Saturday Night Jive Podcast

This week on Saturday Night Jive  we're talking the Anthony Michael Hall classic from 1997 Trojan War .   This movie is most famous for at one time being the lowest grossing movie of all time, making a hefty $309 at the U.S. box office.  If you ask us, around 60 theater goers are owed a refund and we've started a class action suit to get their $4.59 back.  Will Friedle fro...

This week on Saturday Night Jive  we watched a film that parodies the disaster movie genre that was all the rage in the 1970s.  No, not Airplane!, it's The Big Bus  from 1976 starring Stockard Channing, Joey Baloney, Richard Mulligan, the guy who played Richard Mulligan's partner in A Fine Mess, Rene Auberjonis, Sally Kellerman, Ned Beatty, Harold Gould, Larry Hagman, Murph from The...

This week on Saturday Night Jive  we're talking about the 1992 comedy Brain Donors .  There are no SNL alum in this film but it was directed by Dennis Dugan  who after watching Problem Child, Beverly Hills Ninja, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, You Don't Mess With The Zohan, Grown Ups, Jack And Jill, and Grown Ups 2 feels like an honorary member of our family.  This is a...

Ten years after K-9 took cinemas by storm, a direct-to-video sequel was made.  This week on Saturday Night Jive  we're finally digging into this trilogy, of course we start with the second one, because we're dumb.  It's K-911  starring an old dog and SNL alum Jim Belushi .  A crazed author is out for revenge on the husband of the woman who rejected his manuscript (because...

This week on  Saturday Night Jive  we're breaking format and doing another cheat pick.  It's Ben's favorite movie  Zardoz  from 1974 starring frequent SNL impersonation  Sean Connery  as a brutal who chases down a fake god living in a giant head (or something).  It's certainly a movie, and you can't say it isn't.  Enjoy! Full archive of all podcast epis...

This week on  Saturday Night Jive  we're watching the episode of SNL that crushed a young George's childhood.  So excited he was to enter a new year with his favorite show.  One of his idols, Chris Farley, died over the holiday break but one of his favorite actors   Samuel L. Jackson  is hosting with one of his favorite bands   Ben Folds Five  and of course...

There may not be any SNL alums in RV  from 2006 but that didn't stop us from pulling out a good old cheat pick.  Former SNL hosts Robin Williams , Jeff Daniels , and Josh Hutcherson  star in this road trip comedy directed by the guy who gave us Nine Lives, Barry Sonnenfeld.  There is an awful lot of poop in this one, and it covers the late, great Robin Williams.  Does this...

We watched Walk Like A Man starring Howie Mandel as Bobo, a man who was raised by wolves.  He's found by an anthropologist right before he's about to inherit millions of dollars from his rich and deceased father, but not if a very bored looking Christopher Lloyd has anything to do with it.  There are no SNL alums in this movie but it felt like a movie we should watch for the podcast.&nbs...

We watched Superhero Movie  from 2008 featuring SNL alum Tracy Morgan  as Professor X, in a scene that was forced into the film by everyone's favorite sex magnet Harvey Weinstein.  We're surprisingly torn on this film.  George thinks it's hilarious and a diamond in the rough when it comes to spoof movies.  Ben thinks it's just an average comedy.  But the one thing we...

For some reason, in 1990 they remade the terrible film The Couch Trip.  Remember that movie we watched and didn't like starring Dan Aykroyd where he switched places with Charles Grodin and priest suits were involved?  Well, they did it again just a few years later with Jim Belushi  taking over Grodin's life and they called it Taking Care Of Business .  We had high hopes for thi...

We watched Cabin Boy from 1994 starring SNL alum Chris Elliott .  Both of us are big fans of most all of Elliott's work from Get A Life to Action Family to There's Something About Mary to his short lived stint on Saturday Night Live and Eagleheart as well as his novels.  Everything the man has ever done has been hilarious...except his only starring vehicle, Cabin Boy.  A critical an...

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 very divisive character from a very divisive human being.  It's Carol!  starring Horatio Sanz  in a dress.  She's a big, crude, loud woman who loves ordering off...

We watched Blankman  from 1994 starring SNL alum Damon Wayans  and if you pay close attention you'll see fellow SNL alum Gilbert Gottfried  on the TV in the background of one scene.  This movie also has SNL hosts Jason Alexander and David Alan Grier (who should have been an SNL cast member) as well as Mike Tyson's girlfriend and Jon Polito.  This was originally intended to...

