SNL's Continued Downward Spiral Thread

Really weird Baldwin cameo at the end. Gardner's bit on WU just kills me every time. The rest was a bunch of Mmnuh?

 

Chloe Fineman has the impressions down, while Heidi Gardner is definitely the best of the women with characters.

 

They weren’t even making fun of Britney

https://deadline.com/2023/11/britney-spears-manager-slams-snl-parody-chloe-fineman-1235600698/

 

That manager ought to be thankful for every bit of attention thrown her way anymore.

 

Huh. The link is dead, even searching for it on Google.

Page Six has an article.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/pagesi...hloe-fineman-for-skit-about-singers-book/amp/

For some reason my YouTube TV didn't record the show. That sucks.

 

That’s pretty much the same article. Maybe Deadline grabbed it without attribution and pulled it down after being caught.

 

For all his 5 seconds on camera, last night was Alec Baldwin's 75th episode of SNL -- mainly from all the Trump appearances. 17 as host, 58 as a cameo.

SNL Archives | Guests | Alec Baldwin

Makes me wonder how many cast members he's got beat.

 

Well, there are 57 cast members who lasted only one season, so that's a start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Saturday_Night_Live_cast_members

 

I have no recollection of Rob Riggle being on SNL. Sasheer Zamata is such a beauty.

 

I have no recollection of Rob Riggle ever being funny.

 

Oh, Rob Riggle got quite a bit of run in the short time he was there. And no, I don't think he's too funny, either.

 

In my Intro to Mass Comm class, we started talking about the history of TV today. I talked about how SNL was a throwback to the days of live TV, for better or worse, and started showing clips of some of the breakout stars. Here's what we'll watch over the next couple of days.

- Olympia Restaurant
- James Brown's Celebrity Hot Tub Party
- Lunch Lady
- Sinead O'Connor
- Joe Pesci's monologue the next week
- Matt Foley's first appearance, at the family discussion in the living room
- More Cowbell
- Black Jeopardy, with Tom Hanks as Doug
- Meet Your Second Wife
- The Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial send-up, after watching the original Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial