Saturday Night Live commentary
Jan. 17th, 2010 01:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ericadawn16The cold opening, or at least it seemed cold, was Jay and Conan and Carson appearing on Larry King. Larry King dispensed such helpful advice like:
"It's very simple...you have some time off coming up...you went to Harvard...you need to build a time machine."
"Don't worry, Conan. You're young and talented and you get to leave NBC. It's like you were rescued from the Titanic."
Even Sigourney Weaver read a statement from her father about the original intention of The Tonight Show...after all, he came up with the idea in the first place.
But the best part was Seth Meyers on Weekend Update:
This week, you didn't need Cinemax to see someone get screwed on tv.
How did NBC let it come to this?
Well, I think I can explain it.
Let's say you're married and it's the number one marriage in the country, but then you meet someone else who just sweeps you off your feet so you say to her, I want you marry you...in five years and she says, Yes, I will wait five years to marry you so then, you go home and you tell your current wife, honey, in five years, we're getting a divorce. Now, you might think that your current wife would be super cool with that and say thank you for being honest, but it turns out that she's actually super mad and as those five years pass, she gets into really good shape so when the time comes for the divorce, she's looking better than ever. She looks so good that you see other people looking at her and you get jealous so you come up with an awesome plan.
You'll still marry the second person but you'll also stay married to the first so you tell the new wife, Good news! We're totally married but every night when I get home, I'm going to spend half an hour with my first wife first, but then I'm all yours. Before you even see how she feels about it, you hold a big press conference to tell people that you've changed the future of marriage.
Now if you think the new wife is cool with this plan, she's not, she's super mad and the first wife is also acting weird because you know...you have two wives!
But then, just when you think you're stuck, you come up with the perfect plan to solve all your problems...you kill your second wife!
The question now is, will NBC be okay? That all depends on one thing...
Chuck
A lot of pressure on Chuck right now, also, I feel bad for the writers of Law & Order. They're going to be responsible for ten hours of programming a day. They say their stories are ripped from the headlines, but a newspaper only has so many headlines to rip. The last episode I saw was about a broken air conditioner at a PTA meeting. Next week, two detectives are going to try and solve a Sudoku.
Look, obviously, I'm invested in this because it affects me. If Jay can take his job back from Conan, that means Conan can take it back from Jimmy and that means that maybe Jimmy might come back here and I cannot go back to being in a sketch once every three weeks.
Also, there was ad for NBC Thursday.
We've got great new comedy all night long!
When she heard this, my mom quipped, "Not all night long, that's the problem."
"It's very simple...you have some time off coming up...you went to Harvard...you need to build a time machine."
"Don't worry, Conan. You're young and talented and you get to leave NBC. It's like you were rescued from the Titanic."
Even Sigourney Weaver read a statement from her father about the original intention of The Tonight Show...after all, he came up with the idea in the first place.
But the best part was Seth Meyers on Weekend Update:
This week, you didn't need Cinemax to see someone get screwed on tv.
How did NBC let it come to this?
Well, I think I can explain it.
Let's say you're married and it's the number one marriage in the country, but then you meet someone else who just sweeps you off your feet so you say to her, I want you marry you...in five years and she says, Yes, I will wait five years to marry you so then, you go home and you tell your current wife, honey, in five years, we're getting a divorce. Now, you might think that your current wife would be super cool with that and say thank you for being honest, but it turns out that she's actually super mad and as those five years pass, she gets into really good shape so when the time comes for the divorce, she's looking better than ever. She looks so good that you see other people looking at her and you get jealous so you come up with an awesome plan.
You'll still marry the second person but you'll also stay married to the first so you tell the new wife, Good news! We're totally married but every night when I get home, I'm going to spend half an hour with my first wife first, but then I'm all yours. Before you even see how she feels about it, you hold a big press conference to tell people that you've changed the future of marriage.
Now if you think the new wife is cool with this plan, she's not, she's super mad and the first wife is also acting weird because you know...you have two wives!
But then, just when you think you're stuck, you come up with the perfect plan to solve all your problems...you kill your second wife!
The question now is, will NBC be okay? That all depends on one thing...
Chuck
A lot of pressure on Chuck right now, also, I feel bad for the writers of Law & Order. They're going to be responsible for ten hours of programming a day. They say their stories are ripped from the headlines, but a newspaper only has so many headlines to rip. The last episode I saw was about a broken air conditioner at a PTA meeting. Next week, two detectives are going to try and solve a Sudoku.
Look, obviously, I'm invested in this because it affects me. If Jay can take his job back from Conan, that means Conan can take it back from Jimmy and that means that maybe Jimmy might come back here and I cannot go back to being in a sketch once every three weeks.
Also, there was ad for NBC Thursday.
We've got great new comedy all night long!
When she heard this, my mom quipped, "Not all night long, that's the problem."
