[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL not going to phone it in tomorrow night...

2009-02-01 Thread Thomas Allen Heald
David Bruggeman wrote: Early signs indicate Kevin was uncharacteristically optimistic. David You didn't like the Shakespearean twist to Laser cats 4-Ever? Can someone remind me of the original artist of the Hawaiian / ukulele version of Over the Rainbow that Jason Mraz' I'm Yours is

[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL not going to phone it in tomorrow night...

2009-02-01 Thread Ed Dravecky
Thomas Allen Heald toma...@peoplepc.com wrote: Can someone remind me of the original artist of the Hawaiian / ukulele version of Over the Rainbow that Jason Mraz' I'm Yours is weirdly based on? Those I've asked so far immediately seem to think Don Ho, but I'd assume that would be charting

[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL not going to phone it in tomorrow night...

2009-02-01 Thread PGage
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:38 PM, David Bruggeman bru...@yahoo.com wrote: Early signs indicate Kevin was uncharacteristically optimistic. And it just got worse as it went on. Martin puts more (much more) energy and effort into a guest shot on Dave than he did into last night's SNL. I think we

[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL not going to phone it in tomorrow night...

2009-02-01 Thread David Bruggeman
They pulled the same unfunny crap with the blind governor a few weeks ago. But I found that less annoying than the 3,456th iteration of Kirsten Wiig thinking that being annoying is funny. I will at least give Martin's album a listen. I do hope he performs music Monday night on Late Show.

[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL not going to phone it in tomorrow night...

2009-02-01 Thread PGage
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:38 AM, David Bruggeman bru...@yahoo.com wrote: They pulled the same unfunny crap with the blind governor a few weeks ago. But I found that less annoying than the 3,456th iteration of Kirsten Wiig thinking that being annoying is funny. I will at least give Martin's

[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL not going to phone it in tomorrow night...

2009-02-01 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On Feb 1, 2009, at 9:54 AM, PGage wrote: I think we have t conclude that he is embarrassed about PP2 and embarrassed to be using his friends and connections to SNL to pimp it (I don't think he even mentioned the name of the film). Just for the record, he did mention the name, at the very

[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL not going to phone it in tomorrow night...

2009-02-01 Thread Michael
Other than the pre-recorded Chewable Pampers and ESPN Classic bits (both of which made me laugh, and merited a replay) and Abby Elliott's dead-on (and hot) Angelina Jolie impression, it was one tired, lackluster effort - especially considering that Martin has shined on SNL in the past. I did like

[TV orNotTV] The Curious Case of Brenda Warner

2009-02-01 Thread PGage
I don't want to get too snarky, I am (against all odds) a life-long Rams fan, and know a little of the back story of the Warners, which has its inspirational elements. But Kurt Warner's wife was both scary looking and crazy acting enough to make it hard for a lot of Rams fans to really warm up to

[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL not going to phone it in tomorrow night...

2009-02-01 Thread PGage
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv wrote: Just for the record, he did mention the name, at the very end of his monologue -- and then the very first commercial was for said film, followed by the first of the Pepsi commercials based on the MacGruder sketches

[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL not going to phone it in tomorrow night...

2009-02-01 Thread dsikula
On Feb 1, 1:39 pm, Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv wrote: On Feb 1, 2009, at 9:54 AM, PGage wrote: I think we have t conclude that he is embarrassed about PP2 and   embarrassed to be using his friends and connections to SNL to pimp   it (I don't think he even mentioned the name of the

[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL not going to phone it in tomorrow night...

2009-02-01 Thread Brad Beam
- Original Message - From: dsik...@yahoo.com But the downside (for me, anyway) is that MacGruder is generally awful, and once I saw how bad the Pepsi commercials were, I FFed through those, too. I wonder if that re-appearance during the second half counts as: (1)A network ad (2)A

[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL not going to phone it in tomorrow night...

2009-02-01 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On Feb 1, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Brad Beam wrote: I wonder if that re-appearance during the second half counts as: (1)A network ad (2)A full-cost Pepsi ad (3)A discount-rate Pepsi ad I was watching the Super Bowl at the home of friends who are still on SD. The graphics were cut off on the

[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL not going to phone it in tomorrow night...

2009-02-01 Thread Bradford
DirecTV does that with the local stations in my market as well. I have tried to explain to them what the problem is and they keep trying to tell me that I need to adjust the settings for DirecTV. I told them that it's already set up exactly the way they are describing and then they say that my

[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL not going to phone it in tomorrow night...

2009-02-01 Thread David Bruggeman
Add Washington to the list of NBC signals behaving badly. It is noticeable during SNL, but not during local news or syndicated programming. Can't say it's come up during other programs, as I've not watched much of the peacock lately. I have DirecTV, so it sounds like I'm screwed. David