TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[Jocephus]

no im saying that making a joke on an "elder" is sacrilege. its not true.

[33anda3rd]

At SNL, where the filtration process to get to that dozen or so cast members and 20 or so staff writers is extensive and almost absurd, you have some of the best young comedic talent in the world at any time in one place at one time. They hire a few people a year, and they have generally speaking done a bang-up job of brining in talent like Conan, Ferrell, Murray, etc. over the years.

The nature of the Spade Hollywood Minute was to take easy potshots at celebs who were down, and his persona was that of the carefree above-it-all commentator on the down points in people's lives. It was easy, lazy, mean-spirited comedy which the talent on that show could have done better than. Were there laughs? Sure. But they were easy laughs. They were America's Funniest Home Videos hit-in-the-balls grade easy. They were, in general, disrespectful to the celebs they were mocking, and SNL as an institution probably should have been a little more sensitive to taking an easy potshot at them in general and especially the man who single-handedly kept that show on the air in the early 80s.

[thrill]

Let's stop talking about this so I don't have to split this thread into SNL nonsense.

[stlouie_lipp]

Great - now the TV thread is gonna get locked.

[heyzeus]

I feel gross posting a link to TMZ, but whatever. I am what I am

[stlouie_lipp]

I feel gross posting a link to TMZ, but whatever. I am what I am

Don't feel bad. It's the internet - it's supposed to be a little gross.

Looks like Eddie doing that bit is quite ironic given how his career has fallen the last decade.

[ghostrunner]

This conversation is making me aware of how great it is that comedy doesn't have real awards or a hall of fame or related BS. We'd be sitting here talking about halls of very good for Will Forte and Molly Shannon. I mean arguably she's a hall of famer when you consider her years on SNL combined with.... Oh [expletive]

[Vidor]

Man, I never liked Molly Shannon. The armpit-sniffing girl was never, ever funny. The lady that kicked her legs a lot and screamed that she was fifty years old was never funny. She was more funny in a few scenes in "Talladega Nights" than she was in her whole SNL career.

[jim]

I can KICK. I can PUNCH. And I ... CAN ... KICK. I'm FIFTY!

How do you not laugh at that? That's funny. I like the arm pit sniffing but then again I actually sniff my dental floss so take that for what it's worth.

[Vidor]

Seriously, where is the joke there? "I'M FIFTY! I'M FIFTY YEARS OLD!" Where's the joke?