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Posted 23 January 2014 - 01:47 PM
Entertainment Weekly: 'SNL' taps Colin Jost to succeed Seth Meyers as 'Weekend Update' co-anchor
http://insidetv.ew.c...hor-colin-jost/
Jost is the third consecutive head writer to take over the Update desk, following in the footsteps of Meyers and Tina Fey.
I Miss McNulty
Posted 23 January 2014 - 03:07 PM
They have a good crop of young talent on there right now. Kate McKinnon looks to be a star some day and Cecily Strong is a smoke show.
There is baseball, and occasionally there are other things of note
"Now OPS sucks. Got it."
"Making his own olive brine is peak Mackus."
"I'm too hungover to watch a loss." - McNulty
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Posted 23 January 2014 - 03:23 PM
Entertainment Weekly: 'SNL' taps Colin Jost to succeed Seth Meyers as 'Weekend Update' co-anchor
I was going to say that it wasn't true that he was the third-straight head-writer, but I forgot that Horatio Sanz anchored with Amy Pohler during Fey's maternity leave, not when she left the show.
Also, I had heard they were thinking about just letting Meyers keep the job.
Interesting little pipeline they have going. Honestly, I think they could let Cecily Strong go on her own. She's been great so far.
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Posted 23 January 2014 - 06:26 PM
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Posted 23 January 2014 - 06:40 PM
It's never been the same since the late 70s through mid to late 80s.I think the show in general has gotten better over the last year or so. But it was bad for a while.
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Posted 23 January 2014 - 06:42 PM
It's never been the same since the late 70s through mid to late 90s.I think the show in general has gotten better over the last year or so. But it was bad for a while.
They have had some great casts, particularly in the 90s but the writing isn't as good.
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Posted 23 January 2014 - 07:28 PM
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Posted 25 January 2014 - 11:33 PM
Not sure if anyone is watching, but feel free to discuss in real time, now that we have this forum up.
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Posted 26 January 2014 - 12:11 AM
I want Jonah Hill to host every year, because I love that Benihana sketch.
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Posted 26 January 2014 - 12:19 AM
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Posted 26 January 2014 - 12:23 AM
How did the Olympics pick Russia? What were the other options... Haiti or the middle of the Ocean?
Take that Dog Lawyer!
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Posted 26 January 2014 - 12:33 AM
Was that Michael Cera in the "Me" sketch?
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Posted 26 January 2014 - 12:38 AM
Was that Michael Cera in the "Me" sketch?
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Posted 26 January 2014 - 12:41 AM
Yes. Awesome.
It was a bit confusing because they have a guy--also a Mike (O'Brien)--who has a similar body type. So I couldn't tell if it was him or Cera. Which took a bit of the humor out of it for me 
I guess the question now is, what are they going to do with the 12:50 sketch that will let them fit in Seth Rogan?
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Posted 26 January 2014 - 12:55 AM
"Other cars are slow and Hondas."
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Posted 26 January 2014 - 12:57 AM
"One time I thought I banged Seal Team Six, but it was just sixteen seals. I was like, 'Thanks America! Arf arf arf!'"
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Posted 26 January 2014 - 01:47 AM
There is baseball, and occasionally there are other things of note
"Now OPS sucks. Got it."
"Making his own olive brine is peak Mackus."
"I'm too hungover to watch a loss." - McNulty
@bopper33
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Posted 26 January 2014 - 07:17 PM
I think SNL has been great recently..the last year or so at least.
It's also annoyingly trendy to talk about how it's not as good as it was (insert your favorite lineups).
@AdamWolff
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Posted 26 January 2014 - 08:04 PM
I think SNL has been great recently..the last year or so at least.
It's also annoyingly trendy to talk about how it's not as good as it was (insert your favorite lineups).
Good news for most of us on here is we don't remember the "hey day." It won't ever be that -- agree that gets annoying.
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Posted 26 January 2014 - 09:29 PM
I think SNL has been great recently..the last year or so at least.
It's also annoyingly trendy to talk about how it's not as good as it was (insert your favorite lineups).
Right. I've been a regular watcher for about fifteen years, and either as random live episodes or in reruns I've seen quite a few episodes going back into the late eighties.
The one thing you always hear in these discussions, and which I agree with, is that people who complain about the quality of the current episodes have a recency bias, in that they see then entirety of newer episodes--warts and all--whereas they are remembering the very best of the older episodes. Even seeing episodes in reruns, they tend to be cut to an hour, so the worst sketches don't ever see the light of day again.
It's also easy at the time to make negative comparisons between newer casts and older ones because you don't yet know where the newer cast members are headed. Somebody complaining about the cast in 1998 and saying that they don't have anything on Bill Murray didn't know that Will Ferrall was on his way to becoming this generation's Bill Murray. Someone complaining about the cast in 2008 didn't know that Amy Pohler was going to be arguably the best comic actress on TV, or that Andy Samburg would star in a hit sitcom and win a Golden Globe, or that Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudakis and Bill Hader would be movie stars, or that Seth Meyers would host his own late-night show.
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