the host segments were occasionally quite funny but a lot of the time it seemed like they were making them suck on purpose. i always took it to be a weird kind of way to keep the show humble. they spend all this time shitting on b-movies, it would be easy to see mst3k's voice as being not just ironic and playful but…

lol yeah look at this old loser trying to communicate with people about stuff that matters to them, what a fucking dufus. great job sam, way to nail him!

post your favorite mst3k song

Do a damn monologue

Favorite song on this album + justification?
(Or you can choose a different Velvets song but I'll fight you)

Also I loved this album so much that I tried to actually get into bdsm, but was halted by not having anyone interested in helping me out. So I just read "Venus in Furs" and felt really cool in my room.

"Cloe-un"

I first heard this album in 9th grade, and basically had the same story as Sean, including realizing that I could kind of play "Heroin" on my guitar. The only thing I could add to this account would be how amazed I am that this album still feels totally fresh, so much more so than other proto-rock acts, especially the…

For their time and place, they were extremely gritty and real. To an extraordinary degree actually. But their unsuppressable coolness was also a real force and I think colors gritty, real songs with a romantic brush for some listeners. Like, it's definitely not cool to be so hopelessly addicted to drugs that you can't…

Maybe it's got more to do with how I view Trump than I realized, I really see a lot more of the real thing in Atamaniuk, precisely because I see him as a much darker, crueler figure than the oaf type. Seth Rogen is an oaf. Donald Trump is a violent, deeply cruel person.

The crazy violence that Atamaniuk adds to the running-outer-monologue that is Trump is what makes his impression so perfect.

That's certainly true. But his take on Trump is less funny than Atamaniuk's, this can be and is also true.

well that debunks my sweeping 'anybody' i suppose. seems clear to me from the word emphasis choices (gyna but one example) and some of the body language choices too. it was definitely a shame not to see atamaniuk get this shot from SNL, it's not like baldwin needs the exposure

James Adomian is a dick?

Anybody who was familiar with Atamaniuk's impression saