SNL: Game On

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By Nads | Monday, September 15, 2008 | 2:18 am | 8 Comments
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SNL had it’s best premiere this past weekend since 2001. Nice work! Between the election, bad TV, and everything else I guess everyone missed some good ol’ fashion SNL…I guess Phelps helped too…

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Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

8 Comments

  1. 1
    Firthguy
    Posted September 15, 2008 at 4:51 am

    What a crappy way to start a new season. Aside from the Fey/Poehler skit to kick off the show it was just another blah episode. I mean really… recycling a sketch from last season in your season opener? How about some originality?
    Props to Phelps. For a guy that is an athlete, not an actor, he did okay.

  2. 2
    cattyfan
    Posted September 15, 2008 at 7:43 am

    I watched the first 40 minutes and never laughed once.

    I also noted the absence of any Obama/Biden jokes. Odd, since Biden gave ‘em the perfect set-up (asking a guy in a wheelchair to stand. SNL could have had The Messiah come in and get the guy to walk.)

    Phelps may be a nice guy and the greatest swimmer ever…but he isn’t cut out for sketch comedy.

  3. 3
    Nads
    Posted September 15, 2008 at 10:48 am

    catty and firthguy, I agree. I only fast forwarded through the episode on my DVR. They have the numbers now they just give us the show!
    I agree with you Catty – Phelps is so blah. There a reason he’s a swimmer and not an actor.

  4. 4
    jenncho
    Posted September 15, 2008 at 11:56 am

    Really? I thought ’04 – Ben Affleck and ’05 – Steve Carell were way better.

  5. 5
    Firthguy
    Posted September 15, 2008 at 1:46 pm

    cattyfan/Nads: I agree. He flubbed his lines big time, and one can obviously tell tell he definitely doesn’t have the acting chops. It kinda makes sense since he had the least lines of any host that I’ve recently seen. I guess the writers and producers can still spot talent when they see it ;)

    Nads: It’s pretty pathetic that that is what SNL has become ie. “we get the audience, who cares about the content?” And recent-ish history shows they pull in viewers when it comes to the politics (race for President) but I would have expected fresh content, especially for a freakin’ SEASON OPENER. That damn re-hash of the Peton Manning motivation was pathetic. Huge Pet peeve of mine.

  6. 6
    Nads
    Posted September 15, 2008 at 3:35 pm

    I know firth! there used to be a time when SNL was the highlight of my weekend growing up. Everything they did I LOVED…I’d re-inact scenes w/ my friends, and it was real “comedy”. Like the Gap girls saying “just cinch it!” or Mike Myers with “Simon” along w/ everything else he and that cast did. But even way before that…there were lines that they wrote and performed that would become part of normal conversation…it’s just not there anymore. I don’t know if it’ll ever be frankly.

    New season should be NEW ideas!

  7. 7
    here4beer
    Posted September 15, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    SNL seems to go in cycles, where it’s bad for a few years, good for a few, bad, etc etc. But now it seems that it’s been bad for a veeeery loooong time, ever since Will Ferrell left. I miss the days of the Janet Reno Dance Party and John Goodman as Linda Tripp!!

    Saturday’s intro – the Palin/ Clinton press conference- was hilarious, though. :)

  8. 8
    Nads
    Posted September 16, 2008 at 1:05 am

    OMG, Janet Reno dance party, blast from the past. lmao. That was brilliant!

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