Don't we have this exact thread every Monday after a new SNL? Occasionally we get the Lindsay Lohan link curveball...or Meowgi lets us know that he doesn't know the musical act and already hates her. But other than that, it all seems pretty much the same! We always have a few who enjoy it...and a few more who point out how much better it was with a different cast.
Parnell is my favorite current cast member. I think they should use him more. But I remember watching the show when that cast debuted. For the first few seasons no one knew who they were. It takes time for stars to emerge. It doesn't happen overnight, but it always happens. Just it it time.
SNL is starting to put their clips and shows on iTunes. I don't know the particulars, but if they are putting up individual skits, I bet it would shape the way SNL is produced in the future. My theory is they will track which skits get DL'd the most and then incorporate more work from the writers who wrote those skits into the show!? Ya think?
It was Steve Martin and Prince on the show. I think that was enough reason to talk about this one. I flipped over and watched it after watching Grizzly Man on Discovery (which is a great movie BTW). The first song Prince did was great.
i like SNL. i'm not criticizing starting the thread at all. it's just that the responses are so predictable.
Sort of interesting, I wish it was more in depth. It says the article is in the fashion and style section, so if a better writer was assigned, it could have been a good article. February 5, 2006 A Night Out With | 'SNL' Cast Members The New Wild and Crazy Guys By WINTER MILLER IT'S 10:30 on a Thursday night, and Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis, two new faces on "Saturday Night Live," are speeding downtown in a cab, checking their hair. They had spent the day in wigs, shooting a mock music video. They're headed to meet Seth Meyers, a five-season veteran, and Bill Hader, another rookie, at a favorite post-rehearsal haunt called Dublin, in the West Village at Hudson and 11th Streets. Mr. Meyers, who's been promoted to a head writer slot, is coming off a long day of rewrites. He greets Sandy the bartender with a kiss on the cheek and orders his first Macallan. The next to arrive is Mr. Hader, who orders an Amstel Light, but since the bar has stopped serving food, he's off to a deli. Just as Mr. Hader returns with a turkey and Brie, Mr. Samberg and Mr. Sudeikis — the guys call him Suds — stroll in, the former fixing his hair and the latter in a newsboy cap. Mr. Samberg's hair has reached new heights after spending the day under a bald cap. "The day I met him, Andy told me how powerful hair could be," Mr. Meyers said. Mr. Samberg and Mr. Sudeikis eye the turkey sandwich, which Mr. Hader graciously divides into three. The snack stirs their memories of favorite late-night spots. "Potbellies is Chicago's best sandwich," Mr. Sudeikis suggested. Mr. Samberg countered: "Genoa's Deli in Oakland. They got some fancy-pants sandwiches with sun-dried tomatoes. And Art's Deli in L.A." Mr. Hader nodded. "It's in the Palisades, right?" Andy shook his pompadour as Mr. Meyers explained, "Bill thinks everything is in the Palisades." Mr. Hader said, "Palisades High School." Mr. Meyers segued into the "morning-after sandwich," best described as going to bed with a half-eaten sandwich that is still in your hands when you wake up. Blondie's "Heart of Glass" came on, and they sang falsetto; no one had the right words. Within seconds they synced their fake lyrics to simply repeating "bong-a-bong." Discussion meandered from great comedians (Margaret Dumont and the Marx brothers) to ideal "S.N.L." guests (Eddie Murphy) to the group hug at the show's end. "We keep hugging for hours," Mr. Meyers said. Mr. Samberg: "We hug for eight hours." Mr. Hader: "It's in our contract that we have to hug." Mr. Meyers added, "The night ends, and we promise never to hug again." Mockingly Mr. Hader said, "They play that piano music and we hug." To finish, Mr. Samberg went on, "Sunday evening and I say, 'Why, why did I hug so much?' " They can do this all night. And they do. Around 1 a.m. Sandy the bartender proffers raspberry kamikaze shots on the house. Talk turns to sketch ideas that sounded great until read aloud. "You hesitate to even bother the costume people," Mr. Sudeikis said. "Nah, I don't need shoes." Of reputed drug use on the show, Mr. Samberg said, "Cocaine's been replaced by caffeine and vitamins." "Yeah, echinacea," Mr. Hader said. Mr. Samberg noted, "A lot of Jamba Juice, yet the schedule remains a coke schedule." "It's evolution," Mr. Meyers said. "Twenty years ago people couldn't write comedy without cocaine." Around 2 a.m. Mr. Hader and Suds decamp. In walks Horatio Sanz, another castmate, and the night is once again young, as Mr. Samberg, Mr. Meyers and Mr. Sanz are off to another bar. END http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/fashion/sundaystyles/05NITE.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
