Over the weekend, “Saturday Night Live” hired two new comediennes, Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad, just as it was letting go Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson. Although Watkins was a surprise, Wilson was in few skits and impressed in fewer, so I considered it to be inconsequential enough to ignore.
But SNL is too established as a comedy showcase to make changes in its female cast without people bringing race, attractiveness, weight, and any other characteristic held by anyone who isn’t a white male. While NPR bashed the grossly overrated Washington Post critic Tom Shales for his retardery, E! gossip columnist Ted Casablanca claimed that Wilson was let go because she wasn’t thin enough:
Our inside comedy sources tell us SNL producers told the curvy Casey to lose 30 pounds during the show’s summer hiatus. They pretty much demanded it. And whether Wilson just couldn’t drop the weight or she just only wanted to give her middle finger some exercise, she didn’t drop a damn pound. And that’s when she was axed, we’re told.
Wilson certainly isn’t slender, but she definitely doesn’t need to lose 30 pounds to do sketch comedy. So if that’s true, then she should be allowed to exact some kind of revenge on Lorne Michaels. Perhaps by sitting on him. I kid, I kid — honestly, I think it’s more likely that Casablanca can’t tell his head from her ass, as determined by this:
There’s some seriously unfunny stuff happening over at Saturday Night Live. First up, just like last year, they’ve added two pretty white chicks to the mostly white cast. These gals might be deserving, but there are plenty of hilarious black and Asian and nonwhite comedians out there who would give the show more diversity.
That’s odd, because Nasim Pedrad is Iranian. I’m pretty sure Iranian is non-white. So SNL got rid of two white cast members, and 50% of the new hires were non-white. Also note how Casablanca says that there are plenty of hilarious minority comedians (his emphasis), but he doesn’t suggest any names.
I always get pissed when people bitch about a comedy troupe’s male-to-female ratio or its lack of racial diversity. It’s COMEDY, you PC dickheads. The only requirement is that it’s FUNNY. Listen, no one will deny that everything and anything Tracy Morgan says is hilarious, but his departure from SNL doesn’t mean that Kenan Thompson is a worthwhile replacement. SNL doesn’t need to be a melting pot representing America, it needs to make me laugh.
*sigh* This is why people hate liberals.
Of course, I’m a white male, so what do I know? I’m just doing my part in the vast conspiracy to keep women and minorities from succeeding. Now excuse me while I collect my statistically larger paycheck.
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There’s some seriously unfunny stuff happening over at Saturday Night Live.
Kristen Wiig? Yeah, it’s Kristen Wiig.
I like Kristen Wiig. There are way worse components on the show than her.
Kristen Wiig is awesome. Wilson wasn’t too bad. Her Katy Perry spoof was hilarious. That whole Anne Hathaway episode was pretty damn good.
Kenan Thompson should be working at Path Mark.
Substitute comedy for football, and “non-white” for “non-black.”
“but there are plenty of hilarious non-black athletes out there who would give the NFL more diversity.”
See how far THAT gets you.
Are NFL scouts looking for hilarious players?
Seriously, the problem with SNL isn’t a lack of diversity — Horatio Sanz was just Jimmy Fallon with an eating disorder, and Fred Armisen couldn’t find a joke with a GPS.
The problem with SNL is that it’s just not funny. It used to be 45 minutes that were good and 45 that sorta sucked, and now they’ve streamlined it to one mediocre joke and a long haul of crap.
The real problem isn’t the actors, it’s Lorne Michaels. He’s like the Al Davis of network programming. Old, clueless, and likely incontinent.
As far as I can tell, people are tiring of Kristen Wiig only because they use the fuck out of her on SNL.
I like the ones with nice tits.
Actually, Iranians consider themselves to be white. The whole idea of “Aryans” actually was started in Iran and not Germany.
Iranians consider themselves to be white
There are about a 100 million Republican voters who would disagree with that.
I think the reason SNL is not funny anymore is the invention of the internet. Anyone can create a sketch and put it on YouTube and FunnyorDie and I think this puts the pressure on SNL to be funnier than some 15 year old kid that put up a funny sketch on the internet.
I also think that in areas, where SNL would be considered the leader of the pack like mocking pop culture, they cant compete with “The Daily Show” or even blogs that can do it on a daily bases.
