Saturday Night Jive Podcast

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 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.  I...

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...

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 mu...

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 defe...

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 thei...

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.&n...

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...

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 lad...

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, do...

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 yo...

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 t...

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...

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 i...

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 t...

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 B...

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...

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...

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.  Ta...

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 Patr...

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 dedi...

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...

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...

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 r...

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...