Podcasting skit on SNL | The End of the World as We Know It.

[bionicgenius]

Did you happen to catch the podcasting skit on March 11th? I didn't either... What I mean to say is: I saw it on the 12th.

As you know, SNL is really bad, and lately it just blows. Thanks to my PVR, every Sunday, I FF through the show to catch the band. This time I gave Appalachian Emergency Room my full attention. {That + the Needlers is the only funny they have anymore.} I will sometimes even slow it down to 4x speed through the news. For some reason I slowed it down enough to see that there was a podcast sketch. I actually played it for about thirty seconds, and it was bad too.

Now I cannot tell if it was just another bad SNL skit, or if it shined the light on how pathetic we all are! :D ... :) ... :( ... :evil:

Hee-Haw. Now THEY knew funny.

[ferg]

I saw the sketch, and I actually thought it was mildly amusing. Of course, you're right, SNL is terrible these days, so it may have just been decent by comparison.

In the end, though, it was just another "Jared's Room"...more recycled crap from SNL.

[jeffoest]

Good - I was glad someone brought this up.

I actually think about half of SNL is usually quite funny but the other half is usually pretty horrible. TEVO is a godsend.

I thought the skit was unfunny. Maybe I didn't quite get what they were trying to do with it. Was it a putdown of videocasting and the amateur's involved? It was somewhat reminiscent of Wayne's World except that was funny.

I did sort of like their irritation when peopld would walk in front of the camera. but I found the dialogue of the skit very flat.

[ferg]

Jeff - I had some of the same thoughts...

Honestly, if they were attempting to make fun of podcasts, the hosts were a little too erudite. The guy on the left (don't know his name) was a little too clever as far as his metaphors went if their purpose was to ridicule the amateur nature of podcasts.

If the people were not as well spoken, or if they spent half of the show (which was not about audio or tech) talking about their equipment or something like that, it would have been a better blast of podcasters, but, really, had they done that how much of the viewing audience would have gotten the joke?

It could have been any other typical SNL homegrown TV Show parody such as Wayne's World (as you said), Coffee Talk, Wake up Wakefield, etc, etc...

It was as if they just wanted use the word "podcast".

[bazookajoeshow]

These days? Try these decased.

SNL is terrible these days

[jeffoest]

Ferg,

DANG - we have to agree. That very much describes what went in my head watching it. At the end I had to conclude they just wanted the word 'podcast' in the title to maybe showed they still were on top of 'it'. LOL

I thought about then, though, how funny it WOULD be to do a parody of some average 'couple-cast' podcast! But only a few of us geeks WOULD indeed get it.....

[monkey_one]

dont know the only series I really watch is well 2 both on comedy central
southpark and drawntogether
just thought I would add my 2 sense

[bazookajoeshow]

Stangers with Candy! Strangers with Candy! Strangers with Candy!

[jawbone]

Mr. Show was where it was at.

[WyethDigital]

MST3K

Either Mike or Joel. Picking one over the other would just be be asking for a "Kirk vs. Picard" fight.

Goin' waayyyy off topic here:

If anything should be "repurposed" and podcast (podcasted?), it is MST3K... they're whole "keep circulating the tapes" command at the end of their credits is what totally won me over (and has that same counter-media slant that Podcasting has)! That, and one of the guys involved was the originator of the Pink Flamingos on Bascom Hill gag and the Statue of Liberty Head (ala Planet of the Apes) on Lake Mendota prank that became such hallmarks of the UW-Madison campus for so many years!

:) Eric

PS -- back on topic: Does anyone know if the SNL skit has been posted on the net (legally, of course! ;) )?

[skooma_smoker]

The Kids In The Hall was the best thing Lorne Michaels put his graying, wrinkly little pinky in.

In my opinion , of course

[WyethDigital]

The Kids In The Hall was the best thing Lorne Michaels put his graying, wrinkly little pinky in.

In my opinion , of course

Love Kids in the Hall!

But I must admit to being a Tina Fey fan! Very funny woman.

But Kids in the Hall is funnier!

Eric

[bionicgenius]

Mr. Show ROCKED!
Kids in the Hall YESS!

What ever happened to Stella on Comedy Central?

With the three guys in suits, living together... Michael Showalter, _____{too lazy to google} _____, Michael Ian Black. That was funny.


This is like a podcast!! Going all off-topic.

Wheeeee!

[monkey_one]

Why do I only have cartoons in my comedy repratare, is it posibblly a want to go back to my childhood or mabey a flash back to a time in my adult life were I was chronically unemployed
in my underwear waching cartoons all day eating frozen burriotos and red hot chetoes, man thos e were the days......Damm the Cathlic church for making slothfulness one of the 7 deadly sins

[bionicgenius]

Eyes... bleeding... can't go-on...

[podcastrant.com]

David Wain is the name you're looking for bionic

[podtrippin]

I'm crushing your head. hehe.

[gary]

MY PEN!!! MY PEN!!!

[skooma_smoker]

SAUSAGES! We are all....sausages......

[whateverworx]

Where can i find this skit on SNL :?: