Warner Todd Huston on May 17, 2009 at 11:54 PM

that WAS an AWFUL harry caray impression! i grew up in chicago in the 80′s and that guy’s voice is one of those that you never forget…

the accent was just… completely… wrong.

i have been back in the US for about 7 months after being abroad for more than a decade. i turned on SNL once in october last year and couldn’t sit through it, it was so bad. i flipped it on this past weekend and thought i would give it a try again, as i saw a really funny clip with justin timberlake recently and thought i’d check it out. as soon as it started and i saw that the opening skit was with dick cheney, i turned it off again. looks like i didn’t miss much (although jeopardy had its moments).

Have to put in a plug for Elf. That was a great movie and one of the best new Christmas films in a long time. Too bad they picked that commie Ed Asner to be Santa, but otherwise really enjoyable.

Loved the Celebrity Jeopardy skit. Laughed out loud, which I can’t say I do much of with SNL. Strange how they can’t seem to do any jokes about our Dear Leader.

rbj on May 17, 2009 at 1:50 PM

They can’t make jokes. GE owns NBC, and MSNBC, and they stand to rake in billions from Obama, on a cap, and trade deal. NBC, and MSNBC’s jobs, are to exalt Obama, and seal the deal.

SNL Sucks! Movies suck, and half this country voted against Obama, or sat it out, all together. That being said…when you keep slamming half the country for their beliefs, you’re going to lose viewers. Hollywood, doesn’t seem to care, but they will, when it really starts to tank. I don’t even watch any shows anymore, because of this nonsense.

Books are more entertaining, then the schmucks on tv.

Anchorman was his best film? Allah you really are a beta male you are not just pretending.

Dr Evil on May 18, 2009 at 10:37 AM

+++++++++plusplusplussssss

I can’t for the life of me, figure out how ANYONE can find Will Farrell funny even in the slightest.

Hell, Chevy Chase is a Master’s degree funny compared to Farrell’s Associate degree funny. And Chase is more like associate degreee funny in actuality.

“We’re Going streaking up through the quad and into the gymnasium! Come on everybody, come on! Snoop, Snoop-a-loop! No, it’s cool, it’s cool, I’m cool. Bring… Bring your green hat.”

I thought Talladega Nights was hilarious.

*running out of the room*

aikidoka on May 17, 2009 at 8:02 PM

It was hilarious. That, Anchorman, Blades of Glory, and Old School are his best movies, although Anchorman stands above them all.

That said, Step Brothers and Semi-Pro were pretty bad.

Will Ferrell does best when he is a supporting character. (See wedding crashers)

Watched Talladega Nights and didn’t laugh once, didn’t watch Step Brothers for that reason.

Hog Wild on May 17, 2009 at 1:58 PM

I saw Talladega Nights and I laughed ONCE. A short 3 second laugh. The rest of the movie made me yearn for Adam Sandler’s comedy. That’s how bad it was. The man lip kissing in the movie was icing on the nausea cake.

I also throw Steve Carrel into that “awkward” humor category. I don’t get why people are willing to spend money on this. Even the movie ELF only did well because of the other actors, director, and writers. Ferrel performance was average at best, and he did NOT carry the movie at all.

Whatever happened to Garrett Morris or Lorraine Newman? Don’t tell me about Al Franken, I have a feeling I don’t want to know.

The first two still work on occasion. The third is about to become the first mentally retarded Senator in U.S. history.

The first two years of SNL are the most overrated thing on the planet. Since they are available on DVD now, everyone can see it for themselves after having their opinions shaped by best-of collections.

Ground breaking TV? Sure. 100% comedy gold? No way. Lotsa dull in there, like the Muppets and Albert Brooks films. The sketches were as hit and miss as they have always been, too.

Yeah, it was kinda funny seeing the wife, after bringing home the second season on DVD, slowly coming to the realization that even the classic SNL was just like its later incarnations…funny bits in a sea of painfully dull, unfunny sketches. Sometimes you’d see three sketches in a row played to a completely silent audience.

SNL suffers from Greatest Hits syndrome, people only get to see them at their best in clips and forget about all the crap in between. They’re the Led Zeppelin of comedy.

*ducks*

Until the clowns start mocking the King, humor is dead.

MaxMBJ on May 17, 2009 at 6:14 PM

Nothing new there. It was a lefty show in the 70′s too. When Carter was president, they spent more time making fun of Nixon.

I loved it in the 70′s, have rarely watched it since, but I doubt its point of view was much different in the 80′s or 90′s, either. Or maybe it was. Maybe somebody can fill me in about the last 30 years of SNL

As far as it goes, for me, it jumped the shark around 1980. I’ve been shaking my head for about 20 years that it is still on the air. Not because of politics (I was a lefty until the mid-nineties), just the sheer longevity amazes me. I’ll bet it amazes Lorne Michaels, too, if he ever stops to think about it.

Whatever happened to Garrett Morris or Lorraine Newman? Don’t tell me about Al Franken, I have a feeling I don’t want to know.

I hate Saturday Night Live. It hasn’t been worth anything for decades.

And so should have Andy S!!

If they really want to be funny, there is a TON of material out there, but that would mean they’ve got to, er, actually, make a joke or two about the current administration! Oh my! Can’t do that! That would be blasphemy.

4shoes on May 17, 2009 at 9:20 PM

How right you are 4shoes, you can literally see how unfunny this stuff is. They are trying to squeeze out every bit of humor from a tree that grew dry years ago, and it shows. They have sunk to the bottom of the barrel, and now all they can do is make faces at the camera in hopes someone will find them funny. They have become caricatures of themselves. Like the Las Vegas Elvis, they are now the one’s crying out for someone to make fun of them.

Spike72AFA on May 17, 2009 at 1:48 PM

Everything you said was dead on. If they really want to be funny, there is a TON of material out there, but that would mean they’ve got to, er, actually, make a joke or two about the current administration! Oh my! Can’t do that! That would be blasphemy.

They’re still doing Bush skits? What else do they have up their sleeves, Ayatollah Khomeini jokes?

Coronagold on May 17, 2009 at 3:20 PM

Nah, they can’t do Khomeini jokes, they’re too PC for that!

These guys remind me of when we were kids. There was always some goofy nerd guy who would try to be funny and appear cool. He would tell, what he thought would be, a funny story, then, when he finished, he would laugh out loud, but everyone else just shook their heads, groaned, then pantsed him.

Will Ferrell is one of those nerds. All he needs is a good pantsing.