I came of SNL age in 1981, which Wikipedia tells me was Season 7. After the first five, and in the dead zone that just acquired Eddie Murphy. It was a big deal to Canadians because SCTV alums Robin Duke & Tony Rosato (RIP) were on that season, and this was, I believe, the first of the years when SCTV was subbed in once-a-month for SNL.
The first episode of that season had no host, but did have Rod Stewart & Tina Turner as co-musical guests. It also featured the return of Murphy’s would-likely-be-banned-today “Little Richard Simmons” bit.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6n5nsg
I’m not sure why the recording is backwards, but I was just happy to find it.
I more remember Episode 2, when the Kinks played “Destroyer”.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6n5nqt
Little 12 year-old me found most of that hilarious, and enjoyed the pretty lady bouncing up & down in the jersey.
To premiere the 1982-83 season, Chevy Chase hosted but the true highlight was (unbeknownst to all) Queen’s last televised North American appearance.
https://vimeo.com/235297264
This was the season when Murphy & Joe Piscipo did their famous “Frank & Stevie” impersonation, which political correctness & NBC has diluted to 30 seconds on Youtube.
I could go in-depth on each of the first two seasons I watched, but there’s no need. The 1982-83 season was the peak of Eddie Murphy’s SNL stardom, and it was clearly his show. Joe Piscipo merely tagged along for the ride.
After those two left halfway through the 1983-84 season, the retooled 1984-85 season was the overloaded year with, among others, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, Julia-Louis Dreyfus & Martin Short,
designed to use big-ish names to draw back viewers who abandoned the show when Murphy left. That season was rock-solid, and gave us the classic “Men’s Synchronized Swimming” sketch,
and the episode before Wrestlemania 1 which was hosted by Hulk Hogan & Mr. T.
This episode is what led to NBC deciding on working with Vince McMahon on what became “Saturday Night’s Main Event”, really ushering in the heyday of the WWF. As Wikipedia says, Main Event “coincided with and contributed to the apogee of the “second golden age” of professional wrestling in the United States.” More important for NBC, it gave them essentially free programming once a month to offset SNL repeats.
After that one season, the entire SNL cast was retooled, and eventually morphed into the Carvey-Hartman-Lovitz era that carried the show into the 90s. Add in my six years pursuing a four-year degree and I had lots of late-university Saturday nights drinking & watching this show. This is where my affinity comes from, and I’ll always give it a look.
Tonight’s sports:
- AAF:
- Arizona at Orlando – 8:00PM | NFLN
- NHL:
- Leafs at Sens – 7:00PM | CBC
- Blackhawks at Habs – 7:00PM | Sportsnet; City
- Flames at Jets – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
- Caps at Bolts – 7:00PM | NHLN
- Oilers at Coyotes – 10:00PM | CBC
- NBA:
- Warriors at Thunder – 8:30PM | ABC / TSN3
- NCAA:
- Tournament finals:
- Mountain West – 6:00PM | CBS
- Big 12 – 6:00PM | ESPN / TSN
- SWAC – 6:00PM | ESPNU
- Big East – 6:30PM | FOX
- MAC – 7:30PM | ESPN2
- Big Sky – 8:00PM | ESPNU
- ACC – 8:30PM | ESPN / TSN
- Southland – 9:30PM | ESPN2
- WAC – 10:00PM | ESPN2
- Pac-12 – 10:30PM | ESPN / TSN
- Big West – 12:00AM | ESPN2
- Tournament finals:
- Fútbol:
- Liga MX:
- Cruz Azul vs. Pachuca – 6:55PM | UNI
- Guadalajara vs. Club América – 8:55PM | UNI
- Liga MX:
- Auto Racing:
- NHRA Drag Racing:
- Saturday Nitro Gainesville – “the Gatornationals” – 9:00PM | FS1
- Formula One Racing:
- Australian Grand Prix – 1:05AM | ESPN / TSN
- NHRA Drag Racing:
Tomorrow night’s Open Thread will have the briefest of intros, because the main topic will be discussing/complaining about the released NCAA brackets. Until then, POST AWAY!
HOW BOUT DEM ANTEATERS!!!
Goin to the Big Dance for the 2nd time in school history. I am not unerect.
The geezer in the vest has the worst balance I have ever seen.
These are some nice shoes too.
Indeed. Well shaped too.
She’s fantastic. Is she a stock broker?
I’d be willing to break her.
Oh wait, that’s not what you said.
Will accept.
Good God. Yes.
Moar nice shoes, right?
