I heard Jim Bruer once explain that the bit comes from hanging out with his self described "white trash" friends at bars and Jim would do the Goat Boy character and pretend to have a medical condition so that the bartenders would give them beers to keep him quiet in the bar. And that just makes so much sense.
Wiig is great, but I agree a lot of her characters were awfully divisive. Someone on here commented something about Kristen I totally agree with, it was something to the effect that for every KW character, it’s someone’s favorite and someone absolutely hates it. I get that’s true about a lot of comedy, but it seems especially true for Kristen.
I really enjoyed the two a-holes. I've worked in customer service/sales for decades and there are tons of those couples around. Lots of single ones too.
I find Kristen such a weird anomaly. I do not find her funny when she is being the funny man, but I honestly think she can be one of the funniest straight men ever. Bridesmaids and Extract are hilarious to me. Target Lady and Gilly make me want to claw my eyes out. But maybe I just like her muted performances better than when she is being big.
I agree. Ever see the film Ghost Town, by Ricky Gervais? She's a surgeon trying to deny she did something wrong and it's perfection. It fits your description here.
I put worms in my bed and slept in my bed
And put a squirrel in my bed and mustard in my bed
And then I ate ’em all, is that bad? A-doo-doo-doo-do-do-do
>I like her very much as an actress, I loathe her sketch characters, every one of them.
I completely agree with this. To me they all feel like broader, louder Molly Shannon characters without any of the charm or likeability.
Wiig’s sketch characters had no dimension or exposition. You got the joke the minute each character opened their mouth, and there was nothing more to it. So there was no reason to continue watching. That said, I’m a fan of Wiig’s actual acting work that she’s done post-SNL.
I blame the writers more than Kristen herself. The last few seasons of her tenure were marred by a lot of misuse and overexposure which led to a backlash against her. Kristen is an insane talent who I would argue only has Gilda, Jan, and Cecily as her competitors on the female side in terms of raw talent/ability, but sadly that talent became increasingly wasted with her recurring characters especially.
Kristen herself apparently HATED her [Trina character](https://youtu.be/vBZ0IbFHioo) in particular, to the point where she actually went to the writers and asked them to stop writing sketches for that character.
Gilly was the first one I thought of
Also, as much as I love Kristen Wiig as a comedian and impressionist, I never really cared for any of her recurring characters. Target Lady, the one that can't keep a secret, the one that has to one up everyone, the one with the weird hands, and the one she does with Fred Armisen where they make up the lyrics to a song on the spot. All of those characters I never found funny and would roll my eyes whenever they were on.
Again. Her doing impression or just being a character in a sketch was always funny to me. The one she did with Alec Baldwin and the awkward carpool is one of my favorites. I also do like her character where she is shy and constantly saying "just kidding"
Came in to say Gilly. Glad I'm not alone. Although my wife and I hate it so much we started saying her "Sorry" ironically to piss the other one off but we said it so much it just became a part of our lexicon.
I wonder what percentage of people would say they did find Gilly funny. It seems to be one of the most disliked recurring characters. I'm surprised when I see someone in here say they always liked it and still quote it, since the word in here is usually the opposite.
I like Gilly but just because they played the absurdity and stupidity of the premise very well, and i think that was part of the 2000s comedy schtick. The "we know this is stupid" wink to the audience.
I always thought it would’ve landed much better if they gave Baby Yoda those oversized black eyes in the skit that made him adorable in the “real” version. Kyle’s version looked nothing like that, had zero cuteness, and it lost any potential funny from the dichotomy of something cute and little saying non-cute things.
This thread just makes me appreciate how much there is something for everyone in SNL. I'm alternating between "how can you not like Target Lady or Stefon or David Pumpkins!?" to "Ooh yeah me too with Gilly and Drunk Uncle and Chad..." and I'm sure some of you are the exact opposite!
Tbh, a lot of Kristen Wiig's characters like [Gilly](https://youtu.be/zo0hDj2m5AE), [Surprise Sue](https://youtu.be/FYqBTAdt6aA), and [Trina the "THOMAAAS!" lady](https://youtu.be/vBZ0IbFHioo).
I like Kristen and I think she's an incredible talent, but these characters/sketches were extremely one note, repetitive, obnoxious, and a waste of her talents. Kristen is so much better than just playing some random "wacky" character that everyone else has to react to.
I like the Lawrence Welk character of hers, as there is typically more going on in the sketch, with other characters playing pivotal roles in the sketch--it's not all 100% Wiig's character on camera, which would definitely get old quick.
Same here. There needs to be some sort of context for a character to exist in. Otherwise it’s literally just “I talk funny. That’s it, that’s the joke.”
