn't say anything, but what the hell. I guess Kanye West is trying to redeem himself in the eyes of the public. By making lite of the Tayloryonce incident.
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Seems like a thing theyd do.
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a talented actor on SNL for a change. But before the years up they better, BETTER, have Robert Downey Jr host. Not only an alum, but he would tear up that stage and ace every sketch.
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a few years back on SNL? So of course enough time has passed for him to parody his own ridiculous ass.
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I always read about it, but I don't know what it is.
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All sentences that contain the phrase "January Jones" should begin with "January Jones' breast".
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are HUGE for her body-type.
Makes for a dick-breakingly awesome figure now, but in 20 years? Thems bastids will be saggy as all hell. Pull them out while you still have the chance!!! -
thus, bastardizing the great January Jones' name (and breasts).
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so you might not be interested, lockes.
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Yeah, I know, Mad Men is one of those stuffy, sit around and talk shows that are perfect for people that don't think too much.
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I thought he was pretty funny when he was in SNL, but I just can't watch him interview people. I start feeling embarrassed for his guests as he interrupts them, I have yet to sit through an entire interview he's had with anyone. I know it's not just me.
So, two of the hottest women in the industry, hosting back to back? Sounds like a ratings success to me.
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Are you kidding? You, who seem to have an opinion on everything, don't even know what Mad Men is? Well then it must suck! Right? That's how it works, right? Come on, locke, we rely on your guidance. Don't let ignorance stand in your way of telling us whether or not it's any good; after all, it never has before.
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You are absolutely right about Fallon and Horatio.... they never ever completed a sketch without breaking character and laughing. A case of being bad at your job being why you are good at your job.
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Of course he knows what Mad Men is. In fact, he often trolls the Mad Men talkback as one of the sole idiots who destroy the intelligent conversation there. I'm sorry any of you believed he really didn't know. He got you again. That pathetic motherfucker.
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Yeah... I kind of figured he was trolling for attention. Still, I didn't want to wait for a response (to the opening "Are you kidding?") to proceeed with my rant.
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Lockes is a lonely young man with few to no friends, most likely suffering from Asberger's Syndrome. He has a wounded spirit (like a broken leg) resulting either from years of bullying, childhood abuse, family trauma, or a combination of the three. He is angry at the world, yet he wants nothing more than to be a part of the group, but his attempts are feeble at best because he knows from experience that no matter how hard he tries, he will be rejected. His family life is dysfunctional, yet he hopes that despite this, he might be able to achieve something and eventually have peace and resolve within his family....much like the skywalker family. He hopes one day his broken spirit may be healed like a pair of broken wings so that he may let his spirit soar...instead of wallowing in depression and self-loathing.
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So what, that's what these talkbacks are for. I am not saying that I agree with most of his opinions but they are his. I have noticed alot of people get angry over his comments and therefor he gets plenty of attention. I think that is what he really thrives off of. As they say "bad publicity is better than no publicity"
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Funny how you all say I am a sad loser, and unhappy with everything. You fucking nimrods always over analize everything and are pretty much wrong about everything. Tell me another reason why TDK sucked, asshole.
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I liked The Dark Knight. Grouping all your enemies together in black and white groups is characteristic of borderline personality disorder. Are you a cutter, lockes?
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I think he meant "The Durango Kid". You know the 1940 western starring Charles Starrett. And yes, it wasn't very good but I wouldn't go as far as saying it sucked.
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So why should this conversation continue? It's funny for the millions of us who care about one of the purest American art forms, whether or not you are aware of us. Go laugh at what you like.
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C'mon, give us something cutting edge and different instead of faded hip hop acts, teeny boppers and a trannie trying to sit at a piano while costumed as the planet Saturn!
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Now that man was a hell of an actor.
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A truly lame slate of musical acts so far (and upcoming) this year, especially compared to the excellent bookings of last year. Fleet Foxes, TV on the Radio, Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, etc.
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Those tits. Those marvelous, massive tits.
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I'ld like to eat January Jones' AssBurger.
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yeah I thank SNL for getting me into Phoenix last season. However, now that I'm hearing them on car commercials it's a bit sad. Great album though.
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Kenan is actually doing an accurate vocal impression of someone. O_o
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3...2...1...
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Ha ha...I admit, I lol'd.
