SNL Purge!

[Operation Ripper]

Looks like Sanz, Parnell and Thompson for sure, maybe Hammond too (I hope! Can't stand the @#$%^&, can't believe he is the longest lived cast member ever)? Link (http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-snlcastshakeup,0,3195325.story?track=rss).

[Hey, It's That Guy!]

Man, fuck this. Chris Parnell is my favorite cast member, and Kenan Thompson is way funnier and more useful than Finesse Mitchell (assuming the logic is they could only keep one of the two black guys). Plus, does Mitchell have Snakes on a Plane on his resume? I don't think so!

I don't hate Horatio Sanz as much as the rest of the Internet apparently does, but he's pretty expendable at this point. I also won't miss Darrell Hammond at all, but they're making a mistake letting Parnell go (if this rumor is accurate).

[wmulax93]

Sanz and Thompson aren't funny, so good. Parnell and Hammond do some good stuff, so it'll be a bummer to see them gone. Fey will be missed, but good riddance to Dratch.

[Snooooopy]

Sudeikis is going to helm Weekend Update? I can't say that he would have been my first choice, although just the fact that he's not Colin Quinn or Kevin Nealon is certainly positive.

[Hippy Hollow]

I have absolutely no idea how Finesse Mitchell is employed as a comedian. Not funny. He'd be mildly amusing as one of your friends... but he's not a professional.

Horatio Sanz is even worse. He ruins every skit he's in. His signature character Carol is offensively unfunny, and his Jimmy-Fallon-inspired snickering through the skits isn't funny. Remember when the cast would break character only if it was really funny and it happened maybe once a season, not every other fuckin' skit?

Parnell has been around for a while. Isn't SNL a waystation and not a destination? Tim Meadows? Anyone? He can actually be funny so hopefully he goes on to better things. Darrell Hammond may be the exception - it might be okay for him to be an SNL lifer. It just suits him, I guess.

I like the new woman they brought on... she is really funny, especially the Target lady she plays. I like Andy whatshisface and the other new guy as well. Will Forte is pretty good... so with any luck they'll make some good hires.

They might want to raid the MAD TV cast... some of those performers are really funny. And Lorne Michaels? I'd rather you hired a funny-as-hell, all-White cast than bringing on chronically unfunny people of color (Ellen Cleghorne, Mitchell, and Sanz come to mind) or squandering the talent of genuinely funny people of color (Chris Rock, Tim Meadows). Just sayin'.

[What Exit?]

I'll miss Parnell and none of the others. I am especially glad that Horrible Sans and Rachel Dratch are departing. The show needs a shake-up badly and Tina Fey departing is probably for the best. I hope they find a new core and get funny again.

Jim

[fiddlesticks]

This article (http://www.tmz.com/2006/08/23/shakeup-at-snl/) says Will Forte is getting a pink slip (amongst others already mentioned elsewhere). Mega-boo-urns if that's true (his Bush is just okay, but I enjoy his other stuff). I thought Kenan did a very good job last year, so I'll be disappointed if he's gone. Parnell? He had a decent run, and Lazy Sunday can be a nice capper if he's gone.

[Loopydude]

I won't miss any of them. I can't even watch SNL anymore, it's so pathetically unfunny. They either need a complete purge, or just cancel the damn thing and get it over with. It's gotta happen someday. Maybe now's the time. Free up the spot for something more entertaining, like infomercials.

[Mr. Rosewater]

What they really need to do, IMO, is to go back to improvisation.

Or at least get some performers who can read cue cards without looking like they're reading cue cards.

[Shirley Ujest]

I haven't watched SNL in probably 15 years. Now with the advent of Youtube, any good buzz I have heard, I can get there.


My personal favorite was Hugh Jackman and the australian Christmas kangaroo.

[Trunk]

Some of them I like, and I won't say who.

I hate to use a cliche here, but I think it's good for the show even if they throw the baby out with the bathwater.

It's still a show for younger people that's supposed to be fresh, and they've never been afraid to toss out a cast member (even a still funny one) who was just becoming part of the scenery and getting a paycheck.

I don't really see any of them going on to great things (Parnell could get some work, maybe Keenan Thompson). I do see some horribly misguided projects in the future of Horatio Sanz.

[NoClueBoy]

Something that's really telling to me, is that I have to go to a pic to remember who is who, the names alone don't tell me squat. And I do watch the show every now and again. Used to be, if a cast member was mentioned, I automatically had a picture in my head of them. So, not being able to place names with faces means to me that none of them have made any comedic impact with me.

Of course, I know Tina Fey, and the Sanz is so bad he stands out, but overall...?

Vacation Bible School has been more entertaining.

[garygnu]

I heard Al Franken on the radio yesterday morning saying that there are far too many cast members and this move is to reduce that, so the sacked players are't to be replaced, just gone.

[Jean Poutine]

Agree, Keenan is WAY funnier than Finesse, who can only play "ghetto girl" characters, and even those got old after the first couple. Sanz' Carol is probably the worst recurring character in the history of the show, which means a feature film is probably on the way. Glad he's suipposedly leaving. They fired Parnell before, so its no surprise they would fire him again, even though I do think he's funny. If they let Hammond go, they're gonna probably have to stop doing political sketches, because he's the only one who seems to know how to do people like O'Reilly, Rumsfeld, etc. Fred Armisen is all they really need, though- he's far and away the most valuable member, although his comedy style probably is too cerebral for the average viewer.

[Bryan Ekers]

Fred Armisen is all they really need, though- he's far and away the most valuable member, although his comedy style probably is too cerebral for the average viewer.
I dunno, he does those painfully unfunny "Noony and Nuni" sketches with Maya Rudolph. Yeah, we get it, they're Euro-freaks and they sit in weird chairs and eat bizarre foods. We got it the first ten times you did it. Yeesh.

[Trunk]

I dunno, he does those painfully unfunny "Noony and Nuni" sketches with Maya Rudolph. Yeah, we get it, they're Euro-freaks and they sit in weird chairs and eat bizarre foods. We got it the first ten times you did it. Yeesh.
We got it when Mike Myers did it.

[What Exit?]

...snip... Sanz' Carol is probably the worst recurring character in the history of the show, which means a feature film is probably on the way...snip...
I would say that Dratch's Debbie Downer gives Carol (un)fair competition for worse recurring character ever. Just our misfortune to have both during the same run. I really hope both are gone from the show. They are the cholesterol that clogs the comedy arteries of SNL.

Jim

[Hampshire]

I won't miss any of them. I can't even watch SNL anymore, it's so pathetically unfunny. They either need a complete purge, or just cancel the damn thing and get it over with. It's gotta happen someday. Maybe now's the time. Free up the spot for something more entertaining, like infomercials.

Amen brother.
Watching SNL is like eating day old supermarket donuts in the office. They're stale, taste like crap, are bad for you, but for some reason you still try them just because they're there even though your brain is saying "What the hell are you doing?!"

[saoirse]

I would say that Dratch's Debbie Downer gives Carol (un)fair competition for worse recurring character ever. Just our misfortune to have both during the same run. I really hope both are gone from the show. They are the cholesterol that clogs the comedy arteries of SNL.

Jim

Debbie Downer has always been more funniy to the cast members than the audience. Still, Carol is way beyond that. One reels from that sketch, as one reels from a man who has been shot in the face.

[pizzabrat]

Sanz' Carol is probably the worst recurring character in the history of the show, which means a feature film is probably on the way.

I love Carol. On the surface those sketches seem to be dismissably low-brown and based only on one joke, (ha-ha, fat guy in drag), but the type he's burlesquing is so familiar, and he plays her so well. She's the perky fat girl who doesn't realize how unattractive she is with a encyclopedic knowledge of trademark junkfoods from chain restaurants which she demands over eating real, non-branded food.
As far as the "unattractive girl who doesn't realize how unattractive she is" staple goes, he plays it pretty subtly. Amy Sedaris gave Jerri Blank a permanent cartoonish overbite, Jamie Foxx gave Wanda crossed eyes and protruding lips, but Sanz just does a little thing with his mouth after saying "I'm Carol" and doesn't hold his balance well.
And that diet of only brand-named foods by the perpetually portly is a familiar phenomenon, as are group situations where those restrictions become a nuisance.
The best part is that Sanz is known for ruining his parts by laughing during sketches. Here that works for him, playing someone so perky and giggly. Every extra snicker enhances his performance.

