SNL makes fun of Sparty
If any of you saw last night, SNL had a very funny sketch which I believe was something of an insult to MSU. I looked for a Youtube video but this, none are available for last night's one but here is the first installment from October:
http://www.mlive.com/tv/index.ssf/2011/12/snl_brings_back_michigan_stat…
(Somebody please help me embed, I am not good with HTML stuff)
December 11th, 2011 at 1:28 PM ^
Why did I just watch a Carrie Underwood commercial about soap? I wanted to see Sparty lolz...
December 11th, 2011 at 1:36 PM ^
That's fine, but I can think of about a billion things worse that watching Carrie Underwood do anything.
December 11th, 2011 at 5:36 PM ^
you'll recognize that the Carrie Underwood commercial is the best part of this post.
December 11th, 2011 at 1:48 PM ^
....if someone could even find the sketch on YouTube or Hulu, never mind that it really isn't funny, in my opinion. NBC tries to keep iron-fist control of what content is or isn't available for unpaid consumption, it seems. This especially seems to be true of classic SNL stuff.
EDIT: BrownJuggernaut comes through below!
December 11th, 2011 at 1:54 PM ^
The embed that actually works is the one from their own website.
December 11th, 2011 at 1:46 PM ^
Yeah I don't know why that happened. I linked the video he linked. Well. Here's it from NBC's website, hopefully this works:
"Maize and Bloopers"
December 11th, 2011 at 4:28 PM ^
That was monumentally stupid. I want my 5 minutes back. Didn't laugh once. SNL really, really sucks ass.
December 11th, 2011 at 5:47 PM ^
I watched may be the first five seconds. I embedded just to help out the OP. I think the only SNL things I've watched this year are the Penn State related skits. Just because I wanted to see how they addressed the subject.
December 11th, 2011 at 8:56 PM ^
If comes down to watching SNL and watching this dry I will take paint everytime.
December 11th, 2011 at 10:45 PM ^
my eyes are bleeding.
December 11th, 2011 at 6:37 PM ^
I was worried for a minute that Dove had gotten rid of Herbie, but thankfully, the ad was for Olay.
December 11th, 2011 at 1:29 PM ^
is it me or has SNL turned into the Kristen Wiig variety hour?
December 11th, 2011 at 1:37 PM ^
SNL is the television equivalent of Weezer.
They were totally awesome in the past, and every once in a great while you see a flash of brilliance, but at the end, the only reason you're still paying attention is in the vain hope that they'll do something that lives up to the standards set by their past.
/deep thoughts
December 11th, 2011 at 2:06 PM ^
90's rivers coumo please return to me on Pinkerton repeat!
December 11th, 2011 at 8:16 PM ^
Closest thing you'll find is released tomorrow:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alone_III:_The_Pinkerton_Years
December 11th, 2011 at 3:20 PM ^
SNL hasn't been good in over a decade. There has been good skits here and there, but overall it has been terrible for quite some time.
December 11th, 2011 at 3:39 PM ^
My point holds - replace "SNL" with "Weezer" and "skits" with "songs," and the sentence is still just as true.
December 11th, 2011 at 4:32 PM ^
SNL has been like that since the first round of future stars left. They are never really all that great to watch in realtime, even if they are good for a few laughs, but they are great in retrospect when you are watching people who went on to be stars.
I don't know if that makes it consistently ahead of its time or just mediocre, but usually they are at their best when a high-profile alum returns and we can all remember how "funny" that person was when they were originally on the show.
December 11th, 2011 at 9:36 PM ^
The thing is, almost no one likes SNL when it is being made. My favorite seasons by far were the early 90s with stars such as Chris Rock, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Norm Macdonald, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, etc. At the time almost no one appreciated a lot of the stuff they were doing and consistantly everyone said "SNL sucks" it was better in the olden days.
Whether this is do to the comedy being before its time or just the appeal of seeing stars before they made it big...I'm not entirely sure. You can see the same thing with people's opinions of Will Farrell on SNL in the early 2000s. It was appreciated a lot less back in the day.
December 11th, 2011 at 1:55 PM ^
Yes they try and trot her out there every skit they can to try and save the trainwreck like they used to do with Will Ferrell. Only difference is that Will Ferrell was funny as hell. Wiig is the least funny person on the entire planet. Well, second least, I can't imagine Dantonio has ever said anything funny in his life.
