Because hell is real, David Spade invites Rob Schneider to reprise his worst SNL character
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David Spade has a new late-night talk show, thanks to Comedy Central, where Spade can essentially do a heavily Kardashian-flavored “Hollywood Minute” and schmooze for 20 minutes a night. An while the cast of Barry (Bill Hader, Henry Winkler, D’Arcy Carden, and—via dismissively funny cell phone call—Stephen Root) were reliably charming and entertaining goofing on their host on Monday’s Lights Out With David Spade, the real showstopper (in the sense of hitting the “stop” button on devices all across the land) was an appearance by Spade’s fellow Saturday Night Live “bad boy,” Rob Schneider, doggedly bringing back one Richard Laymer into our lives.
Surely that name leaps out to fans of mid-90s SNL recurring characters that were mildly amusing conceptually for 30 seconds and then increasingly insufferable, edging into soul-crushing. If not, then perhaps—and sorry for this— “The Richmeister” will make you break out a Liz Lemon-worthy eye-roll. Yes, that “Makin’ copies” guy is back, and David Spade is responsible. Well, Schneider, too, of course, who, one can only assume, is still catchphrase-bombing anyone within earshot when not ineptly trolling civil rights heroes in his quest to claim the title of Most Insufferably Right-Wing SNL alum. (Spade’s already had Dennis Miller on, so wait by your phone, Victoria Jackson.)
As for the sketch itself, there was a fair amount of wall-breaking ball-busting, what with both men being in their 50s rehashing one of SNL’s most infamously irritating recurring bits. (That’s a tight horserace, certainly, but history will bear the Richmesiter out.) The joke is that Schneider’s office pest is well past his expiration date, what with #MeToo and his schtick having worn bare halfway through its first quarter-century-ago iteration. Which doesn’t explain why we needed another entire two minutes of it to remind us. The anti-vaxxinator, the conspiracy kook-o-rama, etc.
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I was gonna say Mango was his worst character, but then I remembered that wasnt Schneider
Somebody mentioned eating mango on Facebook a couple of years ago and my immediate reaction was “Wait, is Chris Kattan dead or what?”
Mango was so bad.
You said Mango but in my head I pictured Mr. Peepers.
Oh my god, i did too. I think i just realized that they aren’t the same character, and i’m not sure what Mango actually did other than wear tiny shorts
There was an A&E Biography episode on SNL from 2002 or so, and they’re doing the initial table read of all the skits, and Kattan just sits there and is like “I’m thinking about doing another Mango, I dunno, just a thought.” It’s one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen. Also, fuck Chris Kattan.
Also, Mango was hilarious the first 10 times he was on.
The Liz Lemon eye roll is actually quite similar to this sketch in being mildly funny for a few seconds years ago, and never again.
I’m sure people who used to be more famous than they are now miss the attention (and money). Fair enough.
I worked in the copy room at a law firm a few years ago and we had a framed photo of The Richmeister above the desk, taking his rightful place as the patron saint of people who make copies.
That’s actually kind of awesome. lol
* Bonus points if it was a photocopy
We printed it on the color Xerox, so in a way it was.
Hasn’t David Spade had, like, 6 different talk shows on Comedy Central in the last 20 years? Is there a Guinness Book of Sad World Records?
Julia Sweeney heard they’re bringing back SNL characters that don’t work in today’s environment and immediately started to dust off the old Pat costume.
“The stars have aligned….it is, once again, time for androgyny…”
Oddly enough Julia has had something of a career resurgence in the last year or two. She’s also on Twitter and thankfully seems very sweet.
She is really quite good on Shrill.
she was great in Shrill
I’d kind of like to see a new Pat sketch where Pat just exists and no one is uncomfortable because who cares what gender someone is.
“I feel so weird bringing this up, but have you met the new employee, Pat?”“What about them?” “I feel like such a jerk, but do you ever wonder… Is that their real voice?”“Oh my God! I know! I didn’t want to say anything, but that can’t be their real voice, can it? Nobody sounds like that!”It can’t be a worse premise than the original sketch.
“Hey, umm, have you met Pat?”
