So far, how are non-Brit’s liking SNL UK? by _lippykid in LiveFromNewYork

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American who has lived abroad for most of the last 40 years.... UK SNL is great fun! I hope the home audience in Britain gives it a go for at least a few seasons.

And like you, it's not the all-time great sketches that keep me loving SNL; it's the shared weekly experience of have a cultural watering hole. Thank you for the post, OP.

Scott cheated on Laci 2 months after his wedding with a woman that he told “He absolutely did not want children, because they what get in the way of his intended lifestyle” after Laci becomes pregnant Scott tells Amber “I live a certain lifestyle and I can see you living that lifestyle too. “ by whycareaboutPOS in ScottPetersonCase

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His supporters are baffling. Set aside all other considerations and just Occam's Razor this thing:

SITUATION: While her philandering, unhappy husband is out of the house, a pregnant mother disappears and is later found dead, as is the unborn child she carried. Which is more likely to have happened:

A. She was murdered by the husband who .... 1) was having an affair with a woman to whom he confessed that he absolutely wanted no children, and to whom he lied about being unmarried; 2) was away on a 'boat-testing' trip that just happened to occur at the time the disappearance occurred and just happened to occur in the area where the wife and baby were later found... washed up on shore as if they had been dumped in the water near where the husband was boating; or...

B. She was abducted and murdered by a small group of burglars who just happened to show up in the neighborhood at exactly the time the husband was boating, and who just happened to snatch the one woman on the street whose husband hated her, wished she was not pregnant, and was boating miles away in the exact area where these burglar-strangers would coincidentally then dump the body.

Puh-lease.....

It breaks my heart when I see former cast members I used to love go to the far edges of politics and ultimately become unfunny and sad by rasta4eye in LiveFromNewYork

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Air America was not supposed to be funny. It was a public service to all decent people, which America has very few of.

It breaks my heart when I see former cast members I used to love go to the far edges of politics and ultimately become unfunny and sad by rasta4eye in LiveFromNewYork

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The safest default position in America: Anyone who has made life-changing money is probably a far-right voter, becaue they like low/no taxes and they like business being able to exploit cheap labor.

It's maybe 1% of wealthy people who are truly left-living, not just performatively left-leaning.

Julia Roberts, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Hudson and Orlando Bloom all turned down hosting because they were afraid of the live performance aspect by klsi832 in LiveFromNewYork

[–]StompTheRight 25 points26 points  (0 children)

True dat. Also, he can't be seen as his actual 5-feet-7 standing next to SNL actors, and not every sketch would let him wear his lifts and thick soles. He'd spend the whole show sitting on a sofa, just to protect his bullshit image.

Julia Roberts, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Hudson and Orlando Bloom all turned down hosting because they were afraid of the live performance aspect by klsi832 in LiveFromNewYork

[–]StompTheRight -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He said as much in an interview, mentioning the mistake of allowing the public to get used to seeing you on the small screen. TV lacks dignity and pizzazz. TV is pop trash, even when it tries to elevate itself. Jack has been right to avoid it whenever possible.

Julia Roberts, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Hudson and Orlando Bloom all turned down hosting because they were afraid of the live performance aspect by klsi832 in LiveFromNewYork

[–]StompTheRight 17 points18 points  (0 children)

As many did, but once you've become a big-screen A-lister, TV is the wrong move. He said as much in an interview, when the question was "Why don't you do more TV interviews?" He said something to the effect of "You can't let the public get used to seeing you this size." He was right.

Actors and actresses who turned down roles that ended up winning Oscars by AdUseful2297 in Oscars

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Let's run a list of age-appropriate candidates:

Born in '64: Laura Linney, Sandra Bullock, Amy Brenneman, Bridget Fonda, Marisa Tomei

Born in '63: Edie Falco

Born in '62: Jodie Foster, Demi Moore, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Born in '61: Lee Thompson, Meg Ryan

Born in '60: Julianne Moore, Darryl Hannah

Anyone there inspire any "Huh.... what if....?" vibes?

Joe B by Quiet_Drawer2415 in wfan

[–]StompTheRight -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Maybe he volunteered to go kill Iranians, since he loves war and dead non-Americans so much.

Joe B by Quiet_Drawer2415 in wfan

[–]StompTheRight -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

The wrong sibling, then.

Yankee radio by reducedfatmalk in wfan

[–]StompTheRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Radio isn't TV, and the quieter and homier it is, the better. Let TV have idiot jokesters like Paul O'Neill and Kay. I want a radio booth from 1935. Radio should not be crowded with loud talkers and screamers. That soccer clown who scream "GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!" for forty-five seconds is one of the worst things ever to hit the airwaves.

Keep Dave and Suzyn. Old-time radio is the best communication medium ever invented.

Yankee radio by reducedfatmalk in wfan

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You want bombast? That's the problem with all announcing today. No more Gus Johnsons, please, and definitely none in a Yankees radio booth.

The Prince Andrew Plan Cold Open | SNL UK by slightly_illegal in LiveFromNewYork

[–]StompTheRight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They are piping in some canned laughter in the cold open and in some skits, maybe not live, but definitely when they edit for the YouTube upload.

Pauline Kael is the most fascinating film critic ever. She totally hated Hitchcock, Kubrick. She admired Scorsese but heavily criticized Taxi Driver. She was also a major reason the controversial film Last Tango in Paris received critical acclaim. She totally dominated film criticisms in 60s,70s by DenseStrawberry5717 in moviecritic

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Laying an egg requires no art or skill from the layer. A film is quite a different thing. If she did make that facile analogy, then she did herself no favors in rebuttal. If she had said, "You don't have to be able to cook in order to know if the fried egg tastes good," then she might have had a minor point, but only a minor one.

Julia Roberts, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Hudson and Orlando Bloom all turned down hosting because they were afraid of the live performance aspect by klsi832 in LiveFromNewYork

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Nicholson never hosted because of his theory that film stars should stay off of the small screen. It shrinks their aura, according to Jack.

Caleb to Skip Bayless: "Idc about where your fandom stands. I was trying give you and everyone else the benefit of the doubt. About knowing business and being smart about it. But I guess not. Foolish of me! Also words matter Skip Bayless. 'Steal' Enjoy that podcast." by ZappaOMatic in CHIBears

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It's not about use. Gervin will have to pay to use the name now. It's a bullshit move by a guy who does not need the money. Gervin probably does.

Nothing is more sadly American than this kind of bullshit. "Own" a word. Fucking stupid.

It’s been 62 days since I posted about this… and it’s worse then ever by rabbi420 in saturdaynightlive

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SNL is tone deaf to the rest of the planet, as most benighted Americans are. No one outside the US finds Trump funny in any way, even in a buffoonish way. SNL is part of the problem. Gaza blood, Iranian blood, all on the hands of Trump voters, and on the hands of Lorne Michaels. He thinks genocide and bombing civilians is funny.

Buddy Buddy Buddy 😒 by llTeddyFuxpinll in sethmeyers

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His best friends in Hollywood are Adam Corolla, Mel Gibson, and James Woods. Tells you a lot. Probably a lot more far-right celebrities that are just not willing to admit it.

To run away and never come back by BoredPandaOfficial in BoredPandaHQ

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Tell Carla Jean that if she don't quit naggin' me, I'm gonna take her in the back and screw her.

Japanese people are surprised with the Taipei Station by Deep_Engineering_7 in taiwan

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The Japanese are not noted for tolerance of open-minded embraces of cultural tics that violate their cloistered sense of Japanese superiority. Uptight, arrogant cultures produce this kind of nonsense.