This week on Saturday Night Jive we're mourning democracy as we watch an episode of Saturday Night Live . It's Season 45, an era of the show that George doesn't even enjoy and Ben really hates. RuPaul hosts and Justin Bieber sings. Don't worry, you'll get to hear George's opinions about Kitty Scott Claus as well as Ben's pleas to hunt down all Trump supporters. This is not a good episode of SNL. It's not a terrible episode, it's just kinda boring. We get some Thirsty Cops, RuPaul reading some bo...
Nov 20, 2024
This week on Saturday Night Jive we're gearing up for the 2024 election by watching a political comedy from 1995. Canadian Bacon is the only non-documentary directed by Michael Moore and it's a cold war satire about a fake conflict with our neighbors to the north. It's fine. It's the last movie released to feature John Candy's as he died the year before. It's got Rhea Pearlman obsessed with a building that looks like a penis. It's got Rip Torn yelling and grunting. It's got a pretty fun cast als...
Nov 16, 2024
This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched Three To Tango for some reason. A romantic comedy starring 3 one-time SNL hosts in Matthew Perry , Neve Campbell , and Dylan McDermott where Chandler Bing has to pretend he's gay to appease his boss while romancing his boss's mistress. We thought it would be more problematic than it turned out to be. So as a bonus to a conversation on a mediocre and forgettable movie we also rank the Hottest SNL Cast Member by fan request. So listen to us drool over so...
Nov 14, 2024
As you're gearing up for spooky season we watched the spookiest episode in Saturday Night Live history. It's the infamous Season 7 episode hosted by Donald Pleasence with musical guest Fear . This episode aired on Halloween night and the show took full advantage of that. We get a British soldier sawing his own leg off, a woman cleaning up the mess from her recently murdered husband through song, a pumpkin committing seppuku, a family sitting down to a sugar breakfast, a random John Belushi cameo...
Oct 03, 2024
By popular demand we watched a "classic" episode of SNL from Season 4 hosted by Frank Zappa . This episode is notorious for being terrible and Zappa has been on many Worst Host Ever lists. Turns out it's all true. This sucked. Zappa doesn't give a shit during the whole episode, every sketch is way too long, and it's a pretty dismal affair all around. George defends Zappa a little (at least musically) but Ben hates this man's guts. Take a trip up to Freak Mountain and hang with us as we don't do ...
Sep 26, 2024
This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched Thomas And The Magic Railroad from 2000 starring 17-time SNL host Alec Baldwin as Mr. Conductor. So this was a huge mistake. Turns out this movie isn't interested in helping you understand what the hell is going on so we spend the majority of the podcast simply confused by the lore of magical trains who don't move their mouths when they talk. We also had no idea this was related to Shining Time Station starring George Carlin and Ringo Starr as Mr. Cond...
Sep 17, 2024
And we're back with yet another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. This week we did something a little different. Instead of watching a recurring character we watched a selection of SNL sketches where Jimmy Fallon adorably broke character and giggled. We picked some doozies but surprisingly we don't put too much blame on Jimmy. Don't get us wrong, he sucks and we don't like him, bu...
Sep 10, 2024
This week on Saturday Night Jive (actually almost a year ago on Saturday Night Jive ) we watched the 2004 comedy White Chicks starring SNL alum Damon Wayans .....'s brothers Shawn and Marlon as horrifying creatures that we are expected to believe can pass as rich white women. This was intended to be a "lost episode" of the podcast just because I thought the movie was bad, I didn't enjoy talking about it, and why should I spend my time putting together something I don't want to work on. But at lo...
Sep 06, 2024
And we're back with yet another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. This week we watched two characters from the same performer. Kristen Wiig is an absolute delight as Shana , the hot lady who does weird things but befuddles us as Trina , a different lady who does weird things. For some, neither may work or both my work. For us, we definitely enjoyed one more than the other. It is f...
Sep 03, 2024
This week on Saturday Night Jive we finally watched B.A.P.S from 1997 starring one-time SNL host Halle Berry , Martin Landau, one-time SNL host Bernie Mac , and of course everyone's favorite white rapper/stand-up comic Barry Sobel . At long last, Ben's dream came true and we watched this random 90's comedy. Surprisingly it's not as cringy as one might expect, doesn't mean it's good, just not an abysmal and racist crap-fest. We also open up our e-mail for the first time in almost 2 years and resp...
Aug 27, 2024
We lost a legend recently and this week on Saturday Night Jive we watched the Bob Newhart episode of SNL from the disastrous Season 20. In the height of SNL's "bad boy" era, they brought on the television icon to class up the joint a little bit. What results is an all-around solid and fun show, while maybe not the downright classic that George remembered from his youth. We get a cold open about the Colin Ferguson trial, a Bob Newhart monologue, Jay Mohr dressed as Ricki Lake, Chris Farley promot...
Aug 20, 2024
And we're back with yet another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. This week we watched one of the earliest SNL recurring characters, that's right, Ben gets introduced to King Ploobis, Scred, Puuta, Vosh and the rest of The Land Of Gorch an early segment on the show featuring Jim Henson's Muppets . Back in 1975, a counter culture variety show decided to include a live puppet segmen...
Aug 12, 2024
This week on Saturday Night Jive We watched Meatballs Part 2 because Bill Murray was in the first Meatballs. We've never seen the first Meatballs movie but that doesn't matter since this movie was never intended as a sequel to Meatballs. It was just a movie that resembled Meatballs a lot (we suppose as we've never seen it) that featured a character named Meathead that they renamed Meatballs 2 after the fact. Life's funny sometimes, but Meatballs 2 is not funny. There's an alien in this movie, bu...
Jul 19, 2024
This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched the illusive episode of SNL hosted by alleged murderer Robert Blake . Was it worth the wait? Absolutely not. But could it ever live up to our expectations? Let's talk about it. Also, how frigging hot is Mary Gross ? This episode has Robert Blake punching Julia Louis-Dreyfus, a Little Rascals reunion, homophobia in space, and Robin Duke with a saddle on her back. So, that's the name of that tune and you can take that to the bank. Enjoy! Full archive of ...
Jul 12, 2024
This week Ben had the option to pick anything he wanted to watch and he chose the Jeremy Irons episode of Saturday Night Live with musical guest Fishbone . Why did he do this? Because he likes Fishbone. So, what did we learn? Maybe you shouldn't pick an old episode of SNL for the musical guest because this is one of the most forgettable episodes ever. On the positive side we get some fun Deep Thoughts and two incredible performances from Fishbone, but nothing else brings the goods. Jeremy Irons ...
Jul 05, 2024
And we're back with yet another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. This week we watched Goat Boy in all his glory. As we established the last time we did this with Mango we are giving ourselves an out. There are 10 SNL sketch appearances of Goat Boy and we're here to see how many we can stomach before calling it quits (spoiler alert, we don't make it to all 10). We may one day revi...
May 15, 2024
The Other Sister directed by our good friend Garry Marshall and starring Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi as two mentally challenged adults who find love is a movie that shouldn't have been made. We shouldn't have watched it. In fact, this movie killed the podcast for a little bit as it sent George down an existential rabbit hole where he questioned all reality. We recorded this episode a while ago but decided not to release it for a variety of reasons (don't worry, it's not like it's terribly...
May 11, 2024
Ummmm, this movie exists. It's about a bigfoot who plays basketball. Ben is insane and liked it. George is realistic and thinks it's a crappy TV movie starring a guy in a cheap looking monkey suit. You can check it out on YouTube, don't watch the whole thing, or any of it. No SNL cast members in Big And Hairy from 1998 but Enjoy! Full archive of all podcast episodes available at saturdaynightjive.blogspot.com Email us anything at saturdaynightjivepodcast@gmail.com Download Here...
May 07, 2024
Get ready for the most magical time of your life as Academy Award winner Javier Bardem dances with a CGI crocodile voiced by Shawn Mendes in the delightful Lyle Lyle Crocodile also featuring SNL alum Ego Nwodim . While George thinks this is a wonder of modern cinema (possibly due to a dangerous amount of psychedelic substances), Ben can't enjoy things because he's dead inside. Take a look at us now and Enjoy! Full archive of all podcast episodes available at saturdaynightjive.blogspot.com Email ...
Apr 30, 2024
This week on Saturday Night Jive we're talking some television pilots that never got picked up to see a full season that feature some SNL alums. We watched Norman's Corner starring the late, great Gilbert Gottfried and written by former SNL writer Larry David . The also late and also great Charles Rocket stars as a spaceship captain in the sci-fi spoof Star Patrol . There's also Supernerds starring Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, and one-season SNL alum Sarah Silverman . We watched the practically ...
Apr 23, 2024
It's Hollywood's biggest night and Saturday Night Jive is celebrating. In honor of Robert Downey Jr. becoming the first SNL alum to win an Oscar we're talking about all the Saturday Night Live cast members who have ever been nominated for acting awards. This gives us an opportunity to talk about some actually good movies that we would otherwise never cover on this show dedicated to the absolute worst of an actor's career. We talk Oppenheimer , Chaplin , and Tropic Thunder for RDJ, Joan Cusack's ...
Apr 05, 2024
You know what's not fun? Crank phone calls. You know what's even less fun? Staged crank phone calls. Get out your ass cream and dust off your offensive accents, we watch The Jerky Boys: The Movie from 1995 starring The Jerky Boys, Alan Arkin, Big Pussy, William Hickey, and the guy from Frankenhooker. No SNL alums this week, Ben picked some random shitty movie to watch, once again proving the truth that there are shitty movies that don't feature Rob Schneider. Enjoy! Full archive of all podcast e...
Mar 29, 2024
It's been said many times on this podcast, George loves him some Mary Gross. For all you doubters out there, he proved why by forcing Ben to watch an episode of Saturday Night Live from Season 9 hosted by Michael Douglas . Coffee infused blood, totally rad 80s music videos, busty 7 year olds, a town without feet, a host with an open headwound, and blackface. This one has it all and we're in agreement that it's pretty solid. You got a demonic Jim Belushi in an ice cream shop, Tim Kazurinsky blowi...
Mar 22, 2024
Do you like Twin Peaks? Then you'll be utterly confused by Wild Palms almost as confused as SNL alum James Belushi who apparently didn't understand the script so just showed up on set and read his lines. Can't blame you, Jim. This is an indecipherable piece of nonsense. So the story is that ABC wanted to have another weird show to replace Twin Peaks after they ruined that show with studio meddling. They came up with this miniseries about a guy who is looking for the lost kid of his ex-lover and ...
Mar 07, 2024
You want Oscars? Get two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey on the phone. Sweeten the deal with Academy Award winner Helen Hunt. Throw in Academy Award nominee Haley Joel Osment. But you really looking for Oscar gold? Then you need Jon Bon Jovi and, more importantly, SNL alum Jay Mohr . We watched Pay It Forward from 2000, a movie that is a failure on multiple levels. Little Haley Joel Osment tries to change the world with kindness. His mother's a drunk, his teacher has burns all over him, h...
Feb 29, 2024
And we're back with yet another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. Last time we gathered we watched the first 10 appearances of Mango and surprisingly couldn't stay away so we're back for one more slice of that sweet, sweet Mango pie. In this episode we watch the final 6 appearances of everyone's favorite male stripper and get some diminishing results. Somewhere along the way, we l...
Feb 20, 2024
We're digging into the Rob Schneider bucket once again this week as we watched Necessary Roughness from 1991 featuring the Robmeister calling plays for a football team full of underdogs. Let me ask you a question. If I said I found a movie that features Scott Bakula, Kathy Ireland, Larry Miller, Robert Loggia, Sinbad, Senator Fred Thompson and of course Hector Elizondo would you think that it would be the greatest movie ever? So did we, but we found ourselves another thoroughly mediocre sports c...
Jan 31, 2024
We're finally here. A podcast years in the making We're finally going back for another taste of Ed's special sauce with Good Burger 2 starring Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson and featuring a cavalcade of SNL cameos like Leslie Jones , Pete Davidson , Ego Nwodim , Molly Kearney , Michael Longfellow , Andy Samberg , Mikey Day , Bowen Yang , and Maya Rudolph . We also get some cameos from All That alumni as well as some old lady who thinks she's got something on Abe Vigoda and apparently Sinbad (so...
Jan 24, 2024
And we're back with another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. We're also back to doing episodes of Saturday Night Jive after a hiatus that is all Garry Marshall's fault. This week we're talking Mango played by the inimitable Chris Kattan . This character has more layers than we anticipated. Since there are so many SNL appearances from Mango we decided to push ourselves to the limi...
Jan 16, 2024
It's Ben's pick this week on Saturday Night Jive and since he's not bound by the rules of picking movies that relate to SNL we watched the Don Ho classic Joe's Apartment from 1996. A beautiful love story about a kid in the big city fighting against corporate greed and trying to make his way in a world that doesn't understand him. Also there's animated roaches that annoy and ruin every scene with their sped up voices. This movie stars Jerry O'Connell, Robert Vaughn, and the amazing thespians Don ...
Sep 17, 2023
