SNL 05/07/05 - H: Johnny Knoxville; MG: System of a Down
 

Only one more week until the return of Will Ferrell (... and I am going to try to be there!!!!)! ;)

... until then we have these guys to look forward to!

THe Charlie Goose Season 30 Tally is now tied at 8 :up:s to 8 :down:s... will this become a losing season? Stay tuned!

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Season 30 (now with the "Charlie Goose 'Spartacus-Meter'" :down: v. :up: ):

:down: SNL 10/02/04 - H: Ben Affleck; MG: Nelly<br><br>
:lol: SNL 10/04/04 - Best of... Cheri Oteri<br><br>
:up: SNL 10/09/04 - H & MG: Queen Latifah<br><br>
:lol: SNL 10/16/04 - Best of... Jimmy Fallon<br><br>
:up: SNL 10/23/04 - H: Jude Law; MG: Ashlee Simpson<br><br>
:down: SNL 10/30/04 - H: Kate Winslet; MG: Eminem<br><br>
:lol: SNL 11/06/04 - Best of... Tom Hanks<br><br>
:up: SNL 11/13/04 - H: Liam Neeson; MG: Modest Mouse<br><br>
:up: SNL 11/20/04 - H: Luke Wilson; MG: U2<br><br>
:up: SNL 12/11/04 - H: Colin Farrell; MG: Scissor Sisters<br><br>
:down: SNL 12/18/04 - H: Robert Dinero; MG: Beyonce Knowles<br><br>
:up: SNL 01/15/05 - H: Topher Grace <strike>Jennifer Garner</strike>; MG: The Killers<br><br>
:up: SNL 01/22/05 - H: Paul Giamatti; MG: Ludacris w/ Sum 41<br><br>
:down: SNL 02/05/05 - H: Paris Hilton; MG: Keane<br><br>
:down: SNL 02/12/05 - H: Jason Bateman; MG: Kelley Clarkson<br><br>
:up: SNL 03/12/05 - H: David Spade; MG: Jack Johnson<br><br>
:down: SNL 03/19/05 - H: Ashton Kutcher; MG: Gwen Stephani<br><br>
:down: SNL 04/09/05 - H: Cameron Diaz; MG: Green Day<br><br>
:down: SNL 04/16/05 - H: Tom Brady; MG: Beck

Awesome, i love watching Johnny Knoxville. Not a big fan of System's new song BYOB, but i'll try and tune in.

Can't stand Knoxville, but with the rumoured guests dropping in, I'll check it out.

The only one rumoured guest that I'm aware of is Who else is supposed to be there?

I can't remember who else, but in one of the reports mentioning who you spoilered, it mentioned another one or two people. No one really jawdropping though.

I can't find the article anywhere now.

Maybe I just dreamed it :(

Maybe if there are other "special guests" they'll be

good start.. always fun to see celebrities make fun of themselves

It is good to see celebrities who aren't afraid to poke fun at themselves.

Too bad the sketch sucked.

good intro by Knoxville.. actually best intro of the season

Really? Another "Trump-makes-a-commercial" sketches? Does the crew not realize they're horrible?

breaking news... sanz laughs in a skit

Well, I counted at least the guy screaming "fuck you" make it through... They screwed up the mute once too, not sure if fuck made it through or not that time. It's retarded they even mute it, it's past midnight and, as we learned with the Leno New Year's Eve thing, the FCC can't do a damn thing about it.

I believe they only really had the "where the fuck are you" line planned to bleep, so that other one was lets just say unscrpited. I guess they play next at what 1245?

Good 'ole Merv the Perv.

Wow, they're doing Aerials? I'm surprised they're doing anything off the old albums, but since they did, I'm downright shocked it wasn't Chop Suey. Odd.

I dont know System that well(I must be getting old) but thought they were really good.

NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bear City!!!

Bear City?!?!?!

When will they learn?

Yeah, I was definitely surprised by this. I would've definitely preferred "Chop Suey". Better song, IMO.

K

I’ll give this one a :up:. Most of the cast was great tonight. Knoxville was a pretty much a zero as host, but he didn’t have much to do.

Fallen Idol expose
Going back over old American Idol footage to see if Paula Abdul slept with any other contestant, including Maya Rudolph as Mario Vasquez and Justin Guarini. Forte was funny as a croaking Constantine. Abdul herself made an appearance at the end to give the “LIVE!…” line. Would’ve been funnier if she wasn’t there.

Monologue
Knoxville showing film of him being introduced to the cast, and them pulling Jackass-style stunts on him. Even Don Pardo knees him in the balls.

The Couple that Should be Divorced
Three couples get together, and one couple are constantly sniping and belittling each other, leaving the other couples to feel very awkward. Myers & Poehler as the fighting couple. Not too bad.

Donald Trump
Trump dressed as a slice of pizza doing a Domino’s commercial, which he cluelessly calls Dominio’s. Typical skit about what a douche Trump is. If it weren’t for this character, would we ever see Hammond?

Donatella Versace
In Calabria Italy to visit her mother. Fellatio Sanz makes an appearance as Elton John and Knoxville as his boyfriend. One skit, and Sanz just can’t make it through without breaking up for no reason. Fucker. This was not as funny as other Donatella skits.

Visitors from Outer Space
Forte is a bumpkin captured by aliens who pretend to be friendly, but all they want to do is anally probe him.

Weekend Update
Excellent tonight. Good joke about the runaway bride and how she still wants to be Mrs. John Mason, as in “Mrs. John Mason, we’re here to ask you about your husband’s murder.”
Poehler goes off on a funny rant about Angelina Jolie and her “queen-sized futon” of a mouth.
Will Forte brings on his real mother and sings her a song titled, “Mom, I’m Gonna Miss You When You’re Dead”. His singing and her reactions were totally hilarious.
Armisen appears as Richie B. the deaf comedian and the Fat Albert Nitwit as his translator. The jokes are all racist. Very funny.

Mother’s Day Brunch
Three separate tables at a restaurant during Mother’s Day Brunch.
Myers and some new guy at one table with their mother and Knoxville as their father going through a sex change, which he has no problem describing.
Finesse Mitchell and the F.A.N. at another table with their grandmother, who doesn’t recognize them or believe they are her grandsons.
Poehler and Riggle as new parents, bring their baby out for the first time.
You can see that there was a lot of set-up going into this sketch, but there was no payoff on any of it. The punch line was the baby spitting up all over Poehler and the voiceover wishing a happy Mother’s Day to all put-upon wait staff. This was a missed opportunity and a real head-scratcher.

Telethon
Knoxville as host, and Forte as one of the telephone operators who does nothing but scream, “OH NO!” into the phone. Dopey bit, but Forte was funny as usual.

Merv the Perv
Hanging around a Victoria’s Secret store to predictable results. Knoxville as his brother, Irv the Perv, pretending to be the store manager. Merv & Irv, “Victoria’s Secret? LESBO!” This character is always good.

Action News
Introducing 20 different on-air reporters, then watching them all laugh at the anchor’s silly joke. Quick and painless.

Bear City
One day, maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but one day T. Sean Shannon will suffer for this shit. This I vow.

Todd Foxworthy
Comedian Jeff Foxworthy’s gay brother. “If you paint the cinder blocks under your mobile home chartreuse, you might be a gay redneck.” “If you sing into the window fan to sound more like Eartha Kitt, you might be a gay redneck”

I'll give this week a :up: laughed quite a few times. The Trump skits are pretty bad.

I thought that it was a great episode for the most parts. The dogs were definitely the Mother's Day skit at the restaurant, and as always, Bear City.

IF the MD bit had just been about the Tranny Dad or the Annoying Baby Couple it would've worked. Granny with Altzheimer's was kinda sad.


OR even better!

Kenan playing that campbell's soup/football player's mom woulda rocked too.

Damn, because the telethon was so lame, I went to sleep just before the Merv sketch. Can anyone provide some one-liners from the bit for me?

Now, from what I understand, Lindsay Lohan is going to be the finale, with Ferrell being next week's host.

My question: Couldn't they have made Ferrell the finale? That would have been miles above a Lohan-hosted finale.

(Although, I'm sure that with Ferrell's schedule, he might not have been able to do it the week after - or something to that effect.)

I'm the first to criticize the lame lip-synchers and rappers that they usually have on the show, but System of a Down was pretty darn awful too. Especially that first song. God that was bad (imho).

