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Is she the hot one with the glasses who has the misfortune of doing Weekend Update opposite of Jimmy Fallon?
Yeah, that's her.
He works in small doses. I thought Anchorman was terrible save for a few parts, and he was totally worthless in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. He does the exact same jokes over and over. If it's not some ridiculous slap-stick thing, it's him dragging on about something obvious like, "Oh my head hurts, it really hurts, oh my god it's hurting, someone help me, oh my god my head hurts, I'm losing blood," (this sequence will continue for 15 minutes).
What are you talking about? I'm familiar with most of his SNL repertoire and I don't remember him doing anything like that on the show; the only thing I can recall was the "very badly burned" bit from the first Austin Powers movie, which I thought worked very well (I was in 8th grade when I saw it, and was laughing uproariously). And his exchange with Jon Stewart in J&SB was priceless. Have you seen any of the sketches I mentioned?
The problem now is that their hosts suck, their writers suck and they take no chances. When the show first started out, there were actually talented comedians hosting it, and their monologues were worth watching. Now, every "monologue" by some actor promoting his or her latest movie turns into some stupid affair involving the cast. When Chris Rock hosted it, it was like a breath of fresh air.
Nonsense. Take a look at the lists of special guests during the early years - comedians made up a minority then, just as they make up a minority now. And the monologue has always been hit-and-miss - if you go back and watch 70's episodes, you'll find that the bad ones are just as bad if not worse than the bad ones they have today. The problem with SNL now isn't bad monologues, it's the fact that virtually every goddamn sketch they do falls flat on its face.
And I honestly don't credit Sandler or Spade with anything good in SNL. Sandler is comedy for 15 year-olds, and Spade is now carrying around a giant void of humor about the size of Chris Farly everywhere he goes.
Oh, come on, Sandler is a bit more divisive, but you gotta give David Spade credit for Hollywood Minute at the very least. I mean, he coined the phrase "I liked it better the first time, when it was called <insert movie being ripped off>"
Sure. Chevy Chase, Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray and all those guys were all writers for SNL, if memory serves. Of course, Chevy Chase became an embittered asshole who went on to make 1 good movie out of about 50,000, but Akroyd and Murray went on to make Ghostbusters.
Chevy Chase has made some truly bad movies, but his ratio is a little better than that. Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack, Christmas Vacation, and Spies Like Us are all funny movies. And Aykroyd's greatest accomplishment is The Blues Brothers, don't forget about that!

Dave Chappelle was also a writer for SNL. The Daily Show has also picked up some talent from SNL - A. Whitney Brown, a Kilborn-era man, was a writer, and Steven Colbert wrote for SNL too.
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I think its great that there's a whole generation of people who think a live performance sucks if it doesn't sound *exactly* the same as the CD... so I guess the lip-synching apologists will win in the end.
Oh man, you hit the nail on the head **EXACTLY** I've been to some rock concerts latley where the teeny-rockers wander out going 'That sounded nothing like the CD, it sucked!' - the music companies pick up on this.. and everything will sound exactly the same.

The days of an artist (A true musical artist, other than a popfactory clone) being able to jam on a stage and warp the sound and feeling of ther songs could be coming to an end....
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Durandal wrote:Chevy Chase, Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray and all those guys were all writers for SNL, if memory serves. Of course, Chevy Chase became an embittered asshole who went on to make 1 good movie out of about 50,000, but Akroyd and Murray went on to make Ghostbusters.
They were stars too. I was talking about people who were writers, period. Of course the performers write some of the sketches too. :roll:
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DPDarkPrimus wrote:
Durandal wrote:Chevy Chase, Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray and all those guys were all writers for SNL, if memory serves. Of course, Chevy Chase became an embittered asshole who went on to make 1 good movie out of about 50,000, but Akroyd and Murray went on to make Ghostbusters.
They were stars too. I was talking about people who were writers, period. Of course the performers write some of the sketches too. :roll:
Oh excuse me for not being a fucking mind-reader, asshole. You'll notice that all of those names were listed under the "Writers" credit.
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Durandal wrote:Honestly, I never understood why people thought that Will Ferrel was funny. Or Adam Sandler. Or that fucking cheerleading skit that always went on for 15 god damn minutes.
Man, I HATED Will Ferrell especialy FOR that fucking cheerleader skit. But I thought he was incredibly funny in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back." His best scenes were cut out, but you can see all of them on the J&SBSB DVD. Really funnystuff.
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For me, Will Ferrell's finest hours were as the long suffering Alex Trebek in the Celebrity Jeopardies...

JUst so deadpan... his interaction with Chris Hammond's Sean Connery was just priceless.

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Latest news on the MuchMore Music headlines: According to sources who spoke with Ashlee's father, she has a chronic sore throat problem from acid reflux. That's why they put the CD track on in the background to "strengthen" her voice and make it sound better. You know...Bono once lost his voice in the middle of a concert in Sarajevo and he still managed to pull things off....
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Lord Poe wrote:
Durandal wrote:Honestly, I never understood why people thought that Will Ferrel was funny. Or Adam Sandler. Or that fucking cheerleading skit that always went on for 15 god damn minutes.
Man, I HATED Will Ferrell especialy FOR that fucking cheerleader skit. But I thought he was incredibly funny in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back." His best scenes were cut out, but you can see all of them on the J&SBSB DVD. Really funnystuff.
I saw them. Nothing particularly noteworthy, in my opinion.

