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A MESSAGE FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT
in besieged White House, Dick Cheney (DAH) disputes smoke & fire linkage
— What’s that watery sound I keep hearing off-camera when Darrell’s Dick Cheney is first shown? Some kind of sound glitch in the video file I’m watching of this episode? And what was with the audience’s delayed (but pointless) opening applause before Darrell starts speaking? This cold opening is already starting off awkwardly.
— Darrell’s Cheney downplaying the literal smoke in the room isn’t providing any laughs for me. A lame gag.
— That’s it?!? This cold opening is over already?!? Geez, this cold opening was two-and-a-half minutes of NOTHING. Very lame political “comedy”.
STARS: *
MONOLOGUE
host fields questions of audience members including fiancee musical guest
— Lance Armstrong, regarding getting tired: “Come on, I’m Lance Armstrong. I don’t get tired!” Blah. Then we get a joke about Lance getting his urine tested that holds up very poorly nowadays, for obvious reasons.
— Fred’s gleeful French accent is hilarious.
— A memorable bit with Lance’s jealous cycling teammates sternly asking him “Are you hosting alone or with the team?”, which gets a strong audience reaction.
— A good laugh from the odd way Lance’s teammates all walk away in unison.
— J.B. Smoove steals this monologue as always.
— Liz Cackowski is starting to become the Sarah Silverman or Paula Pell of this era’s questions-from-the-audience monologues.
— When asked about his and Sheryl Crow’s engagement, Lance responds “Yes. We’re definitely getting married.” Oof, talk about things in this monologue that have aged horribly. Not only would these two break up just a few months after this episode without ever getting married, but it would be before NBC even first reran this episode. As you can imagine, that rerun made for an awkward watch back in 2006.
STARS: ***
CELEBRITY IRONMAN
host struggles with running & swimming triathlon legs
Quite Frankly With Stephen A. Smith (FIM)- he enjoys favored status at ESPN
— Chris Parnell has returned, after taking the last two episodes off to film episodes of an upcoming new NBC sitcom that ends up never even airing. Even though I feel Bill and especially Jason will render Chris a little obsolete over the course of this season by slowly and successfully taking over the type of roles he’d usually get, I still always love and appreciate Chris as a performer, and it feels refreshing to see him again after he’s been away for two episodes.
— Poor Andy, with his only two appearances of the night (the monologue and this) being small non-speaking roles.
— Some mild laughs from Lance’s bad attempts at running, but this isn’t a particularly hilarious premise for a lead-off sketch.
— In retrospect, Finesse’s Stephen A. Smith impression holds up kinda poorly after getting used to the spot-on impression of Smith that Jay Pharoah would later do (even if I don’t care for the very one-note Weekend Update commentaries his Smith would appear in). Didn’t care much for the writing of Finesse’s scene either.
— At one point during Seth’s interview of Lance, the greenscreened background of outdoor scenery accidentally gets replaced for a few seconds by a black screen stating the words “Fire Alarm” (screencap below), which is the SNL control room’s cue title screen for a fake ad that’s going to air right after this sketch.
STARS: **½
FIRE ALERT 3000
the Totally Rad Fire Alert 3000 detects smoke & plays hits from the ’80s
— Good to see Chris in yet another big role tonight early in tonight’s episode.
— Odd how this is the second fireman (or fire chief, in this commercial’s case) Fred has played tonight.
— Pretty fun idea for a fake ad, and there are some good laughs from the upbeat 80s music playing during drastic house fires.
— Chris’ carefree dancing while Fred is sternly informing us of the importance of fire safety is very amusing. Chris’ performance is very fun in this sketch, especially when juxtaposed alongside Fred’s serious straight man character. Given the way Chris is usually typecast as dull and humorless straight men on SNL, I’m surprised SNL didn’t have Fred and Chris playing each other’s roles in this commercial, but I’m glad they didn’t.
STARS: ****
HARMONIES
musical guest joins Indigo Girls (AMP) & (RAD) atop a mountain
— Maybe it’s because there’s not much laughs elsewhere here, but it’s kinda funny watching the dogs wandering around the set and sniffing the guitars all throughout this sketch. SNL’s crew must’ve sprayed those guitars (and perhaps the whole set in general) with some kind of food scent beforehand to keep the dogs from leaving the set.
— Not caring for much of this sketch.
— This already-dull sketch has gotten pretty awkward and slow-paced once Lance has entered.
— Did I just hear Lance pronounce “naked” two different ways in two back-to-back sentences?
STARS: **
THE O’REILLY FACTOR
Bill O’Reilly’s (DAH) irrelevant misconceptions bewilder guests
— Darrell Hammond does a great impression of Darrell Hammond in a wig and prosthetic nose. While he actually has Bill O’Reilly’s speech pattern down fairly well here, the voice itself just sounds like Darrell. This impression doesn’t even compare to the spot-on one that Jeff Richards did. Yet another reminder of how, when it comes to celebrity impressions (especially political ones), what should’ve been a successful passing-of-the-torch between Darrell and Jeff sadly got screwed up horribly. By this point in late 2005, Jeff should’ve been in his fifth season on the show, flourishing as SNL’s resident impressionist, while Darrell would’ve been long gone from the show, gracefully bowing out sometime around 2002 or 2003.
— Another sketch this season where Darrell annoyingly keeps coughing loudly off-camera while someone else is speaking.
— O’Reilly’s idiotic “facts” throughout this sketch are pretty funny.
— Lance looks convincing as someone from the army.
— Darrell’s a tad stumbly throughout this sketch.
— Did we need Darrell pausing for SO LONG just now, in what appeared to be an unnecessary attempt to milk extra laughs from the audience?
— The letters during the Mail Bag segment are pretty funny.
STARS: ***
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
musical guest performs “Good Is Good”
WEEKEND UPDATE
drunk Harriet Miers (RAD) assesses why she won’t be on the Supreme Court
Bitch Fight News Quiz- AMP sorts Lindsay Lohan & Maureen Dowd quotes
FIM honors Rosa Parks by staging a sit-in at the Weekend Update desk
White Sox star Scott Podsednik [real] pegs TIF & AMP as Chicago Cubs fans
terrorist Mrs. Butterworth (KET) may be source of maple syrup odor in NYC
— When Rachel’s Harriet Miers starts to break out into Vanessa Williams’ song “Save The Best For Last”, I like Tina’s delivery when telling her “Don’t sing any more of that, or we’ll have to pay for it.”
— Very solid performance from Rachel here.
— Even when merely being heard off-camera in an answering machine greeting message, Will’s President Bush impression cracks me up.
— Didn’t care for the Bitch Fight Quiz bit with Tina and Amy.
— Not a bad premise of Finesse’s commentary, staging a Rosa Parks-inspired sit-in at the white-dominated Update desk.
— Finesse’s comment about Condoleezza Rice cracked me up.
— A weak and lazy ending to Finesse’s commentary.
— Ugh at Tina’s gay-themed “smoking pole” joke.
— Wow, not to be outdone, Amy immediately follows Tina’s awful “smoking pole” joke with a fucking terrible Girl Kills Bear joke of her own. Man, who writes this crap?!?
— Two athletes from two different sports appearing in the same episode (Lance Armstrong and Scott Podsednik)?
— As someone who lived in Chicago for 10 years (funnily enough, I moved away from Chicago just a week before this episode originally aired, to move back to my hometown of New York), I’m personally liking all the insider Chicago references that Tina and Amy are making during the Scott Podsednik commentary; insider references that anyone who’s never lived in Chicago would scratch their heads at. These references are really speaking to me. Tina and Amy referencing the jingle of those hilariously low-budget Moo & Oink commercials especially made me laugh, but it, of course, was met with puzzled silence by the studio audience.
— Kenan In A Dress alert.
— Didn’t crack a smile during Kenan’s entire Mrs. Butterworth bit. It was just plain dumb, and not the kind of dumb I like.
— This overall Update felt super-long and never-ending. And unfortunately, this Update was also the inevitable return of the typical bad Fey/Poehler Update humor, after I found their last Update more tolerable than usual.
STARS: **
LANCE’S SONG
musical guest can barely stomach the awful love song host wrote for her
— Lance badly singing and laughing his way through his first song isn’t exactly funny to me.
— Boy, Sheryl Crow is an even worse actor than Lance is.
— Bill’s mere look is the only humor I’ve been getting here.
— Ugh, I am really not caring for this sketch.
STARS: *½
TRUMP’S CAMEO
Donald Trump (DAH) goes off-script while shooting Days Of Our Lives cameo
— A variation of the strong Trump Promo Shoot sketches from the preceding season. This time, we’re actually seeing the off-camera director that Seth always plays in these.
— Darrell’s Trump inexplicably doing a bad cartoonish Italian accent for one take is pretty funny.
— A mild laugh from the poorly-edited final take of Trump’s scene.
— Overall, despite some laughs, this was a very pale variation of season 30’s Trump Promo Shoot sketches. This lacked the strength of those sketches. (And I never thought I’d say season 30 was better at doing something than season 31 is.)
STARS: **
CAROL!
on a blind date, (host) is inexplicably smitten with indelicate Carol
— Hoooooooo, boy. Here’s the debut of an infamous series of sketches starring a spun-off character from the preceding season’s Key Party sketch. When these Carol sketches originally aired, I absolutely HATED them, as I’m sure a lot of people do. But in more recent years, I’ve seen some people say they appreciate these sketches in a “So bad, it’s good” way. It’ll be interesting to see what my reaction to these sketches will be now. I want to appreciate the “So bad, it’s good”-ness of this sketch like some others do, so I’ll now go into this sketch with an open mind, but don’t be surprised if I end up being salty as fuck towards it.
— Yet another recurring character in this era that has their own opening title sequence and theme song. At this point, I wonder if these 2004-2006 years have equaled the number of title sequence and theme song-having recurring characters that the late 80s/early 90s years had.
— Jason’s a funny straight man here.
— So far, yeah, this is a parade of just about every terrible habit Horatio has as a performer.
— I’m sensing somewhat of a “So bad, it’s good” quality to this, but I’m being more bored than amused by this. At least I’m not outright annoyed like I used to be by these sketches.
— Something about the “HA!” that Lance unintentionally lets out when Horatio causes him to break made me crack up myself.
— Didn’t care for Carol suddenly delivering a manly-voiced “I’m gonna go push one out and smoke a joint in the bathroom.”
— Overall, mixed feelings on this. I could somewhat appreciate the “So bad, it’s good” factor at certain points, but a lot of this did nothing for me. Like I said earlier, though, at least I didn’t hate this and wasn’t annoyed, like I was when these Carol sketches originally aired. Maybe these sketches will continue to slowly grow on me more and more as I review the subsequent installments.
STARS: **
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
musical guest performs “Strong Enough”
NOISY SIDEKICK
(WLF) cackles at mobster’s (HOS) jokes during interrogation of (host)
— I recall once hearing that Will based his high-pitched laugh throughout this sketch on his mother, who we actually met on the show the preceding season, in a Mother’s Day song Will sang to her on Weekend Update. Based on how Will’s mom looked in that Update appearance, I cannot picture Will’s bizarre-sounding laugh coming out of that woman. Also, it’s funny how this is the second episode in a row with a sketch based on a cast member’s mother, as the preceding episode’s Creighton Boys School sketch was based on Seth’s mother, according to commenter HelloStuart. Speaking of this trend of sketches based on cast members’ mothers, and speaking specifically of Will’s mother, we interestingly get a certain odd (and rare to see, as it would be removed from reruns) Butt Pregnancy sketch in the very next episode that ends with a twist about Will Forte himself being who the woman in the sketch was butt-pregnant with.
— Will’s bizarre laughing is cracking me up. He’s one of the few performers who could make a thin sketch like this funny. It’s not one of the better of Will’s oddball sketches, but it works.
— In addition to his laugh, I also like the wiseguy voice Will’s speaking with here, a voice I don’t think I’ve ever heard Will use elsewhere.
— Ha, Will’s shrieking each time he gets shot is hilarious.
— Horatio is surprisingly a decent straight man here, and he’s not breaking at Will’s antics at all.
— The show must be running long, judging by the audience being cued to applaud a few seconds too early at the end of this sketch, and the fact that the following goodnights get cut off very early.
STARS: ***½
GOODNIGHTS
IMMEDIATE POST-SHOW THOUGHTS
— Our first weak episode of the season. A lot of poor or blah things in this episode, and almost nothing stood out as great. This episode as a whole had a flat feel, even despite some of the things that worked. Having an athlete host giving forgettable performances all night probably contributed even further to that flat feel.
MY PERSONAL CHOICE OF “BEST OF” MOMENTS FOR THIS EPISODE, REPRESENTED WITH SCREENCAPS
HOW THIS EPISODE STACKS UP AGAINST THE PRECEDING ONE (Catherine Zeta-Jones)
a step down
My full set of screencaps for this episode is here
TOMORROW
Jason Lee hosts. We also get a new female addition to the cast.
