Casey Wilson and Michaela Watkins fired from SNL

[Turtleboy]

Biiiiitch Please!

http://thecomicscomic.typepad.com/thecomicscomic/2009/09/addition-through-subtraction-snl-fires-michaela-watkins-and-casey-wilson.html

[Magnolia88]

Did Michaela Watkins do anything other than Julia Louis-Dreyfus and "bitch pleeeze"?

I can't even remember what the other one did.

[Turtleboy]

Did Michaela Watkins do anything other than Julia Louis-Dreyfus and "bitch pleeeze"?

I can't even remember what the other one did.

She was Hoda Kotb with Kristin Wiig's Kathy Lee in the Today show sketches.

SNL also hired two new women to replace them.

[Regina]

Too bad-I liked them both-Casey Wilson wasn't given much to do this year-although from what I have read about SNL it's extremely competitive and you have to fight for yourself and for time. ITA Turtleboy--BIIITCH PLEAAZZEE!

[MickeS]

I haven't seen SNL other than some skits on Hulu, but Watson was very good in her guest spot on "The new adventures of old Christine", so I'm hoping this means she can do more work there, or get another sitcom role. She's really good.

[Turtleboy]

I haven't seen SNL other than some skits on Hulu, but Watson was very good in her guest spot on "The new adventures of old Christine", so I'm hoping this means she can do more work there, or get another sitcom role. She's really good.

There's Wilson and there's Watkins. Sorry Holmes, but no Watson.

[MickeS]

There's Wilson and there's Watkins. Sorry Holmes, but no Watson.

:D You have to admit, Watson is the natural combination of the two. :)

(I meant Watkins).

[Turtleboy]

I really like Casey Wilson.

Here she is reading her internet comments. (http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/4b0a16ff71/casey-wilson-reads-internet-comments)

And here she is in a "shot for shot remake" (http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/22baab3380/tango-cash-shotforshot-remake-scene-24-bad-cop-worse-cop-from-comedy-deathray-casey-wilson-and-janeane-garofalo) of scene 24 of Tango and Cash with Janeane Garofalo

[ElJay]

Casey Wilson I will miss... Michaela Watkins, not so much.

[YCantAngieRead]

I really like Casey Wilson.

Here she is reading her internet comments. (http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/4b0a16ff71/casey-wilson-reads-internet-comments)

And here she is in a "shot for shot remake" (http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/22baab3380/tango-cash-shotforshot-remake-scene-24-bad-cop-worse-cop-from-comedy-deathray-casey-wilson-and-janeane-garofalo) of scene 24 of Tango and Cash with Janeane Garofalo

I loved Casey Wilson. I will really miss her. Mikeala Watkins, too, but to a lesser extent.

I hope it's not the end of the singing sisters on the Lawrence Welk show (can't remember the actual name.) That one cracks me up.

[busyba]

I liked Casey, that sucks.

The really big news from that article though it that Don Pardo is hanging it up!

[BWINKLER92]

Well they need to bring back Amy P. I saw a show where she's working in some small city's public parks department now, she was really pretty good on SNL and they ought re-hire her to do comedy.

[lambertman]

Well they need to bring back Amy P. I saw a show where she's working in some small city's public parks department now, she was really pretty good on SNL and they ought re-hire her to do comedy.

Are you somehow under the impression that they fired Amy Poehler?

[Turtleboy]

Well they need to bring back Amy P. I saw a show where she's working in some small city's public parks department now, she was really pretty good on SNL and they ought re-hire her to do comedy.

Dude, you really need to work on your material. I've seen you do a lot better, in terms of either funnier or more outrageous. Frankly, you're kind of disappointing me.

Edit: Never mind, you snagged one. I don't know how or why people keep falling for it, but they do. Good job.

[GTuck]

Dude, you really need to work on your material. I've seen you do a lot better, in terms of either funnier or more outrageous. Frankly, you're kind of disappointing me.

Edit: Never mind, you snagged one. I don't know how or why people keep falling for it, but they do. Good job.

It's funnier than both of the chicks that got canned from SNL. :)

[YCantAngieRead]

I liked Casey, that sucks.

The really big news from that article though it that Don Pardo is hanging it up!

Wow!!! I hadn't actually read the article. That's surprising. And kind of sad, although completely understandable.

I loved his very brief appearance on 30 Rock last year. :)

[TiVo'Brien]

Casey has beautiful eyes. In the show's opening she looks (looked) beautiful.

[BWINKLER92]

There are many funny girls they could hire, I still cannot understand why Aisha Tyler left a successful TV prime time show that is still being renewed "Ghost Whisperer" and said she wanted to just be a standup comedian again, yet has shown up in a few movies. Anyone know real reason she quit, pregnancy, drug rehab, medical or something? Anyway she seems OK now and people ought to write the network as she might revive SNL.

Speaking of, what is Jane Curtain doing now? I know she had some shows but is she in anything now? Christina Applegate would also seem to be available now too.

[YCantAngieRead]

Casey has beautiful eyes. In the show's opening she looks (looked) beautiful.

I agree. As a solidly hetero female, I'd totally hit that. :)

Seriously, though, she really is beautiful.

[modnar]

Not a huge loss to the show, IMO. I'm glad Abby Elliott is staying around, though. She adds a lot to SNL.

