I mean in a show like snl, where it is a large volume of tv in a short turn around, it’s never unsurprising that most of it is bad. But you watch snl for those little moments that are funny, because when they get that lightning in a bottle it lights up, but even when it isn’t, it can be exciting because lightning could come next.
In the 90‘s there was sketch show in Australia that ran for three seasons and they had a best of DVD, it’s only two hours long, because over those three seasons, most of it was stupid! But when it was funny (and since it was the 90's not racist or homophobic) it was very funny.
You don't even have to watch for those lightning moments. You can just catch them later online if news of anything starts trending.
On paper SNL is a real doozy: It's a half-century long running institutional comedy variety hour with a different self-promoting guest host each week, features an also self-promoting musical guest that no one watches, and its largely performed by a mishmash of generational cast members, alumni staff, and other NBC-friendly celebrities. All that and its aired at a date and time that most people with a social life typically aren't watching television.
I mean in a show like snl, where it is a large volume of tv in a short turn around, it’s never unsurprising that most of it is bad. But you watch snl for those little moments that are funny, because when they get that lightning in a bottle it lights up, but even when it isn’t, it can be exciting because lightning could come next.
In the 90‘s there was sketch show in Australia that ran for three seasons and they had a best of DVD, it’s only two hours long, because over those three seasons, most of it was stupid! But when it was funny (and since it was the 90's not racist or homophobic) it was very funny.
You don't even have to watch for those lightning moments. You can just catch them later online if news of anything starts trending.
On paper SNL is a real doozy: It's a half-century long running institutional comedy variety hour with a different self-promoting guest host each week, features an also self-promoting musical guest that no one watches, and its largely performed by a mishmash of generational cast members, alumni staff, and other NBC-friendly celebrities. All that and its aired at a date and time that most people with a social life typically aren't watching television.
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- some potentially upsetting talk about animal abuse
- feel like I missed a trick towards the end. She was never in danger of losing her job, that I noticed, and since getting exonerated is purely between her and the FBI ... why was Annie assuming she got laid off?
- - pretty surprised that there wasn't any pushback on Annie's resignation, now that I think about it. It just kinda happens.
- Zosia Mamet is a delight: "I can think of 700 well-intentioned BUT UNWISE reasons ... "
- The FBI's slow and steady pace was a nice contrast to Cassie's more scattershot approach.
- I stopped trusting Buckley around the time he 'happened' across Max and Cassie.
- I like the "inner world" conceit, and I'm glad they don't try to explain it.
- I think the 'coming to grips with her childhood' would have played better if we had more exposure to the fake, happy-sunshiney, set of memories, instead.
- - I expected more out of the rabbits, tbh
- - giant rabbit hallucination was excellent
- Miranada is great.
- - "We are so fucked"
- - "what if ... no, we'll both be killed"
- I liked the two PSAs, even if they were a bit clunky
- Shane is 'keeping tabs' on Megan, so why are they letting her make the copies and such? She can't be that good at it.
- She's only there for a couple of minutes, but it's always good to see Bebe Neuwirth.
- torn on them leaving things open for a second season.
- - on the one hand, more things need to end.
- - on the other, this is a pretty good setup and I'm mildly interested in more
as much as I don't love some of what Taika Waititi's done (Ragnarok is okay and Jojo Rabbit is a pretty big "no thanks" from me), he's one of the few people that went from indie to the big blockbuster and actually uses that increased notoriety to get stuff like this made, rather than just continuing to cash the big checks on bigger checks
Sydney Freeland is gonna be busy in 2021. She's attached to like three different shows, and she tends to pick up a few freelance directing gigs a year.
She totally deserves it, too. Fuckin' love Drunktown's Finest.
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I mean in a show like snl, where it is a large volume of tv in a short turn around, it’s never unsurprising that most of it is bad. But you watch snl for those little moments that are funny, because when they get that lightning in a bottle it lights up, but even when it isn’t, it can be exciting because lightning could come next.
In the 90‘s there was sketch show in Australia that ran for three seasons and they had a best of DVD, it’s only two hours long, because over those three seasons, most of it was stupid! But when it was funny (and since it was the 90's not racist or homophobic) it was very funny.
You don't even have to watch for those lightning moments. You can just catch them later online if news of anything starts trending.
On paper SNL is a real doozy: It's a half-century long running institutional comedy variety hour with a different self-promoting guest host each week, features an also self-promoting musical guest that no one watches, and its largely performed by a mishmash of generational cast members, alumni staff, and other NBC-friendly celebrities. All that and its aired at a date and time that most people with a social life typically aren't watching television.
And yet Lorne makes like $30 million a year.
There's a whole machine that Lorne runs beyond SNL with loads of success. He's produced a dozen hit shows, long running sitcoms, decades of late night. and SNL both a farm system and a gateway for comedy legends.
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I unashamedly love Always Sunny from start to finish warts and all but I usually recommend season 4 as a starting point. It starts with Mac and Dennis Manhunters and ends with The Nightman Cometh.
You don't need too much context to know the characters yet and Frank hasn't completely lost his mind yet.
I unashamedly love Always Sunny from start to finish warts and all but I usually recommend season 4 as a starting point. It starts with Mac and Dennis Manhunters and ends with The Nightman Cometh.
You don't need too much context to know the characters yet and Frank hasn't completely lost his mind yet.
I just bought a Funko Pop of Frank as the Troll for my family's White Elephant gift exchange
Technically you're supposed to get gag gifts for White Elephant, but fuck that; if I'm spending money it's going to be on things people actually might want.
I mean in a show like snl, where it is a large volume of tv in a short turn around, it’s never unsurprising that most of it is bad. But you watch snl for those little moments that are funny, because when they get that lightning in a bottle it lights up, but even when it isn’t, it can be exciting because lightning could come next.
In the 90‘s there was sketch show in Australia that ran for three seasons and they had a best of DVD, it’s only two hours long, because over those three seasons, most of it was stupid! But when it was funny (and since it was the 90's not racist or homophobic) it was very funny.
You don't even have to watch for those lightning moments. You can just catch them later online if news of anything starts trending.
On paper SNL is a real doozy: It's a half-century long running institutional comedy variety hour with a different self-promoting guest host each week, features an also self-promoting musical guest that no one watches, and its largely performed by a mishmash of generational cast members, alumni staff, and other NBC-friendly celebrities. All that and its aired at a date and time that most people with a social life typically aren't watching television.
Look at butters here, showing off he has a social life. I mean most people are out, yes, but there are people who are home every Saturday who do watch it plus people who night just stay home once in a while.
And I don’t know about, wait for it to be on YouTube, like I said it being live does make it more exciting, because you don’t know what is going to happen next.
I unashamedly love Always Sunny from start to finish warts and all but I usually recommend season 4 as a starting point. It starts with Mac and Dennis Manhunters and ends with The Nightman Cometh.
You don't need too much context to know the characters yet and Frank hasn't completely lost his mind yet.
I have a real soft spot for those early episodes too and I think "The Gang Gets Racist" is one of the best episodes but I understand I'm in the minority.
I am in the business of saving lives.
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i mean isn't "wait for it to be on youtube" like...an hour? i'm always seeing skits on youtube Sunday morning
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I mean in a show like snl, where it is a large volume of tv in a short turn around, it’s never unsurprising that most of it is bad. But you watch snl for those little moments that are funny, because when they get that lightning in a bottle it lights up, but even when it isn’t, it can be exciting because lightning could come next.
In the 90‘s there was sketch show in Australia that ran for three seasons and they had a best of DVD, it’s only two hours long, because over those three seasons, most of it was stupid! But when it was funny (and since it was the 90's not racist or homophobic) it was very funny.
You don't even have to watch for those lightning moments. You can just catch them later online if news of anything starts trending.
On paper SNL is a real doozy: It's a half-century long running institutional comedy variety hour with a different self-promoting guest host each week, features an also self-promoting musical guest that no one watches, and its largely performed by a mishmash of generational cast members, alumni staff, and other NBC-friendly celebrities. All that and its aired at a date and time that most people with a social life typically aren't watching television.
Look at butters here, showing off he has a social life. I mean most people are out, yes, but there are people who are home every Saturday who do watch it plus people who night just stay home once in a while.
And I don’t know about, wait for it to be on YouTube, like I said it being live does make it more exciting, because you don’t know what is going to happen next.
In the US, Saturday night is not prime time for shows. In the fall, college football is on all day and deep into the night and most networks don't bother competing with it. SNL is an exception to this.
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Watching Blackadder Christmas with my parents, as is tradition, and my mom shares with me that one time my babysitter, who was this lovely little old British lady who I called “auntie” when I was like four, once gave Robbie Coltrane a piece of her mind on a airplane because he was being rude to a flight attendant.