“Oh yeah, do you know . . . what gender pronoun Pat prefers?”
“No, I don’t.”
“Damn. It doesn’t come up much when you’re talking to Pat, but it’s kind of awkward to ask, you know? I mean, Pat’s in my bowling league and it’s just hard to keep referring to Pat as Pat, instead of he or she or they.”
Yeah, jokes at the expense of unfunny SNL characters aside, at least Sweeney is likable as a person.
Jay Mohr can come on doing a Christopher Walken impression and baffle everyone. “Who is this guy? Was he on Saturday Night Live?”
I met Julia Sweeney at a book signing and told her how much I loved her time on SNL. That was apparently a bad move, as her expression completely changed and she stopped talking to me. I felt terrible later, when I googled and found out she actually hated her time there. I still feel sorta bad about it.
Remember when people pointed out that character was transphobic and the AV Club got really mad about it?
Eh, I wouldn’t call it transphobic because Pat wasn’t transgender. Pat was unintentionally androgynous. I would say it’s just overall in poor taste.
Unintentional or not, it definitely sent the message to a lot of trans people that any attempt to explore their gender identity would get them labeled as hideous freaks to be gawked at.
*sigh*Why did I watch that?Sort of related, I watched The Mighty Ducks the other day. I had never seen it before. One of the kids “character” was just doing this bit. Man was it annoying. But then I remembered that doing that bit was a lot of kids’ characters in the early 90’s. It was actually probably the most realistic kid portrayal in the film.
Averman. I’ve seen The Mighty Ducks and D2 way too many times. I knew immediately who you meant.
Like the kid in Overboard who wouldn’t stop doing Pee-Wee Herman imitations on set so they just gave up and worked it into the film.
As silly as this sounds, I have to defend the Copy Guy character a bit here. He was a part of an SNL era that for the most part knew how to not overuse their recurring characters (they’d done it too much with the Church Lady and Hans and Frans so I think they cut back a bit) and also tried to put the characters in a variety of situations. He usually only appeared a few times a season and most of the time the scenes were relatively short. And compared to some recurring people of this period, like Pat (love Julia Sweeney though), the character hasn’t aged. He is actually MUCH more gross toward women in this bit than I ever remember him being in his SNL sketches. Rob Schneider’s horrible films and general shittiness as a person seem to have made him a hate figure in recent years – when Jan Hooks died, Tina Fey actually singled him out as having a career that Jan never really got to have – but his run on SNL is actually pretty solid. He usually had a good energy, didn’t endlessly mug, and could play a variety of characters. I guess he really is the new Victoria Jackson, whose more than decent SNL run is now overshadowed by her shittiness. (I’m not saying people should put their appearances on a sketch comedy show 25-30 years ago over their behavior in recent years, by the way)This appearance on Spade was just unbearably sad. Spade’s show in general just seems incredibly sad and I’m not sure what Comedy Central is going through if this is what they come up with. Having an episode with Hader (who has gone from strength to strength and is currently getting the best reviews of his career in both film and television), Spade (who has never done much of quality but is still known enough to headline shows) and Schneider (who has worked but seems to be a mess and is now used as a cautionary tale) is like someone coming to three doors and desperately hoping they’ll choose the right one.
Any kind of quality David Spade’s career ever had died with Chris Farley.
I wouldn’t say he had it even then, honestly. I think Spade is good with a one-liner, when he doesn’t overdo it, and clearly he’s done enough to keep chugging along, but he’s never done that much for me. The time I enjoyed him most was when Teri Hatcher hosted SNL and they impersonated each other.
I don’t know what it says about someone when Joe Dirt was the high point of their career.
Height of his *solo* career. It says he’s the comedy equivalent of Peter Criss. (Minimal disrespect intended, but, know your role.)
Hell yeah, Joe Dirt was hilarious.
Oh come now… Just Shoot Me! was pretty damn good. It featured a great pre-Veronica Mars Enrico Colantoni to boot.
I would say Tommy Boy is Spade’s high point. But, Spade’s career in its entirety was straight man to Farley. Tommy Boy was the best thing Spade ever did, and it was good solely because of Farley. Outside of that context, Spade’s highpoint was the Emperor’s new Groove, which again, what does it say about someone when the high point of their individual efforts is 2nd/3rd tier Disney fare? But let’s be honest, they just tried to replace funny big-guy Farley with another funny big guy in John Goodman, only to flip the straight man role.
My favorite part of that sketch was how much better Hatcher’s impression of Spade was than the other way around. His impression was basically drag, her impression was a very effective send-up of his annoying tics. I’m biased though – I had the biggest crush on Teri Hatcher. I sat through Heaven’s Prisoners. The whole damn thing.
Comedy Central re-aired the Roast of Rob Lowe last week, and one of the jokes about Spade was that Chris Farley died from carrying him his whole career. Harsh…but fair. Though, I’ll be honest. Spade was fine in Tommy Boy.
We’ll always have the Emperors New Groove, just about the last great traditionally animated Disney movies.
I’m not a David Spade fan per se, but I thought his run on Just Shoot Me! was pretty good, especially for a sitcom of that era. Perhaps this was peak Spade?
That show had some really good moments.
I recently watched the first few seasons of Just Shoot Me. Went into it not liking Spade at all, but I ended up enjoying his performance as Dennis. He was an awful little shit with brief moments of redemptive promise, but that was kind of the point.
But at least David Spade seems to be a genuinely decent human being.
At least with Victoria Jackson, it appears that she might actually be sick/confused/whatever-the-euphemism-we’re-not-allowed-to-say-about-mental-illness – and might benefit from professional help.
From what I’ve read in more recent years she was apparently always a bit of a handful even on the show, so you may be right.
She’s a complete fuckin’ loon, if that’s the term you’re looking for.
I wanted to avoid someone chiming in with, “REALLY?!? ARE YOU A LOON DOCTOR????!!!! IT’S COMPLETELY IRRESPONSIBLE TO CALL HER A LOON IF YOU’RE NOT A LOON DOCTOR AND HAVE NOT EXAMINED HER!!!! AND THEN IT WOULD BE A VIOLATION OF DOCTOR-LOON CONFIDENTIALITY!!!!! LOONS ARE NEEDLESSLY DEMONIZED IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!“
I would caution against attributing her rampant bigotry to mental illness. She may have both, but the two aren’t necessarily connected. That said, this article on her is a descent into hell.
Wow. When these people say “Tea Party…”
Wow. I have read some about her, but that is one of the most bonkers celebrity profile pieces I’ve ever read. I lack words for it, really.
Bring a Christian is bigotry? Nice stereotype, hypocrite
She is a fucking right wing loon. She is all about the conspiracy theories and a total nutjob.
“The Copy Guy” character was not annoying because of what SNL did with it, but because of what the public did with it. Everyone at the time in and out of the office thought mimicking it constantly all the time in any situation was funny. It was not.
I see your point. I remember lots of “pump…YOU UP” stuff around those years too. I guess with so much time passed I have separated the old stuff when I watch it back to what I experienced at the time.
But that’s just normal behavior. I mean, how many “I’m Rick James, bitch!” did people say 10 years ago?
Hell, white frat boys referencing this skit is why Dave Chappelle walked away from it all.
Well, that and some other things. I saw his standup in Orlando less than a year after he left his show, and his routine involved his reasons for leaving, in a roundabout, metaphorical way. The gist of it was that he felt that if he stayed on for that much money, he’d be just another “ho” (money maker) for the “pimps” (the entertainment industry), and that the pimps were trying some devious shit to make that happen.
Ten years ago? Oh no, somewhere around 18 years or so.
The Copy Guy was actually a pretty popular character. I remember SNL placing him in an L.A. Law sketch when Susan Dey hosted, so I know what you mean about placing him in entertaining situations. I’m almost certain the person who wrote this article is a millenial who is too young to remember.
One of his last sketches was as the copy guy for Waco. A bit crass, but inventive compared to most. And yeah he was pretty popular – they had an episode in 1993 with a Super Bowl halftime show parody and he and Pat were made into mascot costumes, which kind of says it all.
I remember the Waco sketch, now that you mention it. And I remember when McCauley Culkin played Copy Guy in a flash back to when he was in elementary school.
you know what?
Wait, when you say “Waco,” do you mean the Branch Davidian compound in Waco?
It was before it burned down.
Okay, because that would have been dark
Everyone thought Waco was really funny until the raid.
Yeah. Mike Myers played Koresh and the copy guy was one of his followers. That was pretty much the last of those sketches.
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/cold-opening-richmeister-in-waco/n10403
It takes a few decent hits at Koresh: Rich: Lisa, wife number 12, also her age
Lisa:Hi RichRich: Child bride of the of the Lamb of God, no age minimum for the King of Kings.
The best SNL season is whichever one was on when you were fourteen.
Fuuuuuuuuuck that, I was 14 during that abysmal ‘94-’95 season, which is hands down the worst season this show’s ever had. And it’s had a lot of bad shows.No no, the best season ever was ‘92-’93. When I was twelve.
I think that’s spot on. It has something to do with expectations, and with the sophistication of the humor.Now, at 40, I feel they produce entire shows that don’t feature a single funny sketch. But I’m sure teens and twentysomethings would disagree.
Even when I was 14 I felt like that so I’m not sure what that says about me. I went from the Hartman/Dunn/Hooks/Lovitz/etc. years to within a few, nonstop Farley screaming and Sandler doing kooky voices. I do think that your first cast tends to be your favorite.I don’t think young people are that into the show anymore, maybe aside from Pete Davidson fans.
I never really minded this character. The character itself wasn’t funny at all, but the other actors’ characters’ reactions to him was funny. I also don’t remember minding Schneider that much on SNL. I haven’t liked anything I’ve seen him do since then, but that’s fine. He was part of one of the finest casts they’ve had. He might be a shitty person now (I guess? I don’t follow him but I’ll take everyone’s word), but that doesn’t really affect what he did in the past for me. Same with Victoria Jackson. It’s a little different from, say Bill Cosby. He was out there literally raping people while playing America’s Dad, so that makes The Cosby Show a harder watch for me now.
Now that you mention it, I do remember some of these sketches being reasonably well-received at the time. I mean, I guess they had to have been, otherwise why would they recur. I woudn’t go so far as to call the “makin’ copies” sketches, er, sophisticated, but there was a bit of anti-comedy to them. The joke wasn’t the wacky catchphrases, it was that you probably knew a similar sadsack who so badly misfired in their attempts at office bonhomie. Whereas the joke with Opera Man was…I don’t know what it was.I definitely did not think I would start this day with a halfhearted defense of a thirty-year-old Rob Schneider sketch. Dreams can come true!
Schneider certainly wasn’t Eddie Murphy or Joe Piscopo, but he did decent work on SNL. This character was by far his worst one. The only good sketch with him was when, for some reason, Sting was among the office drones he would annoy.I thought his recurring character as the hippie who sold imported handcrafts exclusively used for hiding one’s stash was better. And he had a great one-off as a subway busker who sang exclusively about giving him money, then would get really offended when people tried to tip him.
Agreed. Back when Schneider was on SNL, I thought he was going to be the next Dana Carvey – always amusing in every sketch he was in (the gyro “you lik-eh the juice” sketch is an all-time favorite), pretty reliable etc. But then he couldn’t get work and ended up a Sandler lackey.
“I’m not sure what Comedy Central is going through if this is what they come up with.”Seriously. When I heard about this I was really confused because I think there is literally zero audience for this show.
Copy Machine Guy IS Rob Schneider, a deeply troubled, insecure, weak-minded loser desperately maintaining a polite facade of phony friendship by endlessly repeating an unfunny joke towards an apathatic crowd to create the illusion of warm familiarity.
i’m just here because any discussion of SNL character being overused must begin with “The Californians,” the unfunniest thing on SNL in decades.
I think I’ve watched one of those once, maybe twice. It’s obvious the actors love doing them, which is why they keep coming back moreso than fan response (although some fans loved them too, especially with Kristen Wiig there), but – eh, just not for me. That era of SNL had some brilliant cast members but the scripts didn’t show it.
Don’t revisit your memories. The memory of the character is classic. When it aired, everyone did their “Making copies” in the office and “The _____-a-nator” and then would awkwardly stop. We’d all grin. Good times. Now, same thing. I occasionally will say, “Making coffee” and explain to my kids the character. They think it’s funny. Ha, ha.Never look at the old clips. Because there was no YouTube all we had was that best-seconds memory of the skit, so it was saved from itself (until they revived it the next week). Even my fond memories of Sting do not hold up in daylight (because I watched the original late, late at night and with several beers in me, but what YouTube at work, sober). I won’t show my kids; I learned my lesson when I showed them the original “Clash of the Titans”—Burgess Meredith is much more of a talker than teen me remembers!Note: The Greek Restaurant “Do you like-a the juice” sketch is funny in that they brought it back the following week and wrung whatever they could from it (Zeus!). Same thing–don’t rewatch it. In my memory, funny. I do own a Richard Laymer coffee mug. Story: In the early 90s I visited New York for the first time as an adult. I passed through the NBC store and saw the mug. Stupid and amusing, I didn’t have the cash but the idea would bubble up on occasion. Thanks to Ebay a Christian thrift store let me own it for ONLY $5.00! Love that mug.
I tried watching this show. I really tried. I’ve caught every episode of the Daily Show in one form or another since 2004 (though I admit it’s been mostly out of habit since Stewart left), watched every episode of Colbert, the ended-before-it’s-time The Nightly Show (RIP), @Midnight, and even the unnecessary The Opposition, but I couldn’t make it through 30 minutes of David Spade being aggressive unfunny (even if I like a number of his guests).
Congrats, Tosh – you finally have a rival for “shortest time to grab the remote after seeing your face on Comedy Central.”
No, I don’t like the sauce.
These sorts of lame appeals to a nostalgia that was never really there, killed Chevy Chase’s very brief awful talk show in it’s tracks. Would Millennials even remember the copier bit?
I tried to make it through that clip, tapped out at 3:01. FUCK that’s bad.
you’re a stronger person than i am, i only got to 0:12.
Yeah, it’s just…oof.
The heyday of that sketch was almost 30 years ago. That’s like if in the 90s “sock it to me” suddenly came back and was a recurring bit on SNL then.
“Here come the beep! Here come the beep!” >Marge Simpson giggle<
“WHAAAAAAAAAA RICKY!”
This was actually a thing? Holy shit that’s garbage.
For several weeks, yes it was.
Several weeks??? It lasted that long?I mean, that logic kept Conan on the air so awesome, but holy shit.
You figure there were two-weeks pre-taped before it ever went on the air, then the network gives it a couple of weeks honeymoon period to “find its audience.” 5 weeks from hyped to gone. This poster gives a great indication of the high expectations they had before it started.
Probably, because those episodes were rerun endlessly on Comedy Central well into the ‘00s. I’m a millennial, and certainly remember.
I’ve told this story before but I have a friend who worked with Schneider on a film made in 1996, The Adventures Of Pinocchio, probably not streaming on any service near you. Said he was an absolutely vile human being, and his behaviour on-set, very aggressively hitting on every single woman in the cast and crew, including my friend, just wouldn’t fly these days, and would have had his unfunny arse kicked off the film. And of course all the women who turned him down he decided were lesbians. He also seemed to think he was the star of the film, and repeatedly threatened to walk out and fly back to the States (film was shot in the Czech Republic), when he threw regular tantrums over the tiniest little things, until the director eventually reputedly offered to stop shooting immediately and drive him to the airport.
Pretty bold fuckin’ statement to be acting that badly on a Pinocchio movie you’re shooting in Czech Republic.
What apparently utterly infuriated him to the point of dementia was that the Czech and German female cast and crew had never heard of him, truly didn’t know who he was, and that drove him MAD!
I bet he ran around calling them foreigners, too.
Does this mean there was actually a “best” Rob Schneider SNL character?