[Loopydude]

I went through about five years of "Well, maybe this time..." The trouble was, every once in a great while, a legitimately funny skit would erase my memory of the bulk, which was complete shite. I often liken this to the phenomenon of the abused spouse. "But honey, I love you! Come back! I'll change!" You see these glimmers of redemption, but before you can get comfortable, it's a steel toe to the forehead once again. After a time, even the saddest codepended wakes up. And once you walk out that door, you can't understand what on Earth it was that made you stay in the first place. Maybe you just didn't believe life could truly be better. You now know you were wrong.

And for me, a better life is as simple as getting back the sleep wasted by slogging through yet another humorless episode, hoping against hope that even one skit could reward the effort of elevating my eyelids. Unconsciousness is far superior to Horatio-fucking-Sanz snickering at me whilst surrounded by a collection of coat racks.

[Carnac the Magnificent!]

I'm of two minds on this one, but SNL definitely needs to be reinvented, not fine tuned. This means NBC execs must:

a) fire Lorne Michaels (b) reduce SNL to a 60-minute program, and (c) shell out the big $$$ for writers who are actually funny. (Lord knows Letterman and Leno aren't employing them.) Basically, SNL suffers from creative, cultural and intellectual fatigue. Vitamin supplements won't help, nor will a reshuffling of cast.

A massive SNL purge is a good first start, but the inescapable truth is that SNL is a relic that deserves to pass quietly into the night. Lorne Michaels should be ashamed of himself.

[parrot recipes]

Will Forte-love the Yaaahhhhhh singing he does.
Carol-its so bad its good.

[jackelope]

I just hope this means a lot more air-time for Bill Hader. My crystal ball (which is actually just an old tennis ball a dog chewed on, but, eh) is predicting a lot of success for that guy.

[Zebra]

No more Tina Fey?


NO MORE TINA FEY!!!!



That's it, I'm done.

[Operation Ripper]

I just hope this means a lot more air-time for Bill Hader.

God, I hope so, how did Andy Samberg get so much love instead of Hader? Lazy Sunday wasn't all that. Did you see Hader as Vincent Price? Was 10x better than anything Samberg has done. Hader rules.




Againk, I hate that freak Hammond, has never been funny in anything.

[jackelope]

Did you see Hader as Vincent Price? Was 10x better than anything Samberg has done. Hader rules.I sure did; Hader's awesome. His Al Pacino impression was a jaw-dropper.

If you're interested, some Googling turns up www.billhader.org, a fan site with some videos including the Vincent Price skit (the url redirects to the real site). Click on "media."

[Sam Stone]

The cast SHOULD be much smaller. Not just for the money, but because it gives the best people space to build characters and try material and hone their ability. The original Not Ready for Primetime Players were Chevy Chase, Dan Ayckroyd, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Laraine Newman. 7 people. That seems about right. Enough that you can put 3 or 4 in a skit while the other ones prepare for the next one. Last year's cast had 13 players in it. Dropping four? They could drop seven.

I'd like to see this cast:

Amy Poehler
Jason Sudeikis
Bill Hader
Andy Samberg
Kristin Wiig
Seth Meyers


Then pick one or two from:

Darrell Hammond (although I think Bill Hader's impersonations may have ended the need for Hammond)
Will Forte
Fred Armisen
Finesse Mitchell

Oh, and pay Conan O'Brien a million bucks to write a dozen skits or so.

[parrot recipes]

Againk, I hate that freak Hammond, has never been funny in anything.
no more Jeopardy

[pizzabrat]

God, I hope so, how did Andy Samberg get so much love instead of Hader?

Eye candy.

