and Carsenio

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And now, Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey.

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You certainly wouldnt get " What is this burrito crap? " on the air today

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

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The episode the other night with Chalamet was fun. Lot of weird goofy energy. I laughed too hard at the fart doctor.

The documentary last night on 50 years of musical guests was really enjoyable, too. Lots of Eddie Murphy, lots of Lonely Island, maybe too much John Belushi. I think it was the most I've ever seen of those 80-85 lost years that never made it into syndication. If nothing else, watch the opening montage:

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The Bob Dylan musical guest thing was a miserable failure though.

But the actual show was funny.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Yeah, they took a risk and it didn't really work. But I appreciated that he had some pretty deep pulls for a national audience. Then again, he could have done "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and "Like a Rolling Stone" and they probably would have been unfamiliar to a majority of viewers.

EDIT: just to add, for whatever it's worth, when he said he was going to play some more obscure songs, I had my fingers crossed for "One More Cup of Coffee" and "Absolutely Sweet Marie." I love both of those but they never seem to pop up on various clickbaity Dylan lists.

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The special was enjoyable. However, some of the "legendary moments" were kind of stupid. Elvis Costello stopping one song and staring another, chief amongst them.

I think that whole deal really needs the context of Lorne Michaels being a world-historic control freak. Also, it's kind of a Seinfeld-isn't-funny thing, where we're so used to that sort of spontaneity on live TV that it doesn't hit anymore.

I enjoyed hearing the director freak out during the Ashlee Simpson botched lip-sync. It was just "OH SHIT WRONG SONG WRONG SONG WRONGSOOOOONG" but it was still funny to hear it.

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Also, why is Jack White starting to look like a 70 year old woman?

It’s important to celebrate one of the 2 remaining Traveling Wilburys

I watched Saturday Night on a flight last week. It was mildly entertaining but shot kind of like a music video. It was just frantic. But I guess maybe that's what Reitman was going for. Constantly surly Belushi was dumb. The best part was J.K. Simmons as Milton Berle.

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Freedom is our Strength.

That Milton Berle impersonation was spot on, that was pretty crazy.

They did an entire documentary on More Cowbell. Is it the greatest sketch of all time? At this point, yeah, probably.

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Frantic is the perfect word for it. My wife and I turned it off after 20 minutes. I thought a number of the casting choices were spot on. Just didn’t like the pacing of it.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

I can't sit through any show or movie where people run around like chickens with their heads cut off. the exception is the Bears and the Bulls.

Recency bias aside, the first Washington measurement skit was pure brilliance.

I’d put that ahead of Cowbell, which I think was aided by the chuckling in the background.

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Cowbell was brilliant, but not belly aching funny. It's was basically the Deer Hunter guy being shocking. So we remember and it sticks and we never looked at Christopher Walken the same.

I guess I have some historical bias for More Cowbell, because it's of an era where we had to get our memes from either SNL or Super Bowl commercials. Like, you couldn't get memes anywhere, those were our scheduled meme shipments. And man, did we get one there. We as a culture have been doing More Cowbell for half the lifespan of Saturday Night Live at this point.

My favorite sketch of all time, Legendary Sketch Division, is the Turd Ferguson Celebrity Jeopardy. My favorite sketch of all time, People Don't Remember What The Hell I'm Recounting Division, is probably The Bob Waltman Special, where Kevin Nealon makes people cry, consoles them, and turns to the camera with the greatest shit-eating grin ever.

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Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks. but all the Black Jeopardys never miss.

Weird little tidbit from that documentary: More Cowbell was originally supposed to run on the episode Norm hosted, which was the same one with Turd Ferguson and "I haven't gotten funnier, the show just got really bad," with Norm playing rock legend Bruce Dickinson. I think it still could have worked, just operating differently.

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oddly one of my favorite sketches is just a clothesline with jason alexander, where he goes to the greek place and they keep saying "you likea tha juice...". i don't know why, it just makes me laugh every time.

the first matt foley sketch is an all-timer.

You Like-a the Juice shows that Cheeseburger Cheeseburger isn't even the funniest sketch about a Greek restaurant in Chicago.

It's either Matt Foley or Chippendales that Odenkirk wishes he hadn't written for Farley.

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Chippendales. He was very proud and still is of Foley.

So underrated.

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"Julian's thinking is clearer than Ricky's thinking."

I love the episode of Larry Sanders where Nealon invites himself to hang out around the office out of sheer boredom, which makes Hank think Larry is going to make him the new sidekick. Hank confronts Kevin Nealon, who says he would never want a gig as worthless as that, which causes Hank to have such an existential crisis that he puts himself in the hospital with a major panic attack. Nealon must fill in as sidekick at the last minute and decides it's fun.

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Hard to pick from so many, but the three that come to mind for me:

Chippendales
Reagan mastermind
Presidential debate with Bush, Clinton, and Perot

Anything with Phil Hartman was gold.

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I watched the Steve Forbes episode last night. Peacock cut Rage Against the Machine, they cut all the music, but they also cut the sketch where Norm plays the Unabomber sketch artist. "Yeah, I'm not good at drawing hair...or eyes."

https://www.instagram.com/snlreelz/reel/DFMPoXRvqPs/


There's gonna be a lot of things we don't tell Mrs. Clinton.

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I'm a little partial to the W. Bush, Gore debate....otherwise known as "Strategery v. Lock Box"

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You mean lockbox. Lawwwk bawwwwx.


How about commercials? Schmitt's Gay is the GOAT, followed closely by Crystal Gravy, but I was reminded of Grayson Moorhead the other night and then the other Jim Downey bank parody, Change Bank.

Also great: Colon Blow, Robot Insurance, Petchow's Rat Poison, Jiffy Pop Airbag

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