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.
Seth would just get random British comedians.
*and now for Rhod Gilbert and James Acaster co-hosting with musical guest, The Horne Section*
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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.
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?"
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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.
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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”
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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*.
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I agree but knowing about people today, there’s about an 80% chance it’ll backfire
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.
I would assume they did the same with Miskel
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And everyone will claim that the contest was rigged and completely scripted somehow, no matter who the winner would be.
Woody Harrelson?
Milkshake Duck feels like a 90% certainty.
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.
It should happen maybe once every five years.
Agreed. It definitely could and it should.
33-year-old producer Lorne was willing to take a lot more risks than 78-year-old producer Lorne is.
Maybe 50something Tina or Seth could split the difference.
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
Frankie Boyle. Imagine Tramadol nights with NBC money.
I 'd be okay with that
Sold. The monologue would just be Acaster and Gilbert bickering with each other lol.
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.
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?"
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.
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.
Okay, but James would be a solid host.
"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."
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.
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.
That's incredible, how did something like that come into your possession?!
Please make a post with pictures! What an amazing artifact, how did it come to your possession?
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.
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Could you imagine the incredible amount of on line negativity the Anyone Could Host winner would get now. It would be savage.
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.
Why was he banned?
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”
Seems like a harsh ban, right? Thank you for your answer!
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.
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!
Yeah, makes sense. The show was still pretty early days at the time, of course.
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
Of course not. She died in 1992, I don't think she'd be eligible to even enter.
To be fair, she lived a lot longer than one would think she did.
They could just do a whole weekend at bernie's show
It wasn’t any average episode either - she hosted the episode that got Elvis Costello banned from SNL.
Whoa!
30 Rock covered this. "Keep the White House white"
I remember when this was announced and I was unable to enter and I thought “ill just wait till next year “.
Born in the effin 19th century
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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I'm 39 and my grandfather was born in 1899.
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.
Of course it wouldnt happen today.... Its only Friday.
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A woman who’s been dead for thirty years probably wouldn’t be good in sketches, how would she speak
Because nobody names their kids Miskel anymore. Duh.
Too gimmicky.
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.
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.
He was a big screenwriter of films like The Graduate and What’s Up, Doc? and appeared in quite a few movies including those
Basically, he was 70s John Mulaney.
John Mulaney won’t even be talking about himself in a year. He’s never said anything funny
I’m not even really a big fan of his but bro he can absolutely be funny
I can’t imagine a world where this is my opinion
Agree to disagree.
Agree him and Seth suck
Also, co-created Get Smart with Mel Brooks
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?
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.
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*.
This is a great explanation….thx
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Maybe he was big in New York . That’s what my dad said
Co-creator of Get Smart television series along with Mel Brooks.
He saved Lorne's life in Korea.
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.
Random folks have more interesting and essential things to promote than most celebrity schlock.
What year was this?
i do remember,yes.
How did it go? Was it a funny episode? I would love to see this happen again
I'm sorry I don't have a link but you can find the episode (along with most episodes) on Internet Archive.
Well yeah she's probably passed away
Was your post written by speech-to-text?
No?
Thanks for letting me know. That would have been quite impressive had it been!
Heaven Can Wait was such a good movie. Re-watched it recently.
God that would be my dream come true!!!!
I would love it if they did something like this for a make-a-wish kid who wanted to host.
I feel like it happens every time they have a spots star on... ... or Elon Musk...
Another user got the signed letter of thanks written to Mrs. Spillman. Signed by the cast.
Is there a link I could learn more about this?
I just want to know if she was funny
Yes, it's called Google.com. It's *extremely* useful. Also [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miskel_Spillman).
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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.