SNL review

[Guest bob_barron]

SNL Review- Queen Latifah/MS Dynamite

 

The pre-review stuff is a bit lengthy this week. Just warning y’all.

 

First off I have to pay respects to Mr. Rogers who died a few weeks ago. He was a childhood hero to me and I remember when I was young and I wrote him a letter and he actually wrote back. He showed people that you didn’t need loud noises and crazy stuff to keep a child entertained. I’m glad his enduring legacy will live on reruns or else I would hate to know children would grow up without his calming influence and wonderful songs.

 

You’ll be missed Mr. Rogers and you’ll always be my neighbour.

 

Sports Report-

 

Devils- Well they’re trying to catch up to Team Bankruptcy and are only three points back. I think they’re defensive hockey style is going to help them go far in the playoffs. I don’t think they need to do a trade at the deadline but another offensive body couldn’t hurt.

 

Maple Leafs- I went to my last Maple Leaf game tonight and I had a great time. FRONT ROW SEATS RULE!~ I’m serious- having Mats Sundin get checked right into your face is a life altering experience. The trade for Nolan is already paying off. As much as I like McCauley- Nolan is the kind of player the Leafs need and it makes them an even stronger offensively. Him scoring two goals in his first game doesn’t hurt. Hopefully they can swing a trade for some defence which they really need right now. Even though he became my personal hero when he injured that little bitch Michael Peca- I think Darcy Tucker is more then expendable. If we get defence maybe the drought will FINALLY end.

 

Canucks- I also saw them tonight. Thank God it was a tie since I was so torn. They’re one point behind Dallas and as much as I would love for them to be first in the west but I think they would have a much easier team with Anaheim or Minnesota then Edmonton who always brings the hockey in the playoffs. I think they should be commended for their awesome season and they’re terrific road record. I don’t think they need to make any deals for the trade deadline.

 

Nets- Jesus guys- what is wrong? They’ve lost four straight and seven out of their last 8. I mean come on guys- don’t play like the Toronto Raptors. Their meeting with the Spurs recently launched tons of speculation that they may lose Kidd to San Antonio next year. If Kidd leaves I will be crushed. Without them he’d be known as the guy who beat his wife and did diddily squat with Phoenix. With the Nets he was able to revitalise his career, and the image of himself and the New Jersey Nets franchise. But was it all Jason Kidd? I don’t think so which is why I think him going to San Antonio may not be the worst thing ever. The Nets last year had support aside from Kidd. For example

 

a)They were injury free all year.

b) Draft day that year they were able to swindle the Rockets by acquiring Richard Jefferson and Jason Collins.

c)Kenyon Martin living up to his first pick potential.

 

So what I’m saying is this- Jason Kidd DID not do it alone. Kidd can go to San Antonio but I don’t think it will hurt the Nets that much. As long as K-Mart brings the intensity, Kittles is healthy and Dikembee is wagging the finger- I’ll think they’ll be just fine. And they’ll have cap room!

 

Miscellaneous- I went to Patrick Ewing’s retirement ceremony game last Friday and while I had a great time seeing #33 get a much deserved tribute-something about the game bothered me. You see John Starks was at the game and the notoriously fickle New York fans gave him a standing ovation?

 

EXCUSE ME?

 

John friggin Starks? The most overhyped player in Knicks history? The guy does one dunk over Jordan and Grant and suddenly he is a hero. This is the guy who cost the Knicks a chance to win the NBA Finals. A guy whose shitty defence and poor free throw shooting cost the Knicks Game 1 v. Indiana in 1995. A guy who botched game 6 of the 94 Finals by being selfish and greedy and going for the victory instead of passing it to Patrick. A guy who in game 7 shot 2-12828281 and in the fourth quarter shot 1 for 10. Patrick Ewing gets run out of town and is the scapegoat for not bringing home a title but in my opinion the blame should lie on John Starks. Ewing leaves and everyone cheers. Starks is traded for Spree and there’s actually people who are sad and there’s controversy when they gave his #3 to Mills. This is the guy who refused to play for the Chicago Bulls because apparently John Starks is too good for them. If there’s any justice in the world one day New York Knick fans will wake up and realise what a waste of sperm John Starks really is.