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Ok... my hopes are raised for tonight.
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...the last SNL had.
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That i don't even remember the last SNL?
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Wow.
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Taylor's Kate is good. Wiig's Hassleback is pretty good.
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Fuck Lorne.
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That was a completely random closing to a sketch.
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I miss her so.
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because Wiig and Hader are so good.
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I thought Don Pardo retired. Are they doing an impression or did they get him back for the season?
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maybe he should do all band introductions.
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I'd do her.
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Taylor or the Backup singer? Cuz... I've got dibs on the other?
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Howie Mandell
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"Firelight". Taylor Swift certainly has down the Kristen Stewart acting style (ie, moving her hair behind her ear). Of course I always love anything SNL does with Frankenstein because it reminds me of Phil Hartman.
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She seems pretty comfortable acting. Has she done it before? I have no idea.
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The weird teeth, long skinny limbs, and mosquito breasts work for me. Although it would probably be like fucking a daddy long legs spider. Do you think she's a virgin? Totally shaved? Dorito chip? Landing strip? Or crazy bush?
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My answer to your question is: "yes"
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BEST ARMISEN CHARACTER EVER.
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"you can't print that!"
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You can take them both. I'm back on Abby Elliot.
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And yes, those commercials are fucking awful, well not the Willie Nelson ones, but still...
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Thrill has Abby, Sherm's taking the backup singer, and I got Taylor?
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Wonder if Seth and Amy know Mike "The Miz" Mizanin lifted this bit.
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Thoughts?
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Did the Packers just score a TD?
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But not for long. Someone will see to that.
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That sketch was fail. Just don't like that character, and I enjoy most of Wiig's stuff
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the mac vs. pc commercials are funnier than snl skits. Wha happened?
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reminds me of watching him in a white suit with a cane slow jamming, "I'm gonna explore Uranus" on SNL a few weeks back. XD
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was the funniest sketch this year
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I shouldn't. But the stolen stories...the anal jokes...it's all gold.
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Is full of win.
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These sketches are gold. How fast were you going Kirk Russell?
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Nov 07, 2009 11:39:02 PM CST
"Just don't like that character, and I enjoy most of Wiig's stuf
by big jim
Same here. I'll laugh at one or two things during, but for the most part sit there wondering how she keeps getting it on the air.
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Really? I think I've enjoyed it more than any episode.
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I can't believe they let that on the air. Might as well let them say fuck, for fucks sake.
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"No more babies, no more babies, no more babies. Face" 121 jizzawatts.......shit man.
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ok, actually laughed at that...
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Came out of nowhere and killed.
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This was a very good episode.
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Her horrible prison thug character, complete with goatee, was so anti-Swift it was hilarious! I actually like her after watching this SNL. :)
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Well, I meant in the context of anal sex, I guess. Aww shit, I admit it, I just forgot "jizz in my pants"
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BWAK! BWAK! BWAK! BWAK! BWAK! BWAK!
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Was it just my feed, or did the show come back the same for everyone? An unlit stage and then someone yells "it's Taylor Swift"?
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She's been tremendous. You'd have to be a massive douchebag to disagree.
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Agreed. When the host is enthusiastic about trying to do their best, it really goes a long way to making even the weakest of sketches enjoyable in some way.
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She is a great host! Way to go Swifty!
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Would say that someone is a douchbag if they dissagree with a fucking opinion. Assmunch. She was a good host but the writting still blows. All in all, I would rate it a 6/10. Not bad considering a 10/10 is impossible
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I think this one has been OK, no outstanding highs but nothing jaw-dropppingly bad, either. Gerard Butler's slow funky jam is still the season's high point.
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In the same league as other excellent hosts like Walken, Baldwin, Goodman, Timberlake...
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...featured a bra-less Swift. Time to rewind those DVRs.
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What the FUCK?! How is this the best SNL episode of the year?!?!
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My thoughts exactly.
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this is hitting me in the sweet spot.
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Keenan was actually pretty good tonight. Weird.
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"Thrillhouse's Taint" for 1000, Alex.
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these cold talkbackers.
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He's had two of the best sketches this year. "What's up with that?" and the sex positions instructional tape.