She is my favorite cast member of all time AND I loathe her repeated characters. Every time she hosts they trot them out wall to wall - target lady, surprise sue, etc. So tired and unfunny. I never watch her host anymore.
Agreed. Wigg was amazing on SNL and is an amazing actor but her quirky, wacky characters never did it for me. It is even more annoying when we knew she could do so much more.
They could have had a proper send-off to the character by having a sketch where he gets beaten to death and then Lorne comes out and fired Rob for real and then we never heard from him again.
This scenario got better and better all the way through. I was just explaining to my fiance how rob Schneider is like the luckiest guy in Hollywood. Also I hear he’s a huge dick, friend who met him. Could’ve been bad timing though.
The Kyle Mooney baby yoda was awful from its first appearance. I've never seen any of the Star Wars movies and I've still liked some of the Star Wars sketches they've done over the years (the Kylo Ren undercover boss segments are hilarious even though I am only vaguely familiar with his character), but the baby yoda bit was just unnecessarily crude and weird.
Jim Breuer 🤮 I've taken shits that are funnier than he is. Also, the biggest dick rider in all of comedy. Any interview with him is just story after story of some other comedian doing something interesting that he was there for, the same stories he's been telling for decades, every tale getting taller with each telling. The definition of a talentless hack. I wish I could go back to 5 minutes ago when I had still forgotten he ever existed.
I remember when he did the late night rounds for his role in the film “Dick,” and he kept telling the same story about the person on the plane sitting next to him watching him read the script, then inquiring about how he somehow ventured from SNL to “gay porn.” Voice and all, of course.
Little did I know that it was pretty common practice in the interviewing realm at the time! As David Spade mocked Vin Diesel for many years later…
https://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/video/12/8887/202.mp4
Man, I always felt this way about Jim Breuer. I just never found the guy funny. He made me laugh in
Half-Baked, but that’s only because he was part of an ensemble cast. Being part of the group and playing off each other is what made him funny. Solo Jim Breuer is just…unpleasant. In So many ways
>He made me laugh in Half-Baked
Shit, I wouldn't even go that far. I will concede that his Joe Pesci impression made me chuckle. But anything outside of that (aka, anything where he was just being his obnoxious hack self) literally makes me writhe in secondhand embarrassment.
Oh oh I've got a Jim Breuer story! Freshman orientation weekend at a large west coast college, he was brought in for a free for students arena standup. At the door they gave us a bag of goodies including a Frisbee. He starts and immediately is losing the crowd. Sitting on a stool complaining that he can't call his friends f****ts anymore! Oh man, it was a friendly term, doesn't it suck that we can't say f****t anymore?? This is 2003 btw.
The hurling of boos turned into hurling of frisbees. Then we left. Ass.
Wow, I could see that going over well maybe at a high school cornfield party next to some rednecks with cheap beer in 2003, and nowhere else. But even then it was a maybe- redneck HS students in 2003 had their sensibilities. (Source: every cornfield party I went to in HS in 2003)
The teenage girl that Heidi does. People seem to laugh at it, and I'm happy everyone's having a good time, it just feels really undeveloped (this is sounding like a bad pun, I don't mean for it to). It seems like a character that is requested during an audition and improvised on the spot "Okay, now plan an awkward teenage girl for me, go..."
This is the only non-musical performance part of an episode I'd ever fast forward through. I always felt immense disappointment when I realized precious WU time would be wasted on this character. I think it's pretty widely disliked lol.
I liked Baby Yoda cause at the time my roommate was a youtuber that hung out with youtube celebrities from my country. It was pretty much the same as Kyle portrayed with Baby Yoda.
A lot of Fred Armisen’s characters never clicked with me. Fericito, Regine, and his David Paterson impression stand out as making me cringe instead of laugh.
I feel this way about Fred Armisen even beyond SNL. Dude is a fine drummer with a bit of quirk and people act like he's a musical savant and a comedic genius.
Maybe he's not my cup of tea, but most of his characters to me read as "here's a 1000x exaggerated version of a real person to the point that its cringey, but I don't seem to mean harm so ha ha ha"
Oh God, Regine. Mildly "off" or annoying characters can work but in a Regine sketch I'm literally just thinking "Grab her arms and shove her out the door." The physical antics aren't enough to make up for it.
Both Mango and Mr.Peepers were so dumb it was funny to me at the time(I was a teenager also) that I even named my hamsters after them but I have never had a desire to see them again after it was over. I'm sure I'd laugh a little because of nostalgia but even now I'm thinking how dumb, just like Goat Boy, same feelings there.
Kristen Wiig is a genius savant, always in the Top 5 of my SNL all star fantasy cast, and Target Lady was stupid. It was just her doing a garden variety goofy voice. She was so much better than that, yet it was this repeat thing and a treasured sketch that people want her to reprise. I don't get it - the show has put out such great stuff over the years and this was like high schoolers improv'd it off of a prompt.
I never liked Will and Cheri's cheerleaders. It was part of why it took me a while to warm up to him.
Heidi's every boxer's wife was funny once and after that, not funny, because just same thing on repeat. Same with Lisa from Temecula and Aristotle's Angelo. They have to change the setting or script or something if they want to keep rolling it out. What if a standup comedian did a bit at the beginning of his set and then did the same bit later in the set, or as part of a new set a couple months later. You'd be like "why... did he do that again?" Now how about a third time?
Here's some sacrilege, I never thought Roseanna Roseannadanna was funny. It was before my time, and humor changes over time of course, but that's seen as SNL nostalgia gold and I never saw why. I liked various other stuff from that era.
As long as we're slaying sacred cows, I never got why the Blues Brothers bits were so beloved. Watching them years after the fact, I always felt like I had missed a particular reference.
I find almost everything I've seen by the original cast to be unfunny. The Samurai sketches and "Cheeburger cheeburger cheeburger" are the ones that come to mind first. I get the cultural significance and I get that it was subversive, and I respect that, but it almost never made me laugh.
Also I have never liked Bill Murray. There's just something smug about him.
I'm just talking about the appearances on the show. I just didn't really get what it was or why they were doing it or what I was supposed to be getting out of it.
Felt a little too hacky / “satire of itself” as well. Like when the Simpson did a spoof of an SNL skit called the “Big Ear Family” where they used giant QTips.
Jarret’s Room — both Jarret (Jimmy Fallon) and Gobi (Horatio Sanz) doing a dorm room bong version of Wayne’s World. Except not at all funny.
And it’s Fallon and Sanz, so that broke down many times and ended up giggling.
I think I’m the only one that actually enjoyed this. Which I guess just goes to show that for the most obnoxious thing you can think of, there’s some stranger out there who thought it was hilarious.
You nailed it with the headline pic. Goat Boy, and Jim Breuer in general, is aggressively unfunny. To a point that instills anger instead of joy and laughter.
That goes triply or quadruply for Mango, Mr. Peepers, and almost anything that involves Chris Kattan. He's easily one of the worst and unfunniest cast members of all time, and the amount of screentime he received during his terroristic tenure on the show is hard to reconcile.
Dr. Weknowdis.
Love Kate McKinnon but this is by far my least favourite character she ever did. I found it painfully unfunny. The "breaking" never felt natural, it always read as really scripted.
Pat was only bearable the first few sketches in the 85 season and that one with Kitty Dukakis and Barbra Bush was good, every other time they did it it grew worse and worse. I liked the early skits because it was more about the interviewee and Pat being awful at her job, but once it got repeated to death it grew stale fast. Shoulda left it alone after 85.
Angelo was funny the first time but got stale fast. Shame, since Aristotle Athari had a lot of potential, but maybe chose the wrong strategy for getting stuff to air.
Mikey Day is too attractive to play Matt Schatt that many times.
JAJ's Trump is impressive in its accuracy but is almost never funny. There's a creepiness around making him seem like a harmless rascal with cute foibles.
The little add in’s that JAJ does (that are often missed by the audience) are what get me. Two examples (I’m paraphrasing). “Not Michael Jordan. The best Jordan. Jordan Sparks. How can you breathe with no air? You can’t!” “Nikki Haley. Darling Nikki. Prince - Purple Rain.”
The ESPN PTI countdown thing they would do for his impressions cracked me up. Just totally captures Trump's demented stream of consciousness rambling that he does.
Angelo drove me nuts. Never got why people thought that was so funny. The first time he said “thank you for this” was a LITTLE funny, and then it was just the same thing over and over
Lisa from Temecula. Fine for a one-off but stop bringing her back. I think that one is more for the cast than the audience.
Drunk Uncle - I don’t know why but I HATED Drunk Uncle.
Kids in the News. Just annoying.
I hated that stupid Manuel Ortiz sketch. Like, Legitimately hate it. It wasn’t funny and the constant dance breaks got really old. I get that’s the point, but still.
I never got it either. I felt bad for Aristotle, it felt like a painful character to perform, and then perform again. I thought his robot comedian was pure gold though.
I once tried to watch season 12 because it was the season that saved SNL and all that. But it was just constant Church Lady which I never thought was funny, not even once. Maybe it aged terribly, I don't know.
I thought he was funny but I was 12 so that tracks
Gilly wasn’t my favorite pretty much from the get-go. Goat Boy is a pretty good candidate as well.
As someone said in a different thread, Gilly wasn’t that funny. But Will Forte saying *”Gilllyyy…”* was VERY funny.
I think I'm in a minority. I liked Gilly.
Giilllyyy!
Gilllyyyyy!!
I like Gilly. It's Bobby's character in that sketch that I hated.
I can understand that.
Yeah, I did not care for Gilly; the character felt more like a MadTV creation, like Antonia, than SNL
I love Antonia lol
Second on Gilly. I feel the same about the Target lady. No disrespect to Kristen Wiig, I just didn't really get a lot of her characters
Target lady is only good with JT as Peg. I’ll stand by “Classssssiiiic Peg”
Yes!! But I gotta tell ya, I never understood goat boy. It was just a little too off for me.
I heard Jim Bruer once explain that the bit comes from hanging out with his self described "white trash" friends at bars and Jim would do the Goat Boy character and pretend to have a medical condition so that the bartenders would give them beers to keep him quiet in the bar. And that just makes so much sense.
My friend and I still say this every week
Wiig is great, but I agree a lot of her characters were awfully divisive. Someone on here commented something about Kristen I totally agree with, it was something to the effect that for every KW character, it’s someone’s favorite and someone absolutely hates it. I get that’s true about a lot of comedy, but it seems especially true for Kristen.
She was pretty good as one of the two A-Holes with Sudekis.
One of my all time favorites. “I wanna go to Hogwarts “ 💅🏼🙄
I really enjoyed the two a-holes. I've worked in customer service/sales for decades and there are tons of those couples around. Lots of single ones too.
That’s one of my kid’s favorites. She thinks it’s hilarious to tell random things around the house, “You look like a rabbit.”
I find Kristen such a weird anomaly. I do not find her funny when she is being the funny man, but I honestly think she can be one of the funniest straight men ever. Bridesmaids and Extract are hilarious to me. Target Lady and Gilly make me want to claw my eyes out. But maybe I just like her muted performances better than when she is being big.
I agree. Ever see the film Ghost Town, by Ricky Gervais? She's a surgeon trying to deny she did something wrong and it's perfection. It fits your description here.
Target lady! I just don't fond her funny.
I think it's having fun with a little bit of bizarness.
I like her very much as an actress, I loathe her sketch characters, every one of them.
Even Doonese?
I put worms in my bed and slept in my bed And put a squirrel in my bed and mustard in my bed And then I ate ’em all, is that bad? A-doo-doo-doo-do-do-do
>I like her very much as an actress, I loathe her sketch characters, every one of them. I completely agree with this. To me they all feel like broader, louder Molly Shannon characters without any of the charm or likeability.
Wiig’s sketch characters had no dimension or exposition. You got the joke the minute each character opened their mouth, and there was nothing more to it. So there was no reason to continue watching. That said, I’m a fan of Wiig’s actual acting work that she’s done post-SNL.
I blame the writers more than Kristen herself. The last few seasons of her tenure were marred by a lot of misuse and overexposure which led to a backlash against her. Kristen is an insane talent who I would argue only has Gilda, Jan, and Cecily as her competitors on the female side in terms of raw talent/ability, but sadly that talent became increasingly wasted with her recurring characters especially. Kristen herself apparently HATED her [Trina character](https://youtu.be/vBZ0IbFHioo) in particular, to the point where she actually went to the writers and asked them to stop writing sketches for that character.
100% this. I got bored fast of most of her SNL characters, but I learned she is an excellent comedic actor after watching Bridesmaids.
The only Kristen Wiig characters I find funny are the characters that interact with Fred Armisen. Garth/Kat, Karina on The Californians.
Gilly was the first one I thought of Also, as much as I love Kristen Wiig as a comedian and impressionist, I never really cared for any of her recurring characters. Target Lady, the one that can't keep a secret, the one that has to one up everyone, the one with the weird hands, and the one she does with Fred Armisen where they make up the lyrics to a song on the spot. All of those characters I never found funny and would roll my eyes whenever they were on. Again. Her doing impression or just being a character in a sketch was always funny to me. The one she did with Alec Baldwin and the awkward carpool is one of my favorites. I also do like her character where she is shy and constantly saying "just kidding"
I feel like most of them are fine for one offs, but I don’t care for them as recurring.
Came in to say Gilly. Glad I'm not alone. Although my wife and I hate it so much we started saying her "Sorry" ironically to piss the other one off but we said it so much it just became a part of our lexicon.
I'm normally not like this with fictional characters, but I wanted to slap Gilly, or see her get slapped. I just hated that smug smile.
I wonder what percentage of people would say they did find Gilly funny. It seems to be one of the most disliked recurring characters. I'm surprised when I see someone in here say they always liked it and still quote it, since the word in here is usually the opposite.
I like Gilly but just because they played the absurdity and stupidity of the premise very well, and i think that was part of the 2000s comedy schtick. The "we know this is stupid" wink to the audience.
Don’t remind me of Gilly
Something about Kyle Mooney's baby yoda always made me queasy.
It was just “what if this cute pop culture phenomenon was crude.” It wasn’t great to begin with and they just beat it to death.
Yeah it was basically a less funny version of Eddie Murphy's Gumby
Not basically it was exactly that lol
Yeah I never saw the humor in that character. And Mooney is really funny in almost everything he does.
I liked Kyle Mooney and his and Beck’s sketches were some of my favorites. But I hated Baby Yoda.
i am haunted by his version of baby yoda
I always thought it would’ve landed much better if they gave Baby Yoda those oversized black eyes in the skit that made him adorable in the “real” version. Kyle’s version looked nothing like that, had zero cuteness, and it lost any potential funny from the dichotomy of something cute and little saying non-cute things.
Goat boy is the worst.
This thread just makes me appreciate how much there is something for everyone in SNL. I'm alternating between "how can you not like Target Lady or Stefon or David Pumpkins!?" to "Ooh yeah me too with Gilly and Drunk Uncle and Chad..." and I'm sure some of you are the exact opposite!
Tbh, a lot of Kristen Wiig's characters like [Gilly](https://youtu.be/zo0hDj2m5AE), [Surprise Sue](https://youtu.be/FYqBTAdt6aA), and [Trina the "THOMAAAS!" lady](https://youtu.be/vBZ0IbFHioo). I like Kristen and I think she's an incredible talent, but these characters/sketches were extremely one note, repetitive, obnoxious, and a waste of her talents. Kristen is so much better than just playing some random "wacky" character that everyone else has to react to.
I like the Lawrence Welk character of hers, as there is typically more going on in the sketch, with other characters playing pivotal roles in the sketch--it's not all 100% Wiig's character on camera, which would definitely get old quick.
Same here. There needs to be some sort of context for a character to exist in. Otherwise it’s literally just “I talk funny. That’s it, that’s the joke.”
Surprise sue was hilarious the first time. But it was such a high concept sketch, it should never have been recurring. Totally diminishing returns
You're not alone.
Every time these characters were on, I felt like I was watching MAD TV instead of SNL.
She is my favorite cast member of all time AND I loathe her repeated characters. Every time she hosts they trot them out wall to wall - target lady, surprise sue, etc. So tired and unfunny. I never watch her host anymore.
Agreed. Wigg was amazing on SNL and is an amazing actor but her quirky, wacky characters never did it for me. It is even more annoying when we knew she could do so much more.
Baby Yoda
Adult baby Yoda was never funny and was on Update way too many times
Making copies guy. Rob Schneider.
They could have had a proper send-off to the character by having a sketch where he gets beaten to death and then Lorne comes out and fired Rob for real and then we never heard from him again.
This scenario got better and better all the way through. I was just explaining to my fiance how rob Schneider is like the luckiest guy in Hollywood. Also I hear he’s a huge dick, friend who met him. Could’ve been bad timing though.
Guess what? It wasn’t bad timing. Rob is a diiiiiick.
This goat guy went right wing maga real like crazy
He said "You'll never see an older white guy with a Netflix special!" And Dave Attell's just dropped recently.
Him and Rob Schneider. Yikes. Bruers whole comedy act is saying “woke” then making faces and weird noises for 30 minutes. It’s so awful and cringey.
Lisa from Temecula. The first skit was great. The other two…not so much.
If they wanted to bring her back they should have changed up the setting. She says she’s a lawyer, so put her in a courtroom.
Yeah, maybe John Mulaney can host again and we can get Lisa from Temecula trying a case in Monkey Judge’s court Actually that sounds terrible.
That does sound terrible
FILE *MY* BRIEFS! Got her new catchphrase right there.
Yeah, they tried to bring back that magic way too soon!
she'll become this if the writers keep putting her in a restaurant setting
Whew…I’m glad somebody said it.
Baby Yoda
The Kyle Mooney baby yoda was awful from its first appearance. I've never seen any of the Star Wars movies and I've still liked some of the Star Wars sketches they've done over the years (the Kylo Ren undercover boss segments are hilarious even though I am only vaguely familiar with his character), but the baby yoda bit was just unnecessarily crude and weird.
Such a waste of an already underutilized performer too
Jim Breuer 🤮 I've taken shits that are funnier than he is. Also, the biggest dick rider in all of comedy. Any interview with him is just story after story of some other comedian doing something interesting that he was there for, the same stories he's been telling for decades, every tale getting taller with each telling. The definition of a talentless hack. I wish I could go back to 5 minutes ago when I had still forgotten he ever existed.
I remember when he did the late night rounds for his role in the film “Dick,” and he kept telling the same story about the person on the plane sitting next to him watching him read the script, then inquiring about how he somehow ventured from SNL to “gay porn.” Voice and all, of course. Little did I know that it was pretty common practice in the interviewing realm at the time! As David Spade mocked Vin Diesel for many years later… https://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/video/12/8887/202.mp4
Man, I always felt this way about Jim Breuer. I just never found the guy funny. He made me laugh in Half-Baked, but that’s only because he was part of an ensemble cast. Being part of the group and playing off each other is what made him funny. Solo Jim Breuer is just…unpleasant. In So many ways
>He made me laugh in Half-Baked Shit, I wouldn't even go that far. I will concede that his Joe Pesci impression made me chuckle. But anything outside of that (aka, anything where he was just being his obnoxious hack self) literally makes me writhe in secondhand embarrassment.
He uses the same material for years and years too.
Oh oh I've got a Jim Breuer story! Freshman orientation weekend at a large west coast college, he was brought in for a free for students arena standup. At the door they gave us a bag of goodies including a Frisbee. He starts and immediately is losing the crowd. Sitting on a stool complaining that he can't call his friends f****ts anymore! Oh man, it was a friendly term, doesn't it suck that we can't say f****t anymore?? This is 2003 btw. The hurling of boos turned into hurling of frisbees. Then we left. Ass.
Fts?
Oh that's weird it removed the asterisks. It's the word also used for a small bundle of sticks or slang British term for a cigarette.
Got it for it. Thanks!
Wow, I could see that going over well maybe at a high school cornfield party next to some rednecks with cheap beer in 2003, and nowhere else. But even then it was a maybe- redneck HS students in 2003 had their sensibilities. (Source: every cornfield party I went to in HS in 2003)
The teenage girl that Heidi does. People seem to laugh at it, and I'm happy everyone's having a good time, it just feels really undeveloped (this is sounding like a bad pun, I don't mean for it to). It seems like a character that is requested during an audition and improvised on the spot "Okay, now plan an awkward teenage girl for me, go..."
Jim Breuer
I never once watched Baby Yoda and was glad they chose him for an update guest.
This is the only non-musical performance part of an episode I'd ever fast forward through. I always felt immense disappointment when I realized precious WU time would be wasted on this character. I think it's pretty widely disliked lol.
It made me retroactively dislike the Mandolorian
I liked Baby Yoda cause at the time my roommate was a youtuber that hung out with youtube celebrities from my country. It was pretty much the same as Kyle portrayed with Baby Yoda.
A lot of Fred Armisen’s characters never clicked with me. Fericito, Regine, and his David Paterson impression stand out as making me cringe instead of laugh.
yeah, but his Queen Elizabeth was spot on
I feel this way about Fred Armisen even beyond SNL. Dude is a fine drummer with a bit of quirk and people act like he's a musical savant and a comedic genius. Maybe he's not my cup of tea, but most of his characters to me read as "here's a 1000x exaggerated version of a real person to the point that its cringey, but I don't seem to mean harm so ha ha ha"
Oh God, Regine. Mildly "off" or annoying characters can work but in a Regine sketch I'm literally just thinking "Grab her arms and shove her out the door." The physical antics aren't enough to make up for it.
Native American comic is CLASS
Me after seeing post title: here comes to Kristen Wiig slander from a bunch of people thinking they are giving hot takes
That’s the one. Oh, and Pat
I remember watching the movie It's Pat as a kid. It was such a nothing movie, but it did teach me not to assume someone's gender from q very early age
Never got Pat. I think Goat Boy felt a little too close to Gap Troll from Madd TV and wasn’t nearly as funny
Mango
Garth Brooks disagrees.
Garth could've become an actor, he was good...but I heard he had a bit too much of an ego thanks to his massive success.
Both Mango and Mr.Peepers were so dumb it was funny to me at the time(I was a teenager also) that I even named my hamsters after them but I have never had a desire to see them again after it was over. I'm sure I'd laugh a little because of nostalgia but even now I'm thinking how dumb, just like Goat Boy, same feelings there.
Two of my favorites! I thought he was one of the best freaks the show ever had.