 

A while back David Wells was upset that people were taunting him about the death of his mother. If I was his mother I would be upset that I raised such a stupid son of a bitch. He recently came out with a book where he disses Roger Clemens, Mike Mussina, lies about a fight he got into and mentions being half drunk pitching a perfect game. That’d be all well and good if David Wells was retired from baseball and could say what he wanted. The problem is that Wells still plays for the Yankees and will have to share a locker room with Mussina and Clemens. Is Wells that friggin retarded that he would WRITE A BOOK insulting his team mates RIGHT BEFORE BASEBALL SEASON???? Here’s another funny nugget of information- Wells, in his book, talks about the time he got into a fight with a guy and the guy ended up being convicted of assault. The funny thing is- Wells’ description of the fight in his book is different then what he testified to. How stupid can you be? Did he take a writing workshop from Diana Hart or something? What kind of an idiot would agree to write this? How could he not think of the consequences??? Oh and Mr. “Boomer”- You can insult Roger and Mussina all you want, and yes, Roger is an asshole but in the end of the day you’re just a fat fuck trying to pose as some New York blue collar hero while Roger and Mussina actually go out on the mound and get things done. I hope the Yankees release you to teach you a lesson on how not to be a fucking retard and show you what happens when you insult your teammates. Oh and one more question Wells- were you half drunk when you approved the book?

 

Mailbag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Jamie Arsenault writes-

 

Hey, i have a comment to make about the Robert DeNiro episode rerun

that was

on a few weeks ago. Despite having taped the live episode, i decided

to

watch the rerun anyways. But the thing I noticed was that a few of the

episodes were acted different, especially "Santa Clause" which was very

noticably different from the original one. In the live "santa clause"

skit

the kid, on santa's lap, had his hand on both arms of the chair for the

entire skit, while the rerun had his hands in his lap the entire skit.

Also

in the same skit DeNiro said something like "and whatever that says"

referring to a card he couldn't read. I definately didn't see that in

the

live one. Do they record 2 episodes of SNL each week and only play

one???

Can you please comment on this.

 

Thanks, Jamie

 

P.S. GO Canucks GO

 

They do record two episodes. Before the live show they do a dress rehearsal at 8 pm. It’s longer then the live show as they do skits that will not make it to air. Weekend Update is also longer as they cut jokes, like the David Arquette joke, and segments from the live show. Skits are also tweaked from dress to live with minor lines or details being changed.

 

PS: You rock,

 

Tom and Cheryl write-

 

Hi !

 

just a shot in the dark here…. I saw your post on the SNL message board….

 

what song was being performed (Foo Fighters) when Jim Carey lended his leg to help??

 

(just trying to settle a bet!)

 

THANKS

 

"Times Like These (One-Way Motorway)"

 

Chad Ruffner writes-

 

Hi Bob,

 

 

I was wondering If you could tell me

what the difference Is between a Regular SNL Cast

Member vs a Featured one? I used to think that

Featured Cast Members were basically SNL Rookies who

have to pay their dues for a year or two before being

moved up to Regular Cast Member. However, 3 examples

over the past 6 years leads me to believe that I'm

wrong. Ana Gaystyer and Tracy Morgan were regular

Cast Members when both debut ed In The 1996-97 Season,

not Featured Players. Also, Amy Poler was moved up to

Regular Cast Member In the middle of last Season after

starting The Season as a F.P. I also had a theory

that It was the no. of skits one would appear In an

episode. But If that Is true, how do you explain Tina

Fey who does weekend update and not much else? Help!

 

Thanks,

Chad

 

I honestly don’t know how the featured player/cast member thing works. I think now it’s in their contracts that they all start off as featured players. I think Amy was always supposed to be elevated to cast member status. I think for the most part it’s a way of making people pay their dues by having less air time and skit time.

 

Tina only does Update because she is the head writer and that takes up a lot of time. Therefore she doesn’t have much time to do other skits because of her taxing workload.