As for Ferrel in Celebrity Jeopardy, yes, he was a good dead-pan guy. If I was to say that he had a strength, it would be that. He's got the face and the voice to make a good dead-pan. It's unfortunate that the majority of his other roles are these idiotic slapstick parts.
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Stofsk wrote:I have but one question: when did Jude Law become a TV show host? The guy played a Russian sniper in a grand WW2 epic, and now he's camera whore for some late night show? Poor guy. :( Of course SNL may be insanely popular, but I don't care. :|
I'll leave the debate over the merits of the current era of SNL to others, and just point out that as others have said, EVERYONE hosts it. Sigourney Weaver hosted back around when Aliens came out, and did this great bit where the marines accidentally murdered ET and then tried to cover it up by pouring liquor on his corpse and putting a gun in his hand. George Foreman hosted it in the late 90's and did a skit where he traveled back in time to box Hitler for rulership of Germany. Senator John McCain hosted, and sang a bunch of songs making fun of Streisand.
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For the record, I thought Anchorman started off slow, then got fucking hilarious. I loved the news team melee (with all the gratuitous cameos that are so popular nowadays) and the bizarre conversation between Baxter the dog and the Bear at the end.
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Flakin wrote:At least shes come clean rather than carry on 'blaming the band'.
Call me a skeptic, but that just seems a little too convenient.
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Durandal wrote:
Joe wrote:Actually, it's producing no one now, except for maybe Tina Fey. She's the only one left on the show IMO with any real star power.
Is she the hot one with the glasses who has the misfortune of doing Weekend Update opposite of Jimmy Fallon?
That's her. She's also the lead writer on the show. The first time the lead writer has ever been a woman.
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Tsyroc wrote:That's her. She's also the lead writer on the show. The first time the lead writer has ever been a woman.
Yeah I'd definitely do her.
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) -- This time Ashlee Simpson sang it for real.

We think.

The 19-year-old pop artist was among a slew of stars who played Monday during the 2004 Radio Music Awards at the Aladdin hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

Despite numerous performances by big-name acts such as Destiny's Child and Alanis Morissette, Simpson was at the center of the show thanks to a glitch on "Saturday Night Live" last weekend that revealed she had been lip-synching one of her songs.

Monday night she told awards show host Carson Daly in an off-stage interview that acid reflux disease had made her lose her voice four hours before her "SNL" appearances.

She didn't seem concerned about her slip up.

"You move on," Simpson said. "Things happen."

During the awards show, she had fun with the slip-up. Before she sang "Autobiography" off her hit album, Daly reassured Monday's audience they were getting a live performance.

"Live, yes live," he said.

When Simpson's band started playing, the younger sister of pop starlet Jessica Simpson screamed, "It's the wrong song." Seconds later, she told a stunned theater filled with hundreds of people that she was "only kidding."

Earlier Monday, Simpson's manager-father told radio host Ryan Seacrest that his daughter used the extra help because acid reflux disease had made her voice hoarse.

"Just like any artist in America, she has a backing track that she pushes so you don't have to hear her croak through a song on national television," Joe Simpson told Seacrest on Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM. "No one wants to hear that."

He said she's never used the extra help before.

Not uncommon
Saturday's incident exposed what many consider an obvious secret: that some singers who appear onstage aren't singing live at all, or at least have their voices augmented by backing tracks. And it's happened before on "Saturday Night Live," too, executive producer Lorne Michaels told The Associated Press.

"She was mortified and in her dressing room, but (producer) Marci (Klein) got her to come out for goodnights and explained that it wasn't the end of the world. It wasn't her fault," Michaels told AP Radio.

"Every artist that I know in this business has had vocal problems at some time -- from Celine on down," said Joe Simpson, also father of Jessica Simpson. "So you've got to do what you've got to do."

He said it was his decision to use the tapes when it became apparent that acid reflux disease had swollen Ashlee's vocal cords. After consulting Wayne Newton's doctor, she received a cortisone shot to get her ready for the Radio Music Awards, he said.

Billboard magazine noted that Ashlee Simpson also responded to the controversy on her Web site. "I can't cancel something like 'SNL,' " Simpson is said to have written in a posting. "You and I know that even if I synched on it or not, I'd still get seen by millions, maybe even make a few more fans."

The message board has been overwhelmed by both Simpson defenders and Simpson antagonists, the latter often posting vicious and vulgar messages. One contributor referred to a Simpson interview in Lucky magazine in which the singer was asked about lip-synching. "I'm totally against it and offended by it," she said. "I'm going out to let my real talent show, not to just stand there and dance around. Personally, I'd never lip-synch. It's just not me."
So, uh, if she had health problems then why didn't she say that right away?

Edit: And furthermore, she didn't seem too concerned about that when she was talking to Jude Law.
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Why is this even making news? Is it not blindingly obvious to everybody that almost all of those so called "singers" lip-synch on stage?

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Cretinous cunt. Where's her apology to her ban, who did nothing wrong?

My favorite band, KISS, lip-synced once on Solid Gold. I could easily tell, because they were so bad at it. In concert, you can tell its all them, because Gene Simmons doesn't dare try the high pitched lyrics he accomplishes on some albums. He even forgets whole lines from time to time!
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