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Kristen Wiig’s Gilly To Host Thursday’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE Primetime Special With Steve Martin & Alec Baldwin!!
I am – Hercules!!
Talkback hatred for SNL’s hilarious Gilly sketches has not discouraged NBC from giving the character her own primetime Christmas clip special.
The special will also feature new material starring Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, who are linked with each other in at least three other ways:
* They are the two most frequent SNL hosts in the history of the series and have appeared together in sketches depicting their rivalry;
* They co-star in Nancy Meyers’ big-screen Christmas Day release “It’s Complicated”; and
* They co-host the next Oscars together.
Look! Press release!
SNL GETS INTO THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT WITH “SNL PRESENTS: A VERY GILLY CHRISTMAS” A TWO-HOUR PRIMETIME SPECIAL ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 FROM 8PM-10PM ET ON NBC
NEW YORK – December 8, 2009 – SNL premieres a new holiday compilation, "SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas" on Thursday, December 17 from 8:00pm – 10:00pmET. This is SNL's first holiday special since 2002.
The two-hour special will include brand-new material with Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, the infamous troublemaker "Gilly" (played by Kristen Wiig), and others. The special will also feature favorite holiday-themed sketches from SNL's 35-year history.
SNL holiday favorite sketches will include "NPR's Delicious Dish and the Schweddy Balls" with Alec Baldwin, "A Holiday Wish" with Steve Martin, alongside newer fare like Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg's "D**k in a Box."
"Saturday Night Live" is from SNL Studios in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels. Steve Higgins produces.
“Twilight” star Taylor Lautner hosts tonight with musical guest Bon Jovi.
James Franco hosts next week’s last new SNL of the decade with musical guest Muse.
My favorite sketches from last week:
11:30 p.m. Saturday. NBC.
8 p.m. Thursday. NBC.
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And Gilly is about the least funny thing SNL has ever done
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AICN TB'ers should program NBC, dammit! Actually, the network couldn't do much worse. For the record, Gilly is kind of funny. But SNL is riding Wiig too much. Spread the wealth, Lorne.
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Best show of the season last week. Easily.
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That's one of Wiig's best characters.
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Huh. No one thinks it's going to come off anti-climatic or anything? Huh.
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Young Blonde Chicks are saving SNL!!! Somebody get Kellie Pickler, Kirsten Dunst, and Elisha Cuthbert on the phone! STAT!
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What?
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I didn't realize Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin were going to be in a film together when I first heard that...but I saw the trailer...it's that Meryl Streep movie. Tha fuck? Only a matter of time before it's Will Ferrell and Jack Black hosting.
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I like Gilly. Wiig rules! Bring on MACGRUBER!
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I asked exactly the same question as you did. the answer I got was that this was noting new, chakroborty. and the talkbacker who responded said that he had problem with it.
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...than the SNL special.
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Glad to see someone else liked that skit. Just crazy and surreal enough to make you go "what?!" Give whoever wrote that more weed and a raise. Hate Taylor Lautner on principle of him being younger than me, being in better shape and hosting SNL at 17. Martin/Baldwin special could be cool. Gilly never felt like that great of a character to carry a whole ep. McGruber maybe
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it's name will echo in the halls of the universe for all time. More sketches like that is what the show needs
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Her standing there with a stupid look saying "what?" after something happens off camera and someone else yells her name a half dozen times....thats hysterical? That should be made into a three and a half hour Avatar like epic. Damn Herc, doesn't take much to crack your shit up does it? I'm no SNL hater by any stretch and I think Wiig has funny sketches but that shits the opposite of funny.
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This sketch I sure don't get. I switch it off every time. I liked Wiig early on, but all her characters are now based on a silly voice and repetition.
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Gilly...... What? Giiiiillyyyy... Sorry. Hah!
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You'd think that a movie with Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, and Alec Baldwin would be good, or at least somewhat funny, but nope. Easily one of the worst films I've ever seen. I'm just glad I didn't pay to see it.
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good stuff.
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Sharkboy/Lavagirl "all grown up" sketch tonight.....that would be aces....and what I'd expect from SNL.
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And... I don't even want to know now.
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What I want from tonights episode.
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Love Wiig. Hate Gilly. Worst sketch ever. Makes "goatboy" look like Hamlet.
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It is mid tier SNL. It is not the worst or best. It does drag a joke out a little longer than it should, by it is funny enough to giggle at, which is a top 50 percentile of any SNL episode -- including the sacred 70s epis.
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not funny at all.
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waited a week and nothing...very sad
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or will you revert to your usual ways and give us a combo of reality crap, idiotic cartoons and the wekly update on the awful SyFy project news?
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It follows the pattern of taking the least funny SNL sketch concept, beating it completely into the ground and then releasing it as a bigger-budget movie that earns $15 million in box office.
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She's like a bad Molly Shannon. Too bad non of the other girls are funny.
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Wow. This begs a question: is there a profession of enthusiasm so misguided that it actually invalidates all of someone's opinions? I mean if Herc thinks Gilly is "hilarious" can we have any trust in anything he says? Over on slashdot there was a thread about the Star Wars Holiday Special and some folks claimed to enjoy unironically. What does this mean about them as human beings?
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SNL will get monster ratings tonight. I don't understand why people find Gilly funny but then again humor is subjective so laugh away.
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Thats the Best skit, Potato chip good stuff too! Gilly....yeah not so much.
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But.... that implies that Molly Shannon was good.
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Or it could be too easy a target for them. Fingers crossed.
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I have to say, I really, really fucking loathe it now. I can't stand Seth Myers and I think that him and some sort of weird, nepotistic-like tendencies on the show are what's to blame for how bad it is now. Especially concerning Wiig... she's like Amy Poehler... used to be in EVERY FUCKING SKIT. Why? Cause Tina Fey thinks she's funny and they're cool with each other... doesn't matter who else is talented and what the fuck the audience might want. It's like high school. I KNOW the show has always had ups and downs, but I think something else entirely has been working on it now since the latter part of the Tina Fey era.<p>Can you imagine if Eddie Murphy were starting out on SNL today? He'd get no airtime. He'd come onto weekend update as Gumby and that arrogant prick Myers would act like, "Ok, I let you on, you're funny, but not THAT funny... move along while I continue my limelight spot here." No wonder somebody like Chappelle needed his own show. The reason What Up Wit Dat? is so great and stands out is because it doesn't rely on Wiig's characters which are ALLLL the fucking same, dick jokes, vagina jokes, fart jokes, gay jokes, and/or drug jokes. That's ALL of the goddamn humor on that show now with very few exceptions. Remember when you'd get shit like Cowbell? The Thing that Wouldn't Leave? Buckwheat gets shot? When's the last time they had something like that? NONE of it relies on fucking toilet/sex humor. Eddie Murphy hardly ever (I'm actually thinking never) relied on that kind of crutch on the show, with the exception of Velvet Jones, and that was again more about the character and the way he delivered his lines. Let's face it, this generation of upcoming comics/comedy writers can't do anything else. There aren't really anymore movies like the The Burbs, National Lampoon's Vacation, Trading Places, Ghostbusters, etc., with the exception of Tropic Thunder. If there are writers out there that CAN do something else, where the fuck are they? They obviously can't get ahead.
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But Wiig is talented. She has a neurotic intensity and a commitment to her characters, but her best work is when she's not doing her catalog of stock parts.
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Enjoy everything about him. This season hasn't been great, but last season was. Hope he stays in charge for a long time.
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Dec. 12, 2009, 3:40 p.m. CST
I don't hate Gilly, but I can't imagine anyone finding her funny
by smackfu
I do however slightly enjoy the sketches because they are absolutely demented and disturbing
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I could watch her being strange all day long and never get bored.
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But so are many of the other cast members. How about giving them some air time. Also, Wiig is going towards the same direction Fey and Poehler headed which is overexposure. Seeing the same characters each week kind of gets old.
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Last night I watched the making of Animal House on the history channel followed by Kentucky Fried Movie. Makes this talkback and the state of comedy film/tv in general even more depressing.
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When he's currently starring on 30 Rock, and it's unlikely to be cancelled anytime soon.
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probably a country thing .. at least other clips say 'not available in your location' ... but seriously ... they pull any SNL off youtube, which is vastly superior in terms of search engine ... and then put it in their crap format which can only be viewed by the people who get it free on TV anyways ... makes no sense .. do they really think they can sell the rights to the show in denmark, dubai or darnassus ???
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Okay, that is compelling and amusing. Enjoyed it.
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but that's SNL in general, great cast/terrible writing.
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Agreed 100%. NBC execs have theirs heads up their asses. They're politically obsessed and self important to the point of insanity. <P> NBS is A THOUSAND TIMES WORSE than Fox News when it comes to brainwashing people on topics they have no actual knowledge of beyond how they can misconstrue current events and are heavily contributing to the rabid idiocy that has infected anyone under 40. They're simply interested in ripping people off and think they can wade through this whole internet thing with the same blind ignorance that fuels their political agenda.
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I mean, god damn- has there been a worse character in all of SNL this side of Carol? She. Is. Not. Funny. It's like they came up with a character that has no joke. Yes, Keenan gets one decent line in each skit- but it has nothing to do with the Gilly character. it's just as excuse for Forte to say "Gilly..." over and over into annoyance. AND THEY GAVE HER A STARRING ROLE IN A SPECIAL? Are they fucking nuts?
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Stuff like that brings down this cast
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Dec. 12, 2009, 7:27 p.m. CST
As an aside- I do like Wiig, I just hate that character.
by TheSecondQuest
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I'm not one to jump on the "I'm offended" bandwagon, but to me Gilly seems like it's poking fun at the mentally disabled.... kinda lowest common denominator stuff. That's just me.
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You will never pee in the absence of gravity!<P>The chips sketch is one of the all time bests, anyone who didn't laugh at that is either far more pretentious then they will admit or severly retarded
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Canteen boy, Waynes World, Buckwheat, Samauri, Chris Farley Show, Ed Grimley, Sean Connery on Jeopardy, Delta Delta Delta, and just about every successful skit on SNL. Hey, even broader, Anchorman, Waterboy, Billy Madison, Animal House, Blues Brothers, Waynes World again, and many more. Yes stupid is funny. Deal with it.
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Gilly might be up there. But, for me, nothing beat Poehler's one-legged farter. <p> Closely followed by the awful Molly Shannon's "I'm 50! FIFTY YEARS OLD!"
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especially the death of buckwheat, which was a brilliant take on the whole death of lenon...which itself was totally overdone
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just like Schindler's List, Requiem for a Dream and The Road are funny.
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Is Will Forte deepening his voice and saying GIIIIIILLLLLLLLLYYYYYY...
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Dec. 12, 2009, 9:20 p.m. CST
Will Forte's "Giiiiiilllly." is the only amusing part of this
by JKrow21
That's it.
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Pay atttention to posts before you rebuttal.
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I thought that was playing off the Reagan shooting
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Dec. 12, 2009, 10:14 p.m. CST
Gilly works if you imagine the skit as a 1940s cartoon.
by Flim Springfield
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The problem here is, most of the skits you mention actually involve characters, not just repetitive faces/voices. Sure, Wayne's World I suppose partly was popular for the stupidity. But Wayne and Garth were written as characters who had various lines of dialogue. It parodied a certain type of slacker / metal fan / teenager. Gilly is just, Christ, I dunno what it's even about.
