Saturday Night Live
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The show has been going since
1975... topical, full of sketches..
spoofs. .. aimed at a young audience.
NBC kind of hit a goldmine there
the UK just dont have an answer.
They made a stab at it I remember, it spawned loads o money .... but they just didnt have the American enthusiasm....or work ethic ( on a sat night )
But Im wondering, how live is it ?
A great episode I saw was the one with Lindsay Lohan and the Harry Potter sketch.
wot a brilliant spoof !
go here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9t33MyJU6s&feature=related
somehow I cant see that being a part of a live television show, that must have been taped.
Another fab sketch in the same show was Debbie Downer in Disneyland ..... that sketch looked as if it was on live tv, they were all corpsing all thru , it was hilarious.
(looked on U Tube but could nt find it !)
1975... topical, full of sketches..
spoofs. .. aimed at a young audience.
NBC kind of hit a goldmine there
the UK just dont have an answer.
They made a stab at it I remember, it spawned loads o money .... but they just didnt have the American enthusiasm....or work ethic ( on a sat night )
But Im wondering, how live is it ?
A great episode I saw was the one with Lindsay Lohan and the Harry Potter sketch.
wot a brilliant spoof !
go here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9t33MyJU6s&feature=related
somehow I cant see that being a part of a live television show, that must have been taped.
Another fab sketch in the same show was Debbie Downer in Disneyland ..... that sketch looked as if it was on live tv, they were all corpsing all thru , it was hilarious.
(looked on U Tube but could nt find it !)
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Maybe LA is the big TV hub of America like it is the hub of the Hollywood Movies .
Maybe New York just finances things ?
Ive got it on my hard drive somehwere, if I can find it Ill whizz it up to media fire
No, that sketch, as is most of them, was done live. SNL airs live at 11:30pm til 1:00am on the east coast. The west coast sees it on tape delay at the same time (11:30pm). SNL incorporates live sketches, filmed digital shorts, musical guests. If by chance a rude word escapes someone's lips by accident, that will never make it to the west coast.
One of the best and fun things is to observe a sketch go a little off because the actors lose it by laughing. They tend to just lose control which happened spectacularly on the classic Debbie Downer sketch. Sometimes it is done intentionally through ad libbing just to mess with that night's host. It's happened to Pierce Brosnan courtesy of Will Farrell who made him laugh a few times. It's happened to Hugh Laurie on both occasions when he hosted. They try to suppress it, but they don't quite succeed and that makes it even funnier than the sketch itself.
Finally, the famous opening line is Live From New York It's Saturday Night. That's because it is live from New York. It's home base/output comes from Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Center aka 30 Rock.
kind of shows up ITV and BBC does nt it ?
It was so good, I thought it must have been pre recorded !
Both at execs insistance (that the "F" word may be used).
Ironically, the "F"word was used when John Belushi returned in 1980 to promote a punk band(Fear).
Someone (not Belushi) screamed at the camera "f*** you New York"!
I remember when that happened. Um...at the end of the night's show, when everyone gathers on stage for their final bow, the comedian, Charles Rocket, used the "f" word. I remember saying, whoa, did he just say that?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0734236/
It regained it's stride somewhat in the very late 80's/early 90's (with Phil Hartman/Chris Farley etc.)
But i still LOVE the Belushi / Aykroyd era!
Nice to speak with someone who also appreciates the Show.
From your post, Im guessing you're American? (or were in The States at the time?)
Amy Poelher cracked me up, so did tina fey. Adam Sandler, mike myers too.
I still get upset when I look at old Phil Hartman skits, absolutely loved him!
SNL has had its ups and downs over the years, I think my favourite era was late 80s / early 90s, then when a lot that cast left, they had quite a few good and well known comedians on it (ie Chris Elliott) but was an awful couple of years until Jimmy Fallon and Rachel Dratch joined and Tina Fey stepped up her writing.
You can find a few good quality skits on funnyordie.com, but beyond that the show is pretty quick to take off youtube versions.
Try looking up the skit 'White Like Me' with Eddie Murphy, that's in my top ten favourite skits and it is around on the internet somewhere!
As for Phil Hartman, man I miss him. What an incredibly funny man.
You guess right, I'm a Yank.
Belushi/Aykroyd are classic SNL. I mean we are talking about the original Not Ready For Primetime Players.
By the way, you mentioned Chris Farley and I quickly flashed back to the skit he did with the late Patrick Swayze. The one where both are auditioning to be Chippendale dancers. Incredibly funny. Farley was so flexible for someone so heavy. Did you ever see that one?
From memory, that Show starts with Swayze dancing and singing, when he adds(in tune) "take your partners to the right-Live from New York It's Saturday Night!!!" Great play on words there!*
I also remember a brilliant Farley sketch where he plays a professional wrestler who has got in the wrong line and ends up meeting the president! ("Wooaaahhh Clin-ton!!!")*
I like Farley, pity he suffered the same untimely fate as Belushi-EXACTLY the same fate ironically, same age, same cause of Death.
Phil Hartman is another fave! (sadly no longer with us either!)-His Clinton, Charlton Heston and Frank Sinatra are unbelievable:D
SkyArts are showing doubel bills of 70's S.N.L. every Saturday night (ahem!) at 11-in case anyone is not aware?
*It's been a few years since I saw these sketches so my memoery might have faded somewhat!
I've caught a few of the Sky Arts re-runs, which are good to see, if very dated!
.... wot did he look like ?
He must be going through his fat Elvis phase !
The Laugh In was great TV in the 60s but compared to SNL it seems like a flash in the pan
(and prob was nt live either ! )
It does seem a bit odd that we haven't got something similar. We need something satirical and a bit anarchic to shake things up a bit.
I think the closest we came were those Saturday Night Clive shows that Clive James did a long time ago. ( Sad to hear the poor guy is terminally ill