![]() Maybe too pricey for all that make-up? Just use an underpaid geriatric. Or "The Toilet Death Ejector." Why aren't these commercials ever the young cast members playing old people? I guess it's extra humiliating to use the real thing. "Oops, I Crapped My Pants" adult diapers. Unfortunately, it's almost always in some scatalogical spoof revolving around incontinence. And Saturday Night Live occasionally does cast actual old folks. ![]() It's much better when real old people play the old people. It's extremely "Carol Burnett." It's corny. Also, I don't find young people donning age make-up and doing gramps and granny routines particularly funny. Saturday Night Live is pretty guilty of this. You know, I think the lowest form of comedy, after practical jokes, is pot-shots at old people. Who advocates for oldsters? It seems as though a place is found for everyone except old people outside of nursing homes. So, if it's that evident that the quality of the show was better when people over the age of 35 were on the stage, why does Saturday Night Live still seem, after all this time, ageist? Well, because it is. And when he did host, you knew you were in for a great show. Henry was sort of an unofficial cast member, so often did he host. In a way, he was replaced with Buck Henry who was in his mid-40's at the time. He was used more or less as a "pitch man" character in a lot of the filmed segments and then poof. One that places nicely against all the young voices of the other cast members. He never made it past the first episode and wasn't even in the original cast photos. Michaels must've fought hard against Coe. His name was George Coe.įrom what I understand, Coe was forced on Lorne Michaels by NBC who wanted at least one cast member who wasn't still in their 20's. And oh, wait another second.in the first season there was an original Not Ready For Primetime Player who was.46! Guess how long he lasted. And he was one of the funniest players in the history of the show. It seems there's never been a cast member over the age of twenty-five (at the time of their hiring) on that show. What is the shows' aversion to actual old people? Not just the hosts (what, did Milton Berle wreck it for everyone?) but the regular cast. And the best way to do that, it seems pretty logical to me, would be to have Carol host the show. Well, the edgy has become commonplace in great part due to SNL so maybe it's time to come full circle and maybe do some Carol Burnett style comedy on SNL. Supposedly, back in the day, when writers on SNL weren't "edgy" enough, they were told their material was too "Carol Burnett" and they were sent back to the writer's room. ![]() If I were Lorne Michaels I'd be sending out a sedan chair and offering frankincense and myrrh to get her on my show. Why the "F" has Carol Burnett not graced that stage? The woman who got the longest sustained laugh in the history of television? And she's not getting any younger. ![]() Why did it take a national petition to get Betty White into Studio 8H? Again, another brilliant episode. They've been hosting since they were young men. Which begs the question: why aren't there more old people on Saturday Night Live? And the Miskell Spillman episode is one of the best in the long history of the show. The "Anyone Can Host" contest was pure genius. She won and ended up hosting the show on the evening of December 17th, 1977 (I was two days away from my twelfth birthday). Miss Miskell was one of five finalists who were then voted on by the public. At the risk of dating all of us you may recall she was the winner of the one and only contest Saturday Night Liv e ever held to find a person from its viewership to host the show. The above little old lady is one Miskell Spillman. It is decidedly "adult" although not necessarily not "childish." I do not feel it is suitable, in some instances, for anyone below the age of 17. To wit: this website is not for children. However, in the pursuit of honesty I will be quite frank about sexuality as I feel one should be. I try to keep this website relatively free of anything truly morally reprehensible or obscene. I will continue to supply pictures but I cannot guarantee their context: much like my mind. If they don't match the text, just think of them as whimsical funsies decorating the text. The visual switcheroos on these blogs have reached a point where there's no way I can correct them all, so I'm just going to leave them be. Please find a complete index of blog posts on the homepage, for your convenience! Please pardon our appearance while we create a new blog experience for you!) *(may contain misuse of apostrophes, miss spellings, overabundance of semi-colons, wrong word usage, etc. So, if a pic doesn't match the doesn't! Rest assured I am trying to amend this problem. It tends to randomly switch out visual material. NOTE: Apparently this webpage has some glitches.
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