Why did we watch  Chairman Of The Board  starring prop comic Carrot Top?  Many reasons, 1 - we're dumb and do dumb things, 2 -  Norm MacDonald  referenced it on a talk show once, 3 - It's got the great Larry Miller in it (who is kind of an honorary Saturday Night Jive alum at this point).  Carrot Top's big screen debut took the world by storm in 1998 and over 20 years...

Apparently  Laraine Newman  is in  The Flintstones .  I just watched the movie and I don't believe it.  Supposedly she's on the TV in the background of a scene playing news reported Susan Rock, an exceptionally funny pun.  We watched the live action adaptation of a cartoon nobody cares about starring 13 time SNL host  John Goodman  and the sexy and enchantin...

We're talking Clue  this week on Saturday Night Jive .  Starring an all star cast that includes Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull, Colleen Camp's cleavage, Howard Hesseman, and SNL alum Michael McKean .  Heralded as a cult classic, we found it to be a huge disappointment.  The most interesting thing about this is the fact that it was released in theaters...

This week on Saturday Night Jive we're watching another classic SNL episode from the notorious Season 6.  Lorne Michaels leaves the show and takes the cast and writers with him.  When the show comes back they've hired an all-star cast that includes Joe Piscopo, Gilbert Gottfried, Denny Dillon, Ann Risley, and of course, Charlie "Mutha-fuckin" Rocket.  This is the episode where it al...

We're cheating again on this week's episode of Saturday Night Jive , but do you call it cheating when we hate winning?  We watched Disaster Movie  from 2008 which features no SNL alums (but does reference SNL related movie You Don't Mess With The Zohan, along with every other movie that came out in 2008).  A few years ago we watched Epic Movie featuring Darrell Hammond so we decided...

Welcome back to Saturday Night Jive  where we talk about Saturday Night Live and Saturday Night Live related movies.  Except for this week, it's another freebie pick as we watched Collision Course  starring Jay "Poopy Butt" Leno and Pat Morita.  This movie has no SNL connections but just felt like a movie we should have watched by now.  Jay and Pat are two buddy cops on th...

Welcome back to Saturday Night Jive.  This week we're talking  Death Wish  from 1974 starring Charles Bronson and a young  Christopher Guest  (who was a cast member on SNL, look it up).  This is a different type of movie than we normally cover, we usually don't deal with as many graphic rape scenes.  So, this isn't the usual comedy cavalcade we routinely bring yo...

Why did we watch A Billion For Boris ?  Because we're dumb?  Well, yeah.  Because SNL alum Tim Kazurinsky is in it?  I guess.  Because George thought it was about a monkey who wins the lottery?  Perhaps.  Or is it just because this is Saturday Night Jive  the podcast where we talk about random and obscure movies featuring cast members of Saturday Night Live...

It's our 300th episode!  And we're celebrating by doing this act of stupidity in person for the first time since 2020.  We watched Brian De Palma's 1986 "comedy" Wise Guys  starring SNL alum Joe Piscopo  and 5-timers club member Danny DeVito  as well as the feature film debut of Captain Lou Albano and his giant underpants.  It was a piece of shit so we spend most of t...

Get ready for some Rodney Dangerfield impressions because we watched My Five Wives  a Rodney comedy from 2000 featuring SNL alum Molly Shannon .  It's fine.  What more did you expect from one of the last movies starring a comedy legend?  Rodney plays a very old man who buys land in a Utah town that comes with 3 wives.  Then he gets married to 2 more ladies.  If you're...

It's 3 episodes for the price of 1 this week on Saturday Night Jive  as we watched some episodes of old sitcoms featuring SNL alums, all of which are available on YouTube.  First, Dan Aykroyd  stars in  Soul Man  as a widowed priest with too many kids who wants to fuck but can't because of his devotion to God.  Then we talk about One Of The Boys  starring old ass...

We watched Americathon  from 1979 starring no SNL alum.  It's another cheat week.  We tried to watch King Ralph starring 13 time SNL host John Goodman but turns out it was hella boring so we watched this instead featuring host of the first episode of SNL George Carlin , former host Jay "Poopy Butt" Leno  boxing his mother, notorious musical guest Elvis Costello , and one-time S...