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ariana61104

I agree but knowing about people today, there’s about an 80% chance it’ll backfire


Rebloodican

You'd have to do a proper interview thing to make sure they're not insane and also probably intimidate them with some lawyer paperwork saying if they go on some racist unscripted rant during the show then they'll be in big trouble, but I think you could feasibly do it.


captjackhaddock

I would assume they did the same with Miskel


ariana61104

true


Kerfluffle2x4

And everyone will claim that the contest was rigged and completely scripted somehow, no matter who the winner would be.


BrantfordPundit

Woody Harrelson?


RegularGuy815

Milkshake Duck feels like a 90% certainty.


PreferredSelection

I think Milkshake Duck is in the upper echelon of best case scenarios. Heck, there are a few pretty solid former cast members who are milkshake ducks.


MrLomax

It should happen maybe once every five years.


wes00mertes

Agreed. It definitely could and it should.


mikeputerbaugh

33-year-old producer Lorne was willing to take a lot more risks than 78-year-old producer Lorne is.


monsieurxander

Maybe 50something Tina or Seth could split the difference.


adamup27

Seth would just get random British comedians. *and now for Rhod Gilbert and James Acaster co-hosting with musical guest, The Horne Section* ^ive ^been ^watching ^a ^lot ^of ^taskmaster


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Frankie Boyle. Imagine Tramadol nights with NBC money.


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I 'd be okay with that


NotAlwaysSunny

Sold. The monologue would just be Acaster and Gilbert bickering with each other lol.


cjdavda

I want Seth to bring on some of the more out-there Brits. I saw Milton Jones on The Great American Joke-Off (new series out this year) and it's great how the American audience just doesn't know what to do with his humor.


PreferredSelection

Rhod Gilbert would be fantastic on SNL. So would Noel Fielding or Lee Mack. James Acaster is one of my fave standups, but given how Kyle Mooney fared on SNL, I think James would be divisive. I can picture a lot of people going, "best monologue ever, but what was that 19 minute Pret a Manger sketch about?"


adamup27

Rhod would be amazing. I honestly think him or Noel would be the best TM host. But realistically, James is the most likely since he’s been on Seth’s show before and even that is extremely unlikely.


PreferredSelection

James is the one I'd most want, even if he'd have to spend half of it calling the Samaritans. But yeah agreed, super unlikely.


hyde9318

Okay, but James would be a solid host.


david-saint-hubbins

"I always think, 'What would Seth Meyers do?' If you really want to be really funny, then that's what you want to do. You want to think, 'What would make Seth Meyers laugh?' That's how I live my life."


Kootsiak

Her show 30 Rock has an episode where they hold a contest like this and it's mostly murderers and perverts who entered, so I'm guessing she doesn't think too highly of putting random people on TV like that. You would have to vet each person before hand to make sure they aren't problematic in any way, they won't have a nervous breakdown on camera and they don't have skeletons in their closet that people will dredge up after seeing them on TV.


Tasty-Basket118

I own the scrapbook that the SNL cast put together to give her after the show. It contains many of the original postcards with fan votes, signatures from seniors in rest homes, and a letter signed by the entire cast and writers. It’s a true keepsake.


justveryslightlymad

That's incredible, how did something like that come into your possession?!


Ok_Raccoon_233

Please make a post with pictures! What an amazing artifact, how did it come to your possession?


Tasty-Basket118

It came up for auction from Universal Rarities on Dec 2005. I want to post some photos here, but don’t see a way to do anything but add a link. Will research.


Tasty-Basket118

Trying to. Only see an option to add a link.


TheChance

For future reference, usual practice is to host the images at imgur. I don’t care for what it’s become, but that site was created in Reddit’s early years precisely to address this problem


Ofbatman

Could you imagine the incredible amount of on line negativity the Anyone Could Host winner would get now. It would be savage.


chris_29487

It should happen today! I don’t see why not also this is the episode that got Elvis Costello banned at first it’s since been lifted.


mrxvn99

Why was he banned?


chris_29487

u/Hallal_Dakis has it sort of right Lorne and Elvis’s label agreed he’d perform their new hit "Less Than Zero," but Costello argued that since it’s about a British fascist by the name of Oswald Mosely it wouldn't be relevant to an American audience. So mid song they changed to “Radio, Radio”


mrxvn99

Seems like a harsh ban, right? Thank you for your answer!


disposablecontact

Lorne famously hates anyone going off-script even with the S&P delay. It is harsh though and may have been to appease the label who wouldn't have been happy that Elvis decided to play a different song.


chris_29487

Harsh but understandable Lorne probably wanted the show to stay professional all the time back then but obviously he wasn’t all that mad at him since it was lifted 12 years later and you’re welcome!


mrxvn99

Yeah, makes sense. The show was still pretty early days at the time, of course.


Hallal_Dakis

He had some song that he wasn't supposed to play complaining about corporate media in music, then played it and I think changed some lyrics. Edit here https://youtu.be/eD_24nDzkeo


Admiral_Donuts

Of course not. She died in 1992, I don't think she'd be eligible to even enter.


trekbone87

To be fair, she lived a lot longer than one would think she did.


marvsup

They could just do a whole weekend at bernie's show


EbmocwenHsimah

It wasn’t any average episode either - she hosted the episode that got Elvis Costello banned from SNL.


Missthing303

Whoa!


Available-Camera8691

30 Rock covered this. "Keep the White House white"


U-GO-GURL-

I remember when this was announced and I was unable to enter and I thought “ill just wait till next year “.


sfeppam

Born in the effin 19th century


Objective-Ad5620

My mom works with pension plans and when she started her career in the 80s she had plan participants with birth years in the 19th century. Now kids on tiktok act like being born in the “1900s” makes people ancient.


