She once got someone to say her phrase by pulling out a Donna Summer album, asking how it would appear in the phonebook, then asking the person to "stretch it out."Originally Posted by Umlaut
Genius! What more can I say?
She once got someone to say her phrase by pulling out a Donna Summer album, asking how it would appear in the phonebook, then asking the person to "stretch it out."
Genius! What more can I say?
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I'd rather watch Wiig make stupid faces for an hour and a half straight and have Forte react with "Gillllyyyyy" in different intonations than watch a single second of any Mary Katherine Gallagher sketch.
Molly Shannon is the worst woman who was ever on SNL. More stupid intractable arguments yayyyyy!
Be careful what you say about Molly Shannon, she likes to kick.
ILOVEITILOVEITILOVEITIHATEDHER!
Maybe I was just young and dumb, but I don't remember it being such a desolate wasteland of originality.
Wormlike voracity, in fact.
Better is better. If SNL can't compete with higher-quality sketch shows because of its format, then maybe the show is past its prime and is no longer relevant. Are you seriously gonna blame the format for that? Because if you are, then you're just acknowledging that the show is no longer being handled by a quality team, because in the past, the format didn't hobble it.
Dante has nothing on you, sir or madam!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/goss...interview.html
The ball is in your court, Lorne Michaels.
I just got off the phone with the legendary Betty White, and despite her busy schedule the actress hasn't missed the Facebook push to name her as a host of "Saturday Night Live."
"I don’t know where that came from," White said. "That came out of left field. I understand they’ve had all of these hits."
So is the 88-year-old up to the task of holding court at 30 Rock?
"That would be up to Lorne Michaels."
Fair enough. Just don't say I didn't warn you when Kenan Thompson is trying to resuscitate her after she goes into cardiac arrest while doing a "What Up With That?" sketch.
Tina Fey will be hosting some time in April:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...Z8xvwD9DUN4E80
Makes perfect sense.
Here's an interesting article about John Mulaney, Simon Rich, and Marika Sawyer, who apparently have been collaborating a lot lately on sketches:
http://www.yaledailynews.com/scene/i...h-and-marika-/
Some of the stuff they've written recently for the show:
.The pool boy sketch with Ashton Kutcher
.“A Ladies’ Guide to Party Planning” with January Jones
.Justin Timberlake at Ellis Island
.Celebrity Family Feud with Mackenzie Phillips
."Rocket Dog" with Tracy Morgan
Weird.
http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/02/...d-betty-white/
When a grassroots campaign involves both Facebook and a beloved Golden Girl, the scope of its influence cannot be underestimated. To wit: Sources confirm to me exclusively that Saturday Night Live is this close to signing TV legend Betty White to host the show for the very first time.
But there’s a catch — and a pretty cool one at that.
White would not be hosting alone. Rather, I hear SNL is putting together a “Women of Comedy” episode that would team the former Rose Nylund with several of her younger contemporaries. Ex-SNL MVP Molly Shannon is on board, I hear, and feelers have also been put out to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. (An NBC spokesperson insists no one has been confirmed at this time.)
This tag-team approach will allow Lorne Michaels to appease White-on-SNL zealots (half a million and counting!) without making the 88-year-old shoulder the burden of all 90 minutes on her own. And hey, anything that gives Fey an opportunity to dust off her Sarah Palin impersonation — as she’s rumored to be considering — is okay with me.
It looks like they wanna use the Betty White publicity, but don't trust her ability to host solo. And considering the ineptitude of some of this season's hosts, that's laughable. White's a legend, not a soon to be forgotten flavour of the week (january Jones, etc.)
I hear what you're saying but the woman is 88. You really wanna watch grandma hyperventilate and die on TV?
Anyone who's seen the Norman Mailer hosted episode of SNL from the second season should know that Betty White would do just fine.
There was already an 80 year old woman who hosted SNL once, and she lived (lived for another 14 years afterwards, actually).
It's not like they have to write sketches where she's bungee jumping or anything. As long as they space out the sketches so she doesn't have to run from one right to another, I don't see anything wrong with letting her host by herself.
I assume you mean Norman Lear (who was only in his mid-fifties when he hosted). Norman Mailer, though - that was a real missed opportunity. Maybe he could have brought on a new comic discovery he personally had paroled from Riker's Island, who winds up misunderstanding his part in a Coneheads sketch and stabs Garrett Morris in the chest on-air. Then Norman could have broken the tension by sodomizing Emily Litella. Lots of potential there.
But anyway, I'm in favor of anything that'll break the show out of its format even slightly, so I'm cautiously optimistic about this idea.
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