Thursday, February 17, 2011

EVERYONE WAS CONVINCED THAT BEING TALL WAS THE NEXT BIG MOVEMENT IN COMEDY:  Scharpling and Wurster provide an oral history of the greatest SNL season that never was -- the summer of 1985 tryout episodes with a cast unlike any other.

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  1. Paul Tabachneck8:22 AM

    THEY TALK ABOUT MISFITS OF SCIENCE!  See, Robin?  It was a thing that happened.

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  2. isaac_spaceman10:49 AM

    Is that real?  Maybe I'm stupid, but I can't tell if that article is fake. 

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  3. It is close enough to realism to be exceptionally good.  

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  4. Joseph J. Finn11:25 AM

    Believe me, I remember how real it was.  And oddly, I linked to a video of it in the credit sequences discussion earlier this week.

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  5. I read the whole thing thinking it was real, wondering how I had not heard of this before.  I feel incredibly stupid.

    I think part of the reason (other then I am extremely gullible) that I believed it is because I imagine Jim Belushi is that much of an egotictical moron.

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  6. Marsha4:09 PM

    I was fine until they talked about Alex Karras getting the bench-press veto. Everything about it was way too odd to be real.

    Though I love this explanation of why Ellen Foley left Night Court after one season.

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  7. J. Bowman5:18 PM

    I couldn't decide, until I got to the picture of Orson Welles in the sumo suit.

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  8. Paul Tabachneck12:59 AM

    Those credits were the worst mess in history.  I dare you to parse those lyrics apart.  DARE, sir.

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  9. That was the "aha" moment for me too.  I genuinely was on the fence until that.

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