Those are a nice pair
Nice shoes.
What did they expect would happen?
The fart holder pocket.
Or the queef edition in the UK
I’d sink that boat.
Good news is she can’t run fast in those heels.
UDub is the one who laid an egg tonight.
Get it? Because they’re playing the Ducks.
OH COME ON THAT’S FUNNY!!!!
Then they kicked it, stepped on it, slipped on it, and broke open their head.
The PAC 12 everyone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40V9_1PMUGM
Cleaning stuff out of the house today (my late father’s crap, truth be told) I inadvertently drove a metal rod thru my knee. At the time I didn’t think it went thru the knee, just pierced the skin and maybe a little of the soft tissue. Then I was tired from doing the work today and took a nap. Woke up, and can’t walk. Hurts like a bitch. And suddenly I can’t do stairs anymore.
Hellooooooo ER, I’ve missed you.
(ugh)
And you take the time to post on DFO. You are an inspiration to us all. And also
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Meh, I’m not going until tomorrow. ER’s are depressing in the middle of the night. My leg won’t fall off that fast. Probably.
I disagree. ERs are the most interesting in the middle of the night.
WTF. Anything touches my knee I roll around like a soccer player.
I found tWBS’s favorite BattleBot!
Feel better tWBS. What’s your status now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhVJou5ueNg
This dulls the pain slightly.
Choose five movies/tee-vee shows/record albums/books you’d whack yourself in the goddamn head with an iron skillet to completely forget, in order to enjoy them again for the first time, so to speak.
– Breaking Bad
– Jacob’s Ladder
– Bob Dylan & The Band – “The Basement Tapes”
– Mr. Show with Bob and David
– Animal House
Airplane
Dire Straits – Dire Straits
First 5 seasons of South Park
Steely Dan – Aja
SCTV
my brains feel like an army helmet filled with stewed tomatoes. I’m struggling.
Still make a mean shepherds pie, though.
No food. Goddamn diet.
Who is this lovely?
When you slather on too much digital facial manipulation this is what happens:
Photoshop Botox.
https://www.instagram.com/kamilaspompeu/
To answer your questions, they mirror the image to avoid the copyright search. YouTube sometimes searches the image or video for copyrighted data. When the video is reversed it doesn’t show up.
Its like if I change my name to “trihsdeR”. If someone does a search for “Redshirt” it won’t show up, even though its the same name only reversed.
I watched zero seconds of the pre-determined ACCT final, and missed nothing.
We all power-napping to support Spam’s Anteaters later?
Crap 12 final, then the headliner: F1 IS BACK!!
23 minutes away!
Five Guys or Shack Shack? Not knowing this guy’s preferences.
I went to McD’s last week. I got a bacon quarter pounder with cheese. My one word review: Ruint. Don’t mess with the winners, folks.
Lest we forget…
/Only gif is via imgur
Can I still get my Royale w/ Cheese?
Were that Montana dude and his Eastern Washington counterpart trying to make sweet love under the basket? Can that really get you a technical?
HOMOPHOBES
AH WISH AH COULD QUIT YEW!!!
Tee up that EWU guy. Go Griz!
Did y’all start saying “Griz” because “Grizzlies” was considered cultural appropriation?
/being woke is a goddamned full time job ,, smh
TRIGGERED this is cheese-free safe space and u noe it
Odd, I just cut the cheese too.
…
Why?
Pour all that shit on it. Layers and layers and layers.
Thanks Obama
We ate at Five Napkin Burger in NYC when we were there over the holidays. Damn fine.
Fuck it. No point beating up someone nature already did.
found a funny:
Women tend to have way more interesting scandals than men. Dudes usually get in trouble because they were horny or they were angry. We get in trouble because we start a fake blood company or pay $500k to get our kid on a rowing team.
Or having a baby in a manger and claiming not to know who the father is smh
Or have all your rich older husbands mysteriously die and you inherit everything including the pro sports franchises.
life gets pretty straightforward when one is ruled by one’s genitals
speaking of, ah gots a BIG SKY for these Eastern Washington cheerleaders…
Jesus, that lead blonde is eye-fucking the camera sommet fierce
Nothing says Smarch like watching the MAC-tion championship, rooting like crazy for the favourite so one’s university can get its shitty team into the tournament.
Yes, but how does this relate to Zion?
Zion, ZION!, ZION!!!!
So bring it back on a fucking plate!
It’s amazing how far you will go to not get a joke.
Thank you.
At 11:00AM today I headed downtown on a gloriously clear post-rainstorm Los Angeles day.
