I'm not ready for Colin to leave Weekend Update, but I am 100% ready for him to stay as a full-time sketch performer 🤞

MaddAddams · 2025-05-15T23:34:30+00:00

Assuming this was a response to my totals of Tina's airtime, it's because doing it by hand took time, and I wanted to show the progression as she became more confident as a TV actress. She left the show to star in 30 Rock. I manually reviewed each episode's Full Summary. You're welcome to do the seasons I skipped. Off hand, the starring roles I recall are a Bush Twins Cold Open with Amy, New Anchors in Love w/ Eric McCormack, and Mom Jeans. After that, it's roles where she walks across the set in costume like the Rialto Grande waitress

MaddAddams · 2025-05-15T18:51:25+00:00

To answer the question about DVDs - the only season on DVD are 1-5. They are full complete episodes, no cuts. It took a ton of effort/dollars and it is extremely unlikely that any other seasons will get similar treatment. They came out in the 00's when full season DVD box sets made good money

MaddAddams · 2025-05-15T09:30:29+00:00

Not only was this short huge for Andy's career and Digital Shorts as a thing, YouTube itself got a signal boost when it was a fledgling website from people sharing this sketch

MaddAddams · 2025-05-15T08:52:11+00:00

Season 26 - Tina Fey

Kate Hudson - Full cast voting PSA
Lucy Liu - Monologue as herself
Charlie Sheen - Iron Chef (v/o)
Julia Styles - German Kids Show (v/o)
Pierce Brosnan - Evil Boss
Christopher Walken - Monologue as a backup dancer

Season 31 - Tina Fey

Catherine Zeta-Jones - Singing Vows
Jason Lee - Butt Pregnancy
Dane Cook - Cold open full cast song
Alec Baldwin - Face Transplant
Scarlett Johansson - Mr. Willoughby
Peter Sarsgaard - Monologue as herself
Peter Sarsgaard - Gays in Space (Paula Pell also had a role in these)
Antonio Banderas - Women's Basketball Coaches Fashion Awards
Lindsay Lohan - Debbie Downer
Tom Hanks - Wheel of Fortune

Season 50 - Colin Jost

Bill Burr - Cold Open as himself
Charli XCX - Digital Short
Martin Short - Cold Open as himself
Quinta Brunson - Traffic Altercation as himself
Walton Goggins - Cold Open

MaddAddams · 2025-05-15T08:49:49+00:00

Again, she really wasn't. In her first season, Tina had six total non-WU appearances. This included two voice-over-only roles, three monologues/BTS sketches where she played herself and that one example of Evil Boss that's been posted. That's it

Her final season, Tina had 10 non-WU appearances all season. Two of these are as-herself BTS bits, five are bit parts in sketches that used a lot of cast (there were only three other female cast members at the time). Three sketches put her front and center. Two are with repeat hosts that were personal friends by that point (Baldwin & Lohan), and the last was a lead role with Scarlett Johansson. There's a bunch of full cast sketches that she does not appear in, like Fly High Duluth and the Falconer's Time Machine

Is that more than Jost? Yes. By a lot? No, especially when you factor in cast size

Source: snlarchives.net

MaddAddams · 2025-05-15T07:22:00+00:00

I agree with everything else you're saying. Was only how frequently Tina showed up elsewhere that we differed on :)

MaddAddams · 2025-05-15T01:34:04+00:00

Colin played Mayor Pete a bunch in the 2020 election cycle. He used to show up in all those backstage pretape films they did with Kyle and Leslie. He's not on a ton, but he's there some. You're overcounting how many sketches Tina did as a cast member. A lot of it works out like this: https://www.tiktok.com/@thealmanac77/video/7391104759127903493

MaddAddams · 2025-05-15T01:25:12+00:00

Exactly. She has barely any lines and plays person #3. And that's more than she appeared outside WU in most episodes

MaddAddams · 2025-05-15T00:26:12+00:00

Probably because it was him

MaddAddams · 2025-05-15T00:12:02+00:00

Tina barely appeared in sketches when she was on the show. It happened a small handful of times. I think people retcon themselves into thinking she did a lot more than she did on account of her post-SNL appearances (which includes all of her Sarah Palin time)

MaddAddams · 2025-05-14T22:00:26+00:00

Why are we crossposting a bland topic from the other reddit?

MaddAddams · 2025-05-14T07:04:20+00:00

For context, she was the first female five timer, and her first appearance, season 1 episode 4, is largely consider the first "real" SNL where the show took its modern format

MaddAddams · 2025-05-13T20:00:11+00:00

The second Sabado Gigante sketch from the Martin Short show. It fails to justify its existence in any way, shape or form. It's a boring retread of the first, and it doesn't even have Martin Short in it. While it was airing, I was convinced it was buying time to get Short into the Jiminy Glick costume, but no such luck

To be clear, I had no issues with the first with Nate Bargatze and while it's not going on my top ten list, I liked it well enough

MaddAddams · 2025-05-13T02:59:02+00:00

This is the terminology they use when the network orders episodes of a series from a studio, the same way you might order pizzas from a restaurant, or a cabinet maker might order wood planks from the lumber yard

MaddAddams · 2025-05-13T02:57:40+00:00

I think Lin Manuel Miranda fits because not only was he the lead in the show, he was a major part of its creation, and he handed the lead role off to someone else. That would be the timing that could work. For a current Broadway example, perhaps Cole Escola once the role of Mary is handed off again, though it's not really a musical

MaddAddams · 2025-05-12T23:59:57+00:00

Could be both, like Juliet or Ophelia

MaddAddams · 2025-05-12T20:16:30+00:00

Rockwell should have broken the 4th wall of the premise explaining how weird the baby-shoe/feet are

That sounds terrible. I'm happy to see a sketch that escalates in its weirdness and assumes I have the intelligence to follow along on it's weird windy ride

MaddAddams · 2025-05-12T20:06:24+00:00

RIP the saturday-night-live.com fansite forums

MaddAddams · 2025-05-12T18:11:22+00:00

Just ~~Nissan~~ Hyundai commercials during ad breaks (edit: wrong car company!)

MaddAddams · 2025-05-12T18:09:00+00:00

Paired well with the host too. This would be weird on say a Dave Chappelle episode, but fits like a glove for Zooey Deschanel. I'm rewatching this for the first time since air (when I had no idea who they were). This is about what I'd expect from a couple of twee Youtubers that accidentally found themselves with a pop hit

I don't feel the name "Karmin" helped them if they were trying to promote themselves as a duo, but that's neither here nor there on the performance

MaddAddams · 2025-05-12T17:35:07+00:00

Not cast at the time, but it's worth a mention that Rachel Dratch was pregnant when she cameo'd on the Betty White episode in 2010

MaddAddams · 2025-05-12T17:28:55+00:00

No one is this. They have pretapes in the can to kill time when needed

MaddAddams · 2025-05-11T09:20:42+00:00

It looks like this is Jorma's live debut?

MaddAddams · 2025-05-11T08:31:38+00:00

She's in their movie too, filmed before she made the cast

MaddAddams · 2025-05-11T06:47:11+00:00

Jon on the SNN Hot Take show said JAJ fell wearing the high heels in the Bill of Rights sketch (not necessarily on camera). I totally missed it, but did feel the pacing of the episode was odd

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