 

Wanna be in the mailbag????? Email me at [email protected]

 

And now the review…

 

 

60 Minutes

Cast- Dan Aykroyd, Darrell Hammond

Thoughts- They had me going for there for a second. This is the second time in two seasons that I’ve thought Norm was going to make a cameo appearance. The last being the newscaster skit in the Jon Stewart episode when they said Dave Letterman was at the door. But alas- we had to get Dan Aykroyd’s crappy impression. Hey Danny- changing your voice a bit to make you sound older- that’s not an impression. Oh and it isn’t 1978- Bob talks much differently. Luckily we had Darrell’s Clinton to save this skit. I gotta give the guy props for doing the impression for the first time in more then a year and making it awesome. I’ll say it again but his motivation is a sight to see after I spent last season making jokes about him. So the verdict-

 

Darrell’s Clinton- Good

Aykroyd’s Dole- Really bad. **1/4

 

Monologue

Cast- Queen Latifah, Horatio Sanz, Maya Rudolph, Tracy Morgan, Seth Meyers, Will Forte, Fred Armisen

Thoughts- Wow- Queen Latifah has an impressive British accent. The skit was starting to kick some ass- especially with Seth bringing the awesome per his usual. Seriously- I don’t got some sort of Brian Kinney thing going on here- the guy always makes me laugh. Of course Maya had to show up and per her usual was a human vacuum cleaner. Overall this was a pretty good monologue despite Maya’s presence. ***1/4

 

BET

Cast- Latifah, Rudolph, Dean Edwards, Jeff Richards

Thoughts- Message to Maya Rudolph: You see Dean and Queen Latifah? They are black. You look white. You are not black. Just thought I’d let you know. Baby K was last responsible (along with Horatio) for completely ruining the Eric McCormack Weekend Update. This week he gets to ruin a skit on his own. Congratulations are in order. Jeff is a really good impressionist but aside from that he has little talent. Keep Jeff doing impressions and away from portraying rapping babies and the world will be a better place. Not even Dean could save this garbage. DUD

 

Regis and Kelly

Cast- Latifah, Hammond, Amy Poehler, Chris Kattan

Thoughts- I’ll have to give SNL kudos for bringing this back and give kudos to Amy for looking really hot in this skit. Darrell’s Regis impression was top notch as was Amy’s impression of Kelly. I don’t watch American Idol but I found Queen Latifah to also tickle my funny bone on occasion. I’d give Kattan credit but I don’t think it’s too hard for him to play an effeminate homosexual. ***1/2

 

New Reality Show

Cast- Latifah, Hammond, Morgan, Rudolph, Sanz, Dratch, Forte

Thoughts- Ahhh the joys of fart jokes. Former Speaker of the House John McCormack once said, “You’re never too old to laugh at a fart joke.” They told you the joke, got some funny lines and then ended it- I liked that they didn’t feel the need to drag this out or anything. ***3/4

 

Where are they Now

Cast- Latifah, Poehler, Rudolph

Thoughts- Well it wasn’t Gemini’s Twin- I’ll give it that. This was alright- I liked the part with Dick Clark and the song about closing your eyes and dancing but the rest of the skit was pretty dull. **

 

I’m a Celebrity…Who Farted

Cast- Hammond, Dratch, Jimmy Fallon, Kattan, Jeff Richards

Thoughts- Jeff’s Gary Busey impression is excellent. He really needs to just stick with impressions and cut out the crap like Drunk Girl and Baby K then I would really start to like him. Busey was a highlight- the rest was ‘eh’.***

 

Weekend Update

Cast- Tina Fey, Fallon, Horatio Sanz, Chris Parnell, Richards

Thoughts- Damn- Jeff is bringing the funny in his impressions this week. The jokes were MUCH better then the last episode when they took the week off thanks to cameo-a-mania. Horatio Sanz was actually funny on Update for a change as I enjoyed his impression. Jeff was TERRIFIC as Dustin Hoffman even though I missed the Grammys and didn’t really get the joke. The only lowlight was Chris Parnell- I thought his bit at the end was pretty stupid. Overall a very good WU and it’s good to see they can work without cameos. ****

 

Ms. Dynamite

Thoughts- I have no idea who she is and I’m sure no one will ever know who she is again. What did like every other musician say no? Was Bubba Sparxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx washing his hair or something? Anyway she was decent and wasn’t offensively bad or anything. **

 

Adventures at the A&P

Cast- Latifah, Poehler, Dratch, Rudolph, Morgan, Kattan, Parnell, Forte

Thoughts- Weird nonsensical skits kick major ass. From Tracy in drag to Forte bringing racial harmony and Parnell’s WTF explanation- this skit had it all. I was all prepared to just slap it with a Tom Green rating and move on but this was much better and then there were several parts that had me laughing my ass off and not just going: Ummm the hell. Good stuff here guys. ***3/4

 

 

X-Presidents

Thoughts- Welcome back Smigel and a big welcome back to the X-Presidents. There was tons of great stuff here- from BUGS BUNNY!~ to Reagan totally zinging Carter on the Nobel Peace Prize joke to the Powerpuff girls getting killed by George Bush- this had it all. A couple of slow parts involving means I can’t give it the full monty but I thought the quip at the end was classic. ****

 

Profiles in Jazz

Cast- Latifah, Hammond, Morgan, Rudolph, Edwards, Armisen

Thoughts- Once I saw that Maya was in this and playing that character she always plays- well I was ready to write this skit off. The A&E disses were really clever and I liked how they went old school with Darrell’s Jack Parkins impression. The skit dragged quite a book and I was bored throughout the middle of it but man- that duet with Louis Armstrong was GOLD! ***

 

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Cast- Latifah, Sanz, Parnell, Dratch, Armisen, Forte

Thoughts- They did a skit similar to this in the Ray Liotta episode- the infamous ‘Jimmy and Horatio crack up and completely ruin a skit’ skit. This had a couple of funny lines but was dead for the most part. *

 

Mr. Rogers tribute

Cast- Sanz

Thoughts- Godspeed Mr. Rogers. Godspeed. No rating

 

The Bottom Line- Avg. skit was **.7 making this a thumbs up episode. There were a lot of really good solid skits here with nothing standing out and only a few clunkers. Instead of episodes that were mostly mediocre that relied one or two great skits to pull it up- this episode just has solid ***-**** skits the way through. Hopefully they’ll finish the season strong like they always seem to do as they’ve now had two very good episodes in a row.

 

Thumbs Up

[Guest art_vandelay]

Hey, did I hear the John Cena entrance stock music at the end of one of the skits last night?

 

Also, if you made one, could you re-post your Tom Green SNL review? I'd like to see how bad you really thought it was.

[Guest bravesfan]

Missed the SNL tribute to Mr. Rogers. Could any of you layout what Horatio did/was doing?

[Guest Ram]

Yes, that was my highlight. Cena's music.

 

I don't even remember what Ms. Dynamite's song sounded like. I remember paying attention with curiosity, but hey. And someone should tell her there are about 59 pornstars with that same name.

[Guest Ram]

Missed the SNL tribute to Mr. Rogers. Could any of you layout what Horatio did/was doing?

Horatio was dressed like Mr. Rogers, and was sitting in front of the band. He sang the "You are my friend song". He did an awesome job at it, surprisingly. At the end, the little train pulled up behind him and he said goodbye to Mr. Rogers.

 

A great tribute.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Oh what a stinker of a show this was. I watch the shows all the way through now just so I can rip on them here later.

 

60 Minutes

Cast- Dan Aykroyd, Darrell Hammond

-While I think Hammond's Clinton is great, and Dan's Dole is really bad...Dan's Dole was the only one to say anything remotly funny. The Clinton thing went on way too long and there wasn't even a joke mixed in all that. "Bill, you ignorant slut" was the only saving grace here: **

 

Monologue

Cast- Queen Latifah, Horatio Sanz, Maya Rudolph, Tracy Morgan, Seth Meyers, Will Forte, Fred Armisen

-BLEH! Not awful, but my no means any good: *

 

BET

Cast- Latifah, Rudolph, Dean Edwards, Jeff Richards

-Since Latifah was the host I was 100% sure they were going to start with a hip hop skits of sort. And they did, and it was unfunny: DUD

 

Regis and Kelly

Cast- Latifah, Hammond, Amy Poehler, Chris Kattan

-...well, I missed part of this cause TATU were "singing" on Mad TV. And while SNL is only 20/80 for getting a laugh out of me, TATU is always 50/50 on giving me a boner...I think I made the smarter choice.

 

Anyway...I caught most of the skit, wasn't overly bad. Hammond and Phehler were good. But Kattan (who I use to like), and Latifah were nothing special: **

 

New Reality Show

Cast- Latifah, Hammond, Morgan, Rudolph, Sanz, Dratch, Forte

-If there is one thing that's sure to get a laugh out of me...it's a fart joke. It was funny and didn't drag on too long: ***

 

Where are they Now

Cast- Latifah, Poehler, Rudolph

-The Shank song was almost funny...but nothing else was: *

 

I’m a Celebrity…Who Farted

Cast- Hammond, Dratch, Jimmy Fallon, Kattan, Jeff Richards

-I liked the Busey impression. But the exact same skit otherwise is only good once a show: *1/2

 

Weekend Update

Cast- Tina Fey, Fallon, Horatio Sanz, Chris Parnell, Richards

-I'm the complete opposite with Bob. I think if you have to annouce to the audiance what the impression is even before the person can do it...it can't be too convincing. The Hoffman thing didn't make me laugh, and Chris Parnell singing (AGAIN!) didn't do anything for me. The jokes were a little better then their average though. Although Jimmy is trying to pull off jokes that only Norm can do: ***

 

Adventures at the A&P

Cast- Latifah, Poehler, Dratch, Rudolph, Morgan, Kattan, Parnell, Forte

-You could see the, rich and rude white woman vs the angry black woman coming as soon as they stepped into frame. Tracy's the only one to get a laugh out of me: **

 

 

X-Presidents

-I liked it. Not as good as the one where they called on the ghost of Nixon, but still funny enough: ***1/2

 

Profiles in Jazz

Cast- Latifah, Hammond, Morgan, Rudolph, Edwards, Armisen

-WOW! Maya doing a real bad voice in a skit? The hell you say...not too bad, had Hammond as the Biography guy. But it's another case of the same joke being used too much. Maya hurts the rating: *1/2

 

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Cast- Latifah, Sanz, Parnell, Dratch, Armisen, Forte

-Once again, Tracy Morgan (not even listed in the cast line) was the only one to get a laugh out of me: *

 

Pretty avergae show...and by average show I mean well below average where they were a few years ago.

[Guest starvenger]

I'm more with Bob than YnA on this one. Latifah did a much better job than I thought, and I didn't think that anything was all that terrible, although I gotta agree that Ackroyd's Dole isn't anywhere near as good as Norm's. Is there a rule where a Canadian has to do the Bob Dole role?

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Worthless knowledge

 

Jack Perkin's son is a sports Anchor on a local tv station in Minnesota.

[Guest bob_barron]

This is for Art (keep in mind it sucks- i used to take 1/2 off for every skit with Kattan)

 

Cold opening-The Election continues

Cast- Chris Parnell, Will Ferill and Darrell Hammond

Thoughts: I loved Bush's address to the nation,

especially the one to his dad. Hammond and Ferill keep

getting better and better. ****

 

Monologue-

Cast- Drew Barrymore, Mr. And Mrs. Green, Tom Green

Thoughts- Is it a work? Is it a shoot? Will they? Wont

they? Is this real? Seen in August WCW and Andy

Kaufman. Still good stuff. ***

 

Bird Watching

Cast- Green, Ferill, Shannon, Fallon

Thoughts- Who let Molly Shannon on before 12? This was

weird, dumb, and funny a the same time. I really have

trouble rating this so I'll go- **1/2. The facial

expressions were funny.

 

Rap St.