Destination: Langer’s Deli
Target: Pastrami sandwich
Here’s the view from the 105 East headed inland from LAX. Snowcapped mountains galore. The white thing above the white building is the new Ram’s stadium megaplex.
This is the FasTrak express lane flyover connecting the 105 East to the 110 North, and this thing is high. They shot the opening to La La Land here if you care, which you don’t.
I got off the express lane here at Adams, and called Langers to place my order for curbside pick-up. I ordered the #19 sandwich, which is pastrami, swiss, and cole slaw on rye. It’s the only thing I’ve ever had at Langer’s, and I’ve been there a lot.
Here I am waiting in front of Langer’s; this is the view across the street. MacArthur Park is to the left. This neighborhood is still gloriously “old school” but that won’t last long.
Here I am returning home with my #19 sandwich, re-crossing the big FasTrak flyover but this time in the opposite direction:
I didn’t take any pictures of the sandwich. Here’s the complimentary wet-nap they gave me:
I was thinking that last were a wafer thin meent
I did not know they offered curbside pickup. That’s genius because parking is a bitch there.
On the bright side, it’s right next to a Metro stop, so possible food option for the June Metro Crawl?
They have their own free parking a block away. Curbside used to be easier, but now you’re competing with a dozen delivery service fuckers for same three spots.
I think Langer’s is a destination, not a stopover. When you’re done there you don’t want to go anywhere else.
Fuck delivery drivers and Uber/Lyft drivers. I am glad I no longer have a car, but even seeing them makes me want to commit murder.
Langer’s is a very valid reason for going downtown. I have tried their goulash, very good but their corned beef hash is fucking awesome.
Gimme 3 fried eggs please.
The pastrami was sent down to Earth from Valhalla.
It’s funny. My brother lives within walking distance of this place (well, anything is walking distance in principle. I just walked home 2.5 miles from a lecture) and we’ve never gone there.
Cool!
Like yeahright, I was on board with SNL from day one, but fell off in the early 80s because they didn’t have it on the closed circuit TV when I was on board my ship for three years., so I only got to see Murphy in his first season. Early favorite routines include Samurai Belushi and Irving Mainway, favorite stand-alone that still resonates in these modern times was “Show Us Your Guns”.
#GOALS
Buck Henry was a frequent host and he was in some incredible sketches.
Bojack Horseman has reached the point now where it’s become predictable and not particularly funny, but the individual moments still land with an impact. Like the eulogy episode. Holy shit, why are they giving this a whole episode? But also, goddamn it, this is way too fucking close to home.
yes, sometimes my laughter is uncomfortable, with my eyes flitting back and forth like a crackhead
“Stupid Piece of Shit” was my too close, man.
Also the adult “Sarah Lynn” character acted and sounded WAAAYYYYY too much like the ex-girlfriend who ruined me for good.
Yeah, that one definitely got to me too. That season did have one moment that brought out a very dark guffaw though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2WcOdz96ko
I know, I was all liek I know that song!!
/and there is always some really dark humour that splits my gut every season
//plus these really are the best voice actors in the business (excepting H. Jon Benjamin)
I think I need to see actual consequences in later seasons. He’s protected by his wealth. I say tear it down. Have him lose everything. Poor and famous. Doing dinner theater or auditioning for shit and not getting called back. Let’s see him live as a pariah.
I think the show is dogshit specifically for this reason. He never suffers consequences because he’s rich and people kiss his ass no matter what he does.
I mean, horseshit was right there.
It’s old and stale and just pitiable like dog shit, though.
Exactly 15 years ago Tampa beat Calgary in the Stanley Cup Finals not heard round the world. Today they are both number 1 in their respective conferences. And according to the internet, Tampa’s national anthem singer that year for Tampa was Brooke Hogan. WEIRD.
Chef Carl with the extremely accurate take on Olive Garden’s chicken: “it seems to be fried, and then they did something else. Maybe they scared it to death or they hid it in the manager’s wallet. The chicken is awful. It’s almost inedible.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r25uqNnph5Y
On the other hand, I’ve had Five Guys multiple times and I don’t crave it like I crave an In-n-Out Double Double Animal Style.
Basically, the perfect meal would be a Double Double Animal Style, Shake Shack frozen custard, Five Guys fries.
On hearing Yeah Right’s burger odyssey, I too ventured to Shake Shack (DTLA location) and tried out the Smoke Shack.
PROS: I agree that the relish is amazing and sets the burger apart from any other. The combination of meat, bun, and fillings was perfect.
CONS: The burger was too small. I felt I could have eaten 3 in one sitting. At $7 each, that’s pretty pricey.
I also got the local specialty concrete (frozen custard) and that was great. Frozen custard is, in my opinion, a superior frozen treat to ice cream shakes or malts. I would go back just for the custard alone.
Overall, I’d definitely go back, but I’m not going to say it would be for the burger.
First time I had custard was at Culver’s and while it’s very good, it hits your stomach like a fucking rock. You quickly go from “oo, tasty” to “leave me here. I’ll only slow you down. Tell my wife I didn’t really love her”
Yeah, I only finished half, but it was awesome.
Yeah, their custard gives me unbelievable gas for some reason. It’s good though.
That alone is worth it.
I had some fore shadowing because a couple of my employees had tried them first and they both said the burger was small. That’s why I did a double Smoke Shack burger.
Just gonna fall into a hole of Carl Ruiz’s everyman chain restaurant reviews. It’s a shame he seems to have peaked at “Guy Fieri’s Friend Who Doesn’t Have His Own Show For Some Reason” because he’s way more interesting and likeable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbKt45QLX3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEq_TK9KPk
As one of the resident old bastards I saw the very first SNL hosted by George Carlin and I was hooked. This was the Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner etc. crew. I saw every episode of the first 5 or so years. Some incredible music performances too. The standouts were Talking Heads, Devo and Patti Smith but there were so many others.
Here are The Cramps playing a free concert at the California State Mental Hospital in Napa, June 1978:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1223&v=Fat2rswNJ1k
Earliest SNL memory I have is 1989. I have faint memories of maybe earlier, but I can’t say for certain if its a real memory or not a manufactured memory from watching reruns or syndication.
Dimly remember some late 80s SNL, but I’m not sure I actively tried to watch on Saturday nights until I was almost out of high school in the mid-90s.
That said, Comedy Central and their afternoon repeats were a godsend.
By far, I’ve seen more SNL on Comedy Central than on NBC
St. Patricks day is gonna be on a Sunday? I (will not have had) seen a Sunday this Bloody since 1972.
(passing a park)
“You know, I’ve always been saying ‘I need to get in shape.” I’m going to power walk a mile.”
(one 16 minute mile later)
“What’s that, Grandpa? ‘Go into the Light?’ Can’t you bring the Light over here?”
What does Miami dealing Tannehill to the Titans mean?
The Bengals dodged a bullet?
SNL is the only thing that I think can accurately be described as both over and under rated
They have so much energy!
Yes they do – cocaine.
After last week’s burger adventure took us to Shake Shack, today it’s Five Guys. Full report after I demolish the evidence.
You nicknamed your toilet “evidence”?
Their burgers are very good. Their fries and shake are as good as anything you’ll find on the planet.
Five Guys is good, but expensive. Its in my restaurant rotation as in the “One In a While” category.
Alright let’s get scientific.
I don’t have to get too much into the comparison for fries because Five Guys wins in a fucking landslide.
The burger quality is very close to a tie. Beef is front and center on both.
The bun test is easily a win for Shake Shack. It held up for the entire burger while the Five Guys bun got a bit soggy.
For toppings I had the bacon cheeseburger with sauteed mushrooms from Five Guys while I ordered the Smoke Shack burger from Shake Shack. This is where Shake Shack stood out. The Smoke Shack had bacon and a cherry pepper relish that was super fucking tasty. Nothing wrong with a bacon cheeseburger but my brain went back to the Smoke Shack while eating the Five Guys burger. Winner is Shake Shack.
Secondary menu item test: had a grilled hot dog with just mustard from Five Guys. Excellent dog. Grilled after being sliced in half but the bun had the same squishy quality as the burger. At Shake Shack I had chicken bites that were freshly battered and fried on the spot no bullshit nuggets. Those motherfuckers were INSANELY good. Winner is Shake Shack.
Hard to argue with the outcome. I think Shake Shack took the prize.
In-n-out next week.
Many God have mercy on my colon.
I feel like you’re missing out by not doing the shake, but this holds up with Carl Ruiz’s review, though he didn’t care for the hotdog as much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxG_haMYS1k
Yeah that’s on me. I’ve never been much of a shake guy, especially with a burger. Grain of salt offered.
It’ll go nicely with the other 50,000 mg you got in that one visit
There was enough leftover Cajun seasoning in that bag to package.
Woof.
I prefer Five Guys.
— [Insert Your Favorite Porn Star Here]
Same here, and Smashburger is of course a distant third.