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What I can't believe is there are people that don't know Andy Samberg's song Like a Boss is a parody of a real song called Like a Boss from Slim Thug, which is what makes it so funny.
New girl on SNL dropped the fbomb on live TV (youtube inside)
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I think you've actually come up with the best way to save the show, bring out the gong.
I admit I've never been particularly impressed with SNL. But I also love all the sort of bizarro rumors, love/hate rants and other stuff that people get into when talking about it. That sort of controversy just feeds it. Do what I did with The Simpsons, they stopped being funny, so I stopped watching and just let it go.
Ironically, the "classic" Simpsons pretty well summarized SNL years ago when Krusty was on Tuesday Night Live, bombs the monologue then starts a sketch with only a handful of laughs before lamenting "uugh... this sketch goes on for twelve more minutes!"
EDIT: Reminded me of another classic Krusty moment.
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The exact people that keep SNL somehow funny IMO are: The Lonely Island guys, Jason Sudekis, Will Forte, Fred Armison, Bill Hader, Kenan Thompson, and (sometimes) Kristin Wiig.
i liked the bedsheets sketch...and i can't wait for McGruber: the movie.
i liked the bedsheets sketch...and i can't wait for McGruber: the movie.
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Jason Sudakis' JOe Biden is the greatest charecture ever.
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I needed that laugh tonight!
The funny thing is it reminds me so much of this infamous incident from last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK2pj2bktsQ (and I think it had the better sound)
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Exactly! The Simpsons is a perfect example of another show that's fallen so far from its former glory that it's nearly unrecognizable now.
Hehe, that Krusty clip you posted brought up this one in the "Related Videos" list. Just a reminder of how funny things once were.
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The thing about SNL is that it was never as good as you remember it being...
There were some really bad sketches on every episode. EVERY TIME.
There were some really bad sketches on every episode. EVERY TIME.
Blasphemy!
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And Samberg does all the digital shorts. Spoken like someone who truly doesn't watch the show.
I could show you tons. Especially some of Kristen Wiig's recurring characters. You can't get SNL on youtube though.Didn't Lorne Michaels tell Norm MacDonald to leave the show because he was "not funny"?
Uh actually, lets not bother arguing. Just post up a youtube of a recent SNL skit that you think is funny and we'll take it from there.
I'll even give you a couple of months to find one.
That's not what happened to Norm. Look it up on Wikipedia.
Except nobody does, especially on the Internet it seems. No one I know even watches it.
The problem with that approach is that you stop seeing the show, so you can no longer make an informed argument before long. I'm not suggesting you should stick with a show even if you no longer like it, I'm just saying.
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Exactly! The Simpsons is a perfect example of another show that's fallen so far from its former glory that it's nearly unrecognizable now.
Hehe, that Krusty clip you posted brought up this one in the "Related Videos" list. Just a reminder of how funny things once were.
Anything with McBain on The Simpsons is funny! The goggles! They do nothing!
One more Mcbain.
I hate the fact that The Simpsons can't make fun of the network anymore like they used to.
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Why would I want to be home on a Saturday night watching TV?
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If you walked away after 5 minutes, how do you know he went on for an hour rant then? Is this one of those Dane Cook Jokes?
"There was like a Million Firemen there!"
"There is not way there were a million firemen, they would all be running into each other!!"
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I had Slim Thug's version on my iPod about 3 years ago along with Birdman, Yin Yang Twins, Pitbull and some other stuff.
I wish I still had those MP3s.
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Exactly! The Simpsons is a perfect example of another show that's fallen so far from its former glory that it's nearly unrecognizable now.
Hehe, that Krusty clip you posted brought up this one in the "Related Videos" list. Just a reminder of how funny things once were.
I love these clips. That last one Maury posted included one of my favorite gags with Lisa' pen pal.
This is my favorite McBain clip, but it seems to be only available in gibberish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaCpZW2mHAs
MEN-DO-ZAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Who watches it when it's actually on?
??? They still do that all the time. This is the kind of uninformed blanket statements I'm tired of seeing.
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Who watches it at all and actually finds it funny besides you?
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People don't hate on SNL because it's "cool" to do so. They hate on it because any time they inadvertently see a piece of it, it invariably SUCKS.
Some people have fond memories about how it used to be good, but mostly that is an illusion based on nostalgia from seeing it at too young an age when that person was a hell of a lot less discerning.
The series survives solely through inertia and people easily pleased be the trite and inane, like Neo Alec, of which there are altogether too many.
Some people have fond memories about how it used to be good, but mostly that is an illusion based on nostalgia from seeing it at too young an age when that person was a hell of a lot less discerning.
The series survives solely through inertia and people easily pleased be the trite and inane, like Neo Alec, of which there are altogether too many.
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And Chris Elliot and Micheal McKeon.
But I really liked that era...
Worst Era was the Billy Crystal era.
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It was longer since we work together and eiher he'd send me texts or periodically start up again when he'd see me. I just cut all that out and made it short
And Dane Cook isn't funny either
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So is this chick fired or what?
