SNL has a wrap party somewhere every week after the show. We saw in the S60 pilot that they’re not always in the studio, and Cal made the statement that “the last time we had the wrap party in the studio, we had to shut down for 2 weeks to REBUILD the studio.”
If SNL does have a wrap party every week, it makes me wonder if they are all sitting somewhere at 2:00 AM looking at each other over drinks saying, “Well, THAT sucked. Again!”
I’d imagine most of them are face-down in a pile of cocaine by then.
Used to be true when they held the wrap party at Belushi and Ackroyd’s bar. Cocaine made them more creative. Obviously, therefore, nobody these days uses it.
This just in from E! Online: NBC has ordered 3 more scripts, which will bring this season to 16 episodes (as of now.)
I was discussing SNL with a former co-worker; in his opinion, the show started going downhill when the cast and writers stopped doing cocaine.
And it was good to see Tuco.
Due to the fact that most of us either grew up on 'best of’s or are hazily remembering things from 20-30 years ago, people don’t realize that a lot of SNL always sucked.
Not related to this episode but I didn’t want revive an old thread.
Was it ever explained on the show why Wes decided to run the Crazy Christians sketch that particular week? We’ve seen that it had been sitting around for years. Wes had apparently been comfortable plodding along at the level the show was at. There hasn’t been any mention that I recall of a recent event that triggered his decision.
So why would Wes have suddenly decided to pull an old sketch out and insist on using it - to the point where he had his public flame-out when it was pulled? In retrospect, it looks like he knew how it would go down and was looking for an excuse to get himself fired.
Or Sorkin needed a plot device to involve two ex-staffers who had had zero involvement with the show in years, however implausibly.
Because he was mad as hell, and he wasn’t going to take it any more.
Man, I really need to subscribe to these threads so that I can stop getting beat to the really good zingers.
Maybe Wes just got demoralized when he realized that his show had sunk so far that he couldn’t get Eva Longoria or Teri Hatcher to host and was stuck with Felicity Huffman.
From that list, you think Felicity Huffman is the third choice?
yeesh. this who really sucks. hollywood idiots are not comparable to storming the beach on normandy. nobody gives a shit about cocaine-fueled writers. crap like this really gives rise to the “hollywood elite” crap the flyovers bitch about.
When I was doing open-mike stand-up, the amateurs always went on before the professionals. It’s just like with live music; the garage band plays before the guys touring their hit single.
But I have never heard of a comedy club that has an open mike night on a Friday, and I’d bet dollars to doughnuts the Improv isn’t an exception.
In terms of talent; no. But in terms of fame; yes, she’s definitely farther down than Hatcher or Longoria.
A definite mixed bag. I want to like the show too, I really do, but I can’t say I’m champing at the bit for Monday nights to roll around.
As an Ohioan (although not from Columbus), may I say, enough with the anti-Flyover Country derision!!! Those parents were stereotypes of stereotypes. And anyone with two brain cells would figure out that the old guy used to work there. Come on. And the baseball player signing his phone number for a pretty girl… again? But of course.
I must say, I laughed out loud at the Evil Network Suit’s tirade against the UN show, especially when he was snapping his fingers: “That’s just got ‘hit’ written all over it!”
I’ll pass on the nail gun being pointed at my crotch. :eek: Thanks anyway.
As I pointed out, they weren’t even stereotypes of Midwesterners. They were stereotypes of Amish or something – people who had no contact with popular culture from their own era.
Who’s On First is “popular culture from their own era”? How old did you think Tom’s parents were? 
Come on, Abbott and Costello were popular right up to the 1970s – there was even a Saturday morning cartoon version of them. I’ll say that they were, say, 50-60 years old, which means that they would have been 10 years old in the range of 1946-1956. So the last A&C movie would have been made in about 1955, which would have put them in the prime range for cultural awareness, especially a famous baseball-based routine for a small boy. They recorded that one repeatedly over the years and comedians and performers referenced it constantly. And in the era of three or four TV channels per city, A&C’s movies were regular rerun fodder. The idea that the guy would have to explain the premise of the joke to them or that they would never even have heard of A&C would be ridiculous. The only way they would have been so clueless is if they had never watched television while they were growing up.