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Nov 08, 2009 12:08:34 AM CST
Taylor Swift was really good, but the show was mostly dull.
by flim springfield
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That was an absolutely awesome analysis of the character John Locke, played by expert character actor Terry O'Quinn. It works especially well since thats where our Locke gets his handle from.
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Swift was a good host. Very surprising.
Show had bad writing as usual.
So why was it decent?
Because if the host is good they don't rely on tired old sketches.
And they don't need to overuse Wiig.
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Scared Straight? Penelope? We're lucky they didn't throw a Deephouse Dish in there. Ooh-wee.
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Honestly, 90% of the time, Keenan is the death of a sketch. The SNL writers don't know, nor have they fully ever, really knew how to write for their black cast members. Keenan has been wasted pretty much in the same fashion as Garret Morris, who was horribly underutilized during his run.
The Eddie Murphys & Tim Meadows' are the exceptions. For every one of them, you get a Ellen Cleghorne or Jerry Minor.
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...they do overuse Wiig, just like they overused Amy Poehler when a big name was on.
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is just a sign that they need to cultivate some decent characters for the new gals. Lately, most of the great non-Wiig sketches with strong female characters have been left to the female hosts. The Wayne's world ripoff sketch in the season opener might have turned into a decent regular had the f-bomb not been dropped. I don't think that we'll be seeing that character til the end of the season, if ever again.
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In what has been a TERRIBLE season so far, I thought this was maybe the best SNL of the year. Surprising, because I had low expectations for Taylor Swift. Nice job by her. This is not to say it was a stellar stuff, but compared to the dreck they've produced in past several weeks, it was a solid effort. I didn't feel annoyed and frustrated at the end like I have every other episode this year.
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...they failed horribly. That sketch alone was proof that Lorne made a huge mistake in firing Watkins in favor of Slate.
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...where the only purpose is to see how many times they can cram "frick" into a three minute span turned into something decent?
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it could've been tooled into something unique. Yeah. I do think that Slate was a bad pickup. Watkins was superior in every way. Slate's characters feel lifeless. I just couldn't stand her Barbara Walters. It was a solid impression, but comically lifeless. I've seen great comics spin gold out of the worst material so I can't lay it all on the writers either. It's all Slate. She's comedy buzzkill so far.
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Love her, loved her music, loved her in the sketches. I thought the show itself hilarious, as I did the Bulter episode (with Hader as the alien sportscaster) that preceded it.
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Again, an area where they could retool. The character, being a lame cliche of a subculture could have taken its own life, beyond the whole frick-a-fuck & uninspired WW ripoff stuff.
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I thought it was the other one.
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Thought it was. Could be.... probably... wrong. =) Goes to show you how little of an impression they've made so far. Now Abby... I wish they'd get her into more sketches. They need to do something about getting the female players into the game soon because Wiig's been there a while. With Poehler 99% gone, there's a big void in quality, non-Wiig, recurring female characters.
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Loved her music? What kind of child are you? Have you lived so base a life that lyrics that fucking contrived actually speak to you? I pity you.
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really pay attention to and.... that's okay. Swift's stuff sounds nice musically, even if the lyrics are clown shoes. It's total tweener stuff, but there's an audience for that. Not my ball of wax, but not totally offensive to the ears either.
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I love me some Pickler.
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I'll have to take your word on that because I don't watch the show...so I was referring purely to our lockes...though I shudder slightly to refer to him as "ours", like he's the retarded progeny of a puddle of talkbacker jizz. Let's put him up for adoption.
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Make some lame ass movie and think she is famous to get her annoying ass off the show. Hopefully this will be better then 300 guy. I did however get Band Rock or whatever, need to unlock the Taylor Swift character.
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In probably 2-3 years. Well wait the Rocks was pretty good.
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Cause we inspired it.
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...but the rest of the show is pretty bad so far. I wouldn't mind Kristin Wiig being in every sketch, but I can't remember the last time she was actually funny in a sketch. And, oh great, they brought back Amy Poehler to suck the funny out of Weekend Update again.
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well its not like anyone watches Mad Men.
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why does AICN cover it????????? its sucks!!!!! cover SGU instead.
