She's Back! Girl at a Party

[Snake45]

The Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation with at a Party. For reasons I won't go into, I didn't think we'd ever see her again. 

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/weekend-update-girl-you-wish-you-hadnt-started-a-conversation-with-on-the-coronavirus/4129049

She's so "woke" that she's brain-dead. Best SNL character ever!  

[SfanGoch]

Wot da hell?

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Well, this is awkward

Sorry, it looks like the video or page you're looking for seems to have disappeared - or maybe it never existed to begin with.

 

[Snake45]

Weird. Still works for me--I just clicked the link above. 

Here it is again. 

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/weekend-update-girl-you-wish-you-hadnt-started-a-conversation-with-on-the-coronavirus/4129049

And here it is on U2be: 

 

Edited March 8, 2020 by Snake45

[SfanGoch]

Tanks!

[espo]

That's funny. 

[STYRENE-SURFER]

Debbie Downer was back as well. Being unfamiliar with the musical guest artist I was left confused.

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[slusher]

That’s the lady who does the Triscuit commercials...

 

[Snake45]

10 hours ago, slusher said:

That’s the lady who does the Triscuit commercials...

 

Yes she is. She's not only the best-looking SNL female cast member ever, she's also the funniest. IMHO, of course. 

[Lunajammer]

This is what I've been reading the last week or two. For the long time SNL aficionado like me this is a must read. Written in part by Tom Shales, Pulitzer Prize winning TV critic for The Washington Post. Superbly written and uncensored history, back stories and testimonials by almost any living member of the cast, writers, producers and network execs. A+

 

Edited March 12, 2020 by Lunajammer

[Snake45]

8 hours ago, Lunajammer said:

...Tom Shales, Pulitzer Prize winning entertainment critic for The Washington Post. 

He's "entertainment critic" now? He used to be their TV critic, and a pretty good one. 

I owe him one HUGE favor. His review of Firefly, which I either hadn't heard of or had decided to pass on, interested me in watching it, and it immediately became one the Favorite Things in my Life. Still is, for that matter. 

[Lunajammer]

32 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

He's "entertainment critic" now? He used to be their TV critic, and a pretty good one

That would be my mis-speak. You are correct, he's the TV critic. I've corrected it in the post. I haven't read much of his work but I very much like his approach to the voice of this book.

Almost the whole thing is just a collection of testimonials and quotes from the people who were there, threaded together in one comprehensive narrative of things you never knew about the production, people, relationships, history, the creative process and its influence on other entertainment.

[Snake45]

33 minutes ago, Lunajammer said:

That would be my mis-speak. You are correct, he's the TV critic. I've corrected it in the post. I haven't read much of his work but I very much like his approach to the voice of this book.

He's got one huge flaw in my book, though. He considers I Love Lucy the pinnacle of TV comedy. It might have been okay 60 years ago, but IMHO it hasn't held up well at all. 

I'll say this for Lucy, though: Long before TV, when Lucy was making movies, she was an absolute knockout. 

[OldTrucker]

On 3/12/2020 at 9:18 AM, Snake45 said:

He's got one huge flaw in my book, though. He considers I Love Lucy the pinnacle of TV comedy. It might have been okay 60 years ago, but IMHO it hasn't held up well at all. 

I'll say this for Lucy, though: Long before TV, when Lucy was making movies, she was an absolute knockout. 

She definitely was a looker. Remember seeing her in a Three Stooges short too!

But don't let my wife see you knocking her, she just loves that show.(but not the later shows without Desi)

I had to buy her the series on DVD!

I do like The Long Long Trailer movie though!

[stavanzer]

The Long, Long Trailer is one of my Favorite Movies! I'm glad someone else remembers it.  My wife and I still Joke about "Trailer Brakes, First!!!"

[SfanGoch]

3 hours ago, OldTrucker said:

Remember seeing her in a Three Stooges short too!

That short was titled "Three Little Pigskins".

3 hours ago, OldTrucker said:

She definitely was a looker

[ChrisBcritter]

[SfanGoch]

A good beer. It was brewed in my neighborhood.

 

[Snake45]

So EVERY thread is gonna be about beer now? Please, no. 

[SfanGoch]

This is "The Off-Topic Lounge". Every lounge I've been to serves beer.

[Snake45]

I'm a recovering alcoholic and would rather not read about beer, especially in threads that have nothing to do with beer. I have no problem with you starting as many beer threads as you want. Please stop it. 

[JollySipper]

I used to love SNL, but I haven't watched it in a while.... not since Will Ferrell and them was on. He was a comedic genius! He gained weight just for the comedy factor it would add to his characters..... If you think about it, the "cowbell" skit with Walken wouldn't have been half as funny without Ferrell's gut hanging out from under his shirt!

 

[Pete J.]

It has been ages since I watched SNL regularly.  Like ah totally back when they was killer beezz, und ah like the bluesie brudders!  Yea, like I totally swore off tubelavision for a eon ago.  So this is what happened whild I wuz goon.  Wat the ....??

[Snake45]

1 hour ago, JollySipper said:

I used to love SNL, but I haven't watched it in a while.... not since Will Ferrell and them was on. He was a comedic genius! He gained weight just for the comedy factor it would add to his characters..... If you think about it, the "cowbell" skit with Walken wouldn't have been half as funny without Ferrell's gut hanging out from under his shirt!

 

That was funny, but I wouldn't credit it with 50 percent of the humor. I thought Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz just blatantly cracking up while Will tried desperately to hold it together was funnier. 

The funniest part of the sketch, though, is that there's no cowbell in the real song. That's a wood block. The song is about the Grim Reaper. The Grim Reaper knocks on your door, hence a wood block sound. Who ever heard of the Grim Reaper bangin' on a cowbell? 

[SfanGoch]

I believe cowbells were used in the ancient Roman Dacia city of Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa during the early autumn to welcome the torva messor to one's home for sandwiches and a game or two of Ludus Latrunculorum.

[espo]

I started to lose interest after the Hippie Dippy Weather man retired along with Mr. Bill.