SNL Past and Present

Saturday Night Live is about to start it's 41st season, and whilst Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer, and Tracy Morgan (He's recovered. Woo!) will be the first few guest hosts. As for new  ast members, there only seems to be one new one. That is Jon Rudnitsky, a stand up comedian. The rest of the previous cast will return.

Apparently he has been under fire for having some kind of controversial tweets. But hey, I doubt that that is going to make him not a good comic. A lot of famous people do controversial stuff so they can get noticed. Just look at Miley...and the Katy Perry and Taylor Swift thing. I bet their record sales are sky rocketing. Maybe. You can read the whole story about this new guy here. After reading that, i have to say i don't blame the public for saying he's controversial.

Anyway, he is the only new cast member which I think could be kind of worrying if I were him. There's actually an interview with Rob Riggle where he talks about when he was hired for SNL and he was the only new member. He said something along the lines of 'It's tough, because everyone else has already been there before, and they know what they're doing'. Want to watch that interview with Rob Riggle? Click here!

Ouch.

Oh well, at least he got on the show. Congrats.

SNL has had so many great alumni go through over the years. I can't even imagine how it must have been in about 1989-1991 it would have been (I think) Dana Carvey, Chris Rock, Chris Farley, David Spade, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers. It must have been crazy. They're all so wildly successful now. I wonder if they ever see Lorne Michaels and thank him. Most likely, I guess.

Although, those guys back then probably were thinking, 'wow, how cool would have been to be here when Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, John Belushi and the rest of them were on.' Probably in 10 or 20 years we'll look back and say 'how awesome was Vanessa Bayer, and Kate Mckinnon, and Fred Armisen?!' Won't we? Hmmmm....

Sometimes I worry a bit for SNL's future because Lorne Michaels must be like at least 60 something now right? I watched an interview where he said that the day he retires is the day that Saturday Night Live will end.

So without further ado, Here's to Lorne Michaels never retiring, and another 40 years of SNL!

Until Next Time...

Morgan ^^

Too Tough Looking for Comedy??

Firstly, why did no one ever tell me Alec Baldwin was a comedian?

These two guys, Rob Riggle and Alec Baldwin must be toughest looking guys in comedy. Think about it, a lot of male comedians are either pretty short (ahem... Kevin Hart) or they are really thin and gangly. Even though these two are funny and everything, they just look like they could beat you up. Easily.

I think there was actually an interview of...some comedian (sorry, I've forgotten who) with Howard stern where they had said that you can't get too buff for comedy or people would just be staring at your muscles instead of listening to the jokes.

Rob Riggle, (SNL, Dumb and Dumber To, 21 Jump Street, The Lorax, and heaps of other cameos) looks like he should be fighter or something. I know used to be in the army, so I guess that's why he's so buff. Alec Baldwin (30 Rock, Cat in the Hat, ...other stuff? Idk) on the other hand, what's his excuse for being so buff? I don't think he's been in the army. Also i just want to point out I'm not trying to be ,ean or anything. These guys are two of my favourites, they're really funny.

I'm sure at this point you're probably thinking, 'What on earth are you even talking about this for???' Well my friend.... That's a good question. I don't know. No, really though, a lot of other comedians look all done up and nice. These are the only two I can think of that look like they don't really belong as comedians they just look too much like very manly men. I don't even know what that means.

I wait for the day when someone males a prison movie with these two as the main characters, I swear it would be the best funniest thing ever. You know what, maybe I'll just write one, and call it Prison Riot, about two buff guys who are framed as murderers and get sent to prison but they're are actually wimps. Man, that is a million dollar idea right there. Big Hollywood directors and producers reading this (I doubt there are but just in case) you've gotta make it!

Now, what do you guys think? Are Rob Riggle and Alec Baldwin too manly for comedy? Or do you think it works in their favour? On SNL they seemed to always cast Alec as a gay man (watch Canteen Boy here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8SiFV0reYg It's very... creepy :/ ) to juxtapose his manliness. I think it works, sort of... Let me know what you think in the comments below.

Until Next Time...
Morgan ^^