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On Jimmy Fallon Reminds You Again Not to Miss SNL This Weekend
Really looking forward to this week's episode, always love the Christmas sketches and Fallon is a great host....but don't they release two sets of promos every week? One set with the host and a cast member and then one with the host, the musical guest and a cast member? Last week they did one with Kenan and Katy Perry and then one with Robyn, Katy Perry and Stefon and the week before that there was the set with Hader and Buscemi and then the ones with The Black Keys, Buscemi and Andy Samberg.
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On SNL Recap: Charlie Day and the Need for Impersonation
I thought this was an OK episode. I think I enjoyed the dolphin training sketch a little more than I should have and I should probably give the Dr. Oz another look because I didn't love it the first time around. I've always loved seeing impersonations on SNL. It's a huge part of their show - it's part of the reason Celebrity Jeopardy was such a beloved sketch. It makes the criticism of political figures more fun as to opposed to the occasional Daily Show bit that just makes Stewart seem angry. I thought Charlie Day was a fine host, he brought a lot of energy and I love him as an actor - though he does lack the range that makes the great hosts great. It reminded me of a production of 'The Music Man' I once saw in Pittsburgh with Jeff Goldblum. I love Goldblum, he was great...but he was more Dr. Ian Malcolm than Professor Harold Hill.
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On Could Eddie Murphy Show Up at SNL This Weekend?
So Eddie's first appearance on SNL in nearly 26 years will be a dumb cameo to promote an inevitably crappy movie he'll be in this fall? Oh, how I miss Eddie of the 80s, before he got a diva-complex from, of all films, The Nutty Professor.
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On SNL Recap: Melissa McCarthy Enters
Melissa McCarthy did a fantastic job. This is what SNL should continue to do with its guests - identify their strengths and build the show from there. Too often you see the guest uncomfortably jammed into a sketch and it hurts the overall product. Usually it takes them 2 or 3 times to get a feel for the host; I'm glad they were able to do it so quickly and aptly with McCarthy. Melissa's performance was a big reminder that there aren't many physical performers in this current cast though - which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it makes McCarthy's episode stand out that much more - but it is something that could be addressed. Taran is amazing and possibly the answer to that physicality issue in the cast. I can't wait to see the kind of cast member he grows into - he reminds of the best parts of Hader and Ferrell rolled into one. Pharoah should just be glad that he survived his season one stint. His impressions are phenomenal, but his timing needs a ton of work. I hope he's worked on this and has improved for the sake of the show, but it's hard to tell in those prerecorded sketches.
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On The Complete History of SNL's Celebrity Jeopardy
The Celebrity Jeopardy! sketches still hold up to this day. Such great concept and execution. Also, Celebrity Jeopardy! sketches are always my first rebuttal to anyone claiming that Jimmy Fallon ruined every scene he was in - he was always incredible in these.
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On 10 of TV's Most Memorable Weed-Based Episodes
Great list. I love the continuity of 'How I Met Your Mother' still referring to reefer as 'sandwiches'. On the subject of Ted's kids, they haven't appeared to age since season one (2005) and haven't had any dialogue since then either so I'm guessing it's now stock footage. I would have included the fantastic 'Barney Miller' episode 'Hash' on this list. It was so funny and apparently so taboo that it wasn't included in syndication for many years.
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On Aw, Come On: Rob Lowe May Leave Parks and Rec for Two and a Half Men
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On 10 Sitcoms that Lost Their Lead Actors and Kept Going
Great list - I guess I never realized that Happy Day lost Ron Howard at one point...either Nick at Nite block party never showed those episodes or I simply blocked them out. I think M*A*S*H would have been a good addition to this list. I know a lot of people think of it as simply an Alan Alda vehicle, but I considered Trapper and Henry characters who shared that top billing - plus it's just an incredible stat that the show went on for 8 years following their departure and broke records with its finale rather than fizzling out. Enjoyed the article though - interesting read.
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On The Farrelly Brothers Are Planning a True Sequel to Dumb and Dumber
I would love to see this, but I could have sworn having seen an interview years ago in which Jim Carrey said, after what he referred to his as his 'disappointment' over "Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls", he would never do a sequel again. I could be wrong about this, but his track record seems to back up my shotty-at-best memory.
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On 8 Memorable Lindsay Lohan SNL Sketches
Lohan has been a capable host in the past and, for the sake of tomorrow's show, I hope she still is (although, I'd feel bad for whoever had to follow Maya Rudolph's amazing episode). My only beef is that when people try to defend Lohan as a host, they always reference the Debbie Downer sketch. Was that sketch hilarious? Yes, of course. Did that hilarity have anything to do with Lohan's involvement? Not in any way, shape or form. Literally anyone, from Finesse Mitchell to a random audience member, could have taken that slot and the sketch would have been exactly the same.