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Post by wildojinx on Aug 14, 2019 16:51:20 GMT -5
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Post by BorneAgain on Aug 14, 2019 17:23:30 GMT -5
The silence some of those sketches got goes from awkward to almost eerie at certain points.
Say what you will about Joe Piscopo, from what little I've seen of his stuff in that season, he appears to be one of the few to get actual laughs.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 14, 2019 17:58:59 GMT -5
I dunno what’s going on here, but clicking the link takes me to a Super Mario video I apparently have on my watch later list with Al Franken talking in the audio.
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Post by horsemen4ever on Aug 14, 2019 18:24:39 GMT -5
Well I thought the musical guests they had on that season was top notch. You had a young Prince. Think about it on one night you had Eddie Murphy and Prince sharing the stage and 3 years later they are 2 of the biggest stars in the world.
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Post by DSR on Aug 14, 2019 18:30:07 GMT -5
The silence some of those sketches got goes from awkward to almost eerie at certain points. Say what you will about Joe Piscopo, from what little I've seen of his stuff in that season, he appears to be one of the few to get actual laughs. I mean, there's a reason they kept Piscopo and Murphy and jettisoned everyone else.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Aug 14, 2019 19:23:20 GMT -5
Never been huge into SNL but, wow, that's some bad material.
You mean to tell me they got in trouble for Charles dropping an F-bomb but not when he dropped THAT racial slur on air?
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Post by unc40 on Aug 14, 2019 20:56:29 GMT -5
The F-bomb has always been the one word you never ever say on television however it would not have made a difference for Charles because he was a lousy cast member and when Ebersol took over he was one of the first to go.
Ebersol tried to get John Candy and Catherine O'Hara to join the cast the following season but they decided against it so he got two other SCTV alum Tony Rosato and Robin Duke. Laurie Metcalf was a featured player in the 1981-82 season.
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Post by wildojinx on Aug 14, 2019 21:17:46 GMT -5
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Post by cabbageboy on Aug 14, 2019 22:20:37 GMT -5
SNL was just weird in the 1980s in general. Looking through some of those rosters they had a year with Robert Downey, Jr. and Anthony Michael Hall (!). To me that 1970s roster is still the definitive SNL group, though the 90s group with Myers/Carvey/Spade/Hartman/Farley/Sandler, etc. is up there. But most of the 80s stuff I dunno about. The season mentioned here sounds utterly dreadful aside from Murphy's debut.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Aug 15, 2019 1:39:19 GMT -5
Wonder if Charles Rocket wanted to get fired, he doesn't really react after he dropped the f-bomb, especially when you compare it to Jenny Slate, who had instant regret (in her her first sketch too)
Charles Rocket, sadly ended up taking his own life but he had a decent enough career most notably Dumb and Dumber
Unrelated but I think am responsible for 99% of the Jenny Slate mentions on this forum
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Post by DSR on Aug 15, 2019 1:51:53 GMT -5
Wonder if Charles Rocket wanted to get fired, he doesn't really react after he dropped the f-bomb, especially when you compare it to Jenny Slate, who had instant regret (in her her first sketch too) Charles Rocket, sadly ended up taking his own life but he had a decent enough career most notably Dumb and Dumber Unrelated but I think am responsible for 99% of the Jenny Slate mentions on this forum Charles Rocket also had a major role in the It's Pat! movie, based on Julia Sweeney's SNL character from the late 80s/early 90s. And I love Jenny Slate. Her SNL run didn't pan out, but she's great on Parks and Rec and Bob's Burgers.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Aug 15, 2019 1:57:35 GMT -5
Wonder if Charles Rocket wanted to get fired, he doesn't really react after he dropped the f-bomb, especially when you compare it to Jenny Slate, who had instant regret (in her her first sketch too) Charles Rocket, sadly ended up taking his own life but he had a decent enough career most notably Dumb and Dumber Unrelated but I think am responsible for 99% of the Jenny Slate mentions on this forum Charles Rocket also had a major role in the It's Pat! movie, based on Julia Sweeney's SNL character from the late 80s/early 90s. And I love Jenny Slate. Her SNL run didn't pan out, but she's great on Parks and Rec and Bob's Burgers. Shes enjoyable in Big Mouth too. Some great film roles too like Obvious Child as well. I always think of Charles Rocket in Earth Girls Are Easy too
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Aug 15, 2019 8:19:34 GMT -5
Hey thanks, now I've got a new Youtube channel to binge watch as this guy also looks at a ton of other short lived series' from the 70's to the 00's. Including some of Fred Silverman's other NBC disasters like Supertrain.
I guess his tenure at NBC was so bad that it warranted a parody of their 1980 "Proud as a Peacock" campaign:
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Aug 15, 2019 9:45:04 GMT -5
Charles Rocket also had a major role in the It's Pat! movie, based on Julia Sweeney's SNL character from the late 80s/early 90s. And I love Jenny Slate. Her SNL run didn't pan out, but she's great on Parks and Rec and Bob's Burgers. Shes enjoyable in Big Mouth too. Some great film roles too like Obvious Child as well. I always think of Charles Rocket in Earth Girls Are Easy too Don't forget Hocus Pocus. He was the dad who dressed like Dracula at the Halloween party. Rocket had a decent character career as a kind of yuppie jerk; Dumb and Dumber, Earth Girls are Easy, It's Pat. But it started drying up in the late 90s, really only doing animated voiceover work.
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Post by salz4life on Aug 15, 2019 11:53:16 GMT -5
I remember when Netflix had the season up during the period when they had all of SNL up (heavily cut episodes with no music, of course, but still some content) a few years ago. Just the little amount they put on there, it was really awful. For those that were around during that time, was it close to getting cancelled during that season? I mean it was truly bad.
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Post by The Tim Duncan Experience on Aug 15, 2019 12:47:51 GMT -5
SNL was just weird in the 1980s in general. Looking through some of those rosters they had a year with Robert Downey, Jr. and Anthony Michael Hall (!). To me that 1970s roster is still the definitive SNL group, though the 90s group with Myers/Carvey/Spade/Hartman/Farley/Sandler, etc. is up there. But most of the 80s stuff I dunno about. The season mentioned here sounds utterly dreadful aside from Murphy's debut. I still choose the mid to late 80s as my favorite line up. Hooks, jackson, Hartman, miller, levitz, carvey, Dunn, and Nealon. That roster was the first one I really watched in the early 90s when they ran episodes on Comedy Central. That early 90s roster you mentioned is really good. But Hartman is still my favorite and to me that's 80s cast was the SNL version of the Showtime Lakers
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Post by cabbageboy on Aug 15, 2019 14:12:38 GMT -5
I mean some of those people overlapped into the 1990s era, and then later on guys like Sandler, Farley, and Spade got bigger roles. I think Miller and Myers were on the show for a couple of years together, right? But Miller was there forever, probably the longest running news anchor ever on SNL.
But really when you think SNL you think of that 1975-79 initial run.
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Post by DSR on Aug 15, 2019 14:23:46 GMT -5
I mean some of those people overlapped into the 1990s era, and then later on guys like Sandler, Farley, and Spade got bigger roles. I think Miller and Myers were on the show for a couple of years together, right? But Miller was there forever, probably the longest running news anchor ever on SNL. But really when you think SNL you think of that 1975-79 initial run. I think it depends on your age. The 75-79 run was before I was born. I got into the show in the late 90s through reruns of the late 80s-early 90s era on Comedy Central. I eventually watched some stuff from the first five years and I didn't get the appeal. Though I do love Eddie Murphy's tenure, and I still follow the show today (I've got a thread around here somewhere, I intend to bump it back up once we get some news on Season 45), when I think "Classic SNL" my brain goes to that late 80s-early 90s era.
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Post by wildojinx on Aug 15, 2019 14:31:03 GMT -5
Same here, my fav era is the 86-94 era (basically, the Phil Hartman years). Almost every episode has one classic sketch.
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Aug 15, 2019 14:35:25 GMT -5
Same here, my fav era is the 86-94 era (basically, the Phil Hartman years). Almost every episode has one classic sketch. Hartman night actually be the most important character outside of Murphy because of his range as an actor he was able to do so much and fill in so many cracks.
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