Cast-Green, Horatio Sanz, Jerry Minor, Maya Rudolph

Thoughts-These guys were on WU #1 and were still

funny. Was Maya supposed to be Dido? Still I hope

these guys become recurring characters they are funny.

***

 

Lorne and Tom in a tub

Cast-Lorne Michaels, Green

Thought-Happy bday Lorne. We have the same one. See

the bird watching review for reasons to my rating.

**1/2

 

Non-skit thoughts-

Norm is a genius.

Regis is a cheater.

Survivor Series results- SCSA and Triple H no contest,

Angle beat UT, Rock beat Rikishi, Radicalz beat Team

DX, Hardyz and Dudz beat E&C and RTC, Ivory beat Lita,

Regal beat Holly DQ, Hollys and Blackman beat T&A and

Trish

Welcome to Atlanta A-Rod.

NHL 2001 rules.

SAT class sucks.

So does Val Kilmer.

Thanks for coming back Arnott and Neidermayer.

 

Hardball

Cast-Parnell, Hammond, Ana Gasteyer

Thoughts- Seen Hardball. Good parody. ***

 

Fun with Real Audio

Thoughts- If you put AGD in opening credits deliver.

This cartoon SUCKED! *

 

Dog Show

Cast-Green, Ferill, Shannon

Thoughts-What did I do to deserve this. Message to

Lorne-

Dog Show isn't funny. It's stupid. No one likes it.

It's embarrassing to everyone. Stop wasting my time

with this garbage. -** Negative stars means it was so

bad, it insulted comedy.

 

Weekend Update

Cast-Gwenyth Paltrow, Tina Fey, Fallon, Shannon

Thoughts- As Tony Clifton would say "That's bettah."

Usual funny stuff and a funny cameo too. ****

 

David Gray

Thoughts- Started off good. Went to long. **1/2

 

Oprah-

Cast- Green, Rudolph, Ferill, Gasteyer

Thoughts- Only Meadows can do Oprah. This wasn't that

funny. *1/2

 

Air Supply:Storytellers

Cast-Ferill, Fruit

Thoughts-1/2 off. This was okay. **

 

Rock Around the Clock

Cast-Green, Ferill

Thoughts- WTF was this? See previous reviews for

rating of this skit but I'll add more since it was

funny. ***

 

Bottom line-Avg. skit is 2.3 which thumbs in middle.

Some good, some bad makes thumbs in middle. I have low

hopes for Val Kilmer/U2 but U2 may drive it up the

average. Have a safe Thanksgiving, and Go Bush!

[Guest bob_barron]

60 Minutes

Cast- Dan Aykroyd, Darrell Hammond

-While I think Hammond's Clinton is great, and Dan's Dole is really bad...Dan's Dole was the only one to say anything remotly funny. The Clinton thing went on way too long and there wasn't even a joke mixed in all that. "Bill, you ignorant slut" was the only saving grace here: **

 

Bill you ignorant slut didnt crack me up just because I knew it was coming. I liked Clinton just because it was fun to see Darrell do the impression again since he does such a good job doing it.

 

Monologue

Cast- Queen Latifah, Horatio Sanz, Maya Rudolph, Tracy Morgan, Seth Meyers, Will Forte, Fred Armisen

-BLEH! Not awful, but my no means any good: *

 

Come on- YNA this was pretty funny. I thought Tracy and Seth were hilarious, Queen does a good British accent and yea Maya sucked but you can't win them all.

 

BET

Cast- Latifah, Rudolph, Dean Edwards, Jeff Richards

-Since Latifah was the host I was 100% sure they were going to start with a hip hop skits of sort. And they did, and it was unfunny: DUD

 

No argument here.

 

Regis and Kelly

Cast- Latifah, Hammond, Amy Poehler, Chris Kattan

-...well, I missed part of this cause TATU were "singing" on Mad TV. And while SNL is only 20/80 for getting a laugh out of me, TATU is always 50/50 on giving me a boner...I think I made the smarter choice.

 

Anyway...I caught most of the skit, wasn't overly bad. Hammond and Phehler were good. But Kattan (who I use to like), and Latifah were nothing special: **

 

Eh- I saw TATU on Kimmell and it was some pretty lame HLA. Hammond and Poehler were great in this skit so henceforth the high rating.

 

Where are they Now

Cast- Latifah, Poehler, Rudolph

-The Shank song was almost funny...but nothing else was: *

 

I thought the part about Maya hurting Dick Clark was really funny but not much else was.

 

Weekend Update

Cast- Tina Fey, Fallon, Horatio Sanz, Chris Parnell, Richards

-I'm the complete opposite with Bob. I think if you have to annouce to the audiance what the impression is even before the person can do it...it can't be too convincing. The Hoffman thing didn't make me laugh, and Chris Parnell singing (AGAIN!) didn't do anything for me. The jokes were a little better then their average though. Although Jimmy is trying to pull off jokes that only Norm can do: ***

 

Well they can't go: And now Jeff Richards is impersonating Dustin Hoffman from the Grammys. If you get it- you get it. I chose to watch No Way Out but I still found the impression to be really funny. Parnell sucked. I think last week they knew they could take the day off and did so. Jimmy's 'paint stealing' joke was a total Norm one and you're right- he can't pull it off.

 

Adventures at the A&P

Cast- Latifah, Poehler, Dratch, Rudolph, Morgan, Kattan, Parnell, Forte

-You could see the, rich and rude white woman vs the angry black woman coming as soon as they stepped into frame. Tracy's the only one to get a laugh out of me: **

 

I found it to be pretty funny and the stuff with Forte and Parnell was so fucked up that I had to laugh.

 

Profiles in Jazz

Cast- Latifah, Hammond, Morgan, Rudolph, Edwards, Armisen

-WOW! Maya doing a real bad voice in a skit? The hell you say...not too bad, had Hammond as the Biography guy. But it's another case of the same joke being used too much. Maya hurts the rating: *1/2

 

The A&E stuff was awesome, the middle was not, the ending with Tracy and Queen was hilarious.

 

 

Sorry about forgetting Tracy YNA- no disrespect was intended

[Guest art_vandelay]

Thanks, bob. I thought you'd rate it a lot worse. My fave sketches were Rap Street and Rock Around The Clock. Most of everything else was quite unconventional and pretty hard to watch unless you're a fan of Tom. Maya had this "what the fuck am I doing?" demeanor during the Rap Street sketch, and the Dog Show segment got some complaints about animal cruelty on a Tom Green message board.

 

I heard that Tom and Drew seriously planned to get married that night, which explains the Gweneth Paltrow cameo. Drew came to her senses and decided to cancel it at the last minute.

[Guest bob_barron]

The episode benefitted from me giving **1/2 to almost everything and just skewing the average. Everything was so weird that it was impossible to rate. That's why I invented the 'Tom Green rating' for all weird skits.

 

In the book Live from New York they mention that Tom Green brought in his own writers thus explaining all the weird stuff that was on the show. Most everything on that show was 'weird, dumb and funny'.

 

They did the same ending to the live show (Drew leaves him standing) that they did in dress rehearsal so I don't know whether they actually were gonna get married or not

[Guest MDH257]

I actually think Aykroyd's Dole impression is better than Norm's. Norm just got to do it more often. I will admit that Aykroyd's impression is Dole circa '88 and dosen't fit Dole current image. I couldn't believe it when the skit ended without Aykroyd saying "you know it, I know it, and the american people know it."

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Actually, he's doing Dole from '76. Dole was Gerald Ford's running mate and Dan played him back then on the show. Also, the couple times he's done Tom Snyder in recent times, it hasn't aged since when he did him back then either.

[Guest bob_barron]

Actually, he's doing Dole from '76. Dole was Gerald Ford's running mate and Dan played him back then on the show. Also, the couple times he's done Tom Snyder in recent times, it hasn't aged since when he did him back then either.

That's what I was referring to- that's the Dole he's been doing for almost thirty years. Norm's Dole was just like the 1996 Dole and it was much better as a result