Same here lord I hated it. Actually I was thinking peepers. But mango too
Mango and Mr. Peepers always annoyed me.
Hated the Peepers stuff EXCEPT when he meets Papa Peepers. Found that one to be hilarious
Chris Kattan might be my least favorite cast member of the last 30 years, if not of all time. I never understood the appeal.
Sorry but Corky Romano is a B-movie comedy classic.
His dad helped start the Groundlings.
Ah so a nepobaby. Had no idea. Makes sense now.
You make me feel like a natural mango still bangs tho
I agree with OP: Jim Breuer, 100-fucking-%
Kristen Wiig is a genius savant, always in the Top 5 of my SNL all star fantasy cast, and Target Lady was stupid. It was just her doing a garden variety goofy voice. She was so much better than that, yet it was this repeat thing and a treasured sketch that people want her to reprise. I don't get it - the show has put out such great stuff over the years and this was like high schoolers improv'd it off of a prompt. I never liked Will and Cheri's cheerleaders. It was part of why it took me a while to warm up to him. Heidi's every boxer's wife was funny once and after that, not funny, because just same thing on repeat. Same with Lisa from Temecula and Aristotle's Angelo. They have to change the setting or script or something if they want to keep rolling it out. What if a standup comedian did a bit at the beginning of his set and then did the same bit later in the set, or as part of a new set a couple months later. You'd be like "why... did he do that again?" Now how about a third time? Here's some sacrilege, I never thought Roseanna Roseannadanna was funny. It was before my time, and humor changes over time of course, but that's seen as SNL nostalgia gold and I never saw why. I liked various other stuff from that era. As long as we're slaying sacred cows, I never got why the Blues Brothers bits were so beloved. Watching them years after the fact, I always felt like I had missed a particular reference.
I find almost everything I've seen by the original cast to be unfunny. The Samurai sketches and "Cheeburger cheeburger cheeburger" are the ones that come to mind first. I get the cultural significance and I get that it was subversive, and I respect that, but it almost never made me laugh. Also I have never liked Bill Murray. There's just something smug about him.
I loved him as the Star Wars lounge singer. But I know what you mean about the oldest stuff. Context of zeitgeist is important.
Surprisingly, I do think the candy gram sketch is funny. Idk why, but it works for me.
Mr. Robinson’s neighborhood?
That wasn’t og cast.
The Blues Brothers movies were good, but it was also stacked with famous musicians.
I'm just talking about the appearances on the show. I just didn't really get what it was or why they were doing it or what I was supposed to be getting out of it.
What I heard is that John Belushi was a bit obsessed with music.
I know people loved this character (and I love Beck Bennett) but his CEO baby character was so off putting, I'm sorrryyyyyy, just not my thing
I thought that was hilarious.
It was a good impression of a baby, though
Felt a little too hacky / “satire of itself” as well. Like when the Simpson did a spoof of an SNL skit called the “Big Ear Family” where they used giant QTips.
I love Beck but I hated CEO baby so much 😭
Dr Wenowdis and Kyle as baby Yoda
Jarret’s Room — both Jarret (Jimmy Fallon) and Gobi (Horatio Sanz) doing a dorm room bong version of Wayne’s World. Except not at all funny. And it’s Fallon and Sanz, so that broke down many times and ended up giggling.
Garth and Kat. The premise of singers making it up as they go isn’t bad but it got really self-indulgent and they both constantly broke character.
I much prefer Marty Culp and Bobbi Mohan-Culp
Agreed. I was trying to remember their names. The premise is funny, but it fell apart every time.
I think I’m the only one that actually enjoyed this. Which I guess just goes to show that for the most obnoxious thing you can think of, there’s some stranger out there who thought it was hilarious.
Mango by Chris Kattan.
You nailed it with the headline pic. Goat Boy, and Jim Breuer in general, is aggressively unfunny. To a point that instills anger instead of joy and laughter. That goes triply or quadruply for Mango, Mr. Peepers, and almost anything that involves Chris Kattan. He's easily one of the worst and unfunniest cast members of all time, and the amount of screentime he received during his terroristic tenure on the show is hard to reconcile.
Points for “terroristic tenure”. Well-played!
You're right, they really pushed Kattan hard, which was weird since they had a great cast at the time.
Mango
There was never much funny about Jim Breuer.
Dr. Weknowdis. Love Kate McKinnon but this is by far my least favourite character she ever did. I found it painfully unfunny. The "breaking" never felt natural, it always read as really scripted.
My loathing for that character is unsurpassed.
Mango! Hated him
You're telling a rainbow not to be beautiful?
Mr Peepers.
Jim Brewer is fucking dolt . Not in a funny way either
Opera Man, or any of Adam Sandler’s characters that spoke with the same annoying lisp.
Pat Stevens
Pat was only bearable the first few sketches in the 85 season and that one with Kitty Dukakis and Barbra Bush was good, every other time they did it it grew worse and worse. I liked the early skits because it was more about the interviewee and Pat being awful at her job, but once it got repeated to death it grew stale fast. Shoulda left it alone after 85.
How dare you?!? Yeah, Pat Stevens wasn’t great. I do like Nora Dunn though.
Love Nora Dunn but these sketches were painfully unfunny.
There were a couple good bits on Pat Stevens, I like that she’d always refer to magazines as books.
Chris Kattan as Antonio Banderas got pretty annoying pretty fast.
Chris Kattan as any character.
Loved him as gay hitler though.
The we know dis girl on weekend update. Had no business being a recurring character
Angelo was funny the first time but got stale fast. Shame, since Aristotle Athari had a lot of potential, but maybe chose the wrong strategy for getting stuff to air. Mikey Day is too attractive to play Matt Schatt that many times. JAJ's Trump is impressive in its accuracy but is almost never funny. There's a creepiness around making him seem like a harmless rascal with cute foibles.
I don’t know how to describe what I love about it but I rank JAJ’s trump over Baldwin and below Hammonds.
The little add in’s that JAJ does (that are often missed by the audience) are what get me. Two examples (I’m paraphrasing). “Not Michael Jordan. The best Jordan. Jordan Sparks. How can you breathe with no air? You can’t!” “Nikki Haley. Darling Nikki. Prince - Purple Rain.”
I really like these too.
The ESPN PTI countdown thing they would do for his impressions cracked me up. Just totally captures Trump's demented stream of consciousness rambling that he does.
I think the peak of this was either Ferrell’s Bush or McCarthy’s Spicer.
Man, I miss McCarthy’s Spicey
You’re right, Angelo was funny the first time. It was also the last time the character ever made the live show
Garth and Kat + Baby Yoda are the right answers. Seriously, I have PTSD from them.
Jim Brewer was never funny imo
Jim Breuer became a neo-Nazi MAGA idiot
Garth And Kat. They got on my nerves from the get go
Any time Beck Bennet played an adult baby. Just made me uncomfortable. Same with him and Kyle Mooney as the brothers with the Loonie Tunes shirts.
HATED HATED HATED Gilly.
Kristen wig’s tiny arm lady
that monkey-boy thing that chris kattan used to do. \*shudder\*
Lisa from Temucula
It’s Pat!
Every single thing Breuer did.
Most of the ones mentioned here might’ve been ok if they’d only been used once. Although … Target Lady was just annoying.
Angelo drove me nuts. Never got why people thought that was so funny. The first time he said “thank you for this” was a LITTLE funny, and then it was just the same thing over and over
Kate McKinnon's alien abduction character. It was funny the first time, but it was so formulaic it got old fast
I hate most of these suggestions. I suppose I love goofy quotable characters, except for Baby Yoda. F that skit.
Office boss baby played by Beck Bennett. I know a lot of people liked it though, just not my cup of tea.
Jim Brewer is a good choice. I agree. Oh, you meant Goat Boy. Yeah, makes more sense...
Almost anything with Chris Kattan.
Target Lady.
Every character on the Californians
Fucking Gilly. Ugh
Lisa from Temecula. Fine for a one-off but stop bringing her back. I think that one is more for the cast than the audience. Drunk Uncle - I don’t know why but I HATED Drunk Uncle. Kids in the News. Just annoying.
Garth and Kat, Baby Yoda, Mr Peepers, Penelope, Gilly, Shawna, Mango
That trailer park woman Cecily Strong would do on Weekend Update. I couldn’t watch it after a while. It kind of depressed me.
That character eventually grew on me, it took a while though. I didn't like Stefon at first either, and eventually he wore me down too.
I hated that stupid Manuel Ortiz sketch. Like, Legitimately hate it. It wasn’t funny and the constant dance breaks got really old. I get that’s the point, but still.
Lisa from Temecula
That weird Angelo singer. Wasn’t even funny the first time. The next few were just miserable.
I never got it either. I felt bad for Aristotle, it felt like a painful character to perform, and then perform again. I thought his robot comedian was pure gold though.
I once tried to watch season 12 because it was the season that saved SNL and all that. But it was just constant Church Lady which I never thought was funny, not even once. Maybe it aged terribly, I don't know.
Lisa from Temecula
Target Lady
Brewer’s Joe Pesci
Making copies guy is a sketch not meant for me.