The best joke of the night was definitely the Mexican lotion made out of semen.

"It's from Mexico, so who knows what's in it! ...Oh yeah, semen. Reports say the lotion will be used to make more lotion." :lol:

I always like the way a person currently embroiled in a "controversy" does a walk-on to poke fun at it...

HI-larious! :sarcasm:

Am I the only person who actually LIKES Bear City? I dunno, call me crazy but I enjoy seeing bears acting like humans and getting onto funny situations! It makes me laugh!

Oh, and I was definitely :lol: during the news anchor skit. They were all laughing!

EDIT: I'm really sorry, but I'm gonna need some Bear City love. Get in here and voice your approval. You go T. Sean Shannon!

guess that kind of music isn't your cup of tea, but that song fucking kicks serious ass.

I love System of a down and that song was one of the worst things I've heard from them. Not a good sign for the new album.

Overall this SNL was not too bad. Not too good either. I wonder what characters Will Ferrell with bring out of storage for his hosting gig....hopefully Inside the actors Studio and not the cheerleaders....

I like SoaD, but that new song is probably the most mainstream sounding thing they've ever recorded. That will undoubtedly turn a lot of people off.

That's funny, because I'm not a big fan of SoaD (though I'm familiar enough with them), but I thought the new song was solid, and their performace was great - those time-signature changes can be tough to pull off convincingly playing live. And since most people are not fans, I think that bodes well for the new album.

The Good:
Monologue (you knew it was coming, but it was genuinely funny)
Merv the Perv (not much new here, but it is good enough to hold up)

The Okay as Filler:
The Couple that Should be Divorced (OK, but predictable)
Fallen Idol expose (a weak one-joke sketch drug out wayyy too long)
Mother’s Day Brunch (Knoxville's tranny was funny, new baby was OK, grandma was useless)
Action News (another weak joke drug out wayyy too long)
Todd Foxworthy (points for a good idea, but not very funny)

The Typical Dreck of Late:
Donald Trump (maybe funny the first time around, now just boring)
Donatella Versace (no laughs, not one, was it even supposed to be funny?)
Visitors from Outer Space (probably sounded good as a pitch, poorly written)
Weekend Update (another week of poor delivery of weak material, maybe one hit out of twenty swings of the bat, wish they would stop doing update like it was some 12 year-old girl's pajama party, Forte's bit was especially painful to watch since he drug his poor mum into it)
Telethon (hasn't been funny the last 10 times they did the exact same sketch)
Bear City (too awful for words)

Which is why my post had "imho" after it, to let it be known that it was just my opinion. Something your post lacks.

But really, is that song meant to be serious? I thought it sounded like a joke song from the late 80s /early 90s, (along the lines of "I'm the Man" by Anthrax, or more like something by S.O.D., or Mr. Bungle, or even Spinal Tap) with the ill-fitting (imho, of course) time and style changes. Oh, and the repeated screaming of "fuck you" doesn't help me think the song is any more serious.

I thought the joke was funny, and pretty short and sweet. At no time did I ever have to say ok this is funny but its way too long. They introduced the team, and then made one anchorman joke, and then scrolled through each one to show them laughing. If they had made another joke and scrolled through each one AGAIN then I'd say it was way too long. If they did it a THIRD time then you could even say it was wayyy too long.

All my opinion of course :)

Problem for me was the joke peaked by the time the second or third person laughs, but then you have to sit through another 10 or whatever. The sketch was over a mintue before it ended. Therefore I put it into the "it was OK but felt like filler" category.

Well, I think they kind of HAD to scroll thru the entire news roster laughing after doing it the first time. It was all building up to the clock burning guy, which was slightly lame in its own right. But as a whole the joke worked for me. Better than most of the drivel they throw at us.

But hey, what do I know, I actually LIKE the Bear City skits!

I never, ever watch SNL but I had to see Knoxville and SOAD. Is it just me or did they barely give Knoxville anything to do most of the time? This show needs to be shut down. I did appreciate his trying to slip the fat Elton the tongue, but the rest was damn unwatchable.

i'd say its a wash....Ferrell will bring the funny, but Lindsay's Lohans will bring the fun :eyebrow: