Brian Williams is hosting tonight!

I'm geeked

11/3/2007 10:16:23 PM

ahaha, he's doing good with the Bronx Fireman

and nice to see Obama

ha "you can go to hell, you could lose 10 pounds, and you're gay"

[Edited on November 3, 2007 at 10:51 PM. Reason : .]

11/3/2007 10:44:24 PM

oh, so that's who "Feist" is...... So does she owe 100% of her success to Apple, or only 99%?

11/3/2007 11:08:11 PM

it really annoys me when the Weekend Update people laugh at themselves and each other.
Even worse is when they make a "particularly clever" pun or something, then pause and smugly look into the camera and mouth "think about it". i mean, whatever happened to subtlety? They all need to take some lessons from Kevin Nelon....

11/3/2007 11:28:42 PM

Brian Williams was an excellent host.

11/4/2007 12:03:44 AM

not 100%, she owes some to broken social scene

11/4/2007 12:15:40 AM

^^^You're right. I had sort of gotten used to their style until Chevy Chase was a WU guest recently. He blew them away with his masterful deadpan.

The whole telling-the-fake-news thing used to work because they acted like stuffy newscasters. Now they just act themselves. I can't say I dislike them, though.

11/4/2007 2:29:39 AM

I hate the current weekend update hosts. i can't even watch SNL anymore, I wish comedy central would start airing the old ones again like they did 8 or so years ago.

11/4/2007 10:17:01 AM

Brian Williams was alright...I thought it could've been much, much better. The straight-laced guys always have the most potential to be hilarious.

"Next Week:" The Rock and Amy Winehouse

11/4/2007 10:30:41 AM

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"it really annoys me when the Weekend Update people laugh at themselves and each other. Even worse is when they make a "particularly clever" pun or something, then pause and smugly look into the camera and mouth "think about it". i mean, whatever happened to subtlety? They all need to take some lessons from Kevin Nelon...."

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"I hate the current weekend update hosts. i can't even watch SNL anymore, I wish comedy central would start airing the old ones again like they did 8 or so years ago."

the weekend update people need to kill themselves

they are so fucking horrible

11/4/2007 10:33:03 AM

On the weekly update thing, I think I agree. I can't think of any deadpan style humor used at all on the show now. I do think it's funny when the actors break form during rare, natural moments, like the Schweaty Weiner skit, but it seems like the show is trying to score the same points by having actors smirk/laugh on a regular basis in weekly update.

I remember Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler used to a do a skit called "The Spyglass", where they were tabloid news hosts - they did a fantastic job, but the skit was dropped some time ago.

11/4/2007 10:36:21 AM

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"it really annoys me when the Weekend Update people laugh at themselves and each other. Even worse is when they make a "particularly clever" pun or something, then pause and smugly look into the camera and mouth "think about it". i mean, whatever happened to subtlety? They all need to take some lessons from Kevin Nelon...."

Exactly how I feel, it's ridiculous.

11/4/2007 10:39:29 AM

I thought Brian Williams was good. I wish they would have had him do Weekend Update though.

11/4/2007 11:12:31 AM

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"I wish they would have had him do Weekend Update though."

I thought that too...it seemed like an obvious thing...either to have him sit in for Seth Myers or have him interrupting the broadcast with pointers on "how it's done."

11/4/2007 11:16:28 AM

The Dumbledore sketch was the only funny thing to me

11/4/2007 11:20:34 AM

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""Next Week:" The Rock and Amy Winehouse"

Yeah, next week's not going to happen. I don't even know why they have a new episode slotted for that date. They might as well have announced Jesus and the Beatles as next week's host and musician.

11/4/2007 11:55:05 AM

brian williams was horrible

Feist could get the dong, as can all of the other females affiliated with Broken Social Scene

11/4/2007 12:28:02 PM

i like the weekend update peeps

remember the "REALLY?!?!" segment for michael vick's "weed in the water bottle" incident? classic

11/4/2007 12:49:19 PM

I hope Amy Winehouse doesn't die on stage.

11/4/2007 3:49:10 PM

Unless the writers' strike resolves itself quickly (they're meeting today according to Variety), next week's show is definitely not gonna happen.

Though, with Amy Winehouse as the musical guest, it's highly probable that it wouldn't have happened anyway...with or without the strike.

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"remember the "REALLY?!?!" segment for michael vick's "weed in the water bottle" incident? classic"

That's my favorite part of WU. The one about Larry Craig was equally as funny.

11/4/2007 4:24:46 PM

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" That's my favorite part of WU. The one about Larry Craig was equally as funny. "

Amy Poehler: "And it doesn't bother me that you tried to have gay sex in an airport bathroom, I'm bothered that you tried to have any sex in an airport bathroom. I don't like to use the bathroom in an airport bathroom."

And has their staff taken a huge cut or what? I think Poehler is in every skit. They had to bring in Sanz cause he's the only guy that looks like Richardson. And their token black guy Kenan Thompson doesn't look anything like Obama at all. Maybe if they need a guy they can stick Fred Armisen in that role. Although he did a good Gravel.

btw, was Brian Williams Dumbledore?

11/4/2007 4:33:48 PM

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"And has their staff taken a huge cut or what?"

Yeah, they had a major staff cutback prior to last season. Dropped three or four cast members and eliminated the "featured players."

11/4/2007 6:34:45 PM

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"btw, was Brian Williams Dumbledore?"

I don't think so...I think it was Will Forte.

That sketch was totally lost on me.

11/4/2007 9:21:11 PM

were you aware of the fact that JK Rowling said in an interview last week that Dumbledore was gay the whole time, even though she never mentioned it in the books?
that would be an important piece of background knowledge for that sketch....

11/4/2007 9:25:58 PM

^ I was aware--it was all over the news--but I've never read a single Harry Potter book or seen any of the movies, so I don't have any other context otherwise.

11/4/2007 9:46:38 PM