Last night, in the pre-monologue skit with “Donald Trump”, Jimmy Fallon entered as the President of NBC. At one point he pulled something from his pocket that seemed to be attached to his fingers and showed it briefly to the camera.
What the heck was that and what was the significance?
I gathered it was a little clicker device that made it sound like the audience was cheering loudly.
It was a laugh-track button.
Last night’s SNL? It was a train wreck.
The Bin Laden/Saddam sketch was easily the biggest load of donkey poop that show has produced, and that’s up against some pretty heavy competition. Horatio Sanz is not funny–I have this idea that the casting folks think that Chris Farley was funny because he was fat, Horatio Sanz is fat, therefore he is funny. Chris Farley was funny because he had good timing and he could act, NOT because he was fat. Putting a talentless fat guy on the show and expecting hilarity to ensue makes no sense. Horatio Sanz is an unfunny hack who needs to go back to whatever standup club he came from.
Am I remembering wrong, or were there very few skits last night? Also, how many did Jennifer Aniston actually appear in? It seemed like it was just three or four.
I thought it was a laugh track Fallon took out – why on earth SNL let him do an inside-NBC joke on national TV to start the show I have no idea – Sure guys it is funny to you not to us… I hate to hit a sacred cow, but that is ultimately Michaels fault.
VERY unfunny show – really wasn’t good IMO.
I thought this thread was going to say: In the opening monolgue they came back from the fake Friends ending to Anniston on the SNL stage. She was bent at the hip brushing her hair said “Oh” straightened up, then took off her jacket and threw it. It bugged me all night – but now I think : was she wearing that jacket in the filmed skit and she was playing like she had just run back? any answers? Did that bother anyone esle?
Anyway I thought the bin Laden script was Fallon and Sanz doing improv (& doing it poorly) – I wonder if they were off the reservation doing that or if they were supposed to/encoruraged for time?? Agree the whole Conway/Korman act has worn very thin.
That was the least funny SNL in a long, long time (saying something).
Following the hijack, I gotta say that I loved the horatio/jimmy skit. It’s definitely funny! One of the best things about both those guys is seeing them start to really laugh when they’re doing a skit, you feel me?
I got the feeling that the Jennifer Anniston skits were probably hilarious to those 20 people or so that know her very well personally. It seemed like all of her stuff was one big inside joke. (Or maybe I’m just hoping it was funny to some people because it sure wasn’t funny for the rest of us).
Also, I don’t know if I’m being whooshed here but one of the most UNFUNNY things to me is when they start to laugh at their own stuff. YMMV (and it obviously does).
IMO there were “inside” jokes that didn’t require a great amount of insight. The papparazzi sketch had JA asking herself repeatedly “When ya gonna have a baby?” - I thought that was very funny, and I don’t need to know her personally. She’s in her mid thirties, is married, and doesn’t have any children yet. She probably hears that question from her family and friends every freakin’ day of her life.
I understand what you’re saying about the being funny but its only funny when normally very in character cast members slowly break and laugh at their own material (for example the folks over at the Daily Show).
However, I cannot remember a skit with Sanz and Fallon that hasn’t had them cracking up. Remember the one where they played two wisecracking guys? That entire skit that them struggling not to laugh. It was funny for maybe 15 seconds, then it just got old. The Osama skit was not very funny to begin with, and thus relied on Fallon and Sanz ability to not hold character for more than 5 seconds at a time for laughs. Thats just poor writing.
> Horatio Sanz is an unfunny hack who needs to go back to whatever
> standup club he came from.
What is it with him breaking out in laughter, anyhow? Can’t the guy do ONE SINGLE SKIT without busting out laughing?
As the Horatio/Jimmy sketch meandered into its third consecutive hour, I began to wonder if it would ever end.
It started out okay but went flat quick.
Sanz/Fallon, I was hoping the “wacky” musicians during Alec Baldwin monologue several weeks ago would be the end of them goofing around and cracking up on purpose. The Osama/Saddam sketch was as bad a derailing of the show as that insipid Jimmy Buffet segment during Weekend Update some time back. Someone rein these two idiots in.
I didn’t mind the Jeff Zucker bit during the opening sketch, but I’m enough of a media junkie to know who he is. That was a little too inside for most people watching, they could have used a fake NBC executive for all most of the audience would have known. Fun (and accurate IMO) slam on Trump though.
The WU segment was flat but still a little better than most this season. But the Fallon/Sanz syndrome is starting to affect Tina Fey now. And wasn’t that a prop turkey (instead of a chicken) in Steve Irwin’s hands?
What’s with all the bland and obvious redneck country yokel humor this season. Lazy writing? The cast wants to break in their broad hillbilly accents for various films they plan to make over the summer hiatus? They can get lame potty humor past S&P if the sketch is about white trash?
I will give some credit to the set designers for the “Country Roses” sketch just for having wood paneling and those Frederick Remington prints on the walls of the house set. Straight out of my own childhood.
I don’t understand you, gobear; Horatio Sanz is miles funnier than Chris Farley ever was on his funniest day ever.
That said, I’m also really tired of the Sanz/Fallon gigglefests. I’ve read books about the show, and I know that one of Lorne Michaels’s defining principles for the show back in the 70s was that there would be absolutely no Korman/Conway-esque “laughing at ourselves.” Michaels despised it (and the show originally was contemporaneous with The Carol Burnett Show.
It perplexes me that he allows it now, when it’s not any funnier.
Weird. The SNL I saw last night was hosted by Candice Bergan and had Frank Zappa as musical guest.
The Weekend Update items all seemed like they were 1976, tho.
Slight hijack question, but I’ve only seen two SNL’s this season: last night’s and Justin Timberlake’s. Have the Fab Five from QUEER EYE made a cameo on the show yet? (It would seem a natural since it’s filmed in NYC and Bravo is owned by NBC which begat SNL.) For that matter, has there been a QUEER EYE sketch? (Of course Carson is funnier than any member of the cast other than perhaps Tina Fey.)
There was a sketch along the lines of “Butch Eye for the Straight Gal”. It was a little funny.
Huge word to many of the people in this thread. gobear, in particular, totally nailed exactly what I think about Horation fucking Sanz.
It seems like SNL is able to trump their Worst Skit Ever. First I thought it was Time Travelin’ Scott Joplin, but no, that god awful duo of Al Sharpton in the cab and Johnny Cash in heaven beat those. Now it’s Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz getting off on each other for 20 minutes.