September 30, 2017
"I exist. I mean, I exist. I really exist!"
(Randomly encountered on Youtube this morning. There's no context to why I'm sharing this, just something I liked a lot. What a great cast SNL had in 1989. The assumption that everybody remembers "Fatal Attraction" isn't good 3 decades later, but that's how it is.)
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Who's the Drag Queen playing Glenn Close?
I am Laslo.
SNL really was good back then. Remember Jesse Jackson reading a racist tract?
Althouse has woke me to the wonder and power of fashionover the years.
So I'm thrilled with the wonder and power of the fashion on this video.... 30 years after the sell by date.
But, fortunately THIS weeks fashion is, undoubtedly timeless.
[And the sketch isn't funny.]
Fatal attraction was the worst nightmare horror film of many successful men in the 1980s. I bet Trump would get upset watching it. There is too much reality in that movie.
But today Roy Moore will be made into a scary
monster for suggesting sexual
Fidelity in marriage like some religious nut who obeys commandments. Come to think of it Pence is one of those too.
What a great cast SNL had in 1989
The Weekend Updates with Dennis Miller from that era are evergreen.
I was just thinking of Dana Carvey this morning. Liz Phipps Soeiro reminded me of the Church Lady. Dana Carvey did such a great characterization with her little uniform, smug little mouth, and self righteousness. Her little lecture was all for your own good of course.
I'm not going to be ignored, Dan. Best line from the film
@rehajm:
The Weekend Updates with Dennis Miller from that era are evergreen.
Gret clip, but Norm Macdonald has Weekend Update host will always be my favorite. "I'm Norm Macdonald, and this is the fake news." So ahead of his time.
Norm lurved him some OJ and Billary Chinese corruption.
Masterful.
@donald:
Norm lurved him some OJ and Billary Chinese corruption.
"For years, Hillary Rodham Clinton has told people that she was named for the first man to climb Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. But as Esquire magazine recently pointed out, Sir Edmund did not climb Mount Everest until 1953, six years after Hillary was born. However, the First Lady does have a good explanation for the discrepancy. She loves to lie."
One of my favorite of his Hillary-bashing jokes on Update. Norm says time and again that he doesn't know anything about politics, and I believe him. But he's an astute observer of the human comedy and obviously sees through a lot of progressive/SJW b.s.
The Best SNL cast was the first: Belushi, Ackroyd, Chase, Murray, Curtin, Radner.
The only lemons in the bunch were Morris and Newman.
The SNL 1980s were mediocre to say the least. Basically, Eddie Murphy, Joe Pescipo and Whoever. They had some other talented people but they weren't used well, or they weren't good sketch comedians.
And then came Miller, Carvey, Sandler, MacDonald, Jackson, Farley, etc. - Amazing that's its been 20-25 years.
SNL was always Left-wing in its politics but it usually wasn't so nasty or one-sided that a Republican couldn't enjoy it. That's changed in 2008 with Palin/McCain and now with Trump.
@rcocean:
The Best SNL cast was the first: Belushi, Ackroyd, Chase, Murray, Curtin, Radner.
Maybe it's just because I came of age in the 90s, but I always preferred the 90s cast. My father came of age with the original cast and always prefers them. I've gone back and watched it from the beginning. Standby my assertion.
SNL was always Left-wing in its politics but it usually wasn't so nasty or one-sided that a Republican couldn't enjoy it. That's changed in 2008 with Palin/McCain and now with Trump.
True, but Jim Downey was always a fairly conservative guy (or at least not a progressive), and he had major impact on the writing for most of the show's history. When Norm Macdonald took over weekend update, he arranged for Jim Downey to write with him exclusively for the segment. I think Norm and Downey's sensibility is all over Update during those years. The material was pretty edgy and jokes would often illicit silence or audible gasps. Jokes that would never fly by today's standards. And this was in the high water of the so called culture wars. I think we know whose been winning the battle since then, and the results haven't been looking good.
"Maybe it's just because I came of age in the 90s, but I always preferred the 90s cast."
Mileage may vary.
I think the 70s cast was more talented. Myers and Sandler made it big in Hollywood, but i don't think anyone else in the 90s cast has. OTOH, Murray is an AA nominee - Belushi and Chase were big comedy stars. Curtin had a successful TV show. Ackroyd was more successful behind the camera than on. And who knows what Gilda could have done if she hadn't died a a young age.
OTOH, the deaths of Hartmann and Farley were a big loss to comedy.
Norm MacDonald - when he's on - makes me laugh more than anyone.
Those Canadians can be extremely funny, when you get them out of the great White North.
@rcocean:
Myers and Sandler made it big in Hollywood, but i don't think anyone else in the 90s cast has.
I'd add Will Ferrell and Tina Fey to that list, as well. Others have had considerable success on television, such as Jimmy Fallon. But I take your point, though the original cast was much smaller than subsequent casts.
Ferrell, Fey and the boy are not funny.
Ferrell makes me blanch and I'm a juvenile humor kinda guy.
@donald:
Ferrell, Fey and the boy are not funny.
Whether or not they are funny is a different question from what rcocean was talking about, which was career success as measured in standard terms. I think Ferrel, Fey, and Fallon definitely fit the bill. Whatever one thinks personally about their talents (or lack thereof), they are undoubtedly successful in a major way in their chosen professions. Tina Fey wrote Mean Girls, which is a very smart film and is iconic in its genre. I am not a Fallon fan, but as I said, given the criteria, he has achieved great success.
Ferrell makes me blanch and I'm a juvenile humor kinda guy.
Anchorman, Stranger Than Fiction, and Stepbrothers were all good comedies. And you don't have to be into "juvenile humor" to appreciate any of them. Sandler pics like Happy Gilmore or Waterboy are a much better fit that description.
Those of us who watched the 1970s shows live remember them as being more funny than they really were. After all, in 1975 there wasn't anything else to compare. But if one goes back and watches those skits, they weren't that good. They also established the tradition of, having created a funny skit, to keep doing it over and over until it was beaten to death.
I quit watching in the 1990s when I realized that one had to watch 49 minutes of commercials in hopes of seeing one four or five minute funny sketch. See also: The NFL.
Ok sure. I can buy that. But they ain't funny.
It occurs to me that nobody has mentioned the incredible Jan Hooks.
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