Fred Armisen Must Die!

icehog3 · 03-07-2010, 10:03 AM

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I ended up going to bed. Even Kenan's What's Up With That? sketch was pretty well played out.
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Very few characters I care to see a second time...first exception that comes to mind is Wiig's "WalMart Lady". Usually Weekend Update and Samberg's digital shorts are the only things worth watching anymore.

Kreth · 03-07-2010, 11:22 AM

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Very few characters I care to see a second time...first exception that comes to mind is Wiig's "WalMart Lady". Usually Weekend Update and Samberg's digital shorts are the only things worth watching anymore.

Target Lady, but I agree. Kenan's Grady Wilson with the marital aid tapes is pretty funny, and I'm drawing a blank on the name of the character, but the sketch where he slides back and forth on a conveyor giving tips on dating scenarios is pretty good too.
I'm definitely not a fan of Timberlake's music, but he's done some hilarious stuff on SNL. The two shorts were hilarious, and the Target Lady sketch he did with kristen Wiig was probably one of the funniest ones yet.
And don't forget: Shy Ronnie

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OLS · 03-18-2010, 12:19 PM

Worts Armisen trait is his lack of skills in taking it to the end. he takes his unfunny comic characters fifty miles past too far, but he can't keep his Obama speech mannerisms going for more than three lines. WTF? He did Obama through to the end ONCE, the very first time he did it. Most times now he throws one speech mannerism in there and then does "himself" for 2.5 minutes. The thing he does in the Field Jacket with the topical newspaper humor on Update is DREADFUL. milk, milk, milk,

I also think Andy Samberg is unfunny, although in his idiom, he is a master, and that is the little film-songs. Outside that he is a disaster, too, but then again, that's all they ask of him, anyway. laser cats is good. But Keenan Thompson is so good he saves the lot of em. That new "What's up with That" is a classic. I love how Lindsey Buckingham has been on every show and not said one thing yet.
Still, Barry Gibb Talk show was the best thing they have done in that genre of sketch in twenty years.
I hope and pray for my man Justin Timberlake to host, just for that. But last time, they tried to work too much $hit into it and it was awful.

OLS · 03-18-2010, 12:22 PM

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And don't forget: Shy Ronnie

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Was Shy Ronnie what they did with Rihanna the other night? Fing hilarious.

Kreth · 03-18-2010, 05:26 PM

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A whole bunch of sh!t I agree with wholeheartedly.

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Was Shy Ronnie what they did with Rihanna the other night? Fing hilarious.

Yeah. The first time it was on I about pissed myself I was laughing so hard. "Oh no!"

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OLS · 03-18-2010, 06:05 PM

Lest I shortchange the man, HE DOES do a great governor patterson.

Kreth · 03-19-2010, 10:20 AM

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Lest I shortchange the man, HE DOES do a great governor patterson.

The very first one (with Paterson wandering around the WU set) was semi-funny. After that, it's been classic Armisen: repeat ad nauseam (in this case, jabs at New Jersey).
The worst part is, Paterson is a comedy goldmine. Armisen should take some lessons from his predecessors on how to lampoon a politician: Tina Fey, Darrell Hammond, Dana Carvey, and going way back, Chevy Chase as Ford.
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OLS · 03-19-2010, 11:52 AM

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After that, it's been classic Armisen: repeat ad nauseam (in this case, jabs at New Jersey).

Remember that I am down south, so it is funnier to me that he rides the N.J. pony too far. To me it only got tiresome the third time they ran the bit. But he looks just like the pol.
And wandering around the studio was great, especially the first time. But this changes nothing...Fred Armisen must die.

03-18-2010, 12:19 PM	#3
OLS Suck It Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Brad Location: TN Posts: 7,912 Trading: (19)	Re: Fred Armisen Must Die! Worts Armisen trait is his lack of skills in taking it to the end. he takes his unfunny comic characters fifty miles past too far, but he can't keep his Obama speech mannerisms going for more than three lines. WTF? He did Obama through to the end ONCE, the very first time he did it. Most times now he throws one speech mannerism in there and then does "himself" for 2.5 minutes. The thing he does in the Field Jacket with the topical newspaper humor on Update is DREADFUL. milk, milk, milk, I also think Andy Samberg is unfunny, although in his idiom, he is a master, and that is the little film-songs. Outside that he is a disaster, too, but then again, that's all they ask of him, anyway. laser cats is good. But Keenan Thompson is so good he saves the lot of em. That new "What's up with That" is a classic. I love how Lindsey Buckingham has been on every show and not said one thing yet. Still, Barry Gibb Talk show was the best thing they have done in that genre of sketch in twenty years. I hope and pray for my man Justin Timberlake to host, just for that. But last time, they tried to work too much $hit into it and it was awful.

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OLS Suck It Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Brad Location: TN Posts: 7,912 Trading: (19)	Re: Fred Armisen Must Die! Lest I shortchange the man, HE DOES do a great governor patterson.