SNL has been going downhill for years. WOW, that was really bad. Recycling skits from the Peyton Manning and Seth Rogen episodes was pathetic and lazy. THIS was the best they could come up with. The Quiz Bowl skit was dumb and uninspired. Can't blame Michael Phelps for all of it. Seth, c'mon, work at it a bit.
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Originally posted by JoeD: Besides the Palin/Clinton skit, and Poehler as Phelps' mom during the opening monologue, this episode sucked. Michael Phelps was a terrible host. He constantly messed up his lines, wasn't funny at all, and proved that he just can't act. Stick to swimming buddy.
Yeah, that was just strikingly bad.
Poehler and Myers had a few laughs during "Weekend Update," but yeesh, what a flatliner of an episode.
I don't blame Phelps; it was up to the show to figure out how to use him. Clearly he was up for anything, and it was the show's fault for blowing the opportunity.
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I'm only two skits into the episode, and I don't want to finish it (but I will). Fey needs to come on every week and play Palin. She was simply awesome.
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Tina Fey was an AMAZING Sarah Palin! Easily the funniest thing out of SNL in a long time. I didn't think anyone could top Amy Poehler as far as impressions go with her Hillary, but then Tina came along and somehow made Amy funnier! Those two were playing off each other like the pros they are.
If I was Lorne Michaels I'd start keep begging Amy to stay. I'd probably double my offer. After that show, they need her. At least they still have Wiig, Sudeikis (who was really good even in bad sketches last night.) and Samberg. Forte, Thompson, Hader, Armisen and Hammond are still pretty quality too. I don't blame the cast as much as the writing for last night... Sorry Seth.
But what can you say, athlete hosts always have uninspired and recycled sketches.
Man oh man!! That Palin/Clinton opener was absolutely pure genius!!! I've been dying to see Tina Fey do Sarah Palin, and i finally got my wish! And even better coz it also featured amy Poehler as a bitter-ass loony Hillary Clinton!
"You just glided in on a dogsled, wearing your pageant sash and your Tina Fey glasses!!!"
Now who said Tina Fey wasn't a great comedic actress? It would be nice to see Fey & Poehler win matching Emmys next week.
Michael Phelps should do back to the pool. After last night's atrocious attempts at acting, i'd hate to see how he's gonna stink up "Entourage".
Do you think Tina Fey and Amy Poehler can do something like they did last night at the emmys? I know they will be all dolled up and everything, but kind of like what they do at the Tonys when they do their little snipets of their musicals... I think it would be awesome to see like Sarah Palin (Fey) and Hillary Clinton (Poehler) present an award or something like that and have like a skit going on at the same time... I don't know, I just think it will be hilarious! Anyone with me on that?
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I agree with almost everybody else, the Fey/Poehler as Palin/Clinton skit was awesome and Phelps wasn't very good. But my favorite part was during Weekend Update when Andy Samburg was Cathy from the cartoon strip. That was hilarious, it was the hardest I've laughed at SNL in a long time.
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Originally posted by bocaboy7: Tina Fey is my new favorite person! The Palin/Clinton skit was one of SNL's best! That skit right there will go down in SNL history! Tina Fey was awesome and Amy Poehler doing Clinton again was great! Hopefully Tina can come back later on in the season and reprise her role as Palin for some more skits, and maybe, just maybe a skit with the real Sarah Palin!
Sarah and Tina should do a Patty Duke show theme song parody (They look alike, they talk alike....)
On Sunday, a campaign adviser confirmed that Ms. Palin had, indeed, watched the “Saturday Night Live” skit from her screen at the front of the plane. “She thought it was quite funny,” the adviser said in an email response to inquiries, “especially because the governor has dressed up as Tina Fey for Halloween.”
she actually dressed up like tina fey?? WEIRD.
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Originally posted by RichterScale: Man oh man!! That Palin/Clinton opener was absolutely pure genius!!! I've been dying to see Tina Fey do Sarah Palin, and i finally got my wish! And even better coz it also featured amy Poehler as a bitter-ass loony Hillary Clinton!
"You just glided in on a dogsled, wearing your pageant sash and your Tina Fey glasses!!!"
Now who said Tina Fey wasn't a great comedic actress? It would be nice to see Fey & Poehler win matching Emmys next week.
They were great fun here, but I am still not sold on an Amy Poehler win next week.
Their strong showing helped make up for the fact that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama -- who was scheduled to make a guest appearance at least once during the program -- didn't show. Executive producer Lorne Michaels got the bad news Friday night at 10, about 24 hours after hearing from the Obama campaign that the senator definitely would appear.
"His people called and said they felt they had to shut it down because of the storm," meaning Hurricane Ike, Michaels said yesterday by phone from New York. "I pleaded with them to wait and make the decision on Saturday morning, but they felt they had to do it then. There was a sensitivity to how it would be perceived -- whether he would be criticized for doing it while disaster struck."
Did he make the right decision? "It was certainly the wrong decision for me," Michaels said. "Do I think there's an oversensitivity in this area? Yes." But Michaels said he would be happy to have Obama appear on a future show, provided a good sketch can be devised. "It was an enormous disappointment," Michaels said, "but they were very pleasant about it -- 'Please have us back again' and all that."
In the words of the announcement from the Obama camp: "In light of the unfolding crisis in Texas, Senator Obama has decided it is no longer appropriate to appear on 'Saturday Night Live' tomorrow evening." ad_icon
The monologue, by guest host and Olympic swimming champ Michael Phelps, was to have been built around Obama and would have included an additional cameo by action star Chuck Norris. But Norris, too, canceled because of the hurricane, and William Shatner was enlisted as his replacement. Shatner was already en route from Los Angeles via chartered airplane when Obama dropped out; the monologue was reworked so that it would still include a Shatner cameo.
"It was great of him to do it," Michaels said of Shatner. Michaels said Obama was to have returned briefly for a second appearance, during the "Weekend Update" segment, but that was obviously scuttled, too.
Last-minute catastrophes necessitating last-minute changes and rewrites are nothing new for Michaels and "Saturday Night Live." Fey wasn't even certain she could appear, Michaels said, since she was shooting an episode of her own hit prime-time comedy, "30 Rock," all day Friday and until 5 p.m. Saturday. Because Oprah Winfrey was guest-starring on the episode, the shooting schedule could not be changed.
"She came by Friday night and we rehearsed," Michaels said of Fey. The sketch was written by "Update" co-anchor Seth Meyers with assists from Fey and Poehler, and every punch line got roars from the 400 people in the studio audience....
These aren't officially confirmed, but upcoming musical guests will be Duffy (9/27) and Coldplay (possibly 10/4 but maybe later in October). No word on hosts for those dates yet.
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Originally posted by east/west: Tina Fey rocked and she'll obviously get another Emmy nomination (probably win) if she continues to be Sarah.
She deserves it, but she won't get the nomination unless she hosts again. No way a 5 minute sketch is worth it. And I can't see that happening this season. It's probably Too soon to repeat. There's not many hosts that have done back to back seasons recently. Though Shia LaBeouf did it Season 32 and 33. Alec Baldwin, Scarlett Johansen and Julia Louis Dreyfus did it Seasons 31 and 32.