[Excalibre]

I know I'm the only one here who thinks so, but SNL is as funny as it's been in a long time. In fact, it's easily as funny now as any of the reruns I sometimes catch late at night from supposedly better years; I think some people only remember the good sketches and forget just how many jaw-droppingly bad ones there were in the old days. I think their current cast is as genuinely talented as any they've had since I've been old enough to understand what was going on on the show. Granted, the years with Molly Shannon and Cheri Oteri had to be some sort of particular nadir for the show, but reruns of entire shows (as opposed to retrospectives of particularly good work) from years before that are perhaps occasionally on par with current episodes but very rarely any better.

Though I can't say that I'm devastated by these reports. Having a smaller cast, period, seems like a good idea. It's a bad sign for a sketch show when they have so many cast members that it's even possible to have an actor like Sanz who only appears once or twice per show. And most of the cast members they're reporting as leaving are not particularly vital to the show, although it's hard to imagine how they'll possibly do any political sketches without Hammond or Forte.

I just wish they were getting rid of Fred Armisen. I actually sort of like those Nuni/Nüni sketches in spite of myself, but I swear to God the next time I hear him say "I'm just keeding!" I'm going to kill someone.

[parrot recipes]

As to Fred, I loved the Frondi skit.

[Rubystreak]

I know I'm the only one here who thinks so, but SNL is as funny as it's been in a long time.

You are the only one who thinks so. It hasn't sucked this bad since... well, I can't think of a time it sucked this bad. It's nigh unwatchable. I only tune in if there's a guest or band on that I really like, and even then, it's tough to make it to 1am. It's mock-worthy beginning to end, most of the time, with a few exception (Natalie Portman's rap video being the first to come to mind)

I actually loved the Cheri Oteri/Molly Shannon/Will Ferrell/Tim Meadows/ Ana Gasteyer days. LOVED them. It hasn't been as good since Ferrell left, despite Tina Fey and Amy Poehler doing the news now (usually the only good part of the show these days).

I hope this shake-up brings the laughs back.

[NoClueBoy]

I just wish they were getting rid of Fred Armisen. I actually sort of like those Nuni/Nüni sketches in spite of myself, but I swear to God the next time I hear him say "I'm just keeding!" I'm going to kill someone.


He's speaking Catalan, don't you know...

[parrot recipes]

Hes of German,Japanese, and Venezuelan descent.

[kelly5078]

AFAIC, SNL is just taking up time that could be better used by an infomercial.

[Saltire]

I think the strongest parts of SNL have always been the direct parodies of current events (remember Dana Carvey's best stuff as Ross Perot or Bush Sr.?), and that requires great impressionists. I agree that Hader is really, really good, but I'll miss Hammond. He is capable of doing almost anyone a script requires. The two of them together are better than Hader alone.

Seth Meyers is another good impressionist (not as good as Hader or Hammond, and a long way from Carvey, but he can carry a skit almost single-handed if need be).

I was really hoping Meyer would get put into the Weekend Update anchor spot. I'd love to see him do it in a character, like Chevy Chase, Dan Ackroyd, and Jane Curtin used to. Meyers' version of Anderson Cooper shows how good he'd be at this. They could keep Amy Poeler in the second seat, and maybe resurrect the classic Ackroyd-Curtin Point-Counterpoint (which was absolutely hillarious).

[DaddyTimesTwo]

I watch at least part of SNL most weeks. Most often I last to the second musical number of the night, unless it's an act I don't like. Then I watch till Update and go to bed. I like Sanz. Billy Joel, Elton John? Hilarious! He was better with Jimmy Fallon, though. Chris Parnell is very good, I look for the rerun where he does the rap song for Kirsten Dunst. And she storms out and tells everyone they haven't been having sex in a pool or engaging in gun battles.

There are plenty of stoopid sketches. There always has been. I don't mind a shake-up in the cast. Thin it out, whatever. I need something to do on Saturday night, and SNL fits the bill quite nicely.

[GingerOfTheNorth]

Eye candy.
See, I almost buy that, but get a load of his mouth. I expect one day to be watching live and see his mouth open wide and swallow the cast members nearest him, one by one.

[GingerOfTheNorth]

Sorry, that's in reference to Andy Samberg.

[dropzone]

I think some people only remember the good sketches and forget just how many jaw-droppingly bad ones there were in the old days.They need to show full-length reruns of the first generation episodes to end this worshipping of the original cast. There were moments of brilliance but most of the show, especially the second halves, weren't even funny if you were high and the skits dragged on minutes longer than they should've, unless you were high, when they dragged on for hours longer. Good Lord, did none of you see the shows Milton Berle, Louise Lasser, or Desi Arnaz hosted? Nor will you.

[Excalibre]

They need to show full-length reruns of the first generation episodes to end this worshipping of the original cast. There were moments of brilliance but most of the show, especially the second halves, weren't even funny if you were high and the skits dragged on minutes longer than they should've, unless you were high, when they dragged on for hours longer. Good Lord, did none of you see the shows Milton Berle, Louise Lasser, or Desi Arnaz hosted? Nor will you.
Exactly. I think people who hate SNL just generally don't really like sketch comedy - because I really haven't seen much of it done that was any better than this.

[dropzone]

I dunno. Mad-TV could suck more and SCTV was more consistent through each episode, but they are/were hour shows. Ninety minutes is too long to fill.

[Hey, It's That Guy!]

I dunno. Mad-TV could suck more and SCTV was more consistent through each episode, but they are/were hour shows. Ninety minutes is too long to fill.
Did SCTV have two musical performances like SNL always does, though? Including commercial breaks, that probably eats up 15-20 minutes right there.

While the original cast included some dynamic personalities that went on to great things, I also agree that the old shows haven't aged well, and people who are familiar with little clips of the samurai baker, the killer bees, "Jane, you ignorant slut!", and the Blues Brothers movie don't really remember how uneven it used to be as a whole. With all honesty, I think the current cast of the last few years (including Will Ferrell and even Jimmy Fallon, who had his uses) may have been the best SNL cast ever.

Then again, with few exceptions, I hate the Carvey/Myers/Hartman/Lovitz/Sandler/Spade/Farley/Schneider era, and think it's terribly overrated.

[Excalibre]

I dunno. Mad-TV could suck more and SCTV was more consistent through each episode, but they are/were hour shows. Ninety minutes is too long to fill.
Hmm? Does Mad TV not suck now? Because I watched it for some years; in fact, I watched it from the first season it was on, and it was hysterical, but I finally gave up on it eventually when it became so incredibly unfunny that I swear my cringing muscles got achy. I haven't watched since then - has it gotten less incredibly, horrifically lame?

[Excalibre]

Then again, with few exceptions, I hate the Carvey/Myers/Hartman/Lovitz/Sandler/Spade/Farley/Schneider era, and think it's terribly overrated.
Yeah, those episodes in particular are mostly a pit of unfunny when they broadcast them nowadays. Though I still say that the Cheri Oteri/Molly Shannon years sucked harder.

[Hey, It's That Guy!]

Yeah, those episodes in particular are mostly a pit of unfunny when they broadcast them nowadays. Though I still say that the Cheri Oteri/Molly Shannon years sucked harder.
OK, I can't argue with that either, but the Carvey/Myers era gets a lot of love to this day, whereas most people don't remember the mid-to-late '90s cast that fondly. I remember when Cheri Oteri, Molly Shannon, and Ana Gasteyer (by far the least obnoxious of the three) were getting all these critical accolades for "bringing funny women back to SNL," and I never saw it. Aside from that one "Delicious Dish" sketch with Alec Baldwin talking about his "Shwetty Balls," the three of them were pretty annoying and horrible throughout their SNL tenure. I honestly think Amy Poehler is the most versatile female cast member in the history of the show (sorry, Gilda), and the Amy/Tina/Rachel/Maya (and later Kristen Wiig) era was the best in the show's history as far as the female cast.

