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Post by mamaloveme on Mar 2, 2012 13:13:15 GMT -5
happy she looks great! looking forward SNL!
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Post by DJ General on Mar 2, 2012 18:07:38 GMT -5
I watched her Jimmy Fallon interview last night. Kinda interested in her SNL episode tomorrow.
I also liked that she invited Fallon to come on the show. :O He seemed to be into it as well. I wonder if they will do another Debbie Downer sketch? And bring back the long awaited return of Rachel Dratch?? hmm
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Post by slw84 on Mar 2, 2012 18:24:47 GMT -5
Totally blown away by that interview....she's so coherent, in control, and genuine. Welcome back Lindsay. :'( She's always been a smart girl, it's just drugs messed her up. She's clean and will hopefully make a comeback. If so, I am ready to split my avis to the comeback queens of the 21st century...Britney and Lindsay. I'll be watching SNL hoping she pulls it off. I hope she is doing the gotti movie and I hope the Elizabeth taylor movie gets rave reviews. Maybe it worked out that she didn't do that porn star movie after all.
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Post by BadRomance on Mar 2, 2012 19:10:49 GMT -5
Rooting for her comeback but I hate those hairs!
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Post by die Lotterie on Mar 3, 2012 11:40:52 GMT -5
I love Lindsay! She always seemed like such a nice person. Her charisma in those interviews and on Jimmy Fallon is so smile-worthy.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Mar 3, 2012 13:08:25 GMT -5
Finally watched Matt Lauer. Man, I hope she can keep it together. We all love when the human spirit triumphs and I think she has it in her. Very courageous of her to lay it out there on the line like she did.
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Post by blue on Mar 3, 2012 13:40:15 GMT -5
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Post by Mack on Mar 3, 2012 14:08:43 GMT -5
^ I really love her voice, so I'm excited about that.
SNL is going to revitalize both her acting and singing careers. :'(
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Post by neally on Mar 3, 2012 14:12:07 GMT -5
^^ Wow, I might actually have to watch it tonight- one of the most potentially intriguing SNL episode on years.
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Post by themagic on Mar 3, 2012 19:17:03 GMT -5
A bit worried about the singing part, the drugs have probably ruined her voice :/. Well she doesn't have to be good since it's funny either way but if she wants a singing career she probably have to be.
Hope the drugs haven't ruined it.
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Post by MiniMusic on Mar 3, 2012 22:58:26 GMT -5
Awe, she is really sweet! I'm excited for SNL! She better slaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
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Post by ificanthaveyou on Mar 3, 2012 23:20:08 GMT -5
A bit worried about the singing part, the drugs have probably ruined her voice :/. Well she doesn't have to be good since it's funny either way but if she wants a singing career she probably have to be. Hope the drugs haven't ruined it. I don't think her managers would let her sing if she was going to completely embarrass herself. I am so excited for her. I don't know why, but I am always rooting for her to do good. I wasn't a major fan of hers growing up, but she just looks like a genuine person who went down the wrong path. Hopefully she can stay healthy and enjoy a nice career.
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Post by neally on Mar 3, 2012 23:59:10 GMT -5
She is staring at the cue cards for nearly all of her lines.....
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Post by Revelry on Mar 4, 2012 0:27:08 GMT -5
This episode blowsss. Lindsay's barely in any of the sketches.
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Post by die Lotterie on Mar 4, 2012 0:40:16 GMT -5
She is staring at the cue cards for nearly all of her lines..... In all fairness, it was really the camera positioning that made it obvious. You could tell Keenan was reading the script as well but it wasn't as obvious.
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Post by Mack on Mar 4, 2012 0:53:25 GMT -5
She's doing a good job. I only really noticed her cue-card reading during the cop sketch.
The brownish-red wig she wore for her last sketch further proved how much better she looks as a brunette.
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Post by Rurry on Mar 4, 2012 1:05:08 GMT -5
Lindsay did pretty well tonight. They didn't give her any major roles really, and she fucked up pretty bad in that Scared Straight sketch, but she seemed healthy and stable and by the end of the show had found her groove. She was great in the sketch with her and Wiig. The writing was awful tonight though, and I love SNL. I hope those of you who don't normally watch SNL know it's not usually this bad, I promise.
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Post by die Lotterie on Mar 4, 2012 1:10:38 GMT -5
I would agree that the writing was terrible tonight. Lindsay didnt have a lot to work with here. It was obvious all the cast members were reading the cue cards.
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Post by themagic on Mar 4, 2012 6:03:45 GMT -5
Not a very funny episode and not only Lindsay messed up Kristen also did on the calling sketch She did great anyways and looked amazing. I loved how at the end she was hugging everyone, she seemed so appreciative of everything.
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Post by ElectrOnyx on Mar 4, 2012 11:55:03 GMT -5
It's unfortunate that people are blaming Lohan for lousy sketches, when the writing was at fault. The writers had a lot to work with in regards to Lindsay, but they blew it. Don't even get me started on that God-awful radio morning show skit...
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Post by Mack on Mar 4, 2012 12:42:37 GMT -5
Don't even get me started on that God-awful radio morning show skit... Ha, I really liked that sketch.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Mar 4, 2012 13:51:47 GMT -5
Lindsay did pretty well tonight. They didn't give her any major roles really, and she f**ked up pretty bad in that Scared Straight sketch, but she seemed healthy and stable and by the end of the show had found her groove. She was great in the sketch with her and Wiig. The writing was awful tonight though, and I love SNL. I hope those of you who don't normally watch SNL know it's not usually this bad, I promise. LOL. It's usually worse. I really don't understand why it's still on the air...well, other than the fact that it's an institution at this point. People are always laughing while doing the skits, blatantly reading cue cards or just stuck in unfunny sketches that go nowhere and take a long time doing it. I'm here for the musical guests and curiousity due to guest hosts only. Lindsay did OK. Certainly no worse than Kenan Thompson at his best and on par with most of the cast.
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Post by Rurry on Mar 4, 2012 13:55:42 GMT -5
Erm...nope. I've been watching SNL every week for years and have seen a large portion of the old episodes, its always been up-and-down in quality. People conviently forget the bad sketches which is why older eras are looked at through rose-tinted-glasses. It's sketch comedy, it's not supposed to be perfect. That might not be your thing, but that doesn't mean it's bad.
Lindsay was definitely nowhere near Bill Hader or Kristen Wiig or most of the other talented trained comedians in the SNL cast.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2012 14:31:30 GMT -5
The episode wasn't that bad imo. There have been far worse episodes, this one had funny moments in most of the skits, it's just that none of them included Lindsay and she was given a background role for pretty much everything which is messed up. It was like there no guest host there this week, just time for the usual castmates to shine. The scene with Kristen Wiig where Lindsay had the biggest role/most lines was really good I think and her opening monologue was funny.
The only real bad skit was the Prison one and I feel like that's the one the media is targeting the most and using to say she was horrible and reading cue cards because that was the only time it was really noticeable throughout the show.
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Post by Rurry on Mar 4, 2012 14:43:50 GMT -5
I think the cue card reading may not have been her fault in that sketch. All hosts read cue cards - they were just in an awkward place there. She was fine in the other sketches. She wasn't a big comedic force and it wasn't as good as her past hosting experiences (she was always a pretty great host), but she was on par with your average non-comedian SNL host I'd say.
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Post by Mic Technique on Mar 4, 2012 15:20:27 GMT -5
I'm with Rurry whose grasp on/appreciation for comedy pretty much exceeds all of ours. LBR.
Butt dial terror was exceptional, Real Housewives of Disney is one for the books but beyond these two sketches, you had a poorly written show. Not unusual in the SNL universe but hardly the standard.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2012 18:30:21 GMT -5
Ok but Lindsay was perfect with or without the shitshow so...
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Post by Active Aggressive on Mar 5, 2012 10:35:15 GMT -5
I guess I have just never been impressed by SNL...not since the 80s, to be honest, with Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscopo, Belushi, etc. I know there were golden years as well with Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, etc. but, with a few exceptions (the biggest one to me being Kristen Wiig), every time I happen to watch it, I can see cast members blatantly reading from the cue cards or trying (and failing) not to laugh. Come to think of it: even in the 80s, I noticed some of the veterans doing it. Admittedly, I don't regularly watch sketch comedy so maybe this is the norm. At the end of the day, my point is that Lindsay shouldn't take any flak from her shortcomings. She could only do so much with the material she was given. I didn't really care much for the butt-dialing sketch either. My favorite was definitely the opening monologue and The Real Housewives, which I had to watch again.
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Post by Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815... on Mar 5, 2012 11:30:07 GMT -5
The Real Housewives of Disney had me Loved it!
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Post by George on Mar 5, 2012 23:11:42 GMT -5
The episode wasn't that bad imo. There have been far worse episodes, this one had funny moments in most of the skits, it's just that none of them included Lindsay and she was given a background role for pretty much everything which is messed up. It was like there no guest host there this week, just time for the usual castmates to shine. The scene with Kristen Wiig where Lindsay had the biggest role/most lines was really good I think and her opening monologue was funny. The only real bad skit was the Prison one and I feel like that's the one the media is targeting the most and using to say she was horrible and reading cue cards because that was the only time it was really noticeable throughout the show. I really agree. I thought she did pretty good in the (few) sketches she was in, except for that prison one. However, she did an admirable job after not working/acting for a while, and I hope she continues to build up her resume again. Loved the opening monologue, the Butt Dial skit, and the Disney Princesses one. Oh, and those back-from-commercial shots were gorgeous:
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