Weekend TV Thread: SNL‘s Farewell to Hader and Armisen
I did say that if Saturday Night Live actually did something good, I’d post it. And after two dire weeks, they pulled it off. I loved that gay fish Kanye West’s performance (though apparently missed him saying something controversial on the east-coast feed), and the send-offs for Fred Armisen and Bill Hader, both of whom are leaving the show, were everything they needed to be.
I’ve never been a fan of Hader’s “Stefon” character – and I hope to never, ever see him in a movie – but his send-off was perfect and so full of nerd references I think it needs posting.
Armisen’s Portlandia pal Carrie Brownstein apparently called in favors from all her musician friends for an Armisen tribute in which he got to jam with Steve Jones, Kim Gordon, J. Mascis, Aimee Mann and Michael Penn. I guess Armisen’s closer to my age than I thought.
SNL, Game of Thrones, The Simpsons finale and all other weekend TV shows are up for grabs in comments – aside from the good Doctor, what was your favorite show these past couple days?
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist