Bitch, pleeeeze. That sums up my reaction to the news that Saturday Night Live has dropped the hilarious Michaela Watkins from the cast. Read the full post.
Sep 4
2009
04:43 PM ET
Exclusive: Michaela Watkins 'shocked' by 'SNL' firing
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I’m fine with his decision – I didn’t think either of those women (especially Casey Wilson who just isn’t funny and is not a good actress – incuding in Julie & Julia) really created any character that I found funny. And let’s face it – SNL is supposed to be funny. I think Lorne should hire Heather McDonald from the Chelsea Lately show – she is not only FUNNY, but she’s fearless.
YES!! Heather McDonald is the best!
I agree…Heather McDonald would be a great fit for the show. I enjoyed Michaela on the show, and I just hope these new women are as good or better. Why Keenan is still around…and why they cannot hire more African Americans idk…am I correct in saying SNL has only ever had one African American woman? Ellen Cleghorn?
maya rudolph
Actually, there was a GREAT female African American cast member named Danitra Vance (who sadly passed away a few years ago) that was on the show the year Lorne Michaels returned after a 5 year absence.
I’m not too surprised, especially when I learned a couple of days ago that they hired more female cast members. That sucks. Totally smell the nepotism though with the girl they didn’t fire, although none of them were ever really featured that much anyways.
Well, this just stinks! I loved her Hoda Kotb. And Casey Wilson??? She was super pretty and had a real person figure. Plus, she can write. I dont’ knowif she wrote for SNL but I know she co-wrote Bride Wars. I just naturally presume hers were the funny lines and not the dreadful stuff.
But “Bride Wars” was such a terrible movie! I lost a lot of respect for Casey Wilson when I learned she co-wrote that.
casey wilson was horrible on this show. i am sad about michaela. bitch please has entered my daily vocabulary
A “real person figure”? Maybe in America.
SNL has been a sausage fest for years, for what reason I don’t know. Is Lorne Michaels a misogynist? Maybe. I stopped watching a long time ago because I was tired of the way SNL showcased (or didn’t, as the case more commonly was) its few female castmembers. The only time I do watch SNL these days is when Justin Timberlake is hosting.
If pushed to I could name only a couple of the current cast. She was one of the very few that stood out to me. So yes Lorne, she does deserve her own show. But maybe he could have waited until some opportunities were out there before dumping her on her ass like that.
Lorne Michaels made the best decision possible: get rid of the funny people, so that they do not upstage the remaining 95% of the cast that isn’t even remotely talented, entertaining, or funny. With the exception of one of the Sarah Palin bits, the show has pretty much been the worst thing on TV since they lost Gilda Radnor, Dan Akroyd, Jane Curtain, John Belushi, Eddie Murphy, and Chevy Chase. I long for the days when SNL was funny, and easy to watch. Maybe this season they’ll figure out how to end a skit without ruining the funny before it’s happened.
I have a ton of respect for Lorne Michaels, too. I mean, he’s the reason SNL only gets better and more hilarious each year.
*crickets*
Hands up, who think SNL deserved to stick around after 1979….almost one?
I’m more upset that Keenan is still on the show! Seriously, he’s the worst performer, but then again, Lorne hired Jimmy Fallon as Late Night’s host, and he is awful (despite having some immensely talented people around him like Steve Higgins).
SNL has a great cast (Hader, Sudeikis, Armisen, etc) but has been having horrible writing for a while now. Lorne should probably think about retiring, he’s clearly losing it with age.
The last time Lorne left the show, it turned out so horrible. Although the loss of Michaela wasn’t the best decision, it won’t get any better with him leaving.
Boo. Bitchpleez was one of the only quotable skits of the year. “Zac Efron — more like Zac so effin wrong.” Priceless.
Lorne what the wrongeffzac were you thinking?
Bitch Pleeze!
more like Zac “what the EFF is WRONG with you?” much funnier.
SNL? what’s that stand for? So Not Laughing? bitch please….
She was hilarious as the bitchpleeze.com blogger. I’ve seen that skit like 20 times, and I still bust out laughing each time. And that’s the way I say bitch please now. Ha. This is lame. Casey Wilson was good too. She was consistent. Bad choice.
Yeah, Casey was consistent. Consistently unfunny.
I think Michaela was fired because she’s too similar to Kristin Wiig.
I think you’re right. I think that If I was Kristen Wiig, I would throw around whatever weight I could to get rid of a new cast member that was clearly not only my comic equal, but outclassed me in every way. In three years, we’re going to look at Kristin Wiig’s stuff and feel guilty for ever thinking it was funny. Because it’s not. And of course Abby Elliot’s been kept around due to Nepotism. She’s not funny.
Kristin Wiig isn’t funny? Really?!? She’s the best part of the show and has created some of the best modern characters and impersonations. Her stuff will stand up for quite a while. Michaela was a wonderful cast member, but she’s not Wiig’s comic equal by any stretch.
You know, you’re right. Kristen Wiig can be funny, when she’s actually interacting with others. It’s the skits where its just her mugging and acting “zany” that get old really fast. Like pretty much every skit she was in last season. She’s not as funny as she thinks she is, and being the elder stateswoman and as popular as she is, audiences can look forward to a lot more “Gillie” and “Aunt Weirdo” type characters in the coming season.
While no one will ever match the creative ability of Gilda, who was a genius, there have been some very funny ladies on SNL. Kristen Wiig is NOT one of them – she’s one-dimensional. In the vast majority of her skits, her characters are performed exactly the same. I watch the show so rarely now that I’m not familiar with Michaela and Casey, but after reading all the comments, it sure seems Lorne axed the wrong cast member.
Agree 100% about the unfunniness of Kristen Wiig. She takes over every sketch with her repetitive one-note acting out, which ultimately goes nowhere. I can’t tell if it’s the lazy writers, willing to pimp out her unrelenting wackiness instead of make a sketch with a beginning-middle-end structure, or if she demands the attention. Her M.O. is have a physical distinction and never let anything else in the sketch eclipse that. She’s worse than Cheri Oteri.
Wow, I thought I was the only one who wasn’t in love with Kristen! I feel so much better now. Yes, she can be very funny, but now it’s old and she just grates on me. Nobody deserves to be made fun of more than Kathie Lee, but after about 30 seconds Kristen is just annoying and not funny.
I liked CW and ML both a lot. Abby needs to go.
No. Kristen Wiig is hysterical. The Gilly character – not that funny. But Penelope? Some of her others? Even when she’s acting normal – her delivery is fantastic. She’s not as popular as she is on accident; she’s quite talented.
Kristen Wiig isn’t the problem, Canadian a-hole Lorne is! Him and stumps like you
I don’t see how they kept Abby and not Michaela. Was the Angelina impression great enough to keep only her? If one went, they both should’ve gone. Now onto the bigger news: NOT CASEY!!!!
Keenen is the worst cast member ever. HE should have been fired instead.
I sure agree with this! he laughs through every sketch
This is stunning. Michaela’s impersonation of Hoda Kotb was THE funny breakthrough skit of last season. It was last year’s Rosanne Rosannadanna. What’s so really odd about this is that, as someone who has watched this show since the first episode in 1975, the only way to tolerate how really bad it is now most of the time is via the DVR. You can tell in 20 seconds if a skit’s going to suck. And almost every time Michaela was in a skit she made me laugh. I sense something totally apart from talent is happening here. She should keep doing her Hoda Kotb skit with Kristen. What a bummer she won’t be. LORNE CHANGE YOUR MIND!!!
Can we get a reaction from Casey Wilson? I’m kind of surprised about that – maybe she’s done too many movies?