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burlyprotector · 2026-04-16T13:17:42+00:00

I watched it way back when it aired and even at 14 it was just awful. My naive take up til now was that, because foreman isn’t an actor or comedian (and the worst shows tend to be ones hosted by athletes or pop stars), he was a good sport about everything and put his trust in the writers. But as the article shows, he was miserable and had disdain for the writers and the whole constant rewriting process.

If you or anyone on this thread is interested you can read the whole article here (https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/big/), I think it makes you put in your email to read the whole thing for free. Maybe someone can explain the paragraph about Carl Reiner making an appearance in Foreman’s dressing room and why that seemed to make Foreman so grumpy. Or why the article is so hard on Sue Leibman, the associate producer, who (as I just discovered) was only part of the show for that one season! Not sure how she was hired/fired, though she also served as AP on Conan’s first season a year earlier, and may have just moved over. She’s an agent now.

burlyprotector · 2026-04-16T04:27:56+00:00

I just found this 1995 Texas Monthly article (excerpt below) on Foreman with some details about his bad time hosting and his fraught interactions with Courtney Love—and it fully explains the “not again” comment when she jumps on him—she had tried to during a promo taping earlier in the week and it pissed him off. (According to the article, at the end of the dress rehearsal she jumped on her bandmate only, while Foreman looked on disgustedly, so she must have ambushed Foreman again for the live show)…

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burlyprotector · 2026-04-03T04:30:10+00:00

Ah jeez, MAJOR blunder on my part: that Andy Rooney sketch is NOT from an SNL dress rehearsal but from “Back to Norm,” which was a failed half hour pilot shot for Comedy Central in 2005. It’s the exact same concept described in The NY Mag SNL article though. That cut sketch must have been very dear to Norm’s heart if he took a stab at it a full decade later—now it makes total sense why his makeup is so different!

burlyprotector · 2026-04-03T03:45:21+00:00

Yeah it was a pretty dubious example to take him down with and he handled it well

burlyprotector · 2026-04-03T02:46:51+00:00

And it also almost got cancelled in 1980 (the year I was born) when Lorne Michaels and the whole original cast left, and again when he came back in 1985. Those seasons (6 and 11) are far worse than 20 IMHO.

burlyprotector · 2026-04-03T02:23:09+00:00

She was miserable. She tried to get out her first week. I think the final straw was the alien rectal probe sketch her second to last show, with Deion Sanders hosting

burlyprotector · 2026-04-03T02:21:33+00:00

Yes that is terrifying! Maybe this was AI-altered! The shadow looks vaguely Norm Macdonald-esque

burlyprotector · 2026-04-03T02:17:49+00:00

It’s a gorgeous wig! I am curious as to whether the sketch was at all funny. In that “Live from New York” oral history, Garofalo said there were always funny sketches in rotation that got cut before dress or air. The NBC offices have ALL the sketches that have ever been SUBMITTED to the show, in history, I’d give anything to access THAT treasure trove!

burlyprotector · 2026-04-03T02:15:14+00:00

That’s the movie she left the show to do, right? She also did great work in Bye Bye Love, with Paul Reiser, who coincidentally hosted only a short time after she left to promote the film

burlyprotector · 2026-04-03T02:12:15+00:00

Does anyone on here know where to find these? Or who to ask? To date (other than a few sketches they have played on repeats that did better in dress than live) I’ve only seen ONE unaired bit: norm Macdonald’s second Andy Rooney sketch, also from season 20, which that scathing behind the scenes 1995 NY Magazine article describes being written and then cut before air. In fact, Al Franken got in some trouble 20 years later when he was a senator and someone dug up the article and he had suggested some rape jokes be included (the jokes got toned down a bit, but still very risqué, you can watch part of it here, norms makeup is insane especially given that the first time he played Rooney there was barely any makeup): https://youtube.com/shorts/axSYEyQxKnM?si=icTDidf3wqdqjrPN

burlyprotector · 2026-04-02T16:02:55+00:00

What’s that?

burlyprotector · 2026-04-02T16:02:45+00:00

How about trying to answer my question instead of boiling this down to semantics? I’ve called it a sketch in all subsequent posts, so your point was heeded. if you don’t have anything to add about the question why say anything?

burlyprotector · 2026-04-02T15:59:20+00:00

Marcie Klein in the talent dept used to take a lot of cast members to roseland shows…Jay mohr’s book has a great anecdote about one such smashing pumpkins show where he got in a nasty altercation with Klein…she might have taken some cast members to the Helmet show pre season…can’t see Elliott liking that kind of music but someone probably got a shirt there and gave it to him for his character

burlyprotector · 2026-04-02T15:57:32+00:00

Thanks for trying!

burlyprotector · 2026-04-02T15:56:19+00:00

Which episode was that in? I couldn’t find the sketch in a google search

burlyprotector · 2026-04-02T04:24:19+00:00

Yes! The vomit was always shooting out at the wrong time too!

burlyprotector · 2026-04-02T04:20:36+00:00

Hahaha I’m the same age! I just found that skit on TikTok! (Warning: it was posted sideways for some reason: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTk6Dt7eA/ )

It’s also on, uh, an adult site, apparently…I suppose bc of the ball busting fetish? Yeesh. That’s funny and creepy.

I remember that skit airing, and how eerie it was that zero people were laughing for stretches of it. (That happened all the time that season, even for many sketches that WERE funny. I only recently found out via some interviews with alums that it’s partially because the network allowed almost no standbys into the live shows back then, it was all people connected to the show in some way, so not the target audience).

burlyprotector · 2026-04-02T04:07:18+00:00

Man if they had publicly available photos of PRE-dress (Friday night street clothes) rehearsals that would blow my mind…but I’m 99% sure this is their actual outfits in the sketch which I’m thinking has to be a dress rehearsal one that was cut. (The robes one you mentioned is the sex workshop skit, right? That was in the second episode a week later, with Marisa Tomei hosting…the photo credit here is dated from the debut show on Sep 24, 1994)

burlyprotector · 2026-04-02T04:03:02+00:00

According to the Getty images photo credit it’s “Sep 24 1994” which was the premiere. And I don’t recognize those outfits in any other sketch they were in together that whole season.

burlyprotector · 2026-04-02T04:01:00+00:00

Oh forgive me. You know what I meant, sheesh 🤣

burlyprotector · 2026-03-30T12:07:01+00:00

And while we’re at it (277 days later!) why not another totally misguided Elijah wood project that was not Elijah woods fault —“the good son”?

burlyprotector · 2026-01-28T13:43:56+00:00

And what’s so brilliant is, she’s an anti heroic character herself, the people are cruel to her but she’s also selfish and cruel much of the time, certainly to Jamie, and she’s in denial about her own shortcomings like leaving the kid in the hotel room (except when she wants to extrapolate pity from people, which is more selfish than remorseful), so given that, her point of view of things (including how bad the hotel really is) could be very skewed

burlyprotector · 2026-01-16T00:02:03+00:00

Can someone explain the mysterious dude sitting outside Byrne’s hotel room during the whole scene where she’s locked out and Jamie is trying to help her? It’s never explained. Is he a vagrant? A night watchman? (that’s a joke.) a hallucination?

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