Yet another “SNL” ep I remember watching, but barely remember content-wise, looking back…
Adding to the awkwardness surrounding this episode, the Trump sketch concerns his appearance on Days of Our Lives. Prior to taping the scene, he made his “grab ’em by the …” comments.
Amy Poehler is even wearing a somewhat similar dress to the one Ari Zuker wore. Between this, the steroid jokes, and the wedding jokes, the only thing that could have dated this more badly is if they’d had a special guest appearance by Mark Foley.
This episode sucked, but it’s more just “blah/meh” than all-out trainwreck. I do LOVE the smoke detector commercial, something that I think could use more love.
I sincerely don’t understand what Darrell was attempting in the O’Reilly impression. He does get the vocal mannerisms well, as you point out, but never in a million years would I identify him as O’Reilly from the look or voice. I’ve never enjoyed these sketches because they also are pretty obvious (O’Reilly is dumb!), although I have to confess that is basically what his actual show was like at the time (which I also confess to watching a lot of).
I wonder how many then-current couples who appeared together on SNL broke up or got divorced.
Most of the married couples who hosted (Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss notwithstanding), Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge, Jerry Hall and Mick Jagger, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore and probably a few more that aren’t immediately coming to mind.
Hey Frank! Don’t forget the Baldwins and the Lacheys.
I included them under married couples, HelloStuart. =)
I thought of another dating couple, Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield.
Tina’s little love declaration for Patrick Fitzgerald just makes me wince. It’s a shining example of everything that I do not enjoy in her tenure at Update, and like a lot of her Update material (both here and in her future guest shots), it seems like it was much better in her head.
This is a pretty flat episode, although I can accept Lance’s performance in a dudebro type of way – he’s just there, chilling, part of the furniture. This works best for him in the song sketch with Bill and Fred, and the Carol sketch – he seems to be enjoying himself.
I am half-surprised they didn’t just have Sheryl as a co-host, given her presence in several sketches. This booking felt like a throwback to the pop culture gimmicky type bookings of the first half of the decade. At least it could have been worse…
Will makes the last sketch a great deal of fun (and yes, I agree Horatio is a good straight man). I kept forgetting about it until I read your review but I also really enjoyed the pre-tape with Chris getting to play the crazy and energetic type of role he’d had much more often in his first run (like Ken Starr in the Gap ad and the sex-with-car ad). Glad he got one more of these before he was gone.
I can’t exactly get on a high horse if people don’t like the Carol sketches. I’ve trashed better sketches than these. There is just something that hits me about the sheer anti-comedy of these things, even if it may not be intentional. Every tic Horatio has is turned around into something that is some sort of blast of desperate horror show, but for good instead of bad. Or good-bad, I guess. And it’s fitting this aired right before Will’s sketch, as it’s basically just another version of “How long can this irritation continue?” Horatio irritates us, then plays someone who is irritated – it’s a great, if likely unintended synergy. Honestly I’d say this was one of Horatio’s best episodes in a while, as someone who was never a big fan.
The Carol sketch also reminds me of that Gingjamin Franklin sketch Will tried to get on but ultimately debuted on Seth’s Second Chance Theatre.
Lots of appearances and references to those who later become controversial and/or disgraced (O’Reilly, Trump – who of course is President, Lance). Not to mention the hosting, musical guest pick not holding up well together due to how the relationship turned out (there’s been a lot of that on SNL).
Don’t forget that “grab ’em” tape costed Billy Bush his Today Show gig back in 2016 after a short time.
I’m flummoxed by your continued praise of Jeff Richards. I found most of his impressions to be serviceable if not great — maybe his Gary Busey is his best — and he carried the extra baggage of some horrific characters — Drunk Girl, Baby K. I’ll take the extra seasons of Hammond if given the choice.
I think Richards had some really lively impressions. Busey, of course, but also Letterman, O’Reilly (eons beyond Darrell’s), and a handful of others (small sample size of course – most of Darrell’s best pieces didn’t show up until seasons 4-6 for him). His characters were really grating though. Like, Goat Boy annoying. Darrell, for his part, just tended to be dull as dishwater when he wasn’t doing impersonations. Then again, he was pretty dull doing most of his impersonations anyway. How many white politicians did he specifically need to play. Did we really need a relatively straight depiction of, say, Donald Rumsfeld or John Ashcroft?
His Jesse Jackson is pretty lively. But then there’s that other issue with that impression…
I recall this episode vividly only because I missed the first 10 minutes; I was driving home from a party and got caught in traffic. I had to put out a feeler for a tape of the episode (one year before the advent of Hulu) and ended up with only an audio recording. Somehow, I only published my review three days late.
Otherwise, this show has a strong Year 30 vibe, a reminder that we’re not out of the woods yet. I still think Fey and Poehler at the Update desk were fine, but a lot of the topical targets don’t hold up (besides all the gay jokes). I didn’t like “Giddy Henchman,” but I’m willing to give it a second watch.
I look forward to the next review, the episode that cements the “Class of 2005” and what I call “The Eleven,” perhaps the strongest cast in the show’s history. I mean, everyone in the show on Year 32 was on SNL for a minimum of seven seasons for a reason.
S32 is a very strong cast, but even if I’ve soured somewhat on Dennis Miller’s Update over the years the 86-89 cast would still be the strongest for me. I guess for me it mostly boils down to the superior writing of the late ’80s.
I’d take Goat Boy any and every day of the week over Drunk Girl or Baby K. I do think Jeff was a strong impressionist and I wish SNL had used that more wisely, although I think they could have brought in someone else to take over for Darrell as well. I guess Darrell was the first (Darrell or Kevin Nealon, although Kevin had a stronger run for more of his tenure) to have the “you’ve been here so long, just keep staying” type of job status.
I agree with Hello Carson that Season 32 has one of the strongest ensembles the show ever had. Although I am biased because I consider them “my cast ” The first four years and 86-90 are the only casts that better that one. These ensembles made the show always watchable no matter how dire the writing for a particular episode.
“So bad its good” would be how I would describe a lot of Horatio’s stuff on the show. Like I knew a lot of his stupid was pretty stupid, but it still made me laugh a lot of the time. That Mobster sketch with DeNiro is a good example of that from the season before.
As mentioned earlier what prevents the 05-12/13 cast from becoming a golden era is the sharp decline in writing. Especially around 09/10.
86-90 had far superior writing. Hell you can say from 86-93 for the most part
And 95-02 had better writing with albeit a less talented cast to a degree
I think Strummer has it. 05-13 is an all-star cast with super iffy writing. 95-02 is all-star writing with an iffy cast. 86-93 is the era where both are operating at the top echelon.
I can see that, Strummer. I’d like to think that Year 32 and the first part of Year 33 was the apex of that particular cast. Fred and Wiig weren’t annoying… yet. You start seeing the wheels come off midway through Year 34, when Wiigy is the only female lead in any given sketch.
Also, who called me “HelloCarson?”
S32 cast is excellent–I wish Parnell was still there and I think Dratch had some life left–but there aren’t many weak links (the weakest would be I guess a past shelf date Hammond, who at least doesn’t drag anything down, and Rudolph, whom I recall annoying me less that season). Armisen and Wiig haven’t reached the level of annoyance I later had for them. Thompson has grown a lot into his role as a cast member. Update is a lot better.
The next “big push” in cast members is probably 36, where Jay, Taran, and Vanessa all arrive at the same time.
Don’t forget Paul!
“You start seeing the wheels come off midway through Year 34, when Wiigy is the only female lead in any given sketch.”
I do wonder if Jenny didn’t utter ‘fuck’ in her first show would the writers have evened things out or was the lack of confidence in anything but Wiig palpable from the second Amy left for Pawnee.
Kristen Wiig joins in the next episode. We should enjoy her while we can, guys, because, come Season 34/35….
As for this episode, it seems like a leftover Season 30 episode. Gay jokes, men in drag, Horatio giggling, Tina and Amy annoying the shit out of everyone, it’s all here.
I’m glad to see Chris Parnell back, though. He is SEVERELY underrated, not just as a cast member on SNL, but as an actor in general. I first became aware of him on this PBS Kids show called WordGirl, starring Uptight Citizens Brigade performer Dannah Phirman (who, coincidentally, costarred with Amy on The Mighty B!), where he played the narrator. Nowadays, he’s in those Progressive commercials with that annoying talking box.
Last thing I saw Parnell on was on an ep of “Will & Grace” of its just-ended final season.
Hey, I got your talking box right here. Oof!
Parnell’s time with Progressive is done, although he still has quite a few gigs, at least. (not mentioned here but he does the narration in a killer shark game I saw on Honest Game Trailers last week). I know animation is steady and great work, but selfishly, I do wish I got to see him on TV a bit more often. After the CBS sitcom he did a few years ago (which came and went), he mostly just seems to make Match Game appearances.
https://tv.avclub.com/chris-parnell-on-rick-and-morty-s-success-and-hot-rod-s-1843327205
The next episode is one of my faves. Be nice 🙁
This and the next episode will remind me that usually I relied on torrent uploads of the SNLs att instead of VHS recording or staying in. And the only Jason Lee torrent available for a while was a mistake re-upload of Armstrong. Frustratedly would keep waiting for Wiig’s debut (which I’d read about and rely on her IMDB picture for ID until Longoria) until much later when a torrent of Lee’s repeat showed up. (and no “Butt Pregnancy” sketch, replaced by “Dessert Song” so still more frustration til years later when acquired through DVD-r trading.
Always got a kick out of Finesse briefly mentioning Dennis Miller’s WU legacy…
I imagine trying to find an HD rip in 2005 was a pain in the ass.
Didn’t know which episode to post this comment on but when Rolling Stone ranked every cast member up to that point, they had Tina Fey at number 3 ahead of people like Bill Murray, Will Ferrell, Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Gilda Radner, etc. I was wondering what you guys think. Because looking through these reviews, I don’t see why she’s ranked that high. Are they judging her by her writing our her Weekend Update?
I think they ranked because of two non-cast related things – her head writer status and Sarah Palin. Also, that list was a disgrace.
That’s the same list that ranked Robert Downey, Jr. as the worst cast member ever.
I thought Victoria was (incorrectly) ranked as worst cast member.
The whole Rolling Stone ranking was completely absurd, and placing Tina at #3 was only one of the many absurdities…
I remember they also had Norm Macdonald nearly at the bottom (below even Laurie Metcalf.)
I absolutely hate that list, more than anything else because they kept lumping people together if they were only in one season. Fuck that shit.
You know Lorne’s saying, “SNL was at its best whenever YOU were in high school”? Well, that asinine RS list always felt to like it was written by someone who must have been in high school during these blah post-Will Ferrell years (s29-31). And then when they were assigned the list, they had to quickly find clips online so they could sound intelligent.
However, I just looked it up and it was written by Rob Sheffield, who was in high school during the Ebersol years. Make of that what you will.
Well, it that meant that’s why Eddie Murphy was No. 2, then he has no argument from me!
This episode really washed over me. The only sketch I liked was probably the O’Reilly Factor, even if Darrell’s impression wasn’t accurate (which didn’t bother me.)
I don’t recall the set up to Tina’s “smoking pole” joke but I remember HATING it. I honestly don’t like most eras of Update but the Tina and Amy ones are real janky in both writing and performance. When an anchor’s delivery is good they can shield how bad a lot of Update jokes are.
Stooge, I watched this live in Chicago as well. I was a sophomore at Columbia College.
I only remember the green screen error and Lance’s song. The reviews are starting to bring some of it back.
The Rolling Stone ranking was a complete and utter joke. As soon as I saw Norm Macdonald at the bottom, I knew the rest of it didn’t matter. Some people don’t like Norm but how could you rank him lower than featured players who barely did anything?!! Get out of here!
I like Tina and she is objectively an important part of the show’s DNA but 3rd? Tina wouldn’t even have put herself there…
Well, here it is…
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-lists/saturday-night-live-all-145-cast-members-ranked-146340/144-the-muppets-95492/
George Coe is like 36 spots ahead of Norm. That’s when you throw the list out.
Why are Laurie Metcalf & Emily Prager ranked and that far up the list, too.
I’m not bugging by thinking this season is really front-loading the episodes, am I? What time did Update tend to come on?
LOL at that AV Club interview with Parnell, he makes his time on SNL seem like prison.
“The Saftey Dance”
How did that get past the graphics department?
My friend had cousins who went to New Trier High School, so I felt like such a smart high schooler when I got that Weekend Update segment (Even Wilmette? No, not Wilmette). Tina and Amy have always been willing to do regionally specific jokes without caring if everyone gets it, and I appreciate that.
Just happened to stop by the first Sheryl Crow intro and caught recognizable folks in the audience near Armstrong:
– Seth Meyers’ parents (100% confirmed by YT clips of their appearances on his talk show):
https://imgur.com/laszkyh
– this I’m not 100% but it’s the first thing that popped into my head, I’m pretty sure this is Angela Kinsey (fresh in her first year as an NBC star, The Office just got into their 2nd season)
https://imgur.com/VJSXVWR