Cornell in the Movies

[djk26]

This is the first show I saw Kate McKinnon not be any good.  Might be time, old girl.  Keenan's held on but, I'm just saying.

I'm as much (if not more) a SNL nerd as I am a Cornell nerd, so here we go:

The cast is too damn big.  21 cast members, including 5 featured players, is ridiculous. The thing is, there is a lot of talent among the new people.  James Austin Johnson is great as Biden and Trump, and shows more than enough outside of those characters.  Sarah Sherman's Weekend Update rant about Colin Jost a few episodes back makes her worth a second look.  Aristotle Athari's robot character is solid.  Punkie Johnson is nigh invisible and it's tough to break through so I would cut her.  Andrew Dismukes was featured quite a bit in the last episode and I just didn't get much of a laugh from anything he did.  Sorry, kid, it's a tough business.

So that's two down from the new kids.  I would also encourage the people who have gotten the point where they can be stars outside the show to move on.  That's the five biggest names in the cast--time to go and let someone else shime--the show will suffer in the short term but then get better as Redd, Nwodim, Fineman, Gardner, Day, Villasenor, Yang and Moffat finally have room to grow.  That means Keenan Thompson, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Cecily Strong and Pete Davidson finally move on to bigger and better things.  And I like Kyle Mooney a lot, I just don't know if his talents are right for this show where he has to play off others.

So that's eight people out of the cast, making it a much more manageable 13.  And Michael Che and Colin Jost don't generally appear in sketches outside of Weekend Update, so that's a sketch cast of 11, which is reasonable.

Thank goodness for JSID. Here's a hockey reference: Keenan Thompson knows how to skate.  As he said during the end of the world Christmas show a few weeks ago, "Mighty Ducks forever, bitches!"

[Trotsky]

This is the first show I saw Kate McKinnon not be any good.  Might be time, old girl.  Keenan's held on but, I'm just saying.

I'm as much (if not more) a SNL nerd as I am a Cornell nerd, so here we go:

The cast is too damn big.  21 cast members, including 5 featured players, is ridiculous. The thing is, there is a lot of talent among the new people.  James Austin Johnson is great as Biden and Trump, and shows more than enough outside of those characters.  Sarah Sherman's Weekend Update rant about Colin Jost a few episodes back makes her worth a second look.  Aristotle Athari's robot character is solid.  Punkie Johnson is nigh invisible and it's tough to break through so I would cut her.  Andrew Dismukes was featured quite a bit in the last episode and I just didn't get much of a laugh from anything he did.  Sorry, kid, it's a tough business.

So that's two down from the new kids.  I would also encourage the people who have gotten the point where they can be stars outside the show to move on.  That's the five biggest names in the cast--time to go and let someone else shime--the show will suffer in the short term but then get better as Redd, Nwodim, Fineman, Gardner, Day, Villasenor, Yang and Moffat finally have room to grow.  That means Keenan Thompson, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Cecily Strong and Pete Davidson finally move on to bigger and better things.  And I like Kyle Mooney a lot, I just don't know if his talents are right for this show where he has to play off others.

So that's eight people out of the cast, making it a much more manageable 13.  And Michael Che and Colin Jost don't generally appear in sketches outside of Weekend Update, so that's a sketch cast of 11, which is reasonable.

Thank goodness for JSID. Here's a hockey reference: Keenan Thompson knows how to skate.  As he said during the end of the world Christmas show a few weeks ago, "Mighty Ducks forever, bitches!"

I am all for all of this.

[Scersk '97]

And I like Kyle Mooney a lot, I just don't know if his talents are right for this show where he has to play off others.

I continue to hope he and Beck Bennett will reconnect for a Mr. Show-a-like.

[ugarte]

Does this count as Cornell being in the movies?

[Trotsky]

Does this count as Cornell being in the movies?

In Soviet Russia, movies in you.

[Swampy]

In HBO's new dramatization of "The Staircase" one of the daughters is going away to college "in New York." Later, when the family is in crisis, we see her in her bedroom with a "Cornell University" pillow on the bed.

And, in Episode 6, she's wearing a Cornell sweatshirt when she's home sometime after Thanksgiving and before Xmas.

[George64]

Reported by Chuck Levitan'68 in latest Cornellians — "I think our classmates should be outraged with the writers, producers, directors, and star of the TV show "Billions." Paul Giamatti, in a particular scene, is on a phone call with his ex, talking about their prep school son whose presumed destiny is to follow in the footsteps of his father and earlier generations to Harvard, and likely Harvard Law. We only hear the Giamatti side of the conversation as he expresses his displeasure at something his ex tells him to which he answers sarcastically with words something to this effect: "Don't tell me again that Cornell is 'good enough.'" To which I say, damn right Cornell is good enough . . ."
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[jtwcornell91]

Last night we watched an episode ("Spock Amok") of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds which apparently aired earlier in the summer.  The alien race with which they're conducting diplomatic negotiations are the Rongovians.  (Actually, since the Rongo closed a few years back, this could also have gone in the "Another ... Bar Bites the Dust" thread as well.)

@MHAIthaca, did you or Uncle Mikey have anything to do with this?

[Beeeej]

Reported by Chuck Levitan'68 in latest Cornellians — "I think our classmates should be outraged with the writers, producers, directors, and star of the TV show "Billions." Paul Giamatti, in a particular scene, is on a phone call with his ex, talking about their prep school son whose presumed destiny is to follow in the footsteps of his father and earlier generations to Harvard, and likely Harvard Law. We only hear the Giamatti side of the conversation as he expresses his displeasure at something his ex tells him to which he answers sarcastically with words something to this effect: "Don't tell me again that Cornell is 'good enough.'" To which I say, damn right Cornell is good enough . . ."
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I was similarly pissed at the Cornell line, but Chuck attended Yale undergrad and taught at Yale Law School. I don't remember ever learning for certain where he attended law school.

[kingpin248]

Last night we watched an episode ("Spock Amok") of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds which apparently aired earlier in the summer.  The alien race with which they're conducting diplomatic negotiations are the Rongovians.  (Actually, since the Rongo closed a few years back, this could also have gone in the "Another ... Bar Bites the Dust" thread as well.)

@MHAIthaca, did you or Uncle Mikey have anything to do with this?

mhaithaca asked this question when the episode was released, and "Spock Amok" co-writer Henry Alonso Myers identified himself as an "Ithacan-American."
https://twitter.com/alonsomyers/status/1532441671526273024

[George64]

I streamed the second episode of The Sinner last night.  When the lead detective talks with the murder victim's parents, the mother mentions that her dead son went to Cornell and worked "a hundred hours a week."  BTW, he got into medical school.

[upprdeck]

the ATF agent in the new Stallone series Tulsa King graduated from Cornell in political science.. maybe they work in a Cornell reference one day

[upprdeck]

A Cornell Hotelee  just got a job working at the BNB on the tv show Ghosts ,,

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

A Cornell Hotelee  just got a job working at the BNB on the tv show Ghosts ,,

Was he/she alive?  ::faint::

[French Rage]

A Cornell Hotelee  just got a job working at the BNB on the tv show Ghosts ,,

Was he/she alive?  ::faint::

Yes.  And apparently *not* a murderer!