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You're sort of on to it, right there. Gilly is about a 3-step joke that escalates through the sketch and adds nothing more. It's the same thing, every time. <p> Wayne and Garth used repetitive catch phrases and familiar mannerisms, but touched upon unique current events with every single one of their appearances. That's the mark of a great character.
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Fuck man...if all it takes is a funny accent to make you guys giggle, you can probably watch coverage of the Copenhagen climate talks on CSPAN...sidesplitting shit, I'm sure...
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The accents were ridiculous and unnecessary, the stakes were so hilariously petty, the gross-out moment was a great money-shot, and the whole thing, despite being the stupidest concept all year, was performed with such conviction.
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....do you guys see a white speck? It blinks occasionally. I saw it last week during the show as well. I would assume it was a dead pixel on my tv, but it's on of and on during SNL. Could it be on their end, or my local affiliate?
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The average SNL viewer can not tell Jenny Slate and Nasim apart mid-sketch.
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Dec. 12, 2009, 10:36 p.m. CST
I made sure the sink is all nice and full of dishes, too...
by BurnHollywood
...Gotta do something while the inevitable, tortuous "John Bovi" skit turns up. Cleaning my toilet is actually funner than that bullshit, but it's looking pretty sharp for now...<p> Not the biggest Will Forte fan here, no...
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I thought they were the same girl all season.
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Except when she does Barbara Walters.
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It felt like an "all-company meeting skit" version of Monty Python, but I'll leave it at that and move on...
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This mono reminds me of Mcaully Culkin's--very paper.
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Doug Jones?
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That was decently entertaining. I like letting the hosts show off some physical talent - like with JGL and his backflips.
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i was really hoping he would miss that baton thing and take out one of the band members, it was funny when he missed the roundhouse kick not once but twice<P>but i will admit he's still soooo dreamy OMG!
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Donald Duck as the Oregon mascot is the only Disney character to be use by an NCAA school.
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All he's doing is be extreme and they never go to the fireworks factory. "Quiet, you're missing all the jokes!"
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Before yours was up about the new chicks
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looks so tedious.
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Dec. 12, 2009, 10:45 p.m. CST
Also: why is Herc an antgaonistic prick towards his audience?
by Tall_Boy66
Opens with "Talkback hatred towards the hilarious-" which A) calls us ineffectual losers and B) restates how his opinion, and NBC's implied approval of his label of "hilarious", is paramount? I don't get it. How can someone call their audience unfunny dipshits on, like, a weekly basis?
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weak so far!
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Also, at least we knew what the concept of this sketch was the moment that Wiig opened her mouth.
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Casual SNL watchers actually CALL Kristin Wiig "Gilly", even when she isn't doing a Gilly sketch.
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Wiig acting like she's gonna pee is funny? Cause if someone could explain it to me, that would be great.
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at least she had a great rack! Whatever happed to her anyway?
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They're clearly past their bedtime.
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Ha. Maybe 20 years ago. Getting up to take a shit.
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Apparently she demanded a large junk of AICN's profits, when Harry said no, she posted a video bashing him sor sexual harrasement. Harry pulled the video and replaced it with a post saying AICN had decided to drop the script girl statements. It was pretty interesting stuff, i can't say i miss her posts, but i do miss her tits
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writing songs for pickup truck commercials.
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well that solves the mystery of Script Girl and her missing boobies. My next question, what have you done with Jettl 1-92????
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It's such a great voice and these stereotypes are just not utilized enough.
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the 93rd model is the pinnacle of perfection, my CPU is a neural net processor... a learning computer
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This Tayler Lautner guy is surprisingly easy to jack off to<P>Am I the only one who finds this?
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Don't spooge on your major Hollywood Blockbuster script re-writes.
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the new girl just read Bill Hader's lines, right?
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wow, what a dumb bitch
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Also, Abby is adorable in this sketch.
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I would do anything to be the frozen yogurt right now.
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Oh fuck - MUST. SEE. TV.
