Fuse Top 20 Countdown – 1/17/12

January 18, 2012

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What about, “Do the chickens have large talons?”

Original Version
1. LMFAO – “Sexy and I Know It”
2. Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris – “We Found Love”
3. Flo Rida – “Good Feeling”
4. Bruno Mars – “It Will Rain”
5. Adele – “Someone Like You”
6. Katy Perry – “The One That Got Away”
7. Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg ft. Bruno Mars – “Young, Wild & Free”
8. Pitbull ft. Chris Brown – “International Love”
9. Gym Class Heroes ft. Adam Levine – “Stereo Hearts”
10. J. Cole – “Work Out”
11. Kelly Clarkson – “What Doesn’t Kill You (Stronger)”
12. Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera – “Moves Like Jagger”
13. Big Sean ft. Nicki Minaj – “Dance (A$$)”
14. T-Pain ft. Wiz Khalifa and Lily Allen – “5 O’Clock”
15. David Guetta ft. Usher – “Without You”
16. Drake – “Headlines”
17. will.i.am ft. Mick Jagger and Jennifer Lopez – “T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)”
18. Hot Chelle Rae – “I Like It Like That”
19. Lady GaGa – “Marry the Night”
20. B.o.B ft. Lil Wayne – “Strange Clouds”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Someone Like You
2. We Found Love
3. Good Feeling
4. Sexy and I Know It
5. The One That Got Away
6. Without You
7. Marry the Night
8. Headlines
9. It Will Rain
10. What Doesn’t Kill You (Stronger)
11. T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)
12. Moves Like Jagger
13. Young, Wild & Free
14. 5 O’Clock
15. Dance (A$$)
16. International Love
17. Work Out
18. Strange Clouds
19. I Like It Like That
20. Stereo Hearts

SNL Video Recap January 14, 2012 Daniel Radcliffe/Lana Del Rey

January 17, 2012

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SNL Recap January 14, 2011: Daniel Radcliffe/Lana Del Rey

January 15, 2012

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Cold Opening – A Message from Mitt Romney
SNL seems to have decided that the main idea of Sudeikis’s Romney is that he is emotionless and doesn’t know how to talk like a normal person, which isn’t much, but when it leads to lines like “slinging the pigskin around” and “my five human sons,” then it is something, at least. B

Daniel Radcliffe’s Monologue
This wasn’t so much comedy (i.e., joke-telling) as much as it was an expression of a philosophy.  Dan brought up some reasonable points, even though we all knew he was just jerking us around a little bit.  Still, it was a good idea to temper expectations. B

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais makes fun of celebrities because they are a group of people who perhaps ought to be taken down a notch.  It’s not like dogs and flowers have that in common with celebrities.  Hiring Ricky to make fun of those groups would just be pointless, and this sketch had a corresponding lack of spirit. C

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VH1 Top 20 Countdown – 1/14/12

January 14, 2012

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“What curve is there to be ahead of or behind anyway!”

Original Version
1. Bruno Mars – “It Will Rain”
2. Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris – “We Found Love”
3. Katy Perry – “The One That Got Away”
4. Daughtry – “Crawling Back to You”
5. The Fray – “Heartbeat”
6. Kelly Clarkson – “What Doesn’t Kill You (Stronger)”
7. Jessie J – “Domino”
8. Foster the People – “Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls)”
9. Coldplay – “Paradise”
10. Adele – “Set Fire to the Rain”
11. Pitbull ft. Chris Brown – “International Love”
12. Kid Rock ft. Angaleena Presley and T.I. – “Care”
13. Mary J. Blige ft. Drake – “Mr. Wrong”
14. Outasight – “Tonight is the Night”
15. Avril Lavigne – “Wish You Were Here”
16. The Black Keys – “Lonely Boy”
17. Gym Class Heroes ft. Neon Hitch – “Ass Back Home”
18. Fitz and the Tantrums – “Don’t Gotta Work It Out”
19. Florence + the Machine – “Shake It Out”
20. Scars on 45 – “Heart on Fire”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Shake It Out
2. Paradise
3. We Found Love
4. Lonely Boy
5. Tonight is the Night
6. The One That Got Away
7. Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls)
8. Set Fire to the Rain
9. Don’t Gotta Work It Out
10. It Will Rain
11. What Doesn’t Kill You (Stronger)
12. Domino
13. Ass Back Home
14. Heart on Fire
15. Wish You Were Here
16. International Love
17. Heartbeat
18. Care
19. Mr. Wrong
20. Crawling Back to You