They also went away from the whole concept of reoccurring characters. They dont have one character that people look forward to. All SNL stars were born on their ability to develop characters and not for their ability to mock politics.
@CrabApple:
SNL stopped being funny loooooong before the internet. It really started to go downhill when they began to rely on the same characters week in and week out (Billy Crystal, Eddie Murphy, etc.). While they were pretty funny, they beat them to death until everyone was sick of them.
Of course, nowadays, it’s pretty much just 90 minutes of awkward silence interrupted occasionally by tidbits of awkward laughter.
Meh, I’d still fuck her.
So people still watch SNL?? Huh….
@ Duke of Madness: Not gonna argue against what you said to CrabApple becasue your point is valid (internet didn’t ruin SNL).
But I take it you stopped watching SNL in the early 80′s before Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Kevin Nealon, Victoria Jackson, Jon Lovitz, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler and Molly Shannon joined the cast…you know, when the show was funny for a decade…just saying.
*sigh* This is why people hate liberals.
No, there are other reasons too.
We have a selective memory about how funny SNL was in the 80s and 90s. Instead of watching the best of Phil Hartman or the best of Chris Farley, go back and watch an *entire* episode and prepare to be bored and uncomfortable.
I prefer to think of Jews, Italians, and the Irish as non-white, so Andy Samberg is all the diversity I need. I’m old school like that.
anything Tracy Morgan says is hilarious, but his departure from SNL doesn’t mean that Kenan Thompson is a worthwhile replacement
Kenan Thompson is NEVER a worthwhile replacement for ANYTHING
If they make a “Fatcherlorette” (female lead version of More to Love), I hope it stars a triumphant Casey Wilson. And her jugs.
We have a selective memory about how funny SNL was in the 80s and 90s. Instead of watching the best of Phil Hartman or the best of Chris Farley, go back and watch an *entire* episode and prepare to be bored and uncomfortable.
This goes two-fold for the 70′s stuff that is so glorified. Yeah, Belushi was funny, but for every “classic” sketch with him or Akroyd, there were a dozen absolute stinkers.
Casey Wilson never had a single memorable character her entire time there. She never carried a sketch either. On SNL they want you to develop some good, re-occuring characters that they can (maybe) turn into a horrible movie. She didn’t do that, so they canned her fat ass.
Maybe I’m one of the few who think they’ve got some really funny people (Armisen, Wiig, Hader). Let’s all just think God Finesse Mitchell isn’t on anymore.
SNL is still hilarious. People are ALWAYS saying SNL currently sucks. You know why? Its HARD to come up with 90 minutes of good comedic material. So you’ll get one sketch that kills, 2-3 that are okay, and the rest will absolutely bomb. But we think “SNL used to be really hilarious – what happened?” because we only remember the funny sketches. Go back and watch a full length episode from the Chevy Chase days, or the Dana Carvey days. There is some great stuff, the there is also a ton of sketches that absolutely suck.
I thought Wilson had her moments and the Michaela girl was actually quite talented. I’d axe Fred Armisen, Keenan Thompson and Will Forte before I’d even think of axing them. Heck, Chris Elliott’s daughter brought absolutely nothing to the table last season other than a funny impression of Angelina Jolie – how did she keep her job?
the only skits I watch from SNL anymore are the ones funny enough to make people tell me about it and it ends up everywhere online (ex. Jizz in my pants). the show is just painful anymore. I found it to be hilarious in the 90′s and that was before I started smoking copious amounts of weed. Even weed doesn’t help now.
If this starts Wilson down the path toward porn, or, more to the point, fucking me, then I wholeheartedly support this move by Lorne Michaels.
I hear fat chicks give good head so I bet Casey Wilson is pretty good at it. Id still stick in her butt. That might be the only tight place left on her.
“Chris Elliott’s daughter brought absolutely nothing to the table last season other than a funny impression of Angelina Jolie – how did she keep her job?”
Because she is crazy hot and I would like to bang her.
“I prefer to think of Jews, Italians, and the Irish as non-white”
That’s funny, because not only the Jews and Italians, but also the Irish and Germans used to be considered non-white in the U.S. (yes, really). Obviously, ridiculous today.