December 11th, 2011 at 1:57 PM ^
Ashton Kutcher.
December 11th, 2011 at 10:20 PM ^
Damn. The eyebrows, the baggy eyes, the nose, the lips. This is dead on.
December 11th, 2011 at 2:26 PM ^
It just seems on SNL she tries wayyyyy too hard.
When she over acts, that's when it can become painful.
But when she takes it down a notch or two she shines.
December 11th, 2011 at 1:30 PM ^
It is unfortunate that the skit does not make you laugh one time. Where did you go SNL, I miss you.
December 11th, 2011 at 1:32 PM ^
Didn't see last night's episode but the one in the link is unfunny.
December 11th, 2011 at 2:09 PM ^
or people who know these types (and are often annoyed by them) probably find this skit amusing. But I have to imagine that's a small crowd.
December 11th, 2011 at 1:30 PM ^
Uh, not sure I agree 100% with your police work there, Lou...
December 11th, 2011 at 1:31 PM ^
SNL has definately done this bit a couple times this year. I still laugh everytime is shows Sparty haha
December 11th, 2011 at 6:03 PM ^
*Citation needed
December 11th, 2011 at 1:31 PM ^
They need Will Ferrell and Chris Katan back
December 11th, 2011 at 2:44 PM ^
Darrell Hammon on Jimmy Fallon the other night? That dude looks near death. Kids, just goes to show you how much drugs can really mess you up....
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/10/darrell_hammond_memoir.html
December 11th, 2011 at 4:23 PM ^
He did drugs for years and looked just fine. It is the stopping doing drugs that messes you up. There's a reason Tommy Chong looks like Tommy Chong with white hair while Cheech looks like Joe Pesci's latin doppelganger.
December 11th, 2011 at 1:36 PM ^
I don't get it, there must be a story this spun off of?
December 11th, 2011 at 1:52 PM ^
Of all the things to make fun of Sparty about, this is not even in the top twenty-five. Talk about a wasted opportunity.
December 11th, 2011 at 1:57 PM ^
Gotta love extended eye contact with your brother or sister. Damn Folgers.
December 11th, 2011 at 2:00 PM ^
The premise that Someone from Nebraska and someone from Florida going to Michigan state is absurd and I laughed about it the whole time. What else happened?
December 11th, 2011 at 3:11 PM ^
Like most out-of-staters, they thought they were going to Michigan and didn't learn the difference til the football game.
December 11th, 2011 at 2:03 PM ^
Oh SNL, where have you gone?
December 11th, 2011 at 2:05 PM ^
Someone owes me 5 minutes of my life back...
December 11th, 2011 at 2:09 PM ^
is a sketch about making fun of MSU, just using the name of a large public university that would have the resources to allow students to produce something like this.
People always complain about SNL being funny in the past and not funny now, but I've been watching consistently since the Carvey-Hartman days and I can say that SNL stil does well what they've always done well: politcal humor, commercial parodies, and Weekend Update. The Digital Shorts are usually pretty good and weird. They just don't have a go-to peformer right now who can do everything and the younger cast members are always trying new things that appeal to them, most of it bombs.
There are probably 14-year olds out there who thought this sketch was hilarious and in 15 years they'll be the ones complainig about how SNL isn't funny anymore. That's just how SNL works.
December 11th, 2011 at 3:07 PM ^
SNL waxing and waning is a cycle as imutable as the seasons and ides . Scratch a 50 year old and listen to him go on about how great Chevy was, or talk to someone in their low 40s about how bad it was with just Pisicipo after Eddie left.
December 11th, 2011 at 2:09 PM ^
but Sparties looking stupid is I guess the schadenfreude angle? Fun fact: the first one of these appeared the night of the trash tornado game.
December 11th, 2011 at 3:39 PM ^
I quit watching in the middle.
I was drawn in by the intrigue of a potential Sparty schadenfreude skit, but was tremendously disappointed to find that it was just an incredibly stupid skit of a college tv show. Fictitiously attributed to MSU television.
December 11th, 2011 at 2:38 PM ^
(poor quality) YouTube link for those of us not fortunate enough to view hulu
December 11th, 2011 at 3:21 PM ^
She is so hot.
December 11th, 2011 at 3:41 PM ^
which part is supposed to be funny? i dont get it