[Excalibre]

OK, I can't argue with that either, but the Carvey/Myers era gets a lot of love to this day, whereas most people don't remember the mid-to-late '90s cast that fondly. I remember when Cheri Oteri, Molly Shannon, and Ana Gasteyer (by far the least obnoxious of the three) were getting all these critical accolades for "bringing funny women back to SNL," and I never saw it. Aside from that one "Delicious Dish" sketch with Alec Baldwin talking about his "Shwetty Balls," the three of them were pretty annoying and horrible throughout their SNL tenure. I honestly think Amy Poehler is the most versatile female cast member in the history of the show (sorry, Gilda), and the Amy/Tina/Rachel/Maya (and later Kristen Wiig) era was the best in the show's history as far as the female cast.
I didn't really mind Ana at all. But mostly she played straight-man (straight-woman?) types so it's hard to find her particularly memorable. But uck, Cheri Oteri and Molly Shannon were utterly intolerable. As for now, all five of those women are excellent and they're all pretty versatile in my opinion. I'm not a fan of the Target sketch, but Kristen Wiig has done a number of very good impressions. Maya in particular is just hysterical to me, though I think she's somewhat subtle and cerebral and it probably means a certain disconnect with a lot of viewers.

As for Dana Carvey and Mike Myers and that era, I have to admit that I haven't seen more than a dozen episodes or so, and those were reruns and mostly trimmed to an hour long. I never found either of those two particularly funny. The difference between, for instance, Sprockets and the current Nuni/Nüni sketches, is that in the first (at least the times I've seen it) it was just Mike Myers doing incomprehensible and zany things, whereas the sketches with Maya and Fred were about the confusion someone normal felt trying to interact with the bizarro foreigners. And how about Adam Sandler? It's incomprehensible to me, but I'm sure someone, somewhere once laughed at Opera Man, but was that really the stuff of comedic legend? Sadly, as with Rob Schneider and his Sensitive Naked Man, it still beats his subsequent movie career.

[Sam Stone]

The Mike Myers/Dana Carvey era was great! Remember, it also had Phil Hartmann and Conan O'Brien was writing for them. They had great characters - Wayne and Garth, the Church Lady, The Scottish guy (It's it's not Scottish - it's CRAP!), Dieter (would you like to touch my monkey?), frozen Caveman lawyer, etc. Tons and tons of great characters. And the commercials at that time were great, with Phil Hartman doing the narration. Happy Fun Ball!

I think that was the best cast ever.

[parrot recipes]

I think people have great memories of the first cast because, back then, it was shocking to hear bitch on tv, and people thought, uh oh, what are they going to do now? it was more irreverent and NEW.
Can't recapture that, unfortunately.

[Bryan Ekers]

I think people have great memories of the first cast because, back then, it was shocking to hear bitch on tv, and people thought, uh oh, what are they going to do now? it was more irreverent and NEW.
Can't recapture that, unfortunately.

"Hey, nice penis!"

[What Exit?]

My two cents worth on the Original Cast:
I have watch the show since it went on, I saw a few of the first season and most of the next 7 seasons. I found the 80's inconsistent and not very funny until the Late 80's & Early 90's. This was the second best cast period. The current cast is the worst since the second cast.
The original cast was not perfect, but it was edgier, more confrontational with the powers that be and far more professional on screen than the current cast.
Gilda was funny almost always. Belushi was great. The news and the recurring characters were awesome and it all benefiting from being new and hip and different and of course my technically being too young to watch it and staying up anyway. (I am only 39, you do the math, and only a few of us in my class were watching the show the first 2-3 seasons).
I watched a lot of SCTV and it wasn't as humorous to me as some people here are making it out to be, I recently watched the first season again and almost nothing held up well with time. So much of what Belushi, Ackroyd & Gilda did is still very funny today. Amazing really as much was topical.
I fully admit it benefits from trimming away the worse 1/2 hour on reruns, but the late 90's and 2000's cast cannot even provide a solid hour of humor.

Jim

[Leaper]

Lorne Michaels should be ashamed of himself.

*tears up a photo of Lorne*

Fight the real enemy!

[parrot recipes]

"Hey, nice penis!"
I totally don't remember that one. Fondly remember Julia Child, Invisible pedestrian, Samarai anything, Buck Henry was great, the odd musical guests, ones who weren't being promoted by lables but you'd never heard them before.