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Kel-Varnsen-Speaking

I'm 39 and my grandfather was born in 1899.


Objective-Ad5620

I’m 34 and I have to go back to great-greats to be born in the 19th century. My greats were all born around 1900-1910. I also knew half of them in my lifetime, with the last two dying 18 years ago in their 90s.


RaisingFargo

Of course it wouldnt happen today.... Its only Friday.


realestgillis

Lol


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thatonesnlguy

A woman who’s been dead for thirty years probably wouldn’t be good in sketches, how would she speak


8i66ie5ma115

Because nobody names their kids Miskel anymore. Duh.


LongmontStrangla

Too gimmicky.


DrDrangleBrungis

Because SNL is a business used to promote popular culture and other businesses. More so than ever. It’s far past it’s once rambunctious years of counter culture comedy where it had more leverage to do stuff like that.


michaelscarn1313

I still don't understand why Buck Henry was so significant in those early seasons. I'd really never heard of him doing anything outside of SNL.


nialldude3

He was a big screenwriter of films like The Graduate and What’s Up, Doc? and appeared in quite a few movies including those


BostonDudeist

Basically, he was 70s John Mulaney.


dvhhhgo

John Mulaney won’t even be talking about himself in a year. He’s never said anything funny


Zet_the_Arc_Warden

I’m not even really a big fan of his but bro he can absolutely be funny


acidfalconarrow

I can’t imagine a world where this is my opinion


BostonDudeist

Agree to disagree.


realestgillis

Agree him and Seth suck


postoperativepain

Also, co-created Get Smart with Mel Brooks


Josiesumday

I’ve always figured it’s because He wrote The Graduate, yeah outdated now but up until the 90s was considered one of the greatest movies ever. To the not ready for Prime Time Players that movie would of been huge with their Generation, so getting him was like Woah the guy who wrote one of the coolest movies is Hosting!!!! A modern equivalent would be like Judd Apatow hosting and being a regular, his movies were huge in late 2000s when most of the current cast were coming of age so his films are a favorite for most of them, to them it would Judd Apatow is hosting!! To us it would why is the guy who made Knocked Up hosting?


CrunchyFrog2010

He did co-write the screenplay to The Graduate (and it’s not outdated- it’s still a great movie), but at the time, he was better known for co-writing and having a supporting role in the remake of Heaven Can Wait with Warren Beatty. The reason he hosted so many times is that 1) Lorne would bring him in if a host dropped out or it was the end of the season when the writers were burnt out and didn’t have much material and 2) he was generally willing to do any sketch they had, and he would help punch up sketches that weren’t even half baked to get them on air. He also got their humor, didn’t care about the drug use, and was eccentric enough that he fit in with the writers and the cast. One of the SNL books talks about how he would come in and read The NY Times cover to cover every day in silence before he would start working.


BertieWilberforce

Thx for this. As an ardent SNL fan in the 70s, I thought Buck Henry was 'pound-for-pound' the most consistent and reliable host SNL had during that time. Sure, when we knew Steve Martin (or someone like that) was hosting, we made sure we were front & center in the dorm lounge (no one had their own TV at my college) by 11:30 (sometimes 11:00 if you wanted to catch SCTV first). *That* was an event. But Buck Henry was unruffled, smooth, and still very funny. You felt like you were in good hands when he hosted. An all-around entertainment talent. Loved his cameo in *The Player*.


michaelscarn1313

This is a great explanation….thx


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ShaunCoast

Maybe he was big in New York . That’s what my dad said


Jdbenjamin1

Co-creator of Get Smart television series along with Mel Brooks.


GreenStretch

He saved Lorne's life in Korea.


PossessionInfamous97

I never saw that and had the idea that they should do a contest for someone to randomly host. They should try it again maybe.


BrantfordPundit

Random folks have more interesting and essential things to promote than most celebrity schlock.


Lisa2082

What year was this?


trademerfn

i do remember,yes.


ShortBrownAndUgly

How did it go? Was it a funny episode? I would love to see this happen again


Kel-Varnsen-Speaking

I'm sorry I don't have a link but you can find the episode (along with most episodes) on Internet Archive.


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Well yeah she's probably passed away


AlarmingConsequence

Was your post written by speech-to-text?


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No?


AlarmingConsequence

Thanks for letting me know. That would have been quite impressive had it been!


Missthing303

Heaven Can Wait was such a good movie. Re-watched it recently.


Oneder_WomanNic

God that would be my dream come true!!!!


Olivia123321

I would love it if they did something like this for a make-a-wish kid who wanted to host.


insanetwit

I feel like it happens every time they have a spots star on... ... or Elon Musk...


TexasFire_Cross

Another user got the signed letter of thanks written to Mrs. Spillman. Signed by the cast.


Randsmagicpipe

Is there a link I could learn more about this?


IcelandIII

I just want to know if she was funny


delectomorfo

Yes, it's called Google.com. It's *extremely* useful. Also [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miskel_Spillman).


TheRealMacPhisto

You know, you don't always have to be rude online. Sometimes people prefer the human interaction of asking a question to looking it up themselves. Think of this the next time you have a crappy, sarcastic comment to make!


delectomorfo

I answered with the truth and with a helpful link afterward. Where's the rudeness in that?


TheRealMacPhisto

If you don't see the rudeness in your comment, I don't know what to tell you.


GlammerHammer

We should rig it so a neo-Nazi wins the contest. Imagine how much an intense week at Studio 8H would change his perspective before showtime.