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Kinda shocked like most of the rest of you that it was actually pretty good. Can't be low expectations, because you can't go much lower than mine have been with other hosts as well. Not the best, but not the train wreck as expected. Barely even milked the Kayne thing. But sorry, while she is cute and funny, girl doesn't have the greatest voice. Kinda like (early) Britney or Miley, cute(-ish), passable singing, bubblegum lyrics. Doesn't pretend to be much else, but as someone who has a good ear for these things, listen to her warbling when not being "backed up", like when she was trying to hit those high notes in the monologue or the Annie thing. Chalk some of it up to nerves, and she's no Ashlee Simpson, but still... not so great.
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Sure, she is bright and pink, but there really is not much there. Yeah, it is knew sweet, but it really is not candy, is it?
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Who'd a thunk that she can outhost everyone else this season? Definitely an okay show. This actually had more hits than misses for the sketches, and that's saying something for SNL. I'd definitely like to see more Jason Sudeikis as Pig Vomit... er... Glenn Beck. And more Bobby Moynihan as Pig Vomit II (Karl Rove). And, even though I'm not a fan of her music, Swift has a nice voice and more charisma in one eyelash than the whole of Megan Fox. And, while I dig the hell out of Kristen Stewart, Swift's impression of her was spot on. Stewart just has severely limited range as an actress. Maybe it's just the material she's being given, but I don't think so.
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Granted I have only seen one other and fell asleep around 12:15-12:30, but Taylor Swift is the best guest host in a long time. Her monologue although uneven, was the funniest monologue I have seen in years. Swift is an example of a guest host that isn't so concerned about their image and looked to allow the writers make fun of her and push her more. The best hosts leave their egos at the door and she seemed to do that.
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Sally Struthers would be asking me to send her money. Jeez, she's skinny.
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Meaning she's slams more then a screen door in a Hurricane. Also she sports a bald monkey.Now that the important info has been covered Swift wasn't half bad, at all, as host. As music guest she wasn't all that bad either, not really my cup of tea, but better then the regular shit on SNL week after week.
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take much to reach it, but I found the show to be mildly amusing and not awful. Swift was a surprise in her ability to make a sketch work. The weekend update was pretty good too. The scared straight skit was pretty good; even they found it amusing and couldn't keep a straight face at the end of it.
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WHY DO THEY KEEP DOING THE FRED ARMISEN NICHOLAS FEHN POLITICAL COMEDIAN CHARACTER???
I really like Armisen, and I thought that bit was funny the first time I saw it, but they've done that bit SO MANY TIMES, and it NEVER CHANGES. There's no variation from one appearance to the next; there's never any new spin on it. There isn't even any writing involved--it's just a silly riff that Armisen can do with a newspaper. SNL has always over-used recurring characters, but at least the other ones can be put in slightly different settings or whatever each time they show up.
Anyway, it was a B- episode, which probably makes it the best of the season. Nothing outrageously good, nothing outrageously bad. God help me, after all this time, Keenan is actually growing on me. -
I also like her monologue song and the Twilight spoof.
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What image? She's pretty average as singers, go, and I rarely see her wearing weird outfits like Lady Gaga or some weird ass like that.
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To say that SNL has set the bar low in the last decade is like saying Paris Hilton has slept with a few guys in her life.
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He'll blow Taylor Swift's ass out of the water.
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Or Perez Hilton for that matter.
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Also played 'Saffron' on 2 episodes of FIREFLY.'Our Mrs. Reynolds''Trash'
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I'm still chuckling at Abby's "skatting" McLachlan imitation ("There's nothing wrong with this dog...except he was molested by THIS dog! DIDLE-IDLE-DIDLE-DEE-DEE!") and Hader's way-too-into-it Eddie Vedder selling out for a stupid CG bunny movie ("Hey, hey, hey, hey! HEY-A HEY-A HEY-A HEY-A HEY-A HEY!!!"). Even Moynihan and Kenan scored with the "Swine Fever!" and "88 dudes an hour!" bits.
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Only liked Love Story, I didn't know about You Belong With Me and the coo' video until last night. Most of her skits were funny, I loved the scared str8 thing. 1.21 jizawats, haha! Even the one with braces she did could have been a dud but ended up good. I thought this episode only had her as host AND musical guest because of the vma's but even if it was it was a pleasant surprise.
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jesus christ, spell a guy's name right
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Appreciate your shoutout to Clarke Peters for his portrayal of Lester Freamon on The Wire. Some of the finest, and most unjustly ignored, acting in any series ever!
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