Saturday Night Live must have done so many rewrites!

[eleny]

I bet they've rewritten the show opener 15 times by now. What a hell of a week. I wonder who will play Rush and the other miscreants? A Bubba character would be schweet.

Gee, I just looked up "miscreant" at dictionary.com and the very first definition is "eveildoer"!

[Cha]

1. lol! Poor Babies!

[spooky3]

2. Whatever they do, Al Franken should be the host.

[BQueen]

3. Jack Black is hosting

maybe Al will hijack the monologue! That would be hysterical - and you KNOW Black would be up for it!

[RummyTheDummy]

4. Does the new season premier this week?

NT

[eleny]

5. yes

[Malikshah]

6. Puh-leeze.

They wrote it at the end of last season...the usual kiss-ass to the regime, attacks on the French, attacks on Iraq, inside jokes, skits about being hip--that if anyone doesn't laugh--they just don't get it...

They lost me forever after 9/11. They caved. They turned over and became supporters of what the * regime was doing to this country--and tried to make it hip.

Mad TV has been 100% funnier w/o trying to play the political game--they're not good at it either. It takes intelligence--which only the Daily Show staff seems to have.

Go check out the articles in today's media--they make it so clear that SNL has lost it--something many of us have known for well over 2 years.

[UTUSN]

7. Tonight Will Decide Whether SNL Is Lame All Year or Not

Darrell HAMMOND ticked me off when he kissed Shrub's ass at the first White House Correspondents' Dinner. And they have given Shrub a pass ever since. Although Bartcop seems to like Tina FEY and she's personally a Lib, she's been steering a limp writing ship.

If they come down hard on Ahhhnuld tonight, they will have a decent season. If not, it's more of the same Shrub-licking.

'course they always have the comedians' escape clauses: 1) "I'm ONLY a comedian"----HAMMOND. 2) We WANT fuck-ups like Shrub and Ahhhnuld in office because they GIVE US MATERIAL.

[eileen_d]

9. Attacking SNL for doing political comedy

Is like attacking a banana split for being tasty.

Of course it's a matter of opinion whether they succeed at being funny or not, but SNL is not "supporting the * regime."

[The Night Owl]

8. I miss Will Farrell's Bush impression...

Ferrell did the funniest impression of Bush.

[philosophie_en_rose]

10. Bushco threatened Ferrell

And told him to stop the Bush impressions.

[UTUSN]

11. FERRELL Was the Best

And, given the lame cheerleading routine he would do, it would have ROCKED if he had done Shrub as the cheerleader.

[UTUSN]

12. Kick for Tonight's the Night n/t

[UTUSN]

13. Minutes Away from Kick-off n/t

[Brian Sweat]

17. Do you have any proof of that or is that just your opinion?

[Lefty48197]

14. John Goodman could do a good Rush Limbaugh

he did such a good job with Linda Tripp!

[UTUSN]

16. Opening with Ahhhnuld--------with Subtitles

"The issue of crime----I am against the criminals. .....The environment-------I have a plan to save it with good ideas... One California (lists all minorities)..."

[Wonk]

30. quicktime of the Ahnold intro skit

17 M

[Lefty48197]

15. They are scorching Ahnold

He's giving a "policy speech" that is long on generalities and ideals but 100% void of ideas. Plus, they've got subtitles so we know what he is saying. Hilarious.

[carrowsboy]

18. you still watch that SNL crap?

Flip on over to MadTV to see real comedy!

The Bill O'Reilly & Gray Davis skit was hilarious! Not to mention the Snuggle bear and the old woman talking about Schwarznegger.

[UTUSN]

21. Can't Get MadTV - Finally into Weekend Update

It's all been character sketches so far. FALLON did an item on Ahhhnuld. FEY did a CLARK and SHARPTON. Both doing LIMBO, HAMMOND doing LIMBO: "My remarks about McNABB were directed at the media, not racist against Blacks, just very black Blacks. (drugs) If I go to jail there are a lot of pissed off Black guys. ... You can't hurt Rush LIMBAUGH, (have popped so many pills) I feel NOTHING, (takes out a hammer and hits hand) NOTHING, NOTHING AT ALL."

[wuushew]

19. Strange..MSNBC blasts SNL(NBC)?

http://www.msnbc.com/news/974916.asp


Oct. 2 — There are countless good reasons to love ‘Daily Show’ host Jon Stewart. He’s smart, he’s decorating his office with a pair of shiny new Emmys, and he’s responsible for proving to the smarmy Craig Kilborn that no one is indispensable. But here’s another reason, if you need one: he constantly shows up “Saturday Night Live,” television’s most complacent comedy franchise, which starts its new season Oct. 4 on NBC.

[kiahzero]

20. Did you see?

They just slammed Rush! It was great!

[UTUSN]

23. FEY Did a List of "Things (Shrub) CAN'T Find"

WMD et al.

[kiahzero]

22. Things Bush Can't Find

Leak in White House
WMD
Saddam
bin Laden
Link between the two
Anthrax sender
His own butt with two hands and a flashlight.

=D =D =D

[UTUSN]

26. At Least They Took a Couple of Jabs

Soft punches at Ahhnuld, LIMBO, tiny little ones at Shrub. Nighty nite.

[Wonk]

29. quicktime vids of that and the Rush segment from Weekend Update

Rush, 6 M

Things * can`t find, 2 M

[IkeWarnedUs]

24. Tina Fey - Things Bush Cannot Find

The source of the CIA leak

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Saddam Husein

Osama binLaden

A connection between Saddam and binLaden

The guy who mailed the anthrax letters

His ass with both hands and a flashlight

[LastKnight]

25. haha so funny

just watchin it and they went after ahnuld too... weekend update saves the show again.

-LK

[Brian Sweat]

27. I didn't realize that Jack Black could sing so well.

[sleipnir]

28. Rewrites or no rehearsal

I can't believe it, but the cue card reading is nearly as bad as when Deniro was on last season. They must have little to no time to rehearse the new material, as a lot of the cast and especially Jack Black are obviously reading off of cue cards. Usually it's just one skit at the end, but this is ridiculus, the Chef skit was a pure piece of shit and no one knew their lines.

I for one will give SNL one last chance before I confine it (again) to my past viewing habits.

[DemBones DemBones]

31. I was not impressed, either. The best bit was

the list of things Bush* can't find. The thong diapers segment was funny, too.

Of course I rarely watch SNL anymore. It was best in the days of John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Steve Martin.

But all the great material available for political satire should have led to a better show, instead of Jack Black everywhere, seeming to just re-do bits from his movie trailer being aired so frequently now. Are the writers on strike?
:shrug: