Wow SNL sucks...

I don't know whether that was supposed to be funny or sad.

I generally like both of these SNL people (Amy Pohler & Fred Armisen) but these are pretty bad impressions...also any old school New Yorker would know to call it CBGB or maybe CB's but not CBGB's

rt - you'd think so, but every band at the hardcore show yesterday called it CBGB's. Now maybe they're not as "old school" as Patti Smith or Lou Reed, but I think they qualify.

i think it's pretty damn funny honestly

"any old school New Yorker would know to call it CBGB or maybe CB's but not CBGB's"

Come on. Just about every single person in 'Please Kill Me' calls it CBGB's. Everyone calls it CBGB's. Don't make me do the long post again.

I worked a few blocks away from CB's for 10 years (all of the 90's) and went there probably about 150 to 200 times going back into mid 80's and thats what most people called it.......its also its official name
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBGB
http://www.cbgb.com/

not to mention the title of this topic says "CBGB on SNL" When it could have easily been called CBGB's on SNL.....but it wasn't

rt - no argument from me that CBGB is not the actual name of the club. i too can read. simply making a point that many, many people (whether correctly or incorrectly) call it CBGB's.

What John said. And that those many many people include owner Hilly Kristal, Legs McNeil, etc.

The important thing, I think, is that "CBGB's" is easier (and more fun) to say when you're drunk.

You can buy a CBGB shirt at Target this week. It's on sale for $9.99.

"you could go from here to here and you'd meet 5 poets"

genius

About the casting, no one else in the cast remotely looks anything like Lou Reed. As for Patti Smith, I guess Poehler is the best fit too (though also not too good).

But you know, they could have dirtied/drugged them up a bit to help.

PS - WHO FUCKING CARES WHAT THEY CALL IT you fucking poseurs

The twenty-year-old living in Greenpoint with the myspace page calling other people poseurs... funnier than anything in the video.

wait. the second most full-of-themselvesblogger (2nd only to said the gramophone) is trying to insult somebody?? oh well, at least it wasn't 1500 words.

as for the casting... there were three of these throughout saturdays episode and they all had poehler and armisen, so im guessing they wrote them all themselves and didn't feel like getting darrell hammond to do a lou reed impersonation. poehler's yoko ono was perfect, and they all conveyed the characters enough.

SNL is so bad now it's pathetic, truly the whole cast should be fired. Interestingly, the only things are even remotely funny these days, are the taped bits, like this short film. So much for good old Saturday Night "Live".

Lazy Sunday was a fluke. You know, the whole blind squirrel and the acorn thing. The cast is weak, writing terrible and skits plain stupid. The musical choices are pathetic at best. Lorne Michaels is a tool. And I can't for the life of me understand why I still tune in. I can only take about 15 minutes of it, if that.

Are you seriously insulting my age, J? And what part of town I live in? What, are we in middle school?

Anyway, you guys are right, SNL is pretty bad now. Any hope of rehabilitation was squashed with Tina Fey leaving. And what is the deal with these awful new guys? Also, like the Pilot was saying, it's ironic that SNL's best skits are pre-taped. And not the good kind of irony.

Oops, I meant bumpershine.

If you read "Live From New York" by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller, (if you haven't, I recommend it), you'd know that Michaels has been historically opposed to the pre-taped segments. But after the success of Lazy Sunday last year, it seemed like he basically threw in the towel and told the cast to make as many movies as they wanted, because the number of shorts per episode skyrocketed after that. His hand may have been forced by the network too, who knows.

That was absolutely the stupiest argument that ever happened in the history of time.

i haven't cared about satuday night live for a long time, but the fact that the impressions on that video were bad strikes me as a good sign. i mean, it was funnier when they didn't worry about how the impressions were, and dan aykroyd would play nixon with a mustache. impressions are low humor.

but it could very well still suck. just saying.

"If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever."
-Doug Horton

THAT'S PRETTY DEEP, ERIK. Hahahahahahaaaaaa. Tool box.

armisen kind of looks like reed. if he kept the black shades on, it'd be passable.

Watch out guys there's really tough guys on the internet who post anonymously and make you cry

sniff sniff

anyway, I liked the other one better, with Yoko Ono, actually. I don't like this one as much because it's making fun of something that no one takes seriously anymore anyway. Personally, I don't think this recent wave of awesome bands at CBGB makes up for the crap of the last 20 years or so.

"middle school"? That is so gay (not in a good way) and so not something a New Yorker would ever say.

If the team at SNL had any balls, which is unlikely due to them checking them at the door of LMichaels, they would be free to incite some controversy. Ever since Sinead made people a little uncomfortable back in the early 90's with the Pope thing, SNL has been Ultra Weak. So much for free speech.

Who said Indie kids don't have senses of humor? Insted of pointlessly arguing about something on TV in a pathetic grab for extra cool points, why don't you go see some music and not dance.

The best part is that they're moving the whole kit and caboodle to vegas. maybe one day they'll move all of Manhattan to vegas, brick by brick. and they can hire a bunch of tightly wound, neurotic over-achievers to work there.

They'll put it right next to the New Orleans one. But I think Disney is going to own N.O. Manhattan'll probably be Time Warner or something.

any old school new yorker would know to call it SNL's