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Bob Jersey

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Jul 20, 2020, 6:09:50 PM7/20/20
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Lorne's seriously working on it, now that he'd done the same for Fallon, two sources told Variety...


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Bob Jersey

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Sep 11, 2020, 2:48:43 PM9/11/20
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They're goin' back to 30 Rock for an Oct 3rd preem, said Deadline, tho the audience / hosts / musical guests issues are yet to be worked out...


Moi, July 20th:
Lorne's seriously working on it, now that he'd done the same for Fallon, two sources told Variety...




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(Allen's woman-friend is having an apparent car-license issue, and one of her family is about to give birth... oy vey.)

Doug Fields

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Sep 11, 2020, 3:27:50 PM9/11/20
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(Allen's woman-friend is having an apparent car-license issue, and one of her family is about to give birth... oy vey.)

???  

Who is "Allen"?  And what connection to SNL does this information have?

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John Edwards

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Sep 11, 2020, 7:34:00 PM9/11/20
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Allen Ludden? In which case, I hope Betty White is able to fix her car registration and host another episode of SNL soon.

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Doug Eastick

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Sep 11, 2020, 8:35:22 PM9/11/20
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I believe Allen is Bob's brother.
Don't quote me on that. But it's my guess based on my brain's ability to remember strange things.



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Kevin M.

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Sep 11, 2020, 8:58:34 PM9/11/20
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 5:35 PM Doug Eastick <eas...@mcd.on.ca> wrote:
I believe Allen is Bob's brother.
Don't quote me on that. But it's my guess based on my brain's ability to remember strange things.

Brother Jersey?



On Fri., Sep. 11, 2020, 3:27 p.m. Doug Fields, <do...@flids.net> wrote:














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(Allen's woman-friend is having an apparent car-license issue, and one of her family is about to give birth...

oy vey.)







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Who is "Allen"?  And what connection to SNL does this information have?







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Bob Jersey

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Sep 11, 2020, 10:33:49 PM9/11/20
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Doug Fields: After my father passed, I identified my three brothers, between whom the proceeds from the sale of the house I currently live in will eventually be divided, or at least are supposed to be, in this post:
Doug Fields, to moi, Sept 11th:
Allen, for the record, used to like SNL once... until the original NRFPTPs started leaving.

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Bob Jersey

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Oct 1, 2020, 8:45:42 PM10/1/20
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The state govt is hissing at apparent plans to provide public tickets to the preem, as current rules only allow "paid employees, cast, and crew"... maybe Lorne could pay the spectators?

Bob Jersey

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Oct 2, 2020, 1:05:28 PM10/2/20
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Alec Baldwin, not confirmed as Don, and before the debate and diagnoses, compares him to Norman Bates... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/alec-baldwin-says-trump-is-like-norman-bates (link)

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Kevin M.

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Oct 2, 2020, 3:27:03 PM10/2/20
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Bill Burr hosting is intriguing 

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 10:05 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Alec Baldwin, not confirmed as Don, and before the debate and diagnoses, compares him to Norman Bates... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/alec-baldwin-says-trump-is-like-norman-bates (link)

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Oct 11, 2020, 5:41:40 PM10/11/20
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On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 12:26 PM Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote:
Bill Burr hosting is intriguing 

Wow. He tanked the monologue. I mean even taking into account that there were fewer people in the studio, he tanked. It’s like he used 8H to work out new material. And the material didn’t land... at all.

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PGage

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Oct 11, 2020, 7:15:54 PM10/11/20
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I am not really a fan, but my critique was more charitable than yours. I thought he was nervous, which is not a good look on a comic of his type. I thought his white women material was pretty strong, though not different nor better than what you would see on Black Twitter on any given night. His strongest line was when he said white women, having benefited from all the shit white men have done over the centuries, should “stand here next to me” and take their share of the reckoning.

What made the set weak in my eyes was two things: 1) he never really owned the shit that white guys like him have done and 2) he used his articulation of the various low level complaints of many Black people (getting the short month for BHM, Pride month being in the summer) to claim moral high ground for his cranky old straight white guy bashing of women and LGBTQs.

In the end though I think you (Kevin) are right that it read like a comic workshopping promising material. OTOH, that is better than the average SNL monologue, so, not sure it is worthy of special complaint.

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Steve Timko

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Oct 11, 2020, 9:18:52 PM10/11/20
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One of the best monologues ever on SNL was Louis CK. And look how that turned out for him.
It wasn't epic but I wouldn't say he tanked. There were unexpected twists. I'd give him a solid B.

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David Bruggeman

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Oct 12, 2020, 4:07:12 AM10/12/20
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I tuned in and out of most of the sketches (par for my course), but it seemed to me that the sketches where Burr's character(s) returned to the basic themes of his comedy also fell flat.  I'm thinking mostly of the Mafia sketch.  He's done much better with this kind of material in most, if not all, of his sit-downs with Conan.

FWIW, I thought Pete Davidson's mini-monologue during Update on J.K. Rowling managed its points better and was a little funnier.

David

Dave Sikula

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Oct 12, 2020, 5:34:28 AM10/12/20
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The monologue literally put me to sleep. I woke up in the commercial break, more or less wishing I'd stayed unconscious, especially for whatever the hell it was that McKinnon did in WU. She remains America's second-least funniest woman.

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PGage

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Oct 12, 2020, 7:26:02 AM10/12/20
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I thought it wasn’t a coincidence that they had Davidson do the Rowling bit on that show. Burr did a little bit of his “Cancel Culture sucks, am I right?” spiel, but his whole persona embodies that anyway. Davidson ( kind of an interesting choice for this) was a small flag the show flew for the opposite position.

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