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On When SNL Was About More Than Just Jokes
@Dennis Perrin Absolutely. That one was lovely.
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On When SNL Was About More Than Just Jokes
@Just One Thing To you, or anyone, who questions the ability of a cartoon to evoke sincere emotions, I have four words for you: "DO IT FOR HER."
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On West Wing + Arrested Development = Veep?
Louis-Dreyfus, Hale, & Roberts in front of the camera and Armando Iannucci & Chris Morris behind it? Can't hardly wait...
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On The Hip New Kids and the British Old Guard: Community vs. Fawlty Towers
Maybe so, but it does have perhaps the most brilliantly-constructed piece of farce in the entire series - not the last scene, but the fire drill sequence. That cinches it in my book.
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On Saturday Night Live's One Season Wonders
It's Shaffer, not Schaffer. And Gottfried, not Gotfried (accidentally typed "Gotfired" just now, which is rather appropriate, considering - by the way, if you ever want to see what Gottfried looks like when he's seriously depressed, check out the last few episodes of season six sometime). And Damon Wayans wasn't sacked because he said lines that weren't written for him, but because he said them in a "gay," flamboyant manner without telling anybody beforehand (which you did mention). And Paul Shaffer had no memorable characters? The deuce you say - I still reference his Don Kirshner imitation to this day...
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On It's Too Late, the Cones are Built: Inside the Strange, Writer-centric 1977 SNL Book
No, Franco's still being dead was a Weekend Update running gag all through Chevy Chase's stint on the show, well before Novello started writing for it.
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On Very Mary Kate Will Make a Triumphant and Fat-Free Return on Dec. 1
I've heard so many good things about this that I'll have to check it out, but until I do, I'm compelled to observe how Elaine Carroll looks in that picture like Amy Poehler and Bill Hader's love child. Which is no bad thing to be, comedianing-wise.
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On The Ten Best Comedy Pilots in TV History
Three of the above episodes aired on my birthday. I can't help but think that is not a coincidence.
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On When Did Great Sitcoms Have Their First Great Episode?
Sometimes it's not a whole episode, but simply a moment or two when you get that "holy shit!" moment that tells you you're in the presence of something special. I'm not even sure which episode this comes from - pretty sure it was in the first season - but when the ice cream truck reading "Native American Ice Cream (formerly "Big Chief Crazy Cone")" appeared in The Simpsons, I was sold on them for life (if you go by whatever creature's life span runs eleven years or so).
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On When SNL Was About More Than Just Jokes
@Ben Douwsma Hey, you're bjdwsm from the s-n-l.com boards! Cool. (I'm "Jeremy Musk" 'round those parts.) Dig your posts and your blog. An SNL obsessive and, apparently, a Fall fanatic to boot - my kinda guy.