Saturday Night Jive Podcast

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.  Last time we gathered we watched the first 10 appearances of Mango  and surprisingly couldn't stay away so we're back for one more slice of that sweet, sweet Mango pie.  In this episode we...

We're digging into the Rob Schneider  bucket once again this week as we watched Necessary Roughness  from 1991 featuring the Robmeister calling plays for a football team full of underdogs.  Let me ask you a question.  If I said I found a movie that features Scott Bakula, Kathy Ireland, Larry Miller, Robert Loggia, Sinbad, Senator Fred Thompson and of course Hector Elizondo woul...

We're finally here.  A podcast years in the making  We're finally going back for another taste of Ed's special sauce with Good Burger 2  starring Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson  and featuring a cavalcade of SNL cameos like Leslie Jones , Pete Davidson , Ego Nwodim , Molly Kearney , Michael Longfellow , Andy Samberg , Mikey Day , Bowen Yang , and Maya Rudolph .  We also ge...

And we're back with 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.  We're also back to doing episodes of Saturday Night Jive  after a hiatus that is all Garry Marshall's fault .  This week we're talking Mango played by the inimitable Chris Kattan .  This...

It's Ben's pick this week on  Saturday Night Jive  and since he's not bound by the rules of picking movies that relate to SNL we watched the Don Ho  classic Joe's Apartment  from 1996.  A beautiful love story about a kid in the big city fighting against corporate greed and trying to make his way in a world that doesn't understand him.  Also there's animated roaches th...

You like hearing people talk about an old ass episode of SNL?  Well, this is the podcast for you!  This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched Season 20 Episode 5 hosted by Sarah Jessica Parker with musical guest R.E.M. .  It's one of the worst episodes in the show's history.  This was the week where Michael O'Donoghue died and the Republicans took control of congress and the w...

This week on  Saturday Night Jive  we watched another cheat pick.  Camp Nowhere  from 1994 has no SNL alums in it but it does have Christopher Lloyd  as a former drama teacher who lives in a van becoming the only adult supervision to a group of Lord Of The Flies wannabes.  A bunch of shitty kids decide to start their own summer camp with no rules.  It's the horni...

This week on  Saturday Night Jive  George's wet dreams become a reality as we finally watch Welcome To Mooseport  starring two-time SNL host Ray Romano  in his feature film debut and two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman  in his final time on screen.  This 2004 comedy follows a small town handyman who runs for mayor against the former President of the United States.&nbsp...

This week on  Saturday Night Jive  we watched the John Leguizamo classic The Pest  from 1997.  John stars as the most annoying character ever put on film who is hunted by a Nazi in a spoof of The Most Dangerous Game.  This film has a small SNL connection as the director of this also directed a Saturday Night Christmas Special.  It also features that little scamp Jeffr...

This week on  Saturday Night Jive  we're watching another old ass episode of SNL.  From Season 24 it's the episode hosted by  Ray Romano  with musical guest The Coors .  Why are we watching this one?  Well, because George is a big fan of Ray Romano and wants to watch Welcome To Mooseport so we're watching this to make that movie canonical (so stay tuned for that...

This week on  Saturday Night Jive  we watched the Ezio Greggio classic The Silence Of The Hams  which features no SNL alum unless you count Dom Irrera  who can be seen as an extra in Season 6.  We got former SNL host Charlene Tilton as well as a cavalcade of D-level celebrities we've seen in other movies like Stuart Pankin, Rip Taylor, and Eddie Deezen.  Until we fina...

And we're back with 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're covering a collection of recurring characters from Mr. Rob Schneider .  We could do The Richmeister, but instead we're gonna jump into the deep end and cover every installment of Th...

This week on  Saturday Night Jive  we take another dip in the Rob Schneider  pool and watched Surf Ninjas  from 1993.  The story of two young boys and their 30 year old friend who discover that they are actually the heirs to a kingdom on a magical ninja island.  Only one thing stands in their way, cyborg Leslie Nielsen.  With the help of a magical SEGA Game Gear...