SNL 2/4 and 2/11 Guest Announcements: Reactions

January 12, 2012

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I will henceforth be posting reactions to NBC’s press releases regarding upcoming hosts and musical guests on SNL.  My thoughts will have to do with my expectations of the quality of these guests and whether or not I included these choices on my guest prediction list at the beginning of the season.  The lineups for the first two shows in February were the most recently annouced.

2/4/12: Channing Tatum/Bon Iver: I know a lot of ladies like Channing for his face (I guess) and his abs, but I’ve never known him to have much charisma.  He made an interesting face during one part of the Haywire trailer, so hopefully he can capitalize on that.
I am familiar with Bon Iver, but I am not that familiar with their songs.  Justin Vernon’s band seems like just the sort of indie act that ought to be on SNL, and I correctly thought that that might happen this year.

2/11/12: Zooey Deschanel/Karmin: I almost included Zooey on my predictions, but she was the one of the last to miss the cut.  I figured that stars of hit TV shows don’t host SNL until at least the second season of their shows.  The last TV star to host during the first season of his/her hit show was Julia Louis-Dreyfus in 2006 during the first year of The New Adventures of Old Christine, and that could be considered an exception since she was a returning cast member.  Anyway, Zooey’s unmistakably singular quirkiness could lead to a good show, or it could be like Abby Elliott’s impression of Zooey, which makes the mistake of announcing how awesome it is.
And I’m still trying to figure out what to say about Karmin.  Their one “hit” song is the middle-school anti-hater anthem “Crash Your Party.”  They are an engaged couple who seem to actually be musically talented and somewhat intelligent, but are using their musical ability for the purpose of issues that are exclusively the concerns of people much younger than them.  It’s like Michael Jackson singing the songs of Aaron Carter or Willow Smith.

Fuse Top 20 Countdown – 1/10/12

January 12, 2012

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VH1’s Top 20 Countdown tends to inexplicably leave out some popular songs, but there is at least one other video countdown show in the game that also sets out to include mainly Top 40 videos.  So I have decided to also start posting revisions to Fuse’s Top 20 Countdown.  Fuse doesn’t seem to have any of those mild up-and-coming acts that VH1 seems to love, while they do have some silly hip-hop and alternative tunes that VH1 would most likely not go so far to include. With this first week, we start off with a number one that has sorely been missing from VH1 for months.

Original Version
1. LMFAO – “Sexy and I Know It”
2. Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris – “We Found Love”
3. Bruno Mars – “It Will Rain”
4. Flo Rida – “Good Feeling”
5. Katy Perry – “The One That Got Away”
6. Adele – “Someone Like You”
7. Gym Class Heroes ft. Adam Levine – “Stereo Hearts”
8. Foster the People – “Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls)”
9. T-Pain ft. Wiz Khalifa and Lily Allen – “5 O’Clock”
10. Wiz Khalifa & Snoop Dogg ft. Bruno Mars – “Young, Wild & Free”
11. blink-182 – “After Midnight”
12. Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera – “Moves Like Jagger”
13. David Guetta ft. Usher – “Without You”
14. Big Sean ft. Nicki Minaj – “Dance (A$$)”
15. J. Cole – “Work Out”
16. fun. ft. Janelle Monáe – “We Are Young”
17. Coldplay – “Paradise”
18. Gym Class Heroes ft. Neon Hitch – “Ass Back Home”
19. Hot Chelle Rae – “I Like It Like That”
20. Lady GaGa – “Marry the Night”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Someone Like You
2. Paradise
3. We Found Love
4. Good Feeling
5. Sexy and I Know It
6. The One That Got Away
7. Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls)
8. We Are Young
9. Marry the Night
10. Without You
11. It Will Rain
12. Young, Wild, & Free
13. Moves Like Jagger
14. After Midnight
15. 5 O’Clock
16. Dance (A$$)
17. Ass Back Home
18. I Like It Like That
19. Work Out
20. Stereo Hearts

