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Another one of them SNL feature films' Gustav survives LADIES MAN
Given that I have no working knowledge of the active crapfest known as SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (aka Moriarty TV), I feel inadequate to give a proper introduction for this test screening of this alleged comedy. I will give you the prerequisite warning though. This was a test screening. This is where the filmmakers find out if what they were doing was funny or not. The Test Screening process is instrumental in making a superior comedy. You can see what bits are working and aren't working for the audience. From the sound of this review, they might have to begin reshooting from a new script, but hey... who knows what will happen to this film. Though I certainly wish them success in turning straw to gold....
Hello Harry. This is my first ever spy report. Call me Gustav Mahler. I'm
sure no one is exactly waiting for this movie with baited breath, but I
figured there was no harm in sending you my opinion of this, the latest
nugget of shit produced by the Saturday Night Live crap factory.
First off, let me ask...what in God's Name is wrong with Lorne Michaels?
Why does he keep making these awful SNL spinoff movies? Do any of them
actually make any money? What was the final box office take for It's Pat?
How about Stuart Saves His Family? Coneheads? Did Superstar even crack the
mystical $1 million plateau? If I was a Paramount exec and I saw Lorne
Michaels walking towards my desk with a script in his hands, I wouldn't
hesitate to push the trap door button and send him plummeting to his watery
doom.
Well, it's really not fair to pick on a guy when he's down (and is anyone
more miserably low in the etertainment business that Lorne Michaels?), so
I'll move right along to the review.
The Ladies Man sucks. It is considerably worse that Battlefield: Earth,
and we all know that's saying a lot. It is worse than Branagh's
Frankenstein, worse than its ill fated cousin the Coneheads movie, and much
worse than that 70s King Kong remake. Remember that movie In the Army Now,
where Pauly Shore joins the army and wackiness ensues? How about the movie
BAPS, the horribly racist comedy where two black female stereotypes snap
there way through a series of comedic misadventures? Add the suck factor of
those two movies. Now, take that number and multiply it by the awfulness of
that movie where Leslie Nielsen plays a funny vampire. Now take that number
and square it. My friends, The Ladies Man is worse than that. Worse than
all of them. The only thing I can equate it to is the time when I was
cooking spaghetti and I accidentally spilled a half gallon of boiling water
all over my arm.
In case you are unfamiliar with the, ahem, comedy skit on which this movie
is based....in stars Tim Meadows as a smooth talking retro-70s "love doctor"
who gives people really bad romantic advice. He enjoys telling people to "do
it up the butt." .......dont wait for more, that's the joke. Tim Meadows
says "do it up the butt," and all the cretins in the audience laugh (most of
them pudgy 12 year old boys, rolling in their seats with pig-like laughter,
only pausing to cram another handful of artery clogging popcorn into their
fat, filthy faces). He says it several times in fact. I think a dozen.
And that my friends, is actually as good as it gets. As is typical with
these SNL movies, Ladies Man uses up all its bullets in the first ten
minutes, so once we hear "do it up the butt" and "blame it on the wang" a few
times, the rest of the movie must resort to the lowest common denominator -
grossout techniques. This movie actually has a ten minute build up to a poop
joke. That's right. It has to be the longest buildup to a poop joke in the
history of film . You sit there and watch this whole revolting sequence, and
the payoff is that some guy eats a pice of shit. Brilliant.
Just when you think things can't get any worse, they do....for I have yet
to tell you that Will Farrell (sp?) has a prominent role in this movie. He
plays an olympic wrestler who is a closet homosexual. Oh stop, please. Get
it see, because he's a wrestler, so he rolls around with other men, so he
must be gay. Great stuff, Lorne. Great. I know I'm picking on Lorne a lot,
but that's only because I have no idea who wrote or directed this
masterpiece. There were no titles and no credits, and frankly I didn't
bother to ask. I'm sure Alan Smithee will be the name on the final print.
Oh yes, and lest I forget. Lorne Michaels must have secret footage of
Julian Moore smoking crack or getting a golden shower from a male stripper,
because for some unfathomable reason she decided to take her first step
towards career ruination and make a cameo in this movie as a sex starved slut
(Every woman in this movie is a sex starved slut or an idiot). Billy Dee
Williams and Tiffany Amber Thiessen (who plays a sex starved slut) also have
small roles, but they really don't have careers to ruin in the first place.
I am very proud to be one of the people to spearhead the negative buzz
campaign for this movie. Spread the word near and far, Harry: The Ladies Man
is terrible. I wonder if Lorne Michaels will blame this colossal failure on
his "wang."
-Gustav Mahler
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Angry, angry, angry. What the hell is fueling all this damned anger? SNL seems to be a big part of it. Lorne Michaels, a kindly Canadian, seems to foster or possible create much anger in the world of film and late night television viewers. This seemed to start with SNL's downfall several years back. After Sandler and the rest were handed their pinks slips, a new cast was brought on. Jim Carrey, another Canadian, was the first guest host of this new season with this new group. It seemed like this might work out. But what has happened since then is the creation of several, horrible, annoying recurring characters. The Cheerleaders, Mary Catherine Gallagher, and of course...the aforementioned Ladies Man. The first two ecspecially, have never been funny. But it's worse than just not being funny. They are in fact so bad, they cause violent fits of anger in the persons who, beyond common sense, view them. But seeing this review saddened me a bit. Tim Meadows has been a cast member for so long and has never broken into any other series or films. This fill no doubt be as bad as Superstar. Too bad Mr. Meadows. You'll have to go back to ushering in all the next new cast members for the next 10 years. Dumbass OUT.
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Props to Herr Mahler for his artful slam on yet another of Michaels' attempts to dupe the universe.
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May 23, 2000 6:01:12 AM CDT
Dear Lorne Micheals...Can we Please have a film about The JOYOLO
by geekbasher 3.0
Honestly, I personally think Molly Shannon is hysterical and whenever the girls Cheri Oteri, Ana Gasteyner or whatever her name is, is on SNL, thats when it's the funniest! I personally wouldn't mind a movie about THE JOYOLOGIST and her misadventures...I LOVE IT ILOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT.....
then again it's 4 in the morning and I just recieved the best damn blow job in my life! SO a movie about THE JOYOLOGIST would just cream my twinkie...I think I will pass on the Ladies Man, never thought that skit was funny..... -
I cant remember the reviewers name, but hopefully he will get to sneek-preview-review some more "movies". FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY I really mean this. Keep up that fantastick work
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I'm sorry, but I've stuck with SNL over the years and I've watched the rise of some really bright comedic stars... Belushi, Chase, Murray, Crystal, Murphy, Carvey, Meyers, Farley, Rock and Sandler. Whether you think the shows gotten better or worse over the years isn't the issue, it has endured as a vehicle for most young comedians to showcase their schtick and get noticed. To that end, I've give Lorne Michaels a hell of a lot of credit. If ay one wonders why he still has some juice in Tinseltown, just look at all the nobodys his show has helped turn into superstars. What annoys the hell out of me is that Tim Meadows is not one of those burgeoning talents waiting to make the leap. Tim Meadows has always been window dressing. He the straight man to everyone over the past ten years who actually was funny. He has no comedic timing and his material (Ladies Man included) is the worst tripe that show airs. I think that the only reason that this movie was made was that Tim Meadows, although extremely unfunny, seems like a pretty nice guy. I can see him walking into Lorne Michael's office and saying... "Please give me a movie, I've been on this show so long people are starting to think I'm a prop."
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The best film of 1999, Magnolia.
I'll probably get flamed for this
so I'll do a pre-emptive strike by
saying that if this movie did not
touch you in some way you either have no soul or you should be seeing films like My Dog Skip. Maybe both. Sorry about that, I've never really been a fan of knee-jerk, ignorant blanket statements but they say there is a time and place for everything and talkback seems to be the latter
(the former being anytime George Lucas or TPM is mentioned), judging by most of the posts I read here whenever I'm foolish enough to click on them rather than just moving on once I've read the story. But here I am pointlessly carrying on just like some poor lonely misanthrope who thinks that everyone is really interested in their theories of why George Lucas is responsible for the crumbling of their fragile, hollow existence. Ahh, bitter irony. But if you're not part of the solution, you might as well be part of the problem right?
Probably not but hypocrisy can be quite a laugh, eh?
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Dude, you gotta submit more reviews. SNL blows, and Wil Ferrel keeps getting movie roles for raising his voice. Wow, talking loud is really funny. Oh, and the frogs are from Magnolia, the most over-indulgent piece of shit I've seen in a long time.
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Forgot to mention how great that review was. Almost as beautiful as
Harry's review of Battlefield Earth. If you're going to write a scathing, mean-spirited review of something, at least be creative enough to take the piss with some style and make me laugh. Mission
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May 23, 2000 7:49:20 AM CDT
Who Wrote This Review?? A Member of The National Organization Fo
by rightwing dude
I'd swear that I had just read something by Gloria Steinhem or Patricia Ireland or one of those other man-hating lesbians. Whoever wrote it must have one of those very "politically correct" mentalities. I rarely ever watch Saturday Night Live on NBC but I watch the reruns on Comedy Central (sometimes), and the Ladies Man skit (along with the Clinton parodies) are actually pretty funny. I intend to see this movie someday. So what if the women are portrayed as sex-starved sluts? That's part of the appeal. It seems like a nice change of pace from all of these other PC movies which Hollywood has been putting out recently. Granted, this film may be a stinker, but this reviewer seemed too concerned with the stereotypes, when in fact, it's just a work of fiction. The stereotypes issue wasn't even worth mentioning.
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If you watch SNL on the comedy central channel it is better because they dont have the unfunny shit and cut away from a skit if it starts to die. If you watched SNL a few weeks ago when Christopher Walken was on it there is no way you could say that sucked. The Blue Oyster Cult skit was one of the funniest I ever seen. And I wouldnt mind seeing a cartoon movie with the X-Presidents saving the world.
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Oh...why?
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Bring it on. . .
I think that Will Ferral (sp?) is one of the funniest people working in showbiz today. I mean, his Alex Trebeck on Celebrity Jeopardy is one of the funniest skits on SNL - EVER! I mean for a while, SNL was in a slump, (95-98) but I think if your Mommies will let you stay up to watch the recent episodes, you will be in for a treat. The show is in its prime right now, and it is as good as it ever has been. -
Stalker, you are right - that BOC skit was a RIOT! The Christopher Walken hosted SNL was one of the best shows they've done in a few years IMO. ----- I also like Will Ferrell's character where he plays a homeless guy who makes extra cash buy posing nude for art classes.
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I have a secret crush on Jimmy Fallon.
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Great review. I had the unfortunate chance to to see Superstar the other night. I sat in dumbfounded silence through the whole thing. The crickets were even shocked into silence at how bad it was. I don't understand why SNL is still churning out these loaves of steamyness and trying to pass them off as films.
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I could almost see the reviewer ripping to shreds the film on which this movie was taped. Personally, I like the majority of the Ladies Man skits, but some just fall flat. I think the funnier skits out there from the last two years of SNL are the ones that made fun of Celine Dion and Barbara Walters' "The View." God, I hate that show! Take every single type of female stereotypical moron and place them in one show and have Barbara come on once in a while to keep her mouth shut during the important questions and do "20/20" commericals...you have "The View" in a nutshell. Gives us women a bad name. Grrr.***Sort of related to this: does anyone know why they're changing the name of "Sprockets" to "Dieter" for the Mike Myers movie?
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I think this reviewer has issues with overweight folks--"pudgy 12-year-olds stuffing popcorn into their fat, filthy faces." What's the deal? Lighten up, please.
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touch my monkey? TOUCH HIM! LOVE HIM!!! heheheh. Yeah, I was just reading that Will Ferrell has signed on to play in Mike Myers "Dieter Sprockets" movie. One time, on a Best of SNL Special, they ran a short film called Dieter's Dream and it was one of the funniest things they've ever done.
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Funny review. I like reading reviews for movies I know are stinkers. I think I read every one of the Battlefield Earth reviews. One reviewer (not journalist, write in) said he would rather watch guy on guy porn than sit through that film again. Ouch. Anyhow, Saturday Night Live is an embarrassment. I don't think it is the actors though. I think it is Lorne. His vision of "cutting edge" comedy is as sharp as Mel Brooks now. He needs to retire.
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May 23, 2000 9:52:31 AM CDT
I've got a fever, and the only thing that'll cure it . . .
by dwarf sidious
is more cowbell.
SNL is always funny. It's just a different flavor of funny, because it changes with the times. SNL movies are sometimes not funny. Why bash the show out of reflexive hate for "Superstar" and its ilk? -
..... but a blanket damnation of the show in its current state would ignore the twisted brilliance of that Uncle Jemima commercial I saw two weeks ago. Michaels and SNL should receive a reprieve for that lil' nugget alone. I would also concur that the celebrity Jeopardy skits are often very funny; although, none have topped the one where Norm MacDonald played Burt Reynolds. This review sounds overly hostile to me.
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I have been watching SNL since it began. People seem to forget that there has always been bad, unfunny sketches. Granted the crap factor has waxed and waned wildly over the years. Sure, every cast has some breakout characters with the new catch phrase, but please, PLEASE, stop making movies out of them! Most of the sketches become unfunny after a few minutes. Ladies Man! That sketch is agonizing. It always seems to drag on forever and it only 5 minutes long. How can anyone sit through 85 minutes of it. (I don't know if that's how long it is but it's probably close). Stop it! How about putting some of that money used for the films to pay some new writers and get some fresh material.
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Reginald Hudlin, who did the first HOUSE PARTY movie, BOOMERANG, THE GREAT WHITE HYPE, and others.
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If black stereotypes are racist and bad, does that mean that black women who really act like this are also racist and bad?
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Reginald Hudlin, who did the first HOUSE PARTY movie, BOOMERANG, THE GREAT WHITE HYPE, and others.
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Correct about almost all SNL movies, Diverdan. It's much too difficult to stretch a one-gag 5 minute sketch into a full length feature film. What you get is essentially that same single gag repeated 40-45 times throughout the movie. Repetative? Yes. Unfunny? Yes; from the fourth time the gag pops up to the end credits, yes. Exceptions to the rule are "The Blues Brothers" and, though I may be flayed and burned at the stake for this opinion, the original "Wayne's World". It's rather frightening that bad one-joke movies ("Coneheads", "It's Pat", "Superstar", etc.) can get a few million dollars for funding and even *gasp* somehow make a box office return. "The Ladies Man", a sketch that is okay in small doses, is about to join the ranks of those head swayin' lads of "Night at the Roxbury": the dominion of extinct lame characters. You can spend 5 minutes in the dentist's chair and everything will be okay. 90 minutes, though... BTW, did anyone catch SNL last Saturday? Jackie Chan hosted and, as much as I adore him, he tanked pretty bad despite his natural charisma. I blame the writers. Take care, all. Mr. Sartre, vomitted after "Blues Brothers 2000"...
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I hate to beak it to you, but these movies cost next to nothing. If your studio can put $11 million (I believe that's what Roxbury cost) into crap and still have it break even worldwide in its initial release, well my friends, that's a hit. Factor in home video and you have a blockbuster. It's all icing. That's why Paramount continues to shell out the bucks for Mr. Michaels's properties: they make freakin' bank! I've never seen any of these SNL movies...I'd sooner do what Harry's doing in the upper left-hand corner. But would I greenlight one? Shit yeah! I don't care if it's 12 year-old boys or PhD's in the theater; I only care that they've plunked down their money for their ticket.
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Wait a second! Did someone mention Golden Showers? Does "The Ladies Man" have Golden Showers? Normally, this happy little clown wouldn't think twice about another lousy Saturday Night Live movie, but apparently, this one has Golden Showers in it. That fact alone may very well make the the greatest cinematic work since the "Golden" age of film. Of course, Tim Meadows' Golden Showers couldn't begin to compare to the rancid yellow colorization and rank odors of Pisso's, but at least he's trying. I encourage everyone to put aside their prejudices of SNL movies and go see "The Ladies Man." Only by making this the highest grossing movie of all time can we convince the Hollywood big-wigs that we want...nay, we demand...more Golden Showers in our movies. Huzzah for Golden Showers! Huzzah for Pisso, the joyous clown who shall let all true believers bask in his glorious Golden Shower! Huzzah!
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One SNL movie sure as hell did, and continues to make money... THE BLUES BROTHERS. This wasn't even really a skit, per se, and it went on to make ungodly shitloads of cash money. Outside of national ticket sales, it did extremely well overseas and video sales were pretty crazy too. Merchandising and the whole nine followed, and it even helped Ackroyd start the House of Blues franchise. Because of this movie, probably the first SNL movie ever (and arguably the only one that broke the bank), Lorne Michaels will continue to create "another Blues Brothers." Plus, it seems from all the reviews I've heard of recent SNL flicks, they can't be THAT expensive to make. If one tanks, it doesn't hurt the pocketbook that bad. If it does moderately well, there are profits to be made. It's all about the dead presidents, y'all.
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I hate to beak it to you, but these movies cost next to nothing. If your studio can put $11 million (I believe that's what Roxbury cost) into crap and still have it break even worldwide in its initial release, well my friends, that's a hit. Factor in home video and you have a blockbuster. It's all icing. That's why Paramount continues to shell out the bucks for Mr. Michaels's properties: they make freakin' bank! I've never seen any of these SNL movies...I'd sooner do what Harry's doing in the upper left-hand corner. But would I greenlight one? Shit yeah! I don't care if it's 12 year-old boys or PhD's in the theater; I only care that they've plunked down their money for their ticket.
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Wow! This happy little clown is glad to see that he's been missed. I've been busy with moving, changing jobs and evading the authorities. It's been nutty. Still, I've always found the time to delight children of all ages and let them bask in my Golden Shower. Pisso loves all the children!
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SNL was funny maybe 6 times this season and each time was during the Norm MacDonald and Christopher Walken episodes. I wouldn't mind so much if they would just fire Molly Shannon. She has never been funny and her idea of "funny" is to have a loud and obnoxious character. Either fire her or just shoot her in the face. SNL should should start from stratch again. Bring back Norm and get the Kids in the Hall. Do something because the Jackie Chan episode was the least funny ever.
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I would be the first to tell you that I don't like the new cast much, but the I saw the episode that Britney Spears hosted. It was really funny! Spears was actually funny, and had good timing and confidence. BUT, the icing on the cake for the show was the UNCLE JEMIMA skit. That was freakin' amazing. I laughed so hard at that strange skit. "What you swattin' at?" I always forget the name of the guy who played that part, but he was really funny in another skit he did back a few years a go about the ex-porno guys who try to fit into mainstream society without much success. I hope they replay UNCLE JEMIMA! PLEASE!?
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a movie about obese 12 year-old boys who can't stop laughing and shoving fast-food down their throats
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i don't think anyone was expecting Ladies Man to be the twenty-one fun salute of the year. and yes, SNL movies are a bad idea. but try to look at it like this...sometimes you're in the mood for a steak dinner and sometimes a hot pocket will do. if you don't like tim meadows, don't see the movie. if you don't like shit-eating jokes and slutty chicks, don't see the movie (stay home and watch your director's commentary austin powers II dvd). as for the SNL bashing, it has NEVER EVER NEVER NEEVER NIVER NOOVER NEVER EVER EVER been consistantly good. ever. every single cast, from the not ready for prime timers to now, has been panned by most critics and the public at large AT THE TIME. everyone says, "man, they were so much better way back when." yeah, let's bring back piscopo and brad hall and charles rocket and mary gross and that little wormy guy from the police academy movies. those were the fuckin' days, huh? do you guys have ANY FUCKING IDEA how hard it is to write and perform sketch comedy on a weekly basis? and then to do so at this time, when televised sketch comedy shows have been airing for over thirty years, it's gotta be a bit more than frustrating to be funny and new all the fuckin' time. yeah, i roll my eyes when a catch-phrase character comes out. and i sigh when the sketch is running longer than it should. you don't think they're aware of this sometimes ("my, this a long sketch" - eddie doolittle klump). but it is what it is. sometimes it's brilliant and somtimes it sucks hard. SNL has ALWAYS been hit or miss. but until some of you can pull your attention from the Buffy chat room for more than three seconds, drop your twelve-sided die and get on a stage and work for a laugh yourself - try to go easy on the professionals.
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I see that G.E. Smith is back. He could be in a movie. He could play some deranged slasher nut. He always did give me the creeps. Not to mention how full of himself he always looks. Can't believe Gilda married him even if it was only for a brief time.
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Sure, SNL's not as funny as it used to be, and it's a mistake to give Myers $20 mil for 'Dieter', but Ladies Man is hands down one of the most reliably funny skits. The one he did with Julianne Moore had me in stitches. And tell me this: how is Mary Catherine or the Cheerleaders any less funny than Land Shark or the Coneheads? What is so goddamn funny about the fucking Land Shark?!?! Too bad the reviewer's got a stick up his ass, maybe he needs to "do it up the butt". I need to get more cowbell.
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SNL is not watchable. At all. Fire the whole cast, and MAYBE I'll give it another chance. Where's Joe Piscopo when you need him?
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Can you smell the negativity? Good lord, you would have thought Lorne Micheals raped this guy's mom and made him watch. I will agree that most of the SNL movies are horrible, but Stewert Saves his family got two thumbs up. Dare I mention Waynes World. BLUES "FREAKIN" BROTHERS MY MAN!!! I have seen the Ladies Man on SNL several times and it always makes me and everyone around me laugh their dick and balls off, even the ladies laugh their dick and balls off. I am waiting for this movie cause I thing Tim Meadows is very funny and defenitaly an unsung hero on the SNL crew. I am not sure who pissed in your popcorn but please try to lighten up and enjoy a mentos.
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I'll go see it just to spite your ass.
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if you are really asking WHY WHY WHY about SNL then take a good look at spider-man's post and sir smogsalot's post. they have hit the nail square on the head. yeah , when I was 12 i thought belushi was the shit. but just have a look at some of those old tapes and you'll notice several times where Samuri Whatever was met with 4 minutes of deafening silence. And there's a point of diminishing returns on the number of times you can get a laugh by saying "CHeezboigaaa, CHeezboigaaa, CHeezboigaaa."
Money drives the little terd Loren Michaels to keep putting this crap out. He has a piece of alot of these characters. When you join the cast you have to write down a list of the characters you already have in your pocket. If any others are developed on SNL -- HE OWNS THEM.
Do the math.
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Will Ferrell is one funny f-er. I don't care what anyone says. I think that the cast of SNL is pretty damn funny, but he carries that show for me. Some of the writing is lackluster on the show, but all of you bastards are spoiled from watching reruns of the BEST OF from the 70s and 80s. You know, if you really watch the old shows, even the old-schooler weren't funny ALL OF THE TIME. My problem with this film is that 1) the least funny person in all of SNL history, Tim Meadows, is the star, and 2) The character has to be really, really strong to stretch into a 1 hour + movie. That's why Night At The Roxbury sucked, but Wayne's World was great.
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I think he's very funny. Eventually, the cheerleader skit was used too much, but I thought those characters were great. I thought the Roxbury boys were very funny, but only as a 2-time skit. They didn't say anything really funny. It was the general situation that was amusing. I really like his bald-headed musician character, but they always run that skit too long. It's an amusing concept and it always starts well, but they need to just pare that sucker down to a couple minutes rather than 10. Anyways, God forbid someone that Mr. Ferral knows should read this talkback and think everyone hates him when it's not true. He plays naive cluelessness well.
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His homeless guy singing about "doo-doo Pies" to Britney Spears was some funny stuff!
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Tim Meadows is generally pretty painful to watch. A terrible sense of humor, no acting ability, and horrendous comedic timing, he was fated to be ever the bridesmaid. He has been on the show far longer than anybody else, and there is a clear reason for this: he is not funny. With SNL, when your 3-4 year run on the show is done, you either progress further with your career, into movies or sitcoms (or both), or you fade into the background, hoping at most to get a job as a writer. But where most people pack it up after they get the message, Meadows has persisted in sticking around. He remains through major cast changes, thinking he can assume the role of elder statesman, only to be overshadowed by his co-stars once again. From the get go, before the new cast even found their stage legs, Meadows was the least funny person on the show. The departure of legendary Chris Rock meant that he was no longer the "other black guy". Tracy Morgan was brought in, and many on-air jokes were made of Meadows passing the mantle of "the other black guy" to Morgan. Most humiliating to Meadows must have been the fact that Morgan was clearly light-years funnier than he was (and Morgan isn't very funny). With this "Ladies Man" character, Meadows continues to hammer nails into the coffin of SNL. Poorly written and badly acted by an over-smug Meadows and whatever embarrassed guest is on the show that week, it continues to be a shining example as to why SNL should be taken behind the barn and put down. If this is its flagship sketch these days, what does that say about the show as a whole?
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Let's examine why most of the skits on SNL are considered by many to suck. I hear over and over that the skits run on too long. True. But it's a LIVE show. They can only do one skit between commercial breaks. Other sketch comedy shows (Kids in the Hall, Mr. Show, Upright Citizens, etc.) are for the most part on TAPE. They can afford to come up with a funny idea, do it without killing it, and going rapid-fire to the next skit. It just goes with the deal until they decide to either a) largely expand the cast and studio or b) drop the L from SNL. At this point I don't think anyone cares if it's live or not, just that it's funny, eh?
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May 23, 2000 12:41:01 PM CDT
PISSO! Welcome Back! Now spill your Golden Nectar of the Gods ri
by porky
Look at Harry's animation. He just saw The Ladies Man.
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A list of what I consider funny-ass SNL skits : Morning Latte, Licensed Joyologist, The Antonio Banderas Show, Mr. Peepers, The Ambiguously Gay Duo, Delicious Dish (especially the one w/ Alec Baldwin asking if they'd like to try his salty balls), Celebrity Jeopardy, A&E Biography (POOF Daddy in particular), Old French Whore game show, Will Ferrell as Harry Caray, DOG SHOW, and on and on...these guys have come up with some truly funny and original characters. If you're going to bag, bag on Collin Quinn, who is only keeping his job because he's got a friend that's close to Lorne Michaels. And to the Jimmy Fallan fans -- he's a hot little number -- I've seen him perform at the Groundlings in LA until Lorne scooped him up. Also Ferrell as well.
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May 23, 2000 12:56:53 PM CDT
You realize that the performers don't write most of their own st
by superninja
So when you instantly start to blame the performers, get a grip. I bet half of you have no idea what goes into an hour-long live skit show. It's not easy. Will Ferrell manages to make characters that aren't even written funny, funny.
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I'm in England so we don't get SNL over here. And Blues Brothers was great by the way! Wayne's World was good, but the sequel was weak apart from the Kung Fu film parody. Oh, and of course Walken... 'Sphincter boy says what?'
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...the day is looking up.
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It's 'BATED breath'. I've seen it screwed up at least four times this week, and three of those were on AICN. BAITED breath is something fish complain about. I know it's a possible alternate spelling, but where do you think words like 'abate', 'rebate', and 'debate' come from?
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To sum up my feelings: SNL always was/has been uneven. Writing and performing that much live material in six days is horrendously difficult. I'm disappointed in the lack of political comedy lately. It's too bad McCain dropped out of the presidential race, because Chris Parnell had a pretty wicked little impression going there. (Remember him eating breakfast the morning after the New Hampshire primary? He was blindfolded and darting his head around at every sound. Dubya explained, "It's the only way he feels comfortable.") And the edgy "oh my God, I can't believe they said that" comedy has been missing, too, with the exception of Uncle Jemima and "And So This is Chanukah," which had me in stitches. Especially Jimmy Fallon as David Bowie, wondering why the hell he's singing with Bing Crosby. The best episodes tend to the ones where the host has enough guts to poke fun at their public image (Garth Brooks playing an Old French Whore, Ben Affleck doing an impression of Matt Damon complete with huge fake teeth, Alec Baldwin and the "Schwetty balls" skit). Weekend Update would be tolerable if Colin Quinn would take some goddamned elocution lessons and stop messing up the punchlines. There's this thing called "rehearsal." Try it. And give us more songs from that cutie Jimmy Fallon, dammit.
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Or should I say a "shit on" review. This guy REALLY hated this movie (only because I know how bad the ones he compared it to are).
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Hey,numb nuts it isn't a damn art film! It is a lowbro comedy!Not high art or in depth story.SNL is a lot better than it was 5yrs ago.I,like everyone quit watching.Than started watching again. It is funny again and fresh.Ladies Man could be a big hit or a miss.If I remember correctly Waynes World was a huge hit. So,was a Night At the Roxbury.Not all SNL movies are bad. Does Disney always make a good film? Those who sit on mountains usually sit alone.
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If anything, it's a credit to the immensely talented cast that SNL is even slightly watchable anymore. There's no doubt that the writing has been stronger in the past, but, oftentimes, the best sketches never air due to 1) being too complicated to execute on live TV, or 2) being too sophisticated (i.e. in the eyes of Michaels and company.) It's generally agreed that many of SNL's classic skits are those that never made it to the broadcast. In fact, there's a Conan O'Brian-penned piece called, I think, "The Perfect Murder" that is regarded by many as *the* classic unproduced sketch.
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May 23, 2000 2:59:40 PM CDT
Ladies Man Skit=funny Ladies Man film=desperate attempt for qui
by buckinator x
Hey, the Ladies Man skit is pretty funny, but how did they ever think they could get a movie out of it? I guess after Wayne's World, they think any skit can be pushed to the 90 minute limit. Tim Meadows is a funny guy, but I wish he would have just taken a supporting role in a solid comedy instead of starring in this obvious attempt at quick cash. Who can blame him? He's got stars in his eyes. Oh well, word is the cast for SNL next year will be about 80% new because most of the cast now is finished with their contracts. We'll see if the show can stay on another 5 years....
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Some of the recent SNL movies like A Night At The Roxbury and Superstar have turned in a nice profit considering the low cost. That's why these movies keep getting made. I happen to like SNL so I'm biased but that is a fact. This movie is even opening the first week of October just like Superstar in 99 and Roxbury in 98. Lorne doesn't mess with success.
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a good day for AICN.
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Calm down, buddy... Natalie Portman didn't pose for those topless pictures, if I'm not mistaken. They were taken while she was sun bathing in Europe somewheres by European tabloid photographers. So she isn't a hypocrtie since she didn't consciously pose for those photos. Go back to work and give your hand, vibrating vagina/anus toy, or microwaved cantalope with a hole in it a rest. By the way... WHAT IN THE HELL DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH SNL OR THE POST TOPIC?! Later... If this shadow has offended, think but this and all is mended: what if "dog" were spelled C-A-T?
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May 23, 2000 4:13:06 PM CDT
Answer me this.... WHY HASN'T ANYBODY MADE A "SUPER HAPPY FUN BA
by el duderino
THAT WAS THE COOLEST SNL AD SPOOF I HAD EVER SEEN! "Do not taunt super happy fun ball." WHY NOT I ASK YOU? Think about it, one and a half hours of this ad for the super happy fun ball and the whole movie would just be a list of goofy precautions! I smell a hit by god!
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This was some years ago but I think the best compliment a SNL ad ever got was one that I read in Ann Landers. Some lady complaining about kid's toys today. "Why I saw a commercial the other night for a race set where the cars crash and actually burst into flames, then an ambulance(meat wagon)comes and the kids take mutilated bodies out of the cars!
I though it was great that someone thought it was real. I guess she didn't stop to think why it was on at 1230am.
Hey lady, can I interest you in an "invisible pedestrian costume" or a "bag o' glass"?
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Tracy Morgan IS funny. I'ts not because he doesn't put in the effort, it's 'cause THEY NEVER PUT HIM IN ANYTHING. I'm really glad that he was in the britney spears sketch, cause that's a step up. sometimes, he's barely on the show!! I used to skip SNL because there was a small-time half-hour sketch comedy show called the Uptown Comedy Club, featuring a One Jim Breuer, and a One Tracy morgan (i loved it when they played the slack-ass drunk cops).
Chris Parnell is also hilarious...but i admit, it's all still going downhill... i really hate all the new snl movie stuff. I'ts just hard to watch. even though i enjoy watching five minutes of a skit, i'll have to say that a ninety minute movie about any new SNL characters sucks the Assotopolis. -
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Mad TV, which I find much funnier and whose humor seems more consistant than SNL. SNL has been hit or miss (mostly miss) for several years now. Mad has begun to really hit its stride. Their reoccuring characters are usually *gasp* funny, and the skits usually have more going on than simple shock humor.
For example, they repeated a parody of Chuck Woolery dating gameshow. The skit was funny because not only were the players recalling very disgusting sexual acts, but also because they were tragically uncool, Webster-watching losers.
Mad creates humor w/ different levels to it. If SNL had done the skit, they would have just focused on the baser, grosser jokes and left it at that.
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It's Will Ferrell, not Feral. He wasn't raised by wild animals out in the forest with Nell. He is the funniest person on the show now, with Darrell Hammond, Tracy Morgan, and the fat hispanic guy tied for second.
If you want to talk about the most unfunny people, try Colin Quinn and Ana Gasteyer. Quinn must have pictures of Lorne sucking off Dieter's monkey, that is the only way I can explain his maddening, unerring,
claw-on-the-testicles-like grip on the Weekend Update slot.
The show itself is now like it always has been: unevenly funny. It's just that what we see as the "classic" SNL, the 70's SNL, was new so it was given leeway and free reign. Like anything people remember the funny stuff and filter out the crap.
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First off, Matt Groening didn't sell out by allowing Britney Spears onto Simpsons, because he hasn't produced the show for three years now. The current executive producer is Mike Scully, primarily the reason for the show's recent nosedive into crap.
Also, I used to watch Mad TV, but honestly I can't see why people act like its current state is any better than SNL's. Once their fourth season started in 1998, the show immediately began to suck, replying on irritating-as-hell recurring characters like Mrs. Swan, Stuart, and that Rusty guy, and the thing is, they put those characters in like EVERY OTHER EPISODE. I hate SNL's recurring characters too, but they somewhat use them in moderation. Plus, Mad TV used to have a funny cast and hilarious movie parodies, but now the former cast has been replaced by a watered-down bunch of lame actors and the movie parodies look like they were shot on some guy's camcorder. SNL at least had that funny Christopher Walken show a month back. -
Then you've never seen "The Big Gig" or "The Late Show" in Australia. Both of these were *so* live and produced some of the best sketch comedy I have ever seen - none of which have been spun off into movies - esp the kind of characters you're talking about here (a "Yellow Thing With Hinges" movie springs to mind as an equlivelent to Ladies Man).
Though I think a movie of "Tony and Mick Doing the Intro" would be pretty cool - or even Charlie The Wonderdog the Movie *g*
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I couldn't even begin to figure out how the hell they would make a movie based on that unfunny lump of crap skit from SNL. The review sounds exactly how they would of done it. use the catch phrases early on and then just little kiddie humor the rest of the way. What a fucking Train Wreck that movie must of been. I hope you're recovering okay Gustav.. I think Harry should send you a purple heart for having to sit through that.
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The Ladies Man is f*ckin hilarious. Night at the Roxbury was hilarious. SNL is hilarious (not 100%, but its quality TV). The movie will be funny. If you don't have a sense of humor, then don't see it, but you don't have to waste your time bitchin about it to everyone else.
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ANyone who thinks that SNL is not funny is either old, or doesn't watch it regularly. Will Ferrell is hilarious, I love Night at The Roxbury, and love skits like Dog Show and Celebrity Jeopardy. If you actually would watch the older episodes from like 89-95, they aren't funny. They had the worst writers ever, it was the players like Adam Sandler, Mike Meyers, and Dana Carvey who made the show work, but they co-wrote thier own skits. Now, SNL has the best writers they have ever had, and while I really don't like the ladies' man sketch, and I dont think Tim Meadows will ever be able to become a character actor, that doesn't mean I hat The show or other SNL movies. After all, Wayne's World was a "stupid SNL peice of crap movie" and is probably one of the best movies ever made. Julianne Moore, for those of you who don't know, did host the show and was involved in the ladies' man sketch, so that's probably why she did this film, as a favor.
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May 24, 2000 1:02:08 AM CDT
Views of SNL, and why The Ladies Man could have a shot of being
by axelfoley
First, my take on Tim Meadows. I never disliked this guy because for me there was never a reason to. I always liked his personality and the way he portrayed that murderer Oj Simpson as a boneheaded celebrity without a brain in his skull. It was good, but I never thought he was one of the cast members who stood out in terms of talent. He's not as bad as people say he is, but I do agree at this point there are certainly alot better. The Ladies Man movie, I don't know, I'm not planning on seeing it for 2 reasons: 1) I sworn off going to the theatre to see an SNL movie and 2)I've NEVER liked this particular skit to begin with. When I see it, it just bores me because Meadows' character isn't too interesting. It seems that he puts on this Eddie Murphy/Velvet Jones inspired lisp into his voice. When I hear the character, it reminds me of Eddie Murphy doing lisps when he would try to pass himself off as other people in the Beverly Hills Cop movies. They work there, but not now, because it's not original. Again, I don't have anything against Tim Meadows, I know he's been on the show since '91, he does in fact have the longest tenure in SNL history. There just isn't much doing for SNL, but by the way what is the big fucking thing everyone is making over the Christopher Walken episode. I agree when he does the show, it's classic, but it's not gold. I saw the Blue Oyster Cult bit, and I liked it, but there's been a couple other SNL's worth watching too this season. The Rock from the WWF isn't much of an actor, but hey, he was funny. He has a good sense of humor, and did any of yous see the Ben Affleck one? That's going to be shown again this week. It's wicked hysterical.
At for SNL as a whole, well. at this point right now, Will is definitely the top cast member in the troupe right now. His sense of humor and characterizations are pretty damn amusing. Yes, I miss Norm McDonald too. In my opinion, he's much better at Weeken Update than Colin Quinn. Quinn's popularity with that segment as I see it relies with his deadpan delivery. Norm had his witty remarks and sarcasm to work in his favor.One more thing about Ladies Man, this movie could have a shot for one reason. Reginald Hudlin. He's a director people's heard of, and while The Great White Hype bombed, he's still revered for making the one and only GOOD House Party movie, that was the original in 1990, and it was a really big hit. With the exception of Penelope Spheeris and Harold Ramis, every SNL movie has had an unknown as the director, someone people heard of should give this movie a bit of a shot of spending $7.50. I could be wrong though. -
Yeah you heard me. All of you. SNL kicks ass. And another thing, it's totally stupid to judge a comedy movie (except like, romantic comedies). They aren't supposed to be real or anything. They are supposed to be funny. You people are dorks, and if you were into comedy at all, you would at least respect SNL. And if you are going to post a whiny reply, then fuck you and get a life.
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By the way, Lorne has no connection to STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY. If you actually watched it, you'd see that it's not a typical one-joke SNL cashcow. It's a very funny, touching (and overlooked) film.
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May 24, 2000 11:20:07 AM CDT
Since we're talking about SNL movies, does this mean Larry the L
by axelfoley
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COMEDIES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY!
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Ok all, I'm in agreement with some and I disagree with others. I was and avid viewer in the latter 80's through the very early 90's. During that time with Nealon, Meyers, Hartman, Jackson, Carvey and so many others I didn't name, the show was great. I stopped watching in something like 92 because the show had gotten bad. I would fall asleep to it on Saturday nights.
I recently became a fan again after seeing "House on Haunted Hill" and accidently turning on SNL that night. I loved HoHH and Chris Kattan and once I saw him on SNL (the Zimmerman skit to be exact) I thought it was worth catching again. I'm glad I did. Kattan carries that show along with O'Terri, Ferrell, and Shannon (have you seen her "Jolie" take off w/ Kattan as her brother.. fucking funny!!).
It may not be the best SNL around but it is slowly improving as we speak. Fallon has what it take to be really good, Morgan (if coached right) can be good and Parnell is a nice suprise (his McCain impression at the breakfast table the morning after New Hampshire Primary was really, REALLY funny).
Give them a little more time and see what kind of talent is in the wings before say that are belly up in the water. I spoke to soon and it had been 7 years since I had seen the show before I saw it on Halloween. It's on the way up again.
BTW, the Walken episode kinda blew. I have no idea what you all found so funny. The only entertaining skit that night was "The Contential".
BTW #2, you can catch "Classic SNL" on the network right after the live SNL (at least here in the Philly viewing area). -
Despite rants to the opposite, SNL DOES suck, especially in comparison to the original cast of 1975-80 and of the Phil Hartman years from the late 80's to about 1994.
Sketches like Morning Latte and Mango are good examples of what is wrong with the show, as they are not only unfunny and shown repeatedly, they are the EXACT SAME thing each time. Other sketches will at least have some variation, but Morning Latte always ends with Cheri Oteri being called a stupid bitch and Mango always ends with someone having an unrequited gay crush on Chris Kittan. The whole Monica Lewinsky thing was equally as bad because they couldn't just do one decent Monica sketch, they had to do an entire Monica/Clinton/Tripp extravaganza that was completely unfunny.
I quit watching the show after the horrible James Van Der Beek episode early last season after the Darrel Hammond playing Don Pardo sketch went on WAY too long. I thought it might have gotten better in that time, so I gave it another chance a few weeks ago when Brittany Spears was on. Outside of Uncle Jemima and The Ambiguously Gay Duo, absolutely NOTHING was funny. The monologue's running gag wasn't good and Colin Quinn's performance on Weekend Update just reminds me of how, even at his lowest, Norm MacDonald was always a better Update host. -
May 24, 2000 10:52:12 PM CDT
Will you people who grill those who don't like Saturday Night Li
by axelfoley
Thanks. We are ALL ENTITLED TO OUR OWN OPINIONS HERE, FOLKS. IF YOU DON'T LIKE SOMEONES's OPINION, well, TOO fucking bad. It's there opinion, and if it doesn't match yours than don't bust their balls and insult them over fucking nothing. Dmodog, make not of this. -
May 24, 2000 10:53:39 PM CDT
Will you people who grill those who don't like Saturday Night Li
by axelfoley
Thanks. We are ALL ENTITLED TO OUR OWN OPINIONS HERE, FOLKS. IF YOU DON'T LIKE SOMEONES's OPINION, well, TOO fucking bad. It's there opinion, and if it doesn't match yours than don't bust their balls and insult them over fucking nothing. Dmodog, make note of this. -
Saturday Night Live has sucked so bad with this recent cast.They do the same shit over and over.They will burn a skit into the fucking ground 20 minutes after you already got the lameass joke.The news guy sucks so bad.He should go back to MTV or just spontaneously combust or something.Just get anybody else.Henry Kissinger would be a billion times funnier than Colin Quinn.The movies they turn out just suck ass on a quantum level.Movies like spies like us were funny or the first ghostbusters(Even though you are sick of ghostbusters,or worse,ghostbusters 2[major suck fest],wouldn't you rather watch it a hundred fucking times instead of pat or superstar once).I think Lorn Michaels is actually trying to drive us insane by sucking so bad.One day we will all just snap after being exposed to one of his crapfests.And then his secret invasion force led by John Travolta in his battlefield earth outfit will run amuck in the streets on their clumsy stilts with their big floppy rubber monster hand gloves trying to do unspeakable horrors to those that survive the madness.
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I will be the first to admit that SNL is not what it was in it's heydey('86-'90, the Phil Hartman years, in my humble opinion), I will say that they do have one or two sketches per show that are incredibly hilarious, and they usually are the sketches without the regular characters in them (Mango, et. al.) While most of the cast sucks, such as Chris Kattan, Jimmy Fallon, and the generic fat guy, whatever his name is, Molly Shannon is fucking hilarious, as was Superstar, the movie. Will Ferrell is a very funny man, he just hasn't found the right vehicle yet. Anyone who has ever seen him on Conan O'Brien knows what I'm talking about. Tim Meadows has done some funny stuff in the past, but more recently has been reduced to "token black guy" status. I look forward to every SNL movie that comes out, hoping they will transcend the show, but they rarely do. Only Wayne's World and Superstar(barely) have. Blue's Brothers is way too fucking overrated.
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First of all, I agree with cuthbert51, "Coneheads" was hilarious, well-written and, quite frankly, the last great movie based on an SNL skit ("Wayne's World 2", though good, doesn't count - it was a sequel).
When I watched it (SNL) a couple of years ago, there were a few good moments scattered amongst the crap. Nowadays, I watch it for the same reason I used to watch "Caroline in the City": I'm a masochist at heart. Bottom line: fire everyone except Horatio Sanz, Tracy Morgan, Darrell Hammond, Colin Quinn (all of whom aren't given nearly enough to do) and Ana Gasteyer. Better yet, have next year be the last year. Enough about the cons; now I'll move on to the pros: A few years ago, when the show had direction, there was one of the funniest, laugh-your-ass-off skits ever aired: Christopher Walken's Psychic Friends Network. Jay Mohr did an excellent job as Walken. In the last few years, there have been some good moments
[Norm Macdonald and Colin Quinn on Weekend Update, The Joe Pesci Show, "Star Wars" screen tests, Petchow rat poison ad, Goat Boy, Will Ferrell as Harry Caray, Hammond as President Clinton, Robert Smigel, TV Funhouse, George Bush (Dana Carvey) and Bob Dole (Macdonald) on a fishing trip, the real Dole making an appearance, Gasteyer as Celine Dion, every single skit featuring Jim Carrey and The View] Okay, so there have been a lot of good moments, and thankfully, in my opinion, they outweigh the crap.
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I loved Celebrity Jeopardy.
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on SNL with the most recent cast was when Sarah Michelle Gellar was hosting and they did a parody of the bad 70's cinema that they show at 4 a.m. on Sunday mornings on TV. Buffy played a blind girl who falls in love with an alien, played by the tremendously unfunny Horatio Sanz. The soundtrack to the parody was provided by Will Ferrell's dead-on impersonation of Paul Williams, whose head would float over the picture as he sang. As surreal and as funny as anything I've ever seen on SNL, Kids in the Hall, or Monty Python. If Horatio Sanz hadn't been in it, it would have been the funniest sketch in the history on television. If they turned that sketch into a full-length movie, now you've got something.
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I don't really agree that SNL is 'going down the tubes'... I think it bottomed out several years ago and has been improving ever since. It's pretty much like how bad the early 80's were after the original great cast. After the Carvey/Hartman/Myers etc heyday of the late 80's/early 90's there was also a rought period.
SNL has always had its rough spots, even with the original cast. And the 'Hartman era' cast (my favorite) always dragged in the last half hour. I just think SNL's problem is that they tend to use recurring skits too much even if they're weak to begin with. Also, they need to learn how to cut their skits shorter before they drag on too long. This would improve a lot of the even weaker skits by just not beating them into the ground.
Most importantly, they need to GET RID OF COLIN QUINN. He is so incredibly unfunny it's... unfunny. Watching his news report is like having teeth pulled it's so awful. When Norm was doing the news, even if a joke was awful he could make it play by acknowledging that it was bad. Colin is just a mumbling idiot. -
Jimmy Fallon and Chris Kattan are two very funny guys. Chris isn't given enough freedom outside of his main-stream characters (Mango, Peepers, Zimmerman's). He's on the show maybe 3 times all night in bit parts (unless it's the one of the three above). I do enjoy watching him as Peepers (his physical comedy is great) and one of the Zimmerman's (that whole skit has me laughing my ass off) but if they allowed hm to do more you'd see that. Unfortunately, SNL doesn't do the random skits that differ week to week like in the old days ('70's and some of the '80's).
Fallon was a newbie this year. That computer guy skit sucks, I will say that. Totally useless. But there was a skit that was cut in dress rehersal where he was Hillary Swank. I saw some pics and the resemblence was uncanny. People I chatted with that were there said it was one of the better skits of the night. Loren Michaels gets to say what stays and what doesen't. It all comes down to him and the writers. SNL doesn't suck just becasuse people can't act. I was an actor and let me tell you. If you have crap writing and crap directing, then no matter how much you try and how good you are, your product will not be of the best quality. They need better writers and better direction. Then maybe it will improve more. But it is better than the ones between '92- '98. -
Hilarious! I saw him do stand up this past march in Georgia, and I laughed my ass of the whole damn time. HOnestly, I don't think they give him enough time. They're too busy airing crap sketches like Mango. And Horatio Sanz does suck. TIm Meadows needs to just quit. Will Farrel is funny, Molly Shannon's Joyologist is annoying as cat shit, Darrel Hammond's Clinton and Sean Connery are damn near hysterical. Fire the people who suck, hire me and the show will improve.
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Go back to grammar school and learn how to use punctuation.
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Damn!! I never had any idea that so many people had it out for certain actors on SNL. Whoa, this blows my mind. Come on people, wake up!! I would say that the majority of us giving our "2 cents" worth are either aspiring actors or have come to the realization that we're not going to make a living by acting. That said, yes I agree that the "ladies man" sketch as a 90 minute feature is not something that I would pay 8.50 for. But, Tim Meadows is getting paid for it regardless. I personally think that he is a very funny man. I guess that I'm not as objective, seeing that I live in Chicago where Tim started his career at Second City, along with Chris Farley. I don't know, it's just fucked up reading so many negative things about SNL, just because you hate another cheesy-ass take-off movie from an SNL sketch. Personally, I think that the show is on an upward swing, and let's just let the next season prove us wrong. Also, if you ever saw Horatio Sanz at Second City, you'd be less likely to judge him, and say that he sucked! He's one fuckin' funny-ass individual, as is Rachel Dratch, which no one has yet to comment on to my knowledge. Later.
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Hey 247rh29, I was just reading the posts and was going to add a note about Rachel Dratch. You beat me to it. I go to Chicago whenever a new Second City show starts and let me tell everone that Rachel Dratch is hysterical.
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SNL was revolutionary in the 70's that's why people think it sucks now. SNL doesn't suck, no it's acually quite funny compared to other crap on the air, it's just not as good as it used to be, and their's nothing more sad then something that USED to be revolutionary.
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it was cool to get home from work tonight, which is late as hell, and read your comment. it's enlightening to see that some peaople are able to see the "big picture". take care!
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Saturday Night Live is getting a terrible rap! Everyone says that it needs to be cancelled and that it sucks. Actually it is getting better. Sure it has it's dud skits and episodes but every TV show has them. And also, this cast isn't as good as the 1991-1995 cast or the original cast, but they DO try. And also, the movies are pretty good. But the problem is that they give characters their own movie that cannot carry a movie. (Anyone remember Pat?) What they need to do is make some characters that are more than just a catchphrase and a one-joke. Mary Katharine Gallagher is a perfect example of this. On the show, they gave her plots to act out and then when the movie came, it turned out to be a spoof of teen movies. (Think about it, the plot of Superstar could EASILY fit into any Mena Suvari movie) So here's to some cooler characters that movies can be made out of. Let's just hope that they never make a Sally O'Mally movie.
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Ladies Man may not be my favorite sketch on SNL, but it's funnier than anything you can write. You had no right to make fun of the SNL audience like that. You're just a plain bad reviewer. By the way, "Superstar" made more than 1 million. It was more like 35 million. Do you do ANY research?
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From: waldiddy
Subject: SNL vs Mad
Comment: I'm surprised no one has mentioned Mad TV, which I find much funnier and whose humor seems more consistant than SNL. SNL has been hit or miss (mostly miss) for several years now. Mad has begun to really hit its stride. Their reoccuring characters are usually *gasp* funny, and the skits usually have more going on than simple shock humor. For example, they repeated a parody of Chuck Woolery dating gameshow. The skit was funny because not only were the players recalling very disgusting sexual acts, but also because they were tragically uncool, Webster-watching losers. Mad creates humor w/ different levels to it. If SNL had done the skit, they would have just focused on the baser, grosser jokes and left it at that.
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Wow, that's completely opposite. Mad TV is WAY more obscene than SNL. And for the last time, SNL is still the funniest show on the air. And if you don't like the cast, they're changing it again this year. So lighten up, people, this is just a TV comedy show.
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Your review was by far the lamest review I have ever read. You didn't talk about the movie. You just knocked it as a piece of crap and restated that in several different ways. If your going to write something, do so intelligently. I'm not knocking you personally, but your review was just as bad as you said the movie was. I thought the movie was great! It keep me laughing with an (at least semi) intelligent plot, the dialouge was witty and Will Ferral's character was great. On the subject of Will Ferral, can't you pick up subtle hints. They didn't say that he was gay just cause he liked to wrestle. They didn't even out right say it at all. But had you took time to listen to the dialouge, which I don't think you did, you'd discover that he is "gay" because he likes to get greased up and roll on the floor with guys (even if he wasn't "wrestling"). Your review was uninformed, tasteless, and the worst piece of writing that I've ever seen. Here is a tip, next time you write a review, try to talk about the film more!
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Your review was by far the lamest review I have ever read. You didn't talk about the movie. You just knocked it as a piece of crap and restated that in several different ways. If your going to write something, do so intelligently. I'm not knocking you personally, but your review was just as bad as you said the movie was. I thought the movie was great! It keep me laughing with an (at least semi) intelligent plot, the dialouge was witty and Will Ferral's character was great. On the subject of Will Ferral, can't you pick up subtle hints. They didn't say that he was gay just cause he liked to wrestle. They didn't even out right say it at all. But had you took time to listen to the dialouge, which I don't think you did, you'd discover that he is "gay" because he likes to get greased up and roll on the floor with guys (even if he wasn't "wrestling"). Your review was uninformed, tasteless, and the worst piece of writing that I've ever seen. Here is a tip, next time you write a review, try to talk about the film more!
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