# SNL 5/16 - Will Ferrell/ Green Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 17, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-5-16-will-ferrell-green-day/496779 "2009-05-17T20:37:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-5-16-will-ferrell-green-day/496779/21 "2009-05-19T14:03:01Z")
Live season finale with new skits and one re-run parody commercial. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-5-16-will-ferrell-green-day/496779/22 "2009-05-19T14:21:11Z")
> [@HelloNinja](#): > > - Ghost of Harry Caray and “Angel Bucks” was awesome. Maybe I’m missing the joke here, but I thought this was absolutely awful…and it seemed to go on and on and on. In fact, though we’ve been faithfully watching for 20+years and loved the Timberlake episode, we both agreed that this was by far the worst episode we can remember. Harry Caray dragged forever…the monologue didn’t even seem like it was supposed to be funny. The only thing that made us laugh was celebrity Jeopardy, and to a lesser extent, Lawrence Welk. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-5-16-will-ferrell-green-day/496779/23 "2009-05-19T14:40:37Z")
I’ve just always been a big fan of Ferrell’s Harry Caray impression and it was fun to see him dust it off for the show. I thought the whole thing was true to way he’s always played Caray. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-5-16-will-ferrell-green-day/496779/24 "2009-05-19T16:29:04Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Does Kristen Wiig do anything other than deformed and or insane “one joke and that one not funny” characters? The one that comes to mind at the moment is her Nancy Pelosi impersonation, which is damned good. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-5-16-will-ferrell-green-day/496779/25 "2009-05-19T16:42:09Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > The one that comes to mind at the moment is her Nancy Pelosi impersonation, which is damned good. I think her Kathy Lee Gifford impersonation is dead-on and funny as well, but agree that most of her “characters” are horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-5-16-will-ferrell-green-day/496779/26 "2009-05-19T16:52:39Z")
Let’s audit the Kristin Wiig characters: Emotionally or sychologically damaged, or just plain annoying, to various degrees: Gilly Woman who can’t keep a secret Tiny hands creepy lady Target lady psycho The one-upper lady Pre-pubescent little girl (with her brother) Impersonations, generally good: Nancy Pelosi Kathy Lee Gifford Other characters that I can stand: MacGruber sidekick ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-5-16-will-ferrell-green-day/496779/27 "2009-05-19T17:00:18Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Burt Reynolds was supposed to be the guy on each Celeb Jeopardy but then Norm McDonald got fired so they brought in Hammond as Sean Connery as the regular. And looking remarkably unlike him, for some reason… what’s with the blonde Eminem wig? Connery’s pretty much bald, isn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-5-16-will-ferrell-green-day/496779/28 "2009-05-20T05:01:00Z")
NM - needs more research. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-5-16-will-ferrell-green-day/496779.md?page=1)