Sunday, January 25, 2009
The Delicious Dish
Alec Baldwin's SNL special was on earlier tonight, and I watched out for "The Delicious Dish", which is one of the best SNL sketches ever. I'd been looking for a video online, but could only find audio on YouTube. It still works though, since the sketch features a fictional NPR radio show:Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Fey
NY Times's Maureen Dowd on Tina Fey for Vanity Fair:
Elizabeth Stamatina Fey started as a writer and performer with a bad short haircut in Chicago improv. Then she retreated backstage at S.N.L., wore a ski hat, and gained weight writing sharp, funny jokes and eating junk food. Then she lost 30 pounds, fixed her hair, put on a pair of hot-teacher glasses, and made her name throwing lightning-bolt zingers on “Weekend Update.” Speeding through the comedy galaxy, she wrote the hit Mean Girls and created her own show based on an S.N.L.-type show: 30 Rock. The comedy struggled in the ratings for two years but was a critical success, winning seven Emmys last fall and catapulting Fey into red-hot territory. Before she even had a chance to take a breath, a freakish twist of fate turned her from red- to white-hot, and enabled her, at long last, to boost the ratings of 30 Rock: Fey was a ringer for another hot-teacher-in-glasses, Sarah Palin, the comely but woefully unprepared Alaska governor, who bounded out of the woods with her own special language to become not only the first Republican woman to run on a national ticket but also God’s gift to comedy and journalism. So where does Fey go from white-hot?
Labels: SNL, television
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Seth Myers
The October 8 edition of the BS Report features a long interview with SNL cast member and headwriter Seth Myers. They talk about a lot of interesting stuff, like doing weekend update, Timberlake's classic Barry Gibb show sketch, the hottest chick Seth's ever seen on the show, writing for De Niro, Hader's awesome Pacino impression, the best guest-hosts ever, doing SNL after 9-11, Studio 60, and a bunch of stuff about the SNL writing process. Definitely worth checking out if you're an SNL fan.Labels: SNL
Monday, August 13, 2007
Saving Private Lohan
It seems so long ago, when you think about it, but it was only a couple of years ago when Lindsay Lohan was the hottest woman in the world. Then she hooked up with Paris and Nicole and now her career's in the toilet. The Sports Guy's latest mailbag deals with the issue:Q: After Lindsay Lohan's second DUI with a charge of coke possession, it appears her career has spiraled down the toilet. So what's her best option? To sign the largest contract ever with Vivid Entertainment. This would be like the David Beckham effect on Americans watching soccer … except it would actually work. Porn would be mainstream, she would still be making tons of money and it would be cool for her to be going to the wild parties. This idea is too perfect to not work.
--Drew, Columbus, Ohio
SG: Hmmmm … you might be right about this. Porn actresses show up late to sets; they drink and do drugs; they dress like hookers; and they have sex with random shady people. Lohan already might be doing all those things. From a financial standpoint, she couldn't make more than a $1-2 million for a mainstream movie because she's box office poison at this point; when you think about it, Jenna Jameson makes that much money in a month. So, yeah, Lindsay might be better off emulating Jenna than Gwyneth Paltrow at this point. On the other hand, it wasn't that long ago that Angelina Jolie was making out with her brother, wearing Billy Bob Thornton's blood around her neck and dressing goth. … Now she's a respected actress who's allowed to adopt babies in various countries and even managed to steal Jennifer Aniston's husband. So you can't give up on Lindsay yet.
Just for the hell of it, here's the Sports Gal's take: "Lindsay doesn't need porn. She needs to copy what Angelina did and play a role close to herself, that's how she can turn her career around. Nobody wants to see her in a romantic comedy because she's too messed up and nobody wants to see her in a horror movie because we'd just root for her to get killed. When Angelina was struggling, she did "Girl, Interrupted" and played a mental patient with drug problems who cut herself and acted crazy. It wasn't exactly a stretch. Lindsay needs to do that, something close to home, like a promiscuous alcoholic with low self-esteem and a drug problem who likes to drive drunk, chain-smoke and pretend that her breasts aren't fake -- then, her life is turned upside down when she gets sent to jail for her 14th DUI and she ends up feuding with a group of skinhead prisoners who resent her because of her beautiful red hair, which they end up shaving before she joins a rival Kabbalah group and finds the strength to kill the Skinheads to survive. I would go see this movie, and Bill would probably go too because there would definitely be a shower scene."
Just for shits and giggles, here's a clip from SNL a few years ago, right before the 'Mean Girls' premiere, of Lohan as Hermione Granger. While the sketch itself was hilarious, it's hard to look at the video and not be sad over what might have been.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Friday video
The other night at 70s Bistro, while waiting for Imago and Sandwich to come on, we got to talking about Will Ferrell because of Blades of Glory. We were all big fans, and so we were sharing our favorite Ferrell moments both from films and from SNL sketches. Anyway, I found out that some of my buddies still haven't seen the classic "VH1 Storytellers: Neil Diamond" sketch.(Unfortunately, the only copy that's on the web today has a Lorne Michaels interview in the middle of it. Pfft. But it's still great though.)
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Crazy Christmas gift ideas from SNL
I usually couldn't stand Timberlake, but this clip is so f'n funny. Andy Samberg, who was also involved in Lazy Sunday, is the digital prince of awesome.
Labels: awesome, Christmas, hehehe, SNL, television
