saturday_night_live spider from mars it's like medicine for me (along with the_state, of course.) really. i would be so long_gone without sketch comedy. and even though i mostly think snl was far better and funnier in the past, i still don't ever want it to go off the air. 021030 ... spider from mars p.s. bless comedy central and e! for showing old episodes, and bless "best of" dvds. 021030 ... Norm Macdonald "Inmates of American prisons are protesting this week. They claim that the reading of their mail by prison officials is an violation of their human rights. Well, that and the DAILY ANAL RAPE!" 021030 ... silentbob i don't really understand why it took so long to get this made into a blathe maybe everythign is just under SNL 021030 ... bethany i was making pastry to look like mr. bill today but i didn't smash it against the wall 021030 ... hopeunknown Never fails to amuse me...except Jimmy Fallon just annoys me. 030119 ... trixie i just finished reading a huge ass book about snl... it's all interviews with the cast and crew and hosts... and lorne. what a strange setup over there, really. you've got lorne, the allmighty king who hires you, the lonely and not very accomplished comic and in the coming years you become a very big star on the show. you have fans and movie deals and most of all you make money and lots of it not only from snl but from everyone who wants to kiss your ass (like paramount and MTV) because they are willing to bet, on the track record of the show, that you (by virtue of being on the show in the fist place) will become a huge celebrity and will be an icon in the comedy world and will, most importantly, be able to make lots and lots of money. but, even though big people are trying to finesse you, lorne is still lording over you because he still has more money than you do, and even if you do financially rise above him, and become even more prolific in your creative work he will always have your balls in a vice because he was the one who dragged your lowly comedic ass off the street and gave you your first real paycheck and position to mingle with the powerful and godly. and so, people feel like they are unimportant, unless of course they were of the first cast, and are constantly having an internal battle over if he likes them or not... and this goes on years and years after they have left new york and the show. this book depressed me more than anything, although now i just want to be a big fat producer and credit myself with creating laughter in the first place. it's sad to think that someone as genuinely tallented and truely special as Dana Carvey still feels like he has something to prove to snl and lorne, that he isn't good enough, he feels like he lives in the shaddow of Mike Myers... well, Mike Myers lived in the shaddow of Chris Farley who lived in the shaddow of John Belushi who lived in the shaddow of Chevy Chase, who lived in the shaddow of Lorne Michaels... and Lorne probably lives in the shaddow of the Beatles, or Paul Simon, or even his cast members that he did "discover" and put on the show, but were funny and wonderful on their own, without Lorne. Everyone there burnt their bridges of some sort. Did you know, or even care, that Jon Lovitz felt like he was being treated unfairly? Did you know that in that godforsaken book almost every fucking person who is rolling in money, fame, and personal success, feels that they were treated poorly because they were a woman, they were black, they didn't get enough airtime, that other guy gets more money, i wanted my own dressing room, my work got cut, im not doing anything wrong and they still dont like me, it drove me crazy, they only picked the stupid sketches, i was smart and they couldn't see my potential, and on and on and on! GET A LIFE (phew) yes, it really did seem like there were some hard times but there are always hard times for everyone. I think Jimmy Fallon was the only person who didn't seem to have a problem with anyone or anything... and he wasn't necessarily the golden boy over there from day one... he wasn't in anything when he first got there. he's a cool guy and thats probably why he's doing well now. I just had to get that shit off my chest... augh. what a fucking place... everyone's emotions are just too much, people need to chill out. this book really scared me because of all the history that's there. it just comes down to people somehow putting lorne in the position of being a father, and so everyone else is his child. now, this might be provoked by lorne himself, or it could be imposed on the situation. no matter what, it really kind of sucks... but that's how it is... i can't believe i have dedicated so much time to reading that fucking book and mentally picking apart every aspect of that place and that show. forget it, im going to start my own show. 030610 ... Alec Baldwins half finished clone "MMM, My god, Pete, these balls are delicious." "Thank you, They're from an old Schwettie family recipe." "No, really, Pete, I have never had balls like these in my mouth before, theyre incredible." "Actually, no one can resist my Schwettie Balls" ******* "So Pete, do kids like your weiner?" "Are you kidding, have you ever seen the look on a little boy's face the first time he goes to the ballpark and gets his hands on a hot, Schwettie weiner?" 030610 ... hsg on e! now hosted by steve_martin 061125 what's it to you? who go blather from