HL on SNL (& let's pray for RSL)

[bironic]

Hugh Laurie to host Saturday Night Live on October 28.

Chances RSL will show up for an impromptu sketch?

Okay, slim to none, but I bet they'll do a House parody in which one of the SNL cast plays Wilson and maybe there will be, as TWOPpers would say, HoYay. Lots and lots of HoYay.

Regardless, it's sure to be a fun episode.

Comments

[theninth.livejournal.com]

I'm really worried about this. Hugh Laurie is so very funny and SNL is not. Hasn't been in years. Maybe this will help. Maybe Hugh can show them a thing or two about improvisation and spontenaity.

And maybe I'll finish NaNoWriMo this year... sigh.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

There is that. I haven't watched SNL in years except for selected bits (the Harry Potter one with Lindsay Lohan was funny the first few times) so I don't know if/how the quality fluctuates depending on the host. I guess the question is whether they'll drag him down or he'll pull them up, or if they'll meet somewhere in the middle. All of which may depend on how much input HL has on the scripts and how talented the others are at his kind of improv.

And maybe I'll finish NaNoWriMo this year... sigh.

C'mon, optimism!

[theninth.livejournal.com]

50,000 words is haaaaaaard. Actually... the tricky bit is coming up with a story I can tell for that many words. I usually die out at around 20,000 words. I suppose telling the exact same story three times would be cheating, huh?

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Not if you go for a Rashomon-type narrative where you take three different characters' perspectives.

[theninth.livejournal.com]

When was the last time you heard these exact words: "You are the sunshine of my life"?

[bironic.livejournal.com]

*checks watch* About ten seconds ago. Before that, couldn't say. :)

[thewlisian-afer.livejournal.com]

"Regardless, it's sure to be a fun episode."

For a change. SNL used to rock so hard. But now? :( I hope Hugh shows 'em a thing or two.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Me too, because the alternative -- an hour of "comedy" so uncomfortable to watch it'd rival his stint on Inside the Actor's Studio -- is too horrible to contemplate.

[thewlisian-afer.livejournal.com]

He strikes me as kind of an uncomfortable person in general. I think it's part of why I love him so much. He strikes me as the sort who can be charming as hell when conversation begins on his own terms, but things like interviews kind of freak him out a little. You know?

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yep, and I agree it's endearing, if difficult to witness. ('Course, RSL's awkwardness makes me squishier than Hugh Laurie's does.) Am hoping that since he probably feels at home with improv/sketch comedy, it'll come through on the show. On the other hand, he's just as likely to get teased for all the sex-symbol stuff, and then we're back into the discomfort zone.

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I didn't see any indications in the article that RSL is going to show up for a cameo? I don't see why he would-- he hides from media attention and I can only imagine what he thinks of SNL. XD If he *does* show up, well-- well!

SNL isn't the least bit funny, but it's good press to show up on it. For whatever reason, if you're on it, it's still an indication of fame/popularity/importance.

And since HL isn't new to the comedic sketch business, perhaps the ideas he brings to the table will push the quality up.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm hoping. Apparently I'm very out of touch with just how unfunny the show has become...

No mention of RSL anywhere; was just fantasizing. It's just that the two of them have such fabulous on-screen comedic timing together that the thought of RSL poking his head in on the show was too good to ignore, no matter how unlikely for many reasons.

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It's not so much that SNL isn't funny? It's that they'll have one decent joke and they'll repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. For at least five minutes. I don't know how they can't find good writers, honestly.

If RSL *does* show up, then I think Stephen Fry could as well, and then they could battle it out to see who has the most chemistry with HL! In fact, that could be the point of the sketch: which pairing brings more HoYay! ?

[bironic.livejournal.com]

RSL, obviously, because he's repressed! ...I mean, fantastic idea. Someone should propose that to fryandorlaurie to write before the show airs. Then when if it sucks we'll have the fic to fall back on.

It's that they'll have one decent joke and they'll repeat it. And repeat it.

Ohhhhh, that problem (to quote Meg Ryan in French Kiss, and I can't believe I just did that). Yes indeedy. On occasion, those beat-it-to-death sketches do get funny a couple of days after sitting through them. Like the cowbell.

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If RSL wins then I'd be the happiest-- and stupidest-- fangirl in the world It could be a fandom-wide challenge. I'd love to see what gets turned out. The only problem, of course, would be the inevitable flame wars. XD

Cowbell?

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wasn't thinking of a poll so much as an RPS fic where someone writes out what that sketch could be like. Otherwise, yeah, rip in the fandom space-time continuum with the wankiness.

When Christopher Walken hosted SNL in the 90s, there was this now-infamous sketch in which he played a record company exec ordering Blue Oyster Cult to play up the cowbell while they were recording "Don't Fear the Reaper." The joke went on and on and on and yet afterwards it was the funniest thing ever. And once you've seen it you can't listen to the song without thinking of it.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Annnd I just realized you didn't mean a poll either. Sorry. Skimming comments is sometimes a bad idea.