Saturday Night Jive Podcast

It's a cheat week on Saturday Night Jive .  If you don't know our premise after almost 300 episodes, we usually watch movies featuring SNL alum but this week we dug into the barrel of film obscurity and pulled out A Fine Mess  from 1986 starring one-time SNL host Ted Danson  and Howie Mandel  in a remake of a Laurel & Hardy short.  This Blake Edwards directed piece of...

We watched Jane Austen's Mafia  from 1998 starring SNL alum Jay Mohr  and featuring the last performance of the legendary Lloyd Bridges.  What a turd!  I guess we should have known that before we watched it, but we can now confirm that this movie blows.  A parody of The Godfather, which came out 26 years earlier, by the A in ZAZ Jim Abrahams.  A bunch of bad jokes, so...

We lost the great Gilbert Gottfried  recently so as a tribute we watched his performance in  Problem Child  from 1990.  This is a prequel to Problem Child 2, which we previously covered on this podcast starring John Ritter and Amy Yasbeck as two parents who adopt a red-headed piece of shit who causes a whole bunch of trouble.  Gilbert plays the adoption agent who barely fa...

We’re finally doing it.  We watched  Feds  starring SNL alum  Mary Gross  and it turned out to be a huge waste of time.  Tony Longo’s performance as the sailor aside, this movie was one of the most dull and pointless we’ve ever watched.  Was it meant to be a comedy?  How many pizzas can a man eat?  How many Tremors sequels are there?  Who the fuck...

And we're back with another installment of our award winning segment  And We're Back  where we take a deep dive into the life of an SNL recurring character.  This week we talk about  Mickey The Dyke  a short lived Cheri Oteri character who appeared in 5 sketches to the delight of millions.  Watch her co-host a show with Chicken Lady, wait patiently for the Sports Illu...

We're dumb.  We watched Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol .  This is the first movie in the Police Academy series we've seen.  We thought it would be funny to watch the 4th one, because it features SNL alums Tim Kazurinsky  and David Spade .  Turns out, they were really running out of steam by the time they got to this one.  How dumb was America that people kept go...

It's a bare-knuckle debate over Corky Romano starring Chris Kattan .  Is it, as Ben says, an awful piece of shit?  Or, is it a comedy classic starring this era's Buster Keaton?  Only you can decide as George and Ben are torn on this 2001 comedy that was ghost written by Paul Thomas Anderson on a 10 day coke bender.  Kattan stars as the titular Corky, the son of a mobster, who i...

Let's go get some whores with Dan Aykroyd  and Kirk Douglas!  We watched Diamonds  from 1999 starring Kirk, about 3 years after having a severe stroke, as a man who has had a severe stroke and goes on a road trip with his son and grandson to find some diamonds he hid in his youth.  Along the way they bond, crash cars, get mugged by hobos, gamble with John Landis, and spend abou...

It's Horatio Sanz  week on Saturday Night Jive  and we watched Tomcats  from 2001 starring SNL's favorite loverboy Horatio, Jerry O'Connell, Jake Busey, Shannon Elizabeth, and the Academy Award winning performance from Bill Maher as Carlos, the Las Vegas casino boss.  It's a raunchy comedy from before we cared about other people's feelings.  You want misogyny, homophobia,...

In 2019 we watched Grown Ups 2.  So it's about time we see where it all started with Grown Ups  featuring a cavalcade of SNL alums dicking around for a weekend.  You got Sandler, Spade, Schneider, Rock, Rudolph, Meadows, and Quinn.  They're all here and they're all...doing nothing.  It's like The Big Chill with more farts and bunions.  Where did Schneider go between m...

We watched Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star  starring SNL alum David Spade  as a guy who became famous on a sitcom when he was a kid.  Now he's auditioning for a Rob Reiner movie but has to move in with a family and pretend to be their son because...it will make him a better actor?  I dunno.  This is one of the laziest movies we've ever watched with a stupid fucking plot...

Oh, goodness.  Welcome back to ...And We're Back  the series in our podcast where we dive into an SNL recurring character and discuss everyone of their appearances.  We watched all 3 Uncle Roy  sketches and that turned out to be a big mistake.  For the unfamiliar, Uncle Roy was a character played by Buck Henry  and the gag is that he's a pedophile uncle who comes over...

And we're back with another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back  where we dive into the history of an SNL recurring character.  This week we're talking about Joey Mack , a Jimmy Fallon creation who's a one-man morning zoo crew with a cavalcade of problematic voices.  We go on a journey through all 5 of his appearances and, surprisingly, grow to appreciate...

We watched Mac & Me from 1988 about a tiny alien with a butthole mouth.  Why?  Because Christine Ebersole  is in it, that's why.  You think that's stupid?  Well, listen to this. Full archive of all podcast episodes available at saturdaynightjive.blogspot.com Email us anything at saturdaynightjivepodcast@gmail.com Download Here

We watched  Harold  from 2008 featuring SNL alums  Chris Parnell ,  Rachel Dratch ,  Colin Quinn , and  Jim Downey .  Written and directed by former SNL writer T. Sean Shannon, this was based on a short film that aired on SNL and follows Spencer Breslin as a bald 13 year old who acts like an old man and gets fingers up his bum.  This was a colossal waste of...

And we're back with another installment of our award winning series  ...And We're Back  where we dive into the history of an SNL recurring character.  This week it's  Canteen Boy .  We all remember Canteen Boy, right?   Adam Sandler  plays this naïve (young?  his age is never really established) former boy scout who gets into a whole mess of trouble and...

The Gatekeepers didn't want you to hear this podcast.  They crashed our computers, they corrupted the files, they made the audio shitty.  But we persevered and completed it anyway.  We watched  The Net  from 1995 starring Sandra Bullock and SNL alum  Dennis Miller .  Half way through the episode George's laptop crashed and we originally thought this was gonna be...

It's Kenan Thompson  week on the show so we watched Snakes On A Plane  also featuring fellow SNL alum (and friend of the show)  David Koechner .  We both found this movie surprisingly enjoyable, but maybe that's because we've seen a lot of crappy movie lately (Looking at you, The Couch Trip).  Why choose snakes?  How many monkeys can one snake flip?  What's the o...

Did you know that Sarah Silverman  was in Say It Isn't So  from 2001?  Did you know Sarah Silverman was an SNL cast member?  Did you know that was the premise of our stupid podcast?  We watch movies featuring SNL cast members and one season featured player Sarah Silverman shows up in this comedy about two young lovers who find out they are brother and sister.  It's th...

By special request we're talking about the episode of Saturday Night Live  hosted by Elon Musk .  Oooh boy was this an unpleasant viewing experience.  Elon Musk makes you long for the days when the show would always have quality hosts like Mr. T, Hulk Hogan, Nancy Kerrigan, and George Foreman, you know, true acting powerhouses.  Nowadays I gotta watch Elon Musk read his lines c...

Yeah, we watched Wild Things , the erotic thriller from 1998.  Yeah, we're brothers who don't regularly watch movies with a lot of nudity together.  But Bill Murray  is in it, so that's why we both got boners together seeing a lot of Denise Richards boobs and Kevin Bacon dong.  This isn't typically the type of film we watch but it held our interest.  Matt Dillon is a high...

4 SNL alums make up the turd we watched this week.  The Couch Trip  stars Dan Aykroyd  and features Victoria Jackson , Mary Gross , and a cameo from Chevy Chase .  We also get Charles Grodin, Walter Matthau and Arye Gross.  This is a stinker.  Aykroyd stars as a conman locked in a mental institution who escapes and pretends to be a psychiatrist in L.A..  He talks...

We watched Sextuplets  because Molly Shannon  shows up in one scene.  Some piece of shit Netflix comedy starring 6 Marlon Wayans and 0 farts.  I don't know how a movie that looks this shitty could be so boring.  You'd think the creator of Little Man could at least give us something so bad it's good, but instead it's just an exercise in banality.  Enjoy! Full archive o...

This week on Saturday Night Jive  we celebrate Norm MacDonald .  We watch some classic SNL sketches featuring Norm from his time on the show.  From his early days talking about anal rape on Weekend Update to Burt Reynolds to Andy Rooney opening letters.  We cover all 4 appearances of Norm's only recurring character Stan Hooper  plus West Side Story, Evita, Sylvester Stallo...