SNL 10/10/09 Drew Barrymore/Regina Spektor [Text View]

SeanC

10-11-2009, 01:11 AM

An Address by the President of the United States
Drew Barrymore Monologue
Gilly
Celebrity Ghost Stories
University of Westfield
La Rivista Della Televisione con Vinny Vedecci
Regina Spektor Performs
Weekend Update
..Top Stories
..James Carville
..More Top Stories
..Scrooge McDuck
..More Top Stories
..Maya Angelou
Tampax to the Max Tournament of Champions 1991
Cooking Al Fresco with Fran & Phil
Larry King Live
Brenda and Sean (An SNL Digital Short)
Regina Spektor Performs
Debbie Taylor Author of Living with the Devil

Ugh... Gilly, they're just gonna keep plugging that character aren't they? I still don't get it and I don't ever expect too.

I thought University of Westfield, and Tampax to the Max Tournament of Champions 1991 were both pretty funny but although I'm a huge fan of Vinny Vedecci I thought this one was pretty weak.

alpacaboy

10-11-2009, 04:20 AM

Just starting to watch it now.
Lukewarm on cold open.
I really liked the monologue - actually found it pretty funny. I know they've kinda done it before with the Walken family reunion. But still got a good laugh.

Gunnyman

10-11-2009, 08:36 AM

I turned it off after The Vinnie Vedicci skit. SNL just isn't funny.

Turtleboy

10-11-2009, 09:48 AM

That Regina Spektor is cute.

DougF

10-11-2009, 10:47 AM

I can't remember specifically what he said, but that line in the open about actors being geniuses. I loved it. It was...wait for it...genius.

Mars Rocket

10-11-2009, 11:33 AM

That Regina Spektor is cute.

And her music grows on you. At first (~9-12 months ago) I thought she was a little offbeat and weird, now I like her a lot.

gchance

10-11-2009, 12:05 PM

And her music grows on you. At first (~9-12 months ago) I thought she was a little offbeat and weird, now I like her a lot.

Grows on you? I've loved her music from the moment I heard it, at least two years ago. Now I wish I'd seen SNL last night. No, excuse me. I wish I'd seen
Regina Spektor last night. I can do without SNL.

Greg

vman41

10-11-2009, 12:51 PM

That Regina Spektor is cute.

Really? She had pocked skin and her hair was kind of dull. I put her in category of dedicated artist who spends 14 hours a day on her music and not putting that much time working on appearance.

lambertman

10-11-2009, 01:02 PM

Regina's brand of quirky might have been scheduled too soon after Lady GaGa's brand of QUIRKY!!1! to do her any favors, but she's very talented.

MLR930

10-11-2009, 01:15 PM

I must be the only one who thinks Regina sucks :(

Kablemodem

10-11-2009, 04:14 PM

She's also cute! A great combo!

Regina

10-11-2009, 04:17 PM

I must be the only one who thinks Regina sucks :(

I resent that! :mad: - Oh, you mean Regina Spektor! :p

I thought she was cool!

Interesting (maybe) trivia-Drew B & Don Pardo share a birthday-2/22- and that is my birthday as well-so that's how I know :o

I thought all the Tampax slogans were funny-Tampax-for when Mother Nature attacks your slacks....Tampaaaaaaaaaaaaaax.....Tamp it to the Max with Tampax...:D

Otherwise-geez, I expected a LOT more from Drew-but found NOTHING to laugh at. James Carville's ragging on Rush Limbaugh was ok, but expected and safe. Who wants to listen to this drug addict? He's mean & fat too! Yeah, none of that has been said before! :rolleyes:

**SIGH** Maybe 35 years is enough??? :(

YCantAngieRead

10-11-2009, 04:26 PM

I agree. This year's been a real downer. And I'm a BIG fan.

The Tampax slogans were funny, though.

Spire

10-11-2009, 04:58 PM

Really? She had pocked skin and her hair was kind of dull. I put her in category of dedicated artist who spends 14 hours a day on her music and not putting that much time working on appearance.Also, she had very sharp knees.

ElJay

10-11-2009, 06:56 PM

I laughed a lot at the ESPN/Tampax thing. Hader doing Carville is always funny.

Regina Spektor was/is enjoyable.

Living with the Devil cracked me up a few times.

Everything else was a waste of time. "Digital" Short on VHS? ok... (Yeah, I know that's how they label all those things from Lonely Island.)

Cainebj

10-11-2009, 07:47 PM

I must be the only one who thinks Regina sucks :(

No, there are two of us :)

scooterboy

10-11-2009, 08:26 PM

I laughed quite a few times in the first half of the show.

Best show of the season so far. But that's not saying...anything.

aforkosh

10-11-2009, 08:31 PM

I liked that SNL got the 3am gag into the cold open. Of course that may have been influenced by the fact that I am catching up on reading old issues of the New Yorker and am currently going through the March 17, 2008 issue with this cover (http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2008-03-17) (you can close the login widow to see the whole thing).

LoadStar

10-11-2009, 09:06 PM

Also, she had very sharp knees.

I see what you did there. :)

Spire

10-11-2009, 09:15 PM

I see what you did there. :)I like Regina Spektor. I even have a Regina Spektor station on Pandora (http://www.pandora.com/).

nataylor

10-11-2009, 10:34 PM

Don Pardo apparently thinks "Shakira" is pronounced "Skarkeera." :)

Fish Man

10-12-2009, 09:26 AM

Yeah, kind of a "meh" show, especially when I had such high hopes for Drew Barrymore.

Highlights for me were Hader doing James Carville. (Since he is now a pol-sci professor at Tulane in New Orleans, Carville is on the local news here constantly, and Hader's impression is spot-on and hilarious.) -and- all the Tampax references. The incongruity of the male sportscasters and all the crude and cheesy Tampax slogans was rather funny.

I also really liked Regina Specktor. I wasn't really familiar with her before. I really liked her music, and put me in the category of people who found her "cute."

Perhaps the lowest low: "Gilly". That sketch went over with a thud the first time they ever did it and only gets worse with each repeat. To drag the host into the "Gilly" fiasco was almost criminal.

ScubaCat

10-12-2009, 09:32 AM

I must be the only one who thinks Regina sucks :(No, there are more of us out here. I thought it was so bad it must be a sketch but then I realized she was serious. Very, very bad. :down:

Turtleboy

10-12-2009, 09:35 AM

I like Gilly. The recurring use of Moynahan playing the nerd and Keenan with both arms in the cast make it more funny.

I hadn't heard of Regina Spektor before the show. I'm not that good at keeping up with new music. But I not only thought she was cute, as I said before, I also liked her music too.

Kablemodem

10-12-2009, 10:41 AM

nataylor

10-12-2009, 02:12 PM

"Rock out with your hock out" was pretty funny.

Magnolia88

10-13-2009, 11:45 AM

I like Gilly.

Really? Every time I see that sketch I think, "who in the world finds this funny?" :confused: It's baffling to me what is funny about it.

I don't think I laughed once during this entire episode. I hate Gilly, and I've never liked that Vinny guy either. :down:

YCantAngieRead

10-13-2009, 11:53 AM

Supfreak26

10-13-2009, 12:10 PM

Really? Every time I see that sketch I think, "who in the world finds this funny?" :confused: It's baffling to me what is funny about it.

I don't think I laughed once during this entire episode. I hate Gilly, and I've never liked that Vinny guy either. :down:

I agree with this. It's the same skit every time. Same with the Vinny Vedicci sketch. I laughed at both of these the first time I saw them. It's not funny the 5th or 6th time around. Especially when it's the exact same script.

Worst ep of the season, IMO. I did laugh at Celebrity Ghost Stories and the Tampax slogans. Everything else was just bleh.

I'm trying to remember the Digital Short. What was it about?

busyba

10-13-2009, 01:15 PM

I like Gilly.

Really? Every time I see that sketch I think, "who in the world finds this funny?" :confused:

And now you know. :)

busyba

10-13-2009, 01:16 PM

I'm trying to remember the Digital Short. What was it about?

Drew Barrymore and Will Forte in a cheesy 80's commercial selling their services as entertainers who do that magic thumb-lighting thing.

jradford

10-13-2009, 01:43 PM

I know a 13 year old who thinks Gilly is the best character on SNL. :)

Count me in as a Gilly fan. I think it's hilarious.

nataylor

10-13-2009, 01:49 PM

Count me in as a Gilly fan. I think it's hilarious.

+1. And Barrymore's "Scuse" was hilarious that skit.

scooterboy

10-13-2009, 02:01 PM

Really? Every time I see that sketch I think, "who in the world finds this funny?" :confused: It's baffling to me what is funny about it.

You could say that about most SNL sketches and characters. Loved by some, hated by others.

For example I know many people here think the Tim Calhoun character is funny, while I have no idea why anyone would think so.

Different strokes.

MLR930

10-13-2009, 02:42 PM

Count me in as a Gilly fan. I think it's hilarious.

me too, I'd rather see Target lady though

Supfreak26

10-13-2009, 02:54 PM

Drew Barrymore and Will Forte in a cheesy 80's commercial selling their services as entertainers who do that magic thumb-lighting thing.

Oh yeah... Man that was awful. No wonder I purged that from my memory.

Supfreak26

10-13-2009, 02:55 PM

me too, I'd rather see Target lady though

Another example of a skit that's never different. I laughed a lot first 2 times I saw it. After that it was like watching a rerun.