Saturday Night Live: Madonna Barfs The Torch To Lady Gaga
Watching Saturday Night Live on the West Coast is ridiculous. It's like watching THE PAST. Is everything like that out here? Living your life three hours behind THE ACTUAL WORLD. Just kidding, I know that time is a relative human construct. But you know what else is a relative human construct? The Internet. And you could basically know all of the wonderful surprises (hah) of Saturday Night Live ahead of time if you wanted, just by logging in (we all still "log in" to the Internet, right? Hello? Mr. AOL?). Not that you need a SPOILER ALERT to figure out that Ryan Reynolds is a weirdo! What a weird dude. He's the epitome of a Plastic Face. "But he was a good sport." Sure, if the sport is Not Moving Your Face Very Much And Being Too Smugball. Not that it matters, since apparently Lady Gaga actually hosted the show? She was in so many sketches! She wrestled Madonna for some reason, in a sketch that has to have been the seven least funny minutes in SNL history (and there have been literally hundreds of unfunny minutes!). And apparently http://twitter.com/sethmeyers21/status/4596539780 is talking about her musical performances as well. Sure.
My favorite part of the show was this sketch:
Although I thought there was a lot of unintentional (or was it very tentional?) comedy in Lady Gaga dressed like an '80s businessman's Sharper Image desk toy, perhaps given to him by a secretary, or a mistress.
She was going to dress up like oil wave rectangle gadget, or clacky silver balls on strings, but the Hammacher Schlemmer Impossible Costumes Shop was closed. (Sharper Image and Hammacher Schlemmer jokes in the same post? The World's Best Redundant!)
Also, "something you keep for a long time: secrets" should probably be a catch-phrase. Who do I talk to about that? There must be some physician at a Botox clinic in Venice who works nights as a Catch-Phrase Judge. (Huh? It's not my fault California is so weird!)
Posted by Gabe at 9:30 AM in Sketch Comedy
Tags: Lady Gaga | Ryan Reynolds | Saturday Night Live
That Madonna sketch was paaaaaaainful. Even for SNL.
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Six minutes in that thing and the crew couldn't manage an 'accidental' wardrobe decapitation?
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No, Lady Gaga, that is a gyroscope. Not an outfit. Please leave the premises of the Air and Space Museum.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GROUND!
Sorry, that's been stuck on a loop in my head all day.
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I don't want to be that person who only likes the digital shorts on SNL, but that was seriously the funniest part of the show. THAT'S NOT MY DAD. THAT'S A PHONE!
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Saturn Worship turns me on. Devour your Youth! JUST DANCE
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Let us go back to the ghetto and listen to our favorite radio dj, please!
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I don't really think this episode deserves witty commentary so I'd just like to say:
I like bubbles.
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That Family Feud sketch made me realize how smoothly the Summer of Death has segued into the Autumn of Creepy Old Men.
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Marry me.
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Babysit me!
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90 minutes of sketch comedy and all I could laugh at was Lady Gaga.
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I wrote on my Facebook (people still use it? right? right?) status that Lady gaga is a. a man and b. he made me hate SNL.
My "friends" e-crucified me. I will now idefriend them.
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I don't hate Lady Gaga. I simply don't have any idea what the fuck it is.
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I thought "So You Committed a Crime..." was pretty funny.
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I liked how Fred Armisen's character kept trying to escape. Also Jason Sudeikis being handcuffed to him was a pretty funny sight gag.
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As a dog owner, the Mostly Trash commercial was pretty Laugh OUT LOUD! Because it's true, I hate my dog and feed it trash.
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AH! Mostly Garbage I mean, FAIL,
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You're a winner in my eyes.
LOVEGUM
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Throughout that Madonna/Lady Gaga sketch, notice how pretty quiet the audience was? I spent that whole time thinking "whomever acting as Madonna really got the horrible arms/mummy look down. It's downright creepy." Then when you realize that it was actually her, you couldn't help but saying "yikes".
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My personal favourite part of the show was Lady Gaga being all "I'm a New Yorker! Gray's Payapa! Yankees!" cause I like to imagine her dressed like she always is dressed (like a fucking idiot) and being mocked mercilessly. Also cause she is clearly an outer borough NYU arts student who for some reason people are paying attention to.
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also please remind me to never go back to Rivington under any circumstances!
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Actually, she was born and raised in NYC, but I'm not going to get all Professor Gaga on your ass. Oh wait, I just did.
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Well, Wikipedia claims Yonkers as a birthplace with schooling in Manhattan. Which sorta aligns to the portrait I was try to paint about Gaga. As a Montrealer (the sixth borough), New York neighbourhood snobbery is what I do best.
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Actually, she was raised entirely in Manhattan. I don't want to get professor Gaga on you, but I just did.
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Oh snap.
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Can I ask what prompted you to get your degree in Gaga Studies? It seems an unsual field...
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I'm in it to meet hot disco sticks
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so are rats and cockroaches
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um, raised entirely in manhattan, I meant
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fame kills y'all.
haven't we learned anything from skoalrebel?
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give them a break. theyve only had 35 years to get it right.
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I don't know...I don't think I've ever seen that Playhouse sketch before...I'm not sure why it was funny...Maybe by the tenth time they do it I'll figure it out...At least it was probably in the last 5 minutes of the show...
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did she really lift Love Games from The Mighty Boosh?
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She'd Old Gregg!
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Are we sure Lada Gaga isn't actually Mel from Flight of the Conchords wearing a blonde wig and bad ideas?
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Family Guy's been doing the Norwegians-trying-to-sound-American thing for a while now. Just sayin'.
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Not to be all BBCgum around here, but that Norwegian Actors' Guild Playhouse thing seems like a conceit straight out of That Mitchell & Webb look (also, a notable example of a sketch show that isn't a giant blind lumpy mess falling all over itself, barfing up recycled zeitgiest all over everything) - when they do those 'show written by guys who know nothing about the topic'.
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...and that's Number Wang.
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I thought the Family Feud sketch was hilarious. The jokes were kind of obvious ("Things you do with your dad!"), but Bill Hader knows how to do creepster so well.
Jason Sudeikis really needs to work on his Richard Dawson impression. There wasn't enough of him inappropriately touching the ladies and drunkenly slurring.
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Bill Hader deserves better than SNL. You're too beautiful for this world, Hader!
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Bill Hader has literally hoisted the show upon his back this year like the Atlas statue outside 30 Rock (or near 30 Rock? I saw it from a tour bus once). I actually thought most of the show was pretty funny, save the weird Madonna/Lady Gaga anticomedy.
I thought there would be more comments on the harsh Obama opening. Armison practically dropped his impression just to better drive home the point. For a show that has unabashedly loved him in the past, this is quite a swing. Et tu, SNL?
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I KNOW! What was Fred Armisen DOING!? He completely abandoned ship on that impression. That was more cringe-worthy than the Gaga and Madonna bit because, I mean, obviously that wasn't going to be funny.
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I'm delighted to see Gaga Backlash has begun in earnest! I hate hype, and (s)he has more hype than hydrogen in her chemical makeup.
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I tried to watch SNL this weekend, but it was not TBS Very Funny. It was more like Dog Funeral Unfunny.
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I don't watch SNL because [duh] it isn't funny, but I liked that Norwegian skit. And I refuse to watch that Lady Gaga video on principle, because I don't want to feed her ego any more, even if it is just by one more view on YouTube.
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Just when you thought it was safe to automatically fast forward through Deephouse Dish on principle (the principle of it ALWAYS SUCKING) it becomes EVEN MORE SAFE to do so with the addition of Lady Gaga and Madonna. (?)
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Lady Gaga is annoying and ubiquitous (and therefore an easy target), but she also writes all of her own songs. You can't say that about very many (any?) pop stars today. So although her "Club Hitz" are pretty awful and shallow, she does have a stitch of talent. She's also, like, 23.
I'm going to come out of the closet and say I have actually heard her entire album, and it does stray off the path of horrendous from time to time. There is actually a hidden gem or two in there.
On the other hand, fuck that chick.
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No offense, but I would not put "playing devil's advocate" on your resume if I were you.
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Also not mentioned as of yet. How many times can Andy Samberg rehash the same exact format of Like a Boss, Jizz in My Pants, etc. before people get tired of it enough to tell him to stop?
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Ugh, I do not get kids these days. They downvote you for the truth. Andy Samberg is not funny. And Santa isn't real. And the Rock is the Tooth Fairy. It's just the facts of life.
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That Norwegian sketch is amazing! My British cousins' do the same thing when they try to use American accents. It's like everyone aims for a weird John Wayne inflection.
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Here he comes, here comes John Wayne. I'm not gonna cry about my pa. I'm gonna build an airport - put my name on it.
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I love Lady GaGa.
Yeah. That's right. I said it. Love her.
WHACHUGONDO?
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So apart from wearing outrageous outfits, what exactly is Lady Gaga famous?
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for
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That's about it. Also, the possibility that she's a hermpahrodite.
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Your Ryan Reynolds description made me lol.
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there will be no actual gaga backlash.
any backlash you can dish out at her she will turn into a SHOCKING! outfit.
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Seth Myers: "Lady Gaga's second song moves right into my top five favorite musical performances in all my years on the show. Maybe #1." Really?!
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The Norwegians were my favorite, too. I couldn't figure out why they stuck that sketch at the very end. And I couldn't figure out if Gaga's orbiting rings were a major wardrobe malfunction, or whether they were supposed to be smacking her in the face. She's such an enigma. Oh Gaga.
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Can I ask a sincere question? Is Lady Gaga male or female? Are we supposed to know? I'm late to the game.
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I mean lady Gaga is really weird and terrible in some ways. But she seems talented. And she seems to care a little about art or something. I mean shes better then Ashley Simpson.
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Just watched the Norwegian sketch (I wouldn't dare waste my time watching SNL as a whole), and that is basically Borat, is it not? I mean, i may have almost smirked a time or two, but Borat does it better. I know Kazakstan isn't Norway, but it's the same joke, about 3 years too late.
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This sketch brought to you by the Crispin Glover school of method acting:
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I know that new girl on SNL with the potty-mouth is a friend of Gabe's and all, but the whole concept of SNL to me is so stale, that when someone asks me if I watched it (as someone just did yesterday), it's like they're asking me if I watched General Hospital. The whole hook of this show is that it was supposed to be outrageous and freewheelin' because of it being live and weekly, so it could react right away to the shite-geist. I know another commenter already said it, but you can find better standup comedy any night of the week in any metropolitan area. SNL should go away, someone pull the plug. Sorry. I don't mean to be such an internet hater, but come on. Madonna? Lady Gaga? Andy Samberg? No a thousand times no. At least in the olden daze GE Smith would reliably show up on commercial breaks and scare the pants off you with his reptilian face and dead marble eyes. Scary shit. Oh... I didn't realize I left this thing running, sorry.
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I love Gaga.... but the Madonna/Gaga Deep House Dish moment was just painful to watch. You could tell they threw that together 3 minutes before the show... or at least I hope they did
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At 1:08 she visibly shudders from being hit in the head with one of her lame rings. LAME.
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I love watching her........try to sit down with that stupid thing on. What the hell? Save that shit for your weird CGI music video.
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