I did some math and it has to be right around when he was in Blackadder too.
Started watching Mom on CBS via Hulu after I finished Frasier and wow, much better than I anticipated.
I understand why Allison Janney won two emmys for it.
It's really on point with a lot of the actual issues they introduce in the show. The comedy is fairly mediocre IMO, but it doesn't detract much from being a good sitcom
I think you'll find that what you actually saw was the planet Venus.
Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception, yet you somehow brazenly declare that you saw Alex Trebek?
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Yeah, that right there is proof that Laugh-In wins. Laugh-In punched Richard Nixon in the face, SNL let Donald Trump host an episode.
You don't even have to watch for those lightning moments. You can just catch them later online if news of anything starts trending.
On paper SNL is a real doozy: It's a half-century long running institutional comedy variety hour with a different self-promoting guest host each week, features an also self-promoting musical guest that no one watches, and its largely performed by a mishmash of generational cast members, alumni staff, and other NBC-friendly celebrities. All that and its aired at a date and time that most people with a social life typically aren't watching television.
And yet Lorne makes like $30 million a year.
content warnings:
- one use of the short f-slur
- some potentially upsetting talk about animal abuse
- - pretty surprised that there wasn't any pushback on Annie's resignation, now that I think about it. It just kinda happens.
- Zosia Mamet is a delight: "I can think of 700 well-intentioned BUT UNWISE reasons ... "
- The FBI's slow and steady pace was a nice contrast to Cassie's more scattershot approach.
- I stopped trusting Buckley around the time he 'happened' across Max and Cassie.
- I like the "inner world" conceit, and I'm glad they don't try to explain it.
- I think the 'coming to grips with her childhood' would have played better if we had more exposure to the fake, happy-sunshiney, set of memories, instead.
- - I expected more out of the rabbits, tbh
- - giant rabbit hallucination was excellent
- Miranada is great.
- - "We are so fucked"
- - "what if ... no, we'll both be killed"
- I liked the two PSAs, even if they were a bit clunky
- Shane is 'keeping tabs' on Megan, so why are they letting her make the copies and such? She can't be that good at it.
- She's only there for a couple of minutes, but it's always good to see Bebe Neuwirth.
- torn on them leaving things open for a second season.
- - on the one hand, more things need to end.
- - on the other, this is a pretty good setup and I'm mildly interested in more
All-in-all, a pretty good way to spend six hours.
Hell yeah
She totally deserves it, too. Fuckin' love Drunktown's Finest.
There's a whole machine that Lorne runs beyond SNL with loads of success. He's produced a dozen hit shows, long running sitcoms, decades of late night. and SNL both a farm system and a gateway for comedy legends.
You don't need too much context to know the characters yet and Frank hasn't completely lost his mind yet.
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I just bought a Funko Pop of Frank as the Troll for my family's White Elephant gift exchange
Technically you're supposed to get gag gifts for White Elephant, but fuck that; if I'm spending money it's going to be on things people actually might want.
Look at butters here, showing off he has a social life. I mean most people are out, yes, but there are people who are home every Saturday who do watch it plus people who night just stay home once in a while.
And I don’t know about, wait for it to be on YouTube, like I said it being live does make it more exciting, because you don’t know what is going to happen next.
Satans..... hints.....
I have a real soft spot for those early episodes too and I think "The Gang Gets Racist" is one of the best episodes but I understand I'm in the minority.
In the US, Saturday night is not prime time for shows. In the fall, college football is on all day and deep into the night and most networks don't bother competing with it. SNL is an exception to this.
It’s a spot that will never have high numbers but has a consistent base. Doesn’t mean You can’t make a market for small numbers if it’s consistent.
Satans..... hints.....
I did some math and it has to be right around when he was in Blackadder too.
Cobra Kai is good.
damn right it is
It's real good.
Bly Manor was an incredible finale if so. Eager to see what Flanagan does next
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I understand why Allison Janney won two emmys for it.
It's really on point with a lot of the actual issues they introduce in the show. The comedy is fairly mediocre IMO, but it doesn't detract much from being a good sitcom
I was not prepared for this season's apparent antagonist being Caliban, prince of hell (and parody of a Hemsworth brother).
Nah. Just looked like him
Hey, they left that open to interpretation.
I think you'll find that what you actually saw was the planet Venus.
Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception, yet you somehow brazenly declare that you saw Alex Trebek?
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