It implies that linguistically, but I think you could argue that the scale starts at “bad” and goes down from there.
The orgasm guy was kind of funny.
I’d go with a non-speaking background role for best Schneider character.
A tie between ‘you put your weed in it’ guy and ‘you like-a the juice’ guy
I just remembered he’s in the Jiffy Express sketch. I’d go with that character.
What about the Sensitive Naked Man?
All of those guys were best in the Gap Girls sketches. Which is ironic, I suppose.
… the sensitive naked man?See it was funny because he was naked!
I always like the sensitive naked man. I think he only did it like 2 or 3 times.
David Spade invites Rob Schneider to reprise his worst The Sensitive Naked Man?
Something more enjoyable, his daughter singing about oral sex. I actually really like this, she seems nice and can sing. I didn’t even know it was his daughter until I googled her later.
Remember when Rob Schneider was the main star in his movies?
Stop acting like you are above others, Perkins.
Who the hell is Dennis Perkins, and why does he think he has knowledge of anything?
I thought Rob Schneider’s worst SNL character was when he was just playing himself on the show.
The irony using a Family Guy clip to make fun of someone for not being funny.
It was either that or playing an SNL skit w/ the “Richmeister”.
I worked with someone who did marketing for State Farm during the period when they brought back some SNL characters to hawk their insurance (Coneheads, Hans and Franz). Apparently they had a whole run of Copy Guy ads (tv, print, outdoor, etc) that they had to scrap when Schneider went on an anti-vaxx twitter screed.
Come up with a more annoying character than The Richmeister?
Perhaps when Kirsten Gillibrand finally drops out of the race, Spade can have Al Franken on as Stuart Smalley to comfort her…
I saw Rob Schneider in a movie theater in San Francisco in the late ‘90s. I swear he was no taller than about 4’8″.
Not sure what your point is? You’re quick to take a moral high road and act so woke by condemning any form of comedy that doesn’t meet your delicate sensibilities but think nothing of calling out a guy’s height to somehow illustrate he’s less than a real man? Not as progressive as you think of yourself.
Who said anything about comedy? My point is I saw Rob Schneider in a movie theater in San Francisco in the late ‘90s and he appeared to be no taller than 4’8″. Besides, I’m not sure what Rob Schneider even has to do with comedy to begin with.Sorry you’re so triggered by that, shorty.
That was such an odd comment.
Not triggered at all. I couldn’t care less what crazy cat ladies like you think. Just calling out your hypocrisy. Should’ve known you’re too dim to see it. Bye, kitty.
I’m curious what you think the word ‘hypocrisy’ means. Your first post meant nothing, and that post meant less than that. I’ll just let you keep typing words until you figure out what they mean, though. Sometimes that’s good for children to do as they learn.Oh, sorry. Cat door was open. Figured I’d come right on in.
Wow! Is this the actual Rob Schneider’s account?
Sorry, white knight. Crazy cat lady doesn’t need your snarky comment to defend her honour. And, it doesn’t make my point any less valid.
Ok, Rob.
Exactly right. I like how they pretend saying “no taller than about 4’8″” is not some dig on short people. I’m sure if someone made fun of an actual little person, this jabroni would fill his/her pants with outrage shit.
Note to self, Dennis Perkins apparently thinks anything he doesn’t find funny must be offensive…. Oh no, combine this character with his tweet about ghandi and he must be a white supremacist…..
You all are such haters.
I will never forgive Rob Schneider for ruining Colleen “America’s Sweetheart” Haskell’s acting career with horrible Schneider vehicle The Animal. She seems like such a nice lady.
So you mean to tell me that there are viewers who actually go out of their way and watch David Spade on some show? Huh. I’m amazed such gluttons for punishment still exist in 2019.
I think Rob ‘lika-da-juice’ a little too much.
The Richmeister is funny if you don’t actually watch the sketch. A lot of SNL stuff is like that. Phil Hartman’s Sinatra is glorious in my head (“I disqualify myself cause I done ‘em both.”), but looking up the actual sketch on YouTube is an inevitable letdown. That gap between concept and execution is just a feature of the show.
