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SNL is Friggin' Horrible! Except when Timberlake is hosting. (3 Viewers)

R.I.P. Jan Hooks.

She's probably not famous enough to get her own thread, but she was a solid performer during the classic late '80s seasons. She was a female Phil Hartman, capable of playing any role, any personality.

 
Oh ####. That's Mikey Day as one of the North Koreans soldiers. If SNL insisted on hiring two white former cast members of Wild 'N' Out, why couldn't they have gotten Rob Hoffman?

 
Love Is A Dream is a poignant and fitting tribute to Jan Hooks, but I wish they would have shown the diner sketch with Alec Baldwin. Hooks delivers a master class in sketch comedy in that one.

Or a Sweeney Sisters medley.

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
Love Is A Dream is a poignant and fitting tribute to Jan Hooks, but I wish they would have shown the diner sketch with Alec Baldwin. Hooks delivers a master class in sketch comedy in that one.

Or a Sweeney Sisters medley.
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Agreed, but I understand going the sentimental route.
 
I'm coming around on Michael Che. I liked his riff on gay men reluctant to marry and no longer have an excuse. (even knowing Key & Peele did a sketch built on the same premise a while back)

Still think Jost is more "writer" than "writer/performer".

 
Watching this from the beginning now. The posts I just scrolled through make me very optimistic.

OMG, look at Harvey Fierstein. He looks about 80 years older than he did when he was on Cheers. :(

 
Mr. Ham said:
Bruce Dickinson said:
Love Is A Dream is a poignant and fitting tribute to Jan Hooks, but I wish they would have shown the diner sketch with Alec Baldwin. Hooks delivers a master class in sketch comedy in that one.

Or a Sweeney Sisters medley.
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Good choice because it's Hooks and Hartman, and they're both gone - but they didn't need to say it to make it seems timeless. If be all for a Hooks tribute episode, frankly - it at least one dedicated to all of those we've lost.
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Very nice tribute. Sad that both of them are gone.

Man, Bing Crosby had some pipes.

 
Encyclopedia Brown said:
Bruce Dickinson said:
Love Is A Dream is a poignant and fitting tribute to Jan Hooks, but I wish they would have shown the diner sketch with Alec Baldwin. Hooks delivers a master class in sketch comedy in that one.
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They showed it tonight in the prime-time episode.
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Thanks for mentioning this. Already looking forward playing back that recording.

And :thumbup: to Ham's reply about using a Hartman-Hooks sketch as a continued tribute to Hartman as well as Hooks. Makes even more sense seeing it that way.

 
Haven't watched the episode yet, was the puppet skit a new one of what he did in the past?

Hader was on Howard Stern last week. Howard mentioned how much he loved the puppet skit and Hader admitted he hadn't thought about doing it again. He told Howard that if it's on this week, it's because of him.

 
Viewership was down because of that lackluster season premiere...I gotta think that most casual watchers were thinking, "Damn...they've had all this time to come up with this mess?"

It only goes down hill from here, if these writers can't come up with better with all that time...how are they going to within a week and rehearse it?

Hader is awesome though...he's easily my favorite from that cast.

Cecily still brings the chops for this cast...and the new kid seems to be finding comfort in his skits.

 
I think it's odd that people are surprised that this episode was finally good. They brought back Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig and no one understands why this episode was better than the first two? I'm going to make a prediction and say next week's show falls back to the standard of the first two shows of the season.

 
I watched the earlier SNL this week that aired at 10pm. It was from the 1990 season. I was surprised how funny it still was to me. I don't remember seeing that episode back then. The cast was much smaller but there wasn't a single bad cast member. The energy of the live crowd seemed to be different as well. It started with Dana Carvey doing a skit as George Bush. Every skit was funny. I was left to wonder what had changed since then. Back then the performers were much more interchangeable and they did so many things effortlessly whereas now they have more specific roles to play. They always seem to fall into the same thing in every skit now. I guess what I mean to say is there were not many one trick ponies then and now it feels like they are mostly one trick ponies. Not all of them but most of them. I don't even think the writing was much better back then they were just better at pulling it off even if it wasn't the greatest idea.

I watched the later show and I was left to wonder why they showed that Jan Hooks bit and not something where she was funny, which was probably everything else she did on that show. I found what they showed to be a little bit strange. They said she was the funniest woman and then showed something where she was not. Come to think of it why did they even do that skit back then? I don't remember anything like that in all the years watching the show. It would be like if Tony Bennett died and for the Grammy tribute they showed him dancing.

 
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