[Malcontent]

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/09/vulture_interviews_new_saturda.html

New Saturday Night Live Cast Member Jenny Slate:


So, what SNL did you grow up on?

The ones I remember when I was old enough to watch were with Cheri Oteri and Molly Shannon. But I begged my parents to get me the old VHS tapes for Hanukkah. So I had watched everything from the first five years. I studied it all and was always obsessed with it.

Uh, wow. Just how young is this woman (girl)? These are going to be her influences for her stint on SNL?

[MickeS]

It's funny, in the EW article about this in the latest issue, it was pretty much all about Watkins, which just a small mention of Wilson. This thread is the opposite. :)

[nataylor]

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/09/vulture_interviews_new_saturda.html

New Saturday Night Live Cast Member Jenny Slate:



Uh, wow. Just how young is this woman (girl)? These are going to be her influences for her stint on SNL?

Born 3/25/82. So, 27.

FYI, Oteri was on SNL 1995-2000 and Shannon was on 1995-2001. So the new woman would have been ~13-19 while they were on.

[marksman]

It's funny, in the EW article about this in the latest issue, it was pretty much all about Watkins, which just a small mention of Wilson. This thread is the opposite. :)

Yeah I noticed that too.

It is also weird because one is claiming she got fired because Lorne Michaels told her she was too good or funny to be on SNL, and she needed to have her own show. (Which I would believe if Lorne Michaels actually gave her a show, but since he didn't not so much). Apparently Casey Wilson was told to lose 30 lbs and didn't do it.

[ElJay]

Apparently Casey Wilson was told to lose 30 lbs and didn't do it.

Nor should she! :o

[Jesda]

I watched SNL most when Hartman and Carvey were on. I'm 27.

[nataylor]

I watched SNL most when Hartman and Carvey were on. I'm 27.

Carvey was a regular cast member from 1986 to 1993. You watched watched SNL the most when you were 4 to 11? :)

[Magister]

I am 39, I remember the Eddie Murphy years. I 'think' I watched the original stuff, but I don't remember them live. I was definatly there for the Buckwheat assassination.

[Malcontent]

I am 39, I remember the Eddie Murphy years. I 'think' I watched the original stuff, but I don't remember them live. I was definatly there for the Buckwheat assassination.

Same as me. I'm 39 and ditto about the Eddie Murphy years. Yeah, I remember the "who shot Buckwheat" stuff. Mr. Robinson's neighborhood. Prison poet, ect.

[Aniketos]

Carvey was a regular cast member from 1986 to 1993. You watched watched SNL the most when you were 4 to 11? :)

I'm 27 and I watched the majority of those too, although I caught them when they were reruns on comedy central so it was around 14+ when I started watching.

[busyba]

The EW article I read about this said that Watkins had "created a slew of memorable characters, including Today Show host Hota Kotb and the blogger from bitchpleeeeze.com."

Does 2 constitute a slew? Because those are the only characters of hers that I remember. What other "memorable" characters of hers have I forgotten?

[nataylor]

Ann Coulter, Arianna Huffington, Barbara Walters, Glenn Close, Hoda Kotb, Joan Rivers, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Angie Tempura (the Bitch, Please blogger).

That's not too bad for 15 episodes.

[jschuman]

I think the most I laughed (at SNL) in a long while was Casey Wilson's paralyzed stripper sketch. Sorry that she won't be returning. Watkins I won't really miss.

[scooterboy]

I watched SNL most when Hartman and Carvey were on. I'm 27.

I am 39, I remember the Eddie Murphy years. I 'think' I watched the original stuff, but I don't remember them live. I was definatly there for the Buckwheat assassination.

Same as me. I'm 39 and ditto about the Eddie Murphy years. Yeah, I remember the "who shot Buckwheat" stuff. Mr. Robinson's neighborhood. Prison poet, ect.

I'm 27 and I watched the majority of those too, although I caught them when they were reruns on comedy central so it was around 14+ when I started watching.

God I feel old. I vividly remember watching the live premier of SNL, with Carlin hosting. As soon as I saw the very first sketch (http://www.hulu.com/watch/2353/saturday-night-live-wolverines-cold-open), I knew this was my kind of show. :)

[trainman]

The first episode of "SNL" I ever watched was in 1986, a summer rerun of the Francis Ford Coppola-hosted episode. I would have been 11 years old, almost 12.

That was definitely an atypical "SNL" episode -- didn't even have the normal opening credits. (It also had a bunch of cast members who weren't around for the beginning of the 1986-87 season, when I started regularly staying up late Saturday nights to watch.)

[sonnik]

(It also had a bunch of cast members who weren't around for the beginning of the 1986-87 season, when I started regularly staying up late Saturday nights to watch.)

That was the regular cast for 85-86... Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey Junior, Randy Quaid, Damon Wayans (featured, and later fired) and others. Nora Dunn, Lovitz, and Dennis Miller went through to 86-87.

Lorne Michaels had just returned after the Ebersol years, so it took a season to build the cast he needed.

[lambertman]

I have spotty memories of the show going back to the NRFPTP but I didn't start watching regularly until some time in '86-'87 (I can pinpoint that because I do remember Kevin Nealon still being a Featured Player).