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are we supposed to think he is straight?
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Are they really saving that for last sketch - or are we just not getting any? Did they really pass this up? Could SNL really have shown this constraint?
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He's banging Taylor Swift, so, yeah. He kinda reminds me, in a creepy way, of early Tom Cruise.
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...they're required to play Dead or Alive.
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Does this guy really take this shit seriously? This is the most flaccid rock I've ever heard.
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will make great background music for a nascar montage
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WHO APPROVED THIS SHIT??? FIRE THIS BITCH. BRING BACK WATKINS!!!
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...THE FEW RECURRING GEMS YOU GOT GOING ON SLATE???
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recycled lame
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SNL should hire the writers of 30 Rock. Because the show about "SNL" is about 1,000 times better written than this pile of dung.
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too soon?
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Anyone else catch that? That's Live TV Fuck Up #2. Bring back Michaela, god damn it.
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Dec. 13, 2009, midnight CST
That show was almost as bad as Jon Bovi's keyboardist's hair.
by Shermdawg
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Shit, now I'm getting them mixed up.
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Show was almost as bad as David Bryan's pubic hair.
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There was a shitload of Abby Elliot tonight, and that's never a bad thing. Luckily, my girlfriend is a dead ringer for her, so I'll barely even have to pretend she's someone else tonight.
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>my girlfriend is a dead ringer for her <P> O_o You're one lucky sumbitch. Pics or it didn't happen.
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I love Abby Elliot but I wish they'd let her do something besides being the "nice girl". Let the funny Abby loose! Repeat after me... Let the funny Abby loose!
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I echo most sentiments here. Love the actress and most of her characters. Severely dislike Gilly. Its the dumbest one and the character that least displays her talent.
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Are we going to get a Dexter tb tonight?
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don't listen to the troll whose gimmick has worn out quicker than MCMXVII. Script Girl has some office job in Hollywood now and her employers find the videos creepy. Otherwise, you'd see she was still posting videos on YouTube and not just here. Go ahead, look through the history here and see if you can find the post of Harry explaining Script Girl's absence. You can't, because it never existed.
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Like the rest of us.
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that he's just making it up. Scriptgirl had no power to post videos here on her own. She was never a contributor to this site. She made videos for Youtube; it was Harry who put her on here. As said above, the only reason she's absent from AICN is she is no longer posting on Youtube.
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First one in weeks, but this Taylor kid...I honestly was hoping he would pull it off....but he couldn't. He just isn't funny. He tried entirely too hard, oversold all his jokes, and killed most of the funny in the skits. Very disappointed this week. An unfortunate step in the wrong direction after a stellar few episodes in a row. Oh well..he's too new I think, not enough experience. Seems like a nice kid though
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When they announced the hosts for the Oscars I do remember replying to someone asking if they did that sort of thing. I don't recall it ever being done with hosts, but they do it all the time with presenters. They don't even disguise it: "And now, the stars of the upcoming piece of crap generic paint by numbers wholly unoriginal heavily advertised yet buried in March Rom-Com, Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz".<p>It's one of my Oscar peeves. They do so much crap to try and keep the show tight and on time yet they continue to let actors come out and spend 3 minutes apiece engaging, poorly, in banter as they read some lame "jokes" off cue cards. Here's a thought, cut that crap and let the behind the scenes winner take an extra 5 or 10 seconds to have his one moment in the spotlight to finish thanking everyone who's helped him over his 30 year career to get where he is.
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Dec. 13, 2009, 9:49 a.m. CST
That was Nuno Bettencourt from Extreme playing guitar
by Stuntcock Mike
with Rhianna last week. <p> Odd fucking world. <p> A world that requires Vagisil. <p> When burning lingers, put some cream on those fingers.
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Either Bon Jovi is a dick or the writers are dumbasses. I tuned in JUST for Jon Bovi. F-U.
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And the writers are dumb-asses.<P>It's not an either-or world.
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Now he's up there with Jason, Bill, Bobby, and Will. More Abby was good. I was dying during the Middle School Choir sketch cause of Sandberg, but the one with Keenen as the Love Man had me rolling. Also Reba was in the crowd, lololol The PGA Tour announcements were pretty good. But no Digital Short and no Jon Bovi made me wonder. Maybe Jon Bovi will be on next week wondering why they didn't get to be the musical guests on SNL.
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How could they not do a Jon Bovi skit when Bon Jovi is on? I mean, typically I don't even find those segments all that funny, but it could have been actually really funny if the real Bon Jovi had come out and spoofed himself a bit. He must be too cool or something. I find it hard to believe they didn't at least ask him.
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"This is GAY!!!"<p> Holy crap, everyone was perfect in that sketch, especially Samberg as the justifiably pissed dude in the "audience" and Forte as the clueless principal who kept making things worse for the "Sparkle Players".<p> Good ep...the twink host did a good job, Kenan's WAY funnier than last season and they finally let Abby out of her box in the basement.
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I loved how much he enjoyed Keenan's traditional performance of O Holy Night or O Tanenbaum and that it was only when the group decided to make it crazy, adding in a Hannukah Elvis or whatever, that he really got pissed off.
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But hey, let's keep pimping K. Wiig, she clearly seems to have the skills to carry a Learning Annex improvisational class, what with her myriad of characters that all have similar awkward behavior and personality flaws pushed through the same over-the-top facial expressions and different annoying voices, and she's a woman. "Gilly, did you brutally rape Santa?" (Gilly looks sideways with a knowing smile) "... Sorry." Yeah, that's gonna be a scream, especially when they McGruber it 15 times in a fucking row.
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In a nutshell, the skit perfectly captured what sucks about the holiday season, year in, year out...
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Fuck Off for good. Or is the piss ant still saying that just for the attention?
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Dec. 13, 2009, 3:25 p.m. CST
They didn't do Jon Bovi the last time Bon Jovi was on either.
by Flim Springfield
So I'm not sure why anyone expected it this time.
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Next week, and Seth knocking Jon Bovi for wussing out and not showing up when the band was there. Very much in the spirit of Mark Walberg for showing up an threatening Andy Samburg for his impersonation the following week. SNL also dropped the ball with a followup skit ti the Tiger thing. The PGA stuff was lame. Have not only ongoing sketches, but drag them from week to week. Serialized television is dominating these days, and this would elevate the show to must see.
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Early nineties. Do it again.
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Script Girl isn't doing her script reports anymore and it has nothing to do with AICN. I listen to a podcast that plays her script reports and they said she stopped doing them.
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with armisen was hysterical, which probably means that character will never be seen again.
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That had to be about the worst episode of SNL I've ever seen. Every single skit bombed. Every single one. It's sad to say, but I'm beginning the think that the most talented cast member on this show - Bill Hader - is kind of beginning to mail it in. But who wouldn't mail it in in that situation? I mean, it's like when you are a super good ball-player and your coach just sucks and keeps on blowing games on you. How could you really bring a passion to work? They need to fire Lorne Michaels or just shoot this poor sick horse in the head and be over it. Maybe start up a new Saturday night skit show with some people who actually know what's funny ruling the roost. This is sorry, sorry, sorry shit going on here. Saturday Night Live is quickly becoming the Playboy Magazine of Television - something that was really good, that you remember fondly from growing up - but that when you look at it now, it's just a sorry imitation of what it once was. It's too bad for honestly talented guys like Bill Hader.
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Just cuz they're making a movie out of it doesn't mean the show has to suffer. And it does. The only funny skits all season are "What Up With That?" & a few Drew Barrymore skits. YIKES!
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who swore he would move to France or Canada if Bush was elected to a second term? <p> All he does is talk but won't walk the walk. Glorified attention hound.
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