Hey, tough guy. You don’t scare me. I’ve got chunks of guys like you in my stool!
Supposedly, they came up with that line first, then had a conversation about which celebrity would be believable as saying it, and settled on Sinatra.
“Video unavailable. The uploader has not made this video available in your country.”You know what? I’m alright with this…
Schneider’s character was hilarious the first time I saw him. He reminded me of Eric Idle’s “nudge nudge” character – one of those irritating people you meet every day. It suffered by SNL milking the ever-loving fuck out of it.
Me too? Was that character sexist or something? I don’t remember it being like that at all. Just that he was “harrassing” people by being too friendly while they’re trying to work.
Damn, Harold Finch really let himself go.
I remember watching SNL regularly when this character was a thing, and remember not finding it funny but also not being particularly bothered by it. I think it’s probably the most innocuous of the recurring unfunny characters on SNL—definitely less annoying to me than Mango.
AWESOME! I LOVE the Richmeister!
Those original skits were funnier than anything that has aired on SNL in the past decade-plus, maybe even longer. Basically because nothing on modern day SNL passes as actual comedy anymore. I saw one of the writers doing standup recently (of course she was a queer woman of color, because the SNL writing room is woke now) and nothing in her set could classify as a joke. It was by far the worst standup comedy I have ever seen. She was nervous, mumbling, stating random things and ending them with “sheeeet” instead of a punchline of any sort. If she can’t construct a basic joke, how can she write a funny skit? She is the absolute representation of their current output which sucks ass. And it’s not even her fault, the cast she’s working with isn’t any better.
I’ve tried to watch this show a couple of times but its just not good. I do not understand why they have this to David Spade. He just doesn’t fit. I also don’t get why Comedy Central can’t make this format work. The idea of a rotating panel of current comics sitting around shooting the shit on pop culture and news SHOULD work. Something like a more upbeat Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn or a non-game show version of @midnight where they just fire off jokes on a couple of topics and if the panel goes on a tangent, film that chaos.
As I was taking a stroll down memory lane, I was watching the old 90’s X-Men animated series, and in one episode, Morph, the X-Man shapeshifter was duplicating another character when he was heard to remark “Making Copies!”It was…very dumb.
Do you mean Jamie Madrox, The Multiple Man?Edit : Disregard. I forgot that for a brief time in the 90’s The Changeling changed his name to Morph. I remember him now.
I dunno. I watched this last night and laughed. Also, worst SNL character? That’s not even close to accurate.
But wait….women want to be desired right? Just not by Rob Schneider….
It was ‘watercooler’ popular in that era for quite close to a year as I recall it. We bandied the dialogue back-and-forth with abandon since a number of folks consistently found it funny. A work associate did a take-off on the Christopher Walken skit, “Connie Stinson Talks”. This was an irreverent one-and-done which could never fly present day. There’re bootleg copies out there but you’d really have to dig to find it. It was never rebroadcast after its first airing but some of us at work at the time had taped the episode on our VCRs.
Wow, have all of you actually watched the show? It’s super funny and way looser, wilder, and more authentic than other late night shows. It feels like old Conan meets Chelsea Lately meets @midnight meets Tough Crowd. Whether you love or hate Spade, it’s worth watching.
I enjoyed the show with Todd Glass in which Spade recalled when they first did stand up in Las Vegas, and his having a safe in his hotel room, and how that wound up costing him $500 bucks.
Yeah, this deserved an entire article. “Grr, I don’t like this, and you shouldn’t either!”.Never change, AV Club.
This whole thing reads like a man-child pissing and moaning about a skit character. And that’s exactly what it is. Then the whole thing comes out, he’s a right-wing comic so you have to hate him. This is why nobody takes the left seriously. You’re a bunch of crybaby little faggots that can’t stop crying whenever someone dared to disagree with you. I’m not right-wing either, I lean left but I try to stay right in the center – because both sides are fucking retarded. But the left has become far worse than the right anymore, with your constant complaining and entitlement and everything hurts your feelings and the whole fucking batshit idea that is socialism.
This whole comment section reeks of unfunny.