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"SNL" brings the horror of "windowless bars", Vincent Price and Norma Desmond

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Brian Juergens

Yes, this is a few days late, but for some reason the recent Saturday Night Live skit of Vincent Price's Halloween Special is growing on me. I don't know if it's Jon Hamm's hilarious James Mason impression or the image of the ever-brilliant Kristin Wiig eating raw pumpkin guts as Gloria Swanson, but it's pretty catchy. The dated Liberace gay jokes are a bit obvious, but when a child in a sailor suit arrives to trick-or-treat and Mason says, "I presume you're dressed as some brand of homosexual!" it's got a sort of retro charm to it.

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    • Submitted by
    Brian Juergens
    on Wed, 2008-10-29 17:10.
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    Andros's picture

    A suggestion if

    Submitted by
    Andros (1205 points) (261 posts)
    on Wed, 2008-10-29 19:33.

    A suggestion if possible:

    Use NBC.com clips rather than Hulu due to international availability. Thanks

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    Novinous's picture

    I second that !

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    Novinous (447 points) (94 posts)
    on Wed, 2008-10-29 19:48.
    I second that !
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    I third that!

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    netogeno (3117 points) (855 posts)
    on Thu, 2008-10-30 04:02.

    Very funny. It was the first time in a while I saw this LIVE, and it was just because of Hamm.

    I could not help but notice the amount of gay jokes, or jokes that one could associate with being gay, trough the hole show. Nothing offensive really, but it was hard to miss. 

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    Joseph's picture

    I hadn't watched SNL in years...

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    Joseph (7150 points) (1457 posts)
    on Thu, 2008-10-30 12:47.

    ...and I only watched the Jon Hamm episode because I happened to up and had heard that there would be a skit involving Michelle Obama.

    The Vincent Price skit was far and away the funniest bit of the entire episode. All of these characterizations were absolutely spot on and hilarious. I just wish Bill Hader would realize he looks so much better (and sexier) with his hair slicked back like this than letting it fall forward over his forehead as he usual wears it!

    Check out my blog: http://radicalsexy.blogspot.com/

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    Dave Doty's picture

    Very Funny

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    Dave Doty (5119 points) (1116 posts)
    on Thu, 2008-10-30 01:58.
    I haven't paid attention to SNL in ages, except for the Tina Fey Palin bits that are all over the net, so thanks for pointing this out.  Mad Men has made me fall in love with Jon Hamm, so I'm going to have to hunt down the complete ep somewhere.
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    Gloria Swanson? REALLY?

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    zanefan (1416 points) (327 posts)
    on Thu, 2008-10-30 14:55.

    It was clever, but a perfect example of why the show's being criticized this season.  Who the hell is SNL's target audience these days?  45 year old gay men?  This show's never been a niche show, it needs to be hip, now and relevant.

    It was only the sheer campiness and sharp writing of this scene that saved it from being another "Lawrence Welk" skit.

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