# Bill Hader is my favorite current SNL performer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 13, 2010, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966 "2010-12-13T10:42:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/21 "2010-12-15T21:46:42Z")
I actually kind of like “What Up With That?” partly because of the insane amount of energy shown by Kenan Thompson’s host character and partly for the celebrity cameos (which included people like Frank Rich of the New York Times). ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/22 "2010-12-16T08:32:34Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Although, to be fair, he wasn’t trying to generically do an Australian accent. He was supposed to be doing Assange’s accent. > > Assange’s accent has more than a bit of his own affectation, certainly not a manly Paul Hogan Australian accent, more of a fey Bond villain. To just do a broad Australian accent would have missed the mark. I agree that to do a broad Australian accent would have missed the mark and made for the unfunny. But I also think that Assange’s Australian accent is very typical of a lot of people I know. And he was so far off Assange’s accent that I thought he did so deliberately - in any case, for me, it brought the funny. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/23 "2010-12-19T09:58:20Z")
Stefon was wonderful tonight. And he has a girlfriend! ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/24 "2010-12-19T15:02:30Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > Stefon was wonderful tonight. And he has a girlfriend! That was great and it was even better because Stefon did something different than he normally does on Weekend Update. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/25 "2010-12-19T16:38:30Z")
I liked the Julian Assange bit elsewhere in the show. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/26 "2010-12-19T16:50:46Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Agreed. It says volumes that Stefon is still funny even though every sketch is exactly-the-same-as-every-other-Stefon-sketch (“We want things for real people/New York’s hottest club is \_\_\_\_”). This is only because of Hader and not the writing. > > Also he’s really hot. And he was even hysterical as Les Grossman’s toady assistant, a role many people would have disappeared altogether in. I think the guy is great, and I laughed so hard at his Stefan gig, that I was thinking about opening a thread to ask if it was offensive to gays. So, I guess it generally isn’t? Anyway, his Assange bit cracked me up, too. I think I watched that about 5 times, and had to show it to a bunch of my friends. What was particularly hilarious was… guess what I got my father for Christmas this year and where I got it from? 🙂 ETA: Stefan was on again last night? I have it recorded, so I’ll be looking forward to seeing him again. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/27 "2010-12-19T23:13:57Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > What was particularly hilarious was… guess what I got my father for Christmas this year and where I got it from? 🙂 _Everybody Poops_ from Amazon? or the entire first season of _Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper_ from Netflix? ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/28 "2010-12-20T05:19:32Z")
Hader and Wiig are the only good things about the show. My top sketch of the year goes to the Viral Video skit from when Jon Hamm was hosting. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/29 "2010-12-20T06:49:09Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I think the guy is great, and I laughed so hard at his Stefan gig, that I was thinking about opening a thread to ask if it was offensive to gays. So, I guess it generally isn’t? No more offensive than Jersey Shore folks are to straight people. (I started to say no more offensive than Jersey Shore folks are to Jerseyans, but that’s probably “very”.) He’s doing an over the top vapid weird barfly who happens to be gay (though he does “have a girlfriend”). I wonder what of all his character it’s Stefon that cracks him up. Perhaps it’s the padding. Also wonder if the playing with his face and hair is in place to catch himself if he starts to crack (though I’m guessing Stefon has done a lot of X as well). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/30 "2010-12-20T17:47:41Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I liked the Julian Assange bit elsewhere in the show. I agree, and his accent seemed much better this time. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/31 "2010-12-20T18:30:48Z")
Yes, he is great. But I am partial to Armison doing Patterson. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/32 "2010-12-20T19:54:36Z")
Agree, love Stefon. Also not mentioned yet, his spot-on impression of Peter O’Toole. “One time while insatiably drunk, Albert Finney and I stole a train” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/33 "2010-12-20T20:08:22Z")
[“This is fun drunk leopard”.](http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/weekend-update-paterson-stefan-snooki-song/1265894) While the “New York’s hottest club is \_\_\_\_\_” on Weekend Update bit has run its course I think Stefon could definitely be a great digital video (_show_ us one of these clubs, or Stefon’s interpretation of a Greek diner even) or even as a supporting character in a movie (I’d watch it, particularly if it has a nude scene). Though what makes him even more likable is that whenever I’ve seen mention of him in gossip or celebrity columns it was clear he was very much a stay-at-home family man. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/34 "2010-12-20T20:36:34Z")
Holy moly i forgot about James Carville!!! Oh my god I LOVE that!!! ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/35 "2010-12-20T21:19:53Z")
[Al Pacino!](http://www.hulu.com/watch/1606/saturday-night-live-cooper-360) I think I’ve forgotten the details because _he’s just that good_, he disappears into his characters…I love him to death. And I’d like to take this moment to say that my favorite parody of all time just might be "[body Fuzion"](http://www.hulu.com/watch/4192/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-body-fuzion) - simply because it’s exactly what parody should be: thisclose to the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/36 "2010-12-20T22:04:00Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > the new Pharoah kid does fantastic impressions - his Denzel is nothing short of brilliant - but I don’t know how funny he actually is. I’ve been wondering about Pharoah myself. This last weekend he got about 20 seconds of airtime. I’m wondering if it’s because he’s new and just needs to pay his dues or if it’s because Kenan’s on the show and they only need one token black guy at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966/37 "2010-12-20T22:20:50Z")
“And remember that no matter how I die, even if it’s of natural causes and on video, it was murder.” Which is true in that if Assange were to be struck by lightning in front of 4,200 witnesses it would be instantly assumed it was murder. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-hader-is-my-favorite-current-snl-performer/563966.md?page=1)