This week on  Saturday Night Jive  we watched a movie starring Bill Murray ...'s brother, not the one you're thinking of.  No, not that one either.  It's the John Murray  classic Moving Violations .  Also starring Stacy Keach's brother, Meg Tilly's sister and an Academy Award worthy performance from the 'Where's The Beef?' lady.  This movie has it all.  Car...

This week on  Saturday Night Jive  we watched  Harry And The Hendersons  from 1987 starring 3-time SNL host John Lithgow  and the immortal Kevin Peter Hall in a bigfoot costume.  This film left George in a world of wonder while Ben is too jaded and cynical to enjoy such whimsy.  Rick Baker won an Oscar for making a terrific character that for some reason the mark...

This week on  Saturday Night Jive  we're watching another old ass episode of SNL.  From Season 20 it's the episode hosted by John Travolta  with musical guest Seal .  Believe it or not, John Travolta is a heterosexual man but you'd be right to be confused when you see him singing as Barbra Streisand, playing gay Dracula, and wearing eyeliner as a mafia don.  This epis...

This week on  Saturday Night Jive  we watched  Old Dogs a confounding film from 2009 starring SNL hosts Robin Williams  and John Travolta  as well as Matt Dillon , I realize I'm just clinging to the fact that our podcast is tangentially SNL related anymore but we'll get back to the show next week when we watch John Travolta host the show.  But first, Old Dogs.  H...

This week on  Saturday Night Jive  we're watching a notorious episode of Saturday Night Live.   It's Season 35 Episode 6 hosted by January Jones  with musical guest Black Eyed Peas .  The lovely Miss Jones was starring on an Emmy winning television show at the time so one would only assume she could hold her own on a live sketch comedy show.  All that hope died when s...

This week on Saturday Night Jive  we watched Ed  from 1996 starring Matt LeBlanc and a guy in a monkey suit.  No SNL alum in this piece of shit but there's nothing in the rule book that says an SNL podcast can't watch a movie about a monkey playing baseball that doesn't have an SNL cast member in it.  Matt LeBlanc is actually the only Friends star who never hosted SNL and there...

This week on Saturday Night Jive  we watched Tiptoes  starring Gary Oldman as a dwarf.  It's a nonsensical film about Matthew McConaughey who is the only non-dwarf in a family of dwarves and he's about to get married to Kate Beckinsale (who sometimes wears a hat).  She doesn't know anything about his family and freaks out when she realizes her soon-to-be-born child might be a d...

This week on  Saturday Night Jive  we watched the 1989 classic No Holds Barred  otherwise known as the single greatest movie ever made.  Starring one-time SNL host Hulk Hogan  (check out episode 206 of our podcast for a full rundown of his Season 10 episode) and written by Hulk and WWF president Vince McMahon, this movie is either accidentally brilliant or intentionally br...

This week on Saturday Night Jive  we're talking about the 1995 family comedy Man Of The House starring SNL alum Chevy Chase .  After a string of flops (see our episodes on Nothing But Trouble and Cops And Robbersons) Chevy didn't want to do another film but eventually agreed to sign on because he liked the dramatic elements of the script.  One could argue that there shouldn't be dra...

This week on  Saturday Night Jive  we're talking about the 1989 classic  Second Sight  starring two people who hosted SNL.   Bronson Pinchot  and  John Larroquette  star in this comedy about a detective and a psychic trying to solve a case of a missing cardinal.  Don't worry, Stuart Pankin is in the film too.  It's a big old pile of crazy.&nbs...

This week on Saturday Night Jive  we're watching Tremors 3: Back To Perfection .  Why?  Because SNL alum Mary Gross  plays Tourist Mom, probably the most respected role in her filmography.  This direct to DVD sequel has Michael Gross (brother to Mary) shooting graboids and ass blasters with the help of a plucky sidekick and a lady who runs a convenience store.  This i...

This week on Saturday Night Jive  we're doing another cheat pick.  There are no SNL alums in the 1996 film Bogus  but we watched it anyway.  It does feature Andrea Martin  who is related to SNL alum Martin Short  and was offered a spot on Season 10 (according to rumors) so that counts, right?  This movie stars a pre-Sixth Sense Haley Joel Osment who creates an im...