# Saturday Night Live 31st season premiere 9/30 (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802 "2006-10-01T03:24:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/1 "2006-10-01T03:24:10Z")
SNL comes back tonight with Dane Cook hosting. I wonder if there’ll be any sketches involving page boys? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![overeasy4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9bd4f/32.png) [@overeasy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overeasy4)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/2 "2006-10-01T03:26:18Z")
I’m waiting with baited breath. ---
**Author:** ![overeasy4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9bd4f/32.png) [@overeasy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overeasy4)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/3 "2006-10-01T03:44:07Z")
Tell me I’m not the only one who googled a:f6. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/4 "2006-10-01T04:01:24Z")
Monologue plus three sketches in… and only the monologue was non-political. Dane’s monologue got a laugh or two, and Kenan had a great reaction to ‘producing liquid… or gel…!’. That’s about all so far, though. Terrible start, and all the more credit to the Studio 60 scene last week where all the crappy writers could suggest was stuff about Bush and Republicans. A digital short coming up, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/5 "2006-10-01T04:03:11Z")
Apparently the writers were determined to prove Sorkin right. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/6 "2006-10-01T04:08:02Z")
Weekend Update with Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers should be up soon. I still say Andy Samberg would make a great page. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/7 "2006-10-01T04:14:09Z")
Has the lead singer of The Killers always been this much of a spaz? ---
**Author:** ![overeasy4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9bd4f/32.png) [@overeasy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overeasy4)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/8 "2006-10-01T04:14:13Z")
Am I the only one who misses Horatio? ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/9 "2006-10-01T04:16:38Z")
[QUOTE=overeasy4] Am I the only one who misses Horatio? [/QUOTE] Yes 🙂 Brian Williams is now the current leader for “Funniest Person of the Night”. Just me, or the Killers didn’t sound that great? Not a big fan of them, but the CD-radio stuff I’ve heard has been better than that. Weekend update now~ ---
**Author:** ![overeasy4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9bd4f/32.png) [@overeasy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overeasy4)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/10 "2006-10-01T04:18:15Z")
Isn’t this the 32nd season? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/11 "2006-10-01T04:55:13Z")
Okay the Farrah Fawcett sketch was a little weird. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/12 "2006-10-01T04:58:23Z")
From what I’ve heard about the Killers live, their performance was very similiar to what you’d normally get. I haven’t heard people raving about them live. I quit after Weekend Update, a couple of good lines but nothing to get me excited about this season. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/13 "2006-10-01T04:59:00Z")
I was very impressed by the scheduling - I had been a bit perturbed by the sketch-commercial-sketch-commercial-music-commercial-news-commercial-sketch-commercial-music-commercial-close format of the last few seasons - I hope they keep this new format going for a few episodes. Loved seeing Hammond as Clinton - Really do not miss Sanz ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/14 "2006-10-01T05:02:34Z")
Well, that was my once yearly reminder of why I don’t watch SNL anymore. Sort of a shame, too - Dane Cook has comedic timing and attitude that the rest of the cast would kill for… but the writing just wasn’t funny, at all. Ah, well. ---
**Author:** ![overeasy4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9bd4f/32.png) [@overeasy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overeasy4)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/15 "2006-10-01T05:10:47Z")
The water bottle falling out of the closet sketch was just weird, and surrealistically went on too long. ---
**Author:** ![overeasy4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9bd4f/32.png) [@overeasy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overeasy4)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/16 "2006-10-01T05:57:45Z")
I think they had a purposely lousy first show, so the rest of the season would be uphill. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/17 "2006-10-01T06:13:57Z")
[QUOTE=overeasy4] The water bottle falling out of the closet sketch was just weird, and surrealistically went on too long. [/QUOTE] I turned it off when they started the “selling this idea to the Saturday Night Live show” part of that bit. ---
**Author:** ![overeasy4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9bd4f/32.png) [@overeasy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overeasy4)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/18 "2006-10-01T06:21:56Z")
lucky you. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/19 "2006-10-01T07:55:35Z")
I saw the Dane Cook HBO special and it was not funny. He is not funny here either. Who the hell is he and why is he semi-well known? ---
**Author:** ![jlrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/22d042/32.png) [@jlrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlrepka)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802/20 "2006-10-01T07:58:22Z")
**W-E-A-K** Worst cold opening ever… in fairness, I’m sure that they had to scramble at the last minute to replace their original opening, a Gilbert and Sullivan song parody. And the Al Pacino bit was _literally_ just a paid Wells Fargo ad… The Homeland Security skit was good, and the Brian Williams bit was OK. Weekend Update needs help. The Daily Show has taken the concept and run with it, and does a much better job. The bit is essentially a series of topical jokes, and they have a week to work on it (as opposed to the late night hosts who put the whole thing together 4-5 days a week). WU has always worked best when it has had a dedicated anchor, i.e. Dennis Miller, Norm MacDonald, as opposed to someone who was spending the week writing and rehearsing skits. In 1992, after the Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding incident, they had Kerrigan on the show as host. I remember thinking, if this was 15 years ago they would have invited Tonya to host. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-31st-season-premiere-9-30-spoilers/374802.md?page=2)