# When's the new SNL season start? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 19, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-new-snl-season-start/264936 "2004-09-19T02:19:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-new-snl-season-start/264936/21 "2004-10-05T11:40:26Z")
Debate: mildly funny. His Kerry voice is all right, but the hand movement just looks like Jimmy Fallon doing the NBC president (and what the hell what THAT impression all about?). Monologue was good when Baldwin came out. Bonerjuice had some funny lines: do you want THICK STURDY BONERS? At least it was somewhat dirty and talking about boners. Not exactly cutting edge stuff, but not totally tame either. I have ZERO respect for Affleck but I thought his carville was good and I thought Clinton hitting on Teresa was real funny. “There are 57 varieties of things I’d like to do to you.” I liked that sketch a lot. WU: meh. Yeah, gandolfini was funny (I got you a DVD. Sanyo’s a good one.) I liked it when Tina Fey told AP that she was going to kill other people and make her her girlfriend. Escalator was somewhat funny but Debbie Downer was NOT. Overall: B- ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-new-snl-season-start/264936/22 "2004-10-05T12:09:37Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > I heard it as “Will Fort,” as if Forte had decided to go with a one-syllable pronunciation of his last name for no fathomable reason. He said “Will Far-” and then stopped when he realized his mistake. I even rewound the TiVo to confirm what I heard. He also said “Rachel Ratch.” Poor Don Pardo. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-new-snl-season-start/264936/23 "2004-10-05T16:02:17Z")
> [@Fiver](#): > > I did. > > Don Pardo’s a great guy, but he’s in his 80s and some things may not be as easy for him as they used to be. I’m thinking announcing the cast is among them. 😕 You mean, “Don Pardo” actually **exists?** It’s not just a generical TV industry term for “voiceover guy”? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-new-snl-season-start/264936/24 "2004-10-06T15:03:41Z")
Where was I when it was announced Jimmy Fallon was leaving SNL? I had no idea. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-new-snl-season-start/264936/25 "2004-10-06T15:41:06Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > Where was I when it was announced Jimmy Fallon was leaving SNL? I had no idea. > > 😕 well, you weren’t watching Weekend Update during last season’s finale. He just said it then, and that was it. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-new-snl-season-start/264936/26 "2004-10-06T15:47:53Z")
> [@Psychodispotic](#): > > Can anyone please guide me to a film/TV show that Ben Affleck actually made better. I thought he was fine in “Shakespeare in Love.” And then there was. . . I’m sure something will come to me. ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-new-snl-season-start/264936/27 "2004-10-06T16:41:29Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Can someone please give Rachel Dratch a movie contract? Not that she deserves one, but it will get her off the show. Oh my Gahd, you ah so re-tahded! I’ll admit “Debbie Downer” isn’t the jewel in her crown, but I always liked Rachel Dratch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-new-snl-season-start/264936.md?page=1)