Wednesday, April 22, 2020

218: "Jeffrey Jones 2020" - How High (2001)

Happy 4/20!  We watched How High.  Why did we do such a thing?  Well, Tracy Morgan and Garrett Morris show up for about 25 seconds as spokesmen for Porkchops O' Chunky.  That's right, two SNL alums are in this movie for less than a minute and they're on the TV in the background of a scene.  This is a very bad movie where terrible people do terrible things and are rewarded for it.  For the second time in Saturday Night Jive history Jeffrey Jones (a convicted sexual predator) comes off as the best person in the film.  Enjoy!

Saturday, April 11, 2020

217: "No Pandemic Gonna Stop Me From My Bucket Of Chicken" - SNL Season 6 Episode 5 - David Carradine / Pirates Of Penzance

We're still social distancing and recording over Skype so pardon the audio quality but no pandemic gonna stop us from talking about an old ass episode of Saturday Night Live.  This is one from the infamously bad season 6 hosted by David Carradine and featuring a musical performance from the cast of The Pirates Of Penzance.  We picked this episode because we pulled Gail Matthius out of the hat but this episode has a drunk host, valley girls, Eddie Murphy, multiple Carl Sagan references, chicken, a black Bruce Lee, a not horrendous Weekend Update, Mr. Bill, and of course it wouldn't be an episode of SNL from the 1980s without somethings that have dated poorly (not only talking about Gilbert Gottfried in Chinese makeup).  Enjoy!
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Friday, April 3, 2020

216: "Social Distancing With Monkey Puns " - Space Chimps (2008)

It's Andy Samberg week on Saturday Night Jive and we are doing our civic duty by practicing social distancing so we recorded an episode over Skype.  Sorry if the sound quality isn't up to our usual standards but if there was anything we could do that was dumber than watching Space Chimps and talking about it for an hour it's watching Space Chimps and talking about it for an hour over Skype.  This animated tale from 2008 stars Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines and Patrick Warburton as monkeys sent to space to track down a rover that has fallen into the hands of an evil alien voiced by Jeff Daniels.  It's a real stupid movie and way shittier than we ever expected.  The animation is gross to look at, the script consists almost entirely of monkey puns, and Kristen Chenowith voices a singing light bulb head alien who gets pooped out by a monster.  Also featuring SNL alum Kenan Thompson, this movie sucks almost as much as being quarantined with coronavirus. Enjoy!