[dropzone]

Buck Henry WAS great. It helped he was one of the few hosts NOT coked to the gills at the time. Elliot Gould, too. He was like Christopher Walken (a surprisingly good song and dance man because when they came up kids from NYC with acting pretensions leaned to sing and dance) without so much of the creep factor (Gould was married to Barbra at the time, so he had some). Modern hosts are all so, I dunno, SOBER that it hardly seems like SNL. I mean, even the jocks can read cue cards!

HOWEVER, say what you will about the overdone, unfunny bits that managed to be made into movies, Michael Jordan on Stuart Smalley's show was one of the funnier bits of the early 90s.

[parrot recipes]

Franken was always good. I can't wipe the memory of him in a huge diaper out of my mind though (first time I ever saw him).

[dropzone]

I'm happy to live in the Al Franken Century.

[dropzone]

Hey, Parrot! i get lonesome here late on weekend nights. Join up.

[parrot recipes]

Will do, zone.
Lets reminisce (sp?). Farley was so good (in a van) as was Murphy.
Worst cast member? Tough to choose between Denny Dillon and Robin Duke.
Who was the youngest ever? Murphy? oldest?

[parrot recipes]

I'm happy to live in the Al Franken Century.
He only took tips.

[Happy Lendervedder]

Will do, zone.
Lets reminisce (sp?). Farley was so good (in a van) as was Murphy.
Worst cast member? Tough to choose between Denny Dillon and Robin Duke.
Who was the youngest ever? Murphy? oldest?

Youngest was Anthony Michael Hall. I want to say Hartman was the oldest.

[Bryan Ekers]

I totally don't remember that one.

From the 1988 season (http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88bnudebeach.phtml). It got a write-up in the next issue of Time (or maybe Newsweek) in which the writer described the sketch as "lame" but noted the larger point of the loosening of restrictions after NBC dumped their Standards Department.

[Operation Ripper]

From the 1988 season (http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88bnudebeach.phtml). It got a write-up in the next issue of Time (or maybe Newsweek) in which the writer described the sketch as "lame" but noted the larger point of the loosening of restrictions after NBC dumped their Standards Department.

I totally don't remember that one either, but the transcript had me chuckling. Wonder if maybe they cut it in reruns for some reason? Speaking of cutting, they should have thrown a circumcision bit in there, would have killed: Hey, way to circumcise Jack!

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week folks. Please tip your waitress.

[Operation Ripper]

Worst cast member? Tough to choose between Denny Dillon and Robin Duke.

I'd have to nominate Charles Rocket (http://imdb.com/name/nm0734236/) for saddest. OD'ing is one thing, cancer another, but failed ambition is something else altogether.

[NDP]

I totally don't remember that one either, but the transcript had me chuckling. Wonder if maybe they cut it in reruns for some reason? Speaking of cutting, they should have thrown a circumcision bit in there, would have killed: Hey, way to circumcise Jack!

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week folks. Please tip your waitress.
Along those lines, I was half-expecting one of the guys to be suffering from some sort of injury to his member like being stung by a jellyfish. After all, penis + injury = comedy gold.*

Anyway, what seemed interesting to be about this "controversy" was that people only got upset about it after the show had been rerun. The first time it aired, nobody in the media seemed to notice.

*Unless you're the guy who gets hurt.

[Walloon]

Youngest was Anthony Michael Hall. I want to say Hartman was the oldest.Phil Hartman was 45 when he left SNL, but Darrell Hammond (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0358669/) is 50 now.

[fiddlesticks]

Gah! Horatio Sanz claims (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/08/28/horatio-sanz-im-staying_e_28138.html) he'll be around for another season. Stay if you must, fat man, but stay away from that Update Desk!

[BrainGlutton]

I'm really gonna miss Weekend Update with Tina and Amy. :(

[ddgryphon]

I won't miss any of them. I can't even watch SNL anymore, it's so pathetically unfunny. They either need a complete purge, or just cancel the damn thing and get it over with. It's gotta happen someday. Maybe now's the time. Free up the spot for something more entertaining, like infomercials.

Yes!