SNL Video Recap January 7, 2012 Charles Barkley/Kelly Clarkson

January 10, 2012

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SNL Recap January 7, 2012: Charles Barkley/Kelly Clarkson

January 8, 2012

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Is there pomegranate in this soy milk?

Cold Opening – A Message from Rick Santorum
SNL seems to have decided that there is no need for a real impression of Rick Santorum, probably because – well, how many people know about Santorum?  Apparently, though, he might make some noise in the primary, so Andy might have to do a bit of work eventually.  For now, though, this opening proves that there is enough material to overcome that lack of an impression, namely, Santorum’s relentless campaigning and how that may go up against his personality, particularly with that money line about San Francisco. B-

Charles Barkley’s Monologue
Not so much a monologue as much as it was Sir Charles saying a few funny things and hoping to be done with it relatively quickly.  The (admittedly dated) Muggsy Bogues line got a chuckle out of me and reminded me of his cameo during Barkley’s first hosting appearance in ’93. B-

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VH1 Top 20 Countdown – 1/7/12

January 7, 2012

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VH1 … where is LMFAO?

Original Version
1. Katy Perry – “The One That Got Away”
2. Daughtry – “Crawling Back to You”
3. Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris – “We Found Love”
4. Bruno Mars – “It Will Rain”
5. Adele – “Someone Like You”
6. Coldplay – “Paradise”
7. David Guetta ft. Usher – “Without You”
8. The Fray – “Heartbeat”
9. Jessie J – “Domino”
10. Pitbull ft. Chris Brown – “International Love”
11. Kid Rock ft. Angaleena Presley and T.I. – “Care”
12. Outasight – “Tonight is the Night”
13. Avril Lavigne – “Wish You Were Here”
14. Foster the People – “Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls)”
15. Kelly Clarkson – “What Doesn’t Kill You (Stronger)”
16. Florence + the Machine – “Shake It Out”
17. Mary J. Blige ft. Drake – “Mr. Wrong”
18. The Black Keys – “Lonely Boy”
19. Fitz and the Tantrums – “Don’t Gotta Work It Out”
20. Kina Grannis – “In Your Arms”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Someone Like You
2. Shake It Out
3. Paradise
4. We Found Love
5. Lonely Boy
6. Tonight is the Night
7. The One That Got Away
8. Without You
9. Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls)
10. Don’t Gotta Work It Out
11. It Will Rain
12. What Doesn’t Kill You (Stronger)
13. Domino
14. In Your Arms
15. Wish You Were Here
16. International Love
17. Heartbeat
18. Care
19. Mr. Wrong
20. Crawling Back to You

Remembrance of SNL Cast Members Past

December 20, 2011

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The folks at TopOnlineColleges.com are up to it again: posting articles about Saturday Night Live (that have some tangential relation to online colleges?).  Their latest list is “10 Saturday Night Live Cast Members You Forgot.”  Their choices are a mix of folks that you forgot were ever even on SNL, and those that you may have remembered from their time on the show, but have since not had much of a career.
Here’s who they picked:

1. Colin Quinn
2. Victoria Jackson
3. Charles Rocket
4. Pamela Stephenson
5. Chris Parnell
6. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
7. Tim Kazurinsky
8. Joan Cusack
9. Robert Downey, Jr.
10. Melanie Hutsell

Anybody know what Ellen Cleghorne is up to?

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