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Kid Nemo
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor  Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:16 pm |
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Another pointless poll.How tiresome.
I voted Chevy Chase,but my dream team's Chase and Tina Fey.
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:34 pm |
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My Superman Has a Dog
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:52 pm |
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Dennis Miller.
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:05 pm |
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1) Dennis Miller
2) Norm Macdonald
3) Tina Fey
4) Colin Quinn
5) Chevy Chase
6) Jimmy Fallon
7) Jane Curtin
8) Kevin Nealon
And I'd put Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers above Jimmy Fallon.
The SNL NewsBreak and Saturday Night News people (Rocket, Hall, Doyle Murray, Gross, Guest) I'd put above Jane Curtain.
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:17 pm |
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There's a Starman waiting in the sky...
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Stephen Strange
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:31 pm |
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I am an earthling.
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Dennis Miller.
Norm is a strong second place thanks to his OJ jokes. Or so the Germans would have us believe!
Tina & Jimmy in third.
And Colin Quin and Kevin Nealon are tied for BURN IN HELL YOU UNFUNNY BASTARDS.
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Screechy
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:57 pm |
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Hey, Cha-Cha, you don't need to check in with Pythia on the 7th to predict who I voted for. And I. Am. Outta here.
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Flameboy
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:07 pm |
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Jane Curtain was the perfect straight woman for others on the newscast. She might not have been the one making the joke, but she contributed to some of the biggest laughs for me, especially with Akroyd and Radner.
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:07 pm |
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Shakespeare, you say? And I have to type how long?
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Dennis Miller by a mile. But I do have a soft spot in my heart for the human train wreck that was Norm MacDonald.
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Robert Kowalewski
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:44 pm |
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I need a drink...
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I remember liking Dennis Miller the best, but I also loved how Chevy Chase would close out with "I'm Chevy Chase and you're not."
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:45 pm |
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:34 pm |
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Chevy Chase. At times his post-SNL career may have made people forget just how funny he was in the early days. I'm glad Community came along for him.
I do have to give props to Dennis Miller for being the first Weekend Update anchor after Chase to really make the segment his own. Unlike those before him, he was never trying to act like a real newsman (or like Chevy Chase...)
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Dr. Brian Fever
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:44 pm |
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RAWR!!! RAWR!!! RAWR!!!
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Miller.
No contest.
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:57 pm |
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My favorite was Norm.
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:02 pm |
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Girl power!
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Jane Curtin.
Just kidding. I don't like Weekend Update.
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Brainiac McGee
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:04 pm |
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Each night I take my groceries and I drift away...
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I still get a kick out of Jane Curtain, even if I don't get half of the topical 70's jokes--it strikes me that her haughty, perpetually disgusted, yet professionally chipper "Weekend Update" persona is highly reflective of many present-day news anchors.
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 1:08 am |
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Dennis Miller but I probably laughed harder with Norm.
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:17 am |
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Good Stuff, Maynard!
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I liked Dennis Miller at the time, but he's lost me in the years since, so I can't even enjoy his old stuff.
Norm FTW.
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:30 am |
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Screechy wrote: Hey, Cha-Cha, you don't need to check in with Pythia on the 7th to predict who I voted for. And I. Am. Outta here. Carvey doing his Dennis Miller impression as he sat next to Miller on the news desk was gold.
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Steve
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 1:43 pm |
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Dr. Chris Evil
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:59 pm |
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How come Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd weren't among the choices? They were both co-anchors of WU back in the glory days of SNL.
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Post subject: SNL's Best "Weekend Update" Anchor Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 6:19 pm |
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I think I am going to have to go with Miller.
I would have liked to have seen Fey go it solo after Fallon left. Don't see why they felt the need to pair her up.
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