Amph Live From New York, It's Saturday Night!

It's showing signs of improvement, but as usual things can be hit and miss.

A lot of the newer cast members have been pretty good- especially the above-mentioned "Pacino" guy who has done some great impressions (the Vincent Price holiday special was really great and should be a recurring character, IMO). Some of their pre-filmed material, like Taco Town commercial (though they've aleady aired that 3 times), the very amusing "Young Chuck Norris" and the instant-classic "Lazy Sunday" have really excelled this year.

The Jack Black-hosted episode was pretty good, especially that spelling bee skit. And last week's Peter Sarsgard-hosted episode had a couple good ones in there too (the accidentally broken TV during the hotel room skit was very funny, though the skit itself probably would have been funny if nothing had gone wrong anyways, as well as the "Peter Sarsgard's SARS Guards" advertisement).

But, for the love of god, I wish they'd kill the "Carol" character. God she's so freaking annoying!

 

That was one of the better episodes of the season. The Java Juice thing at the start was great "What do you mean you don't want a boost?" and that SNL Digital Short was the best one since Lazy Sunday.

Anyone else think Portman had a Gozer-look going for her?


"You ruin the 4th of July!"
"You ruin the 4th of everything!"

 

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Arise, chicken, arise. Ha ha. You say funny thing.




So, new season, earlier debut and a focus on the election run-up with 4 Thursday night primetime Weekend Updates in Oct.

Also, we have Tina Fey back to cameo as her evil clone.

"I believe diplomacy should be the cornerstone of any foreign policy."
"And I can see Russia from my house!"





The new guy's waiter character towards the end was pretty good- I expect we'll be seeing him more. Digital Short had a rare misfire with Space Olympics. Had some potential near the end but it just didn't hit right.

 

Amy will apparently be leaving mid-season due to her pregnancy and upcoming show.

 

Yeah things ended up being mixed. The swim team skit was a retread without changing anything, the jar gloves and T-mobile bist were great, the new Belushi-like guy's waiter character was good, the Quiz Show started off strong but went nowhere. Weekend Update was solid as usual. The ugly kids bit is still ok, and Digital Short was rare misfire, as I said earlier.

Also, I'm not familiar with the musical guest's work, but man, i couldn't help but think during his performances that "Darn, this could have been a really good song if it had entirely different lyrics, chorus and performer" because musically it had alot of potential.

 

The quality of show varies show to show. Almost every show has had about 30-40 minutes of bad skits since forever.

 

The last 3 or 4 seasons have had some classic skits- but they can get lost amongst the worse bits. The celebrity Katrina relief (with Hader's awesome Pacino), Death By Chocolate, 75% of all Digital Shorts, the waterbottle thieves, almost anything involving Walken, etc.

i really wish they'd release a Best of collection for each season. Couple DVDs worth of material, cut out the repetitive, etc.