Saturday Night Jive Podcast

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Two brothers get together each week to discuss the long running sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, one a nerdy expert on all things SNL, the other a cynical casual viewer with much less love for its lore. Every week we recap the current episode (or classic eps during off weeks), discuss various issues related to the show and its history, and try to stump the expert with some SNL trivia.

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281: "Blazoo" - Canteen Boy An SNL Recurring Character Study

And we're back with another installment of our award winning series ...And We're Back where we dive into the history of an SNL recurring character. This week it's Canteen Boy . We all remember Canteen Boy, right? Adam Sandler plays this naïve (young? his age is never really established) former boy scout who gets into a whole mess of trouble and has the ability to control snakes. We cover every sketch (and 2 monologues) featuring Canteen Boy as well as dip into the 2 sketches where Sandler plays ...

Dec 20, 2021

280: "Dennis Miller Buys A Coke" - The Net (1995)

The Gatekeepers didn't want you to hear this podcast. They crashed our computers, they corrupted the files, they made the audio shitty. But we persevered and completed it anyway. We watched The Net from 1995 starring Sandra Bullock and SNL alum Dennis Miller . Half way through the episode George's laptop crashed and we originally thought this was gonna be a lost episode. I couldn't export half of it so I had to rig another laptop to record the audio from the first laptop that had the recovered f...

Dec 16, 2021

279: "Enjoy Sucking My Ass, Friend" - Snakes On A Plane (2006)

It's Kenan Thompson week on the show so we watched Snakes On A Plane also featuring fellow SNL alum (and friend of the show) David Koechner . We both found this movie surprisingly enjoyable, but maybe that's because we've seen a lot of crappy movie lately (Looking at you, The Couch Trip). Why choose snakes? How many monkeys can one snake flip? What's the opposite of venom? And why choose snakes? These questions and more on this week's episode of Saturday Night Jive . Enjoy! Full archive of all p...

Nov 22, 2021

278: "So Woke I'm F*cking My Sister" - Say It Isn't So (2001)

Did you know that Sarah Silverman was in Say It Isn't So from 2001? Did you know Sarah Silverman was an SNL cast member? Did you know that was the premise of our stupid podcast? We watch movies featuring SNL cast members and one season featured player Sarah Silverman shows up in this comedy about two young lovers who find out they are brother and sister. It's the old story of boy meets girl, they find out they are engaging in insest, boy loses girl, boy finds out the insest wasn't true, boy driv...

Nov 08, 2021

277: "F U Nate" - SNL S46E18 - Elon Musk / Miley Cyrus

By special request we're talking about the episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Elon Musk . Oooh boy was this an unpleasant viewing experience. Elon Musk makes you long for the days when the show would always have quality hosts like Mr. T, Hulk Hogan, Nancy Kerrigan, and George Foreman, you know, true acting powerhouses. Nowadays I gotta watch Elon Musk read his lines clumsily off cue cards next to SNL cast members who are pretty much doing the same thing. Everything sucks in this one, excep...

Nov 01, 2021

276: "A Reverse Fluffer" - Wild Things (1998)

Yeah, we watched Wild Things , the erotic thriller from 1998. Yeah, we're brothers who don't regularly watch movies with a lot of nudity together. But Bill Murray is in it, so that's why we both got boners together seeing a lot of Denise Richards boobs and Kevin Bacon dong. This isn't typically the type of film we watch but it held our interest. Matt Dillon is a high school guidance counselor, Denise Richards is a spoiled rich girl, Neve Campbell is the girl from the other side of the tracks, Ke...

Oct 25, 2021

275: "An Unpleasant Experience" - The Couch Trip (1988)

4 SNL alums make up the turd we watched this week. The Couch Trip stars Dan Aykroyd and features Victoria Jackson , Mary Gross , and a cameo from Chevy Chase . We also get Charles Grodin, Walter Matthau and Arye Gross. This is a stinker. Aykroyd stars as a conman locked in a mental institution who escapes and pretends to be a psychiatrist in L.A.. He talks fast, romances Donna Dixon, and does a whole lot of unfunny things. Enjoy! Full archive of all podcast episodes available at saturdaynightjiv...

Oct 19, 2021

274: "Netflix And Shit" - Sextuplets (2019)

We watched Sextuplets because Molly Shannon shows up in one scene. Some piece of shit Netflix comedy starring 6 Marlon Wayans and 0 farts. I don't know how a movie that looks this shitty could be so boring. You'd think the creator of Little Man could at least give us something so bad it's good, but instead it's just an exercise in banality. Enjoy! Full archive of all podcast episodes available at saturdaynightjive.blogspot.com Email us anything at saturdaynightjivepodcast@gmail.com Download Here...

Sep 29, 2021

273: "R.I.P. Norm" - Norm MacDonald Tribute

This week on Saturday Night Jive we celebrate Norm MacDonald . We watch some classic SNL sketches featuring Norm from his time on the show. From his early days talking about anal rape on Weekend Update to Burt Reynolds to Andy Rooney opening letters. We cover all 4 appearances of Norm's only recurring character Stan Hooper plus West Side Story, Evita, Sylvester Stallone car crash, Bike Messenger, and Tic-Tac-Toe. Love ya, buddy. Peace. Full archive of all podcast episodes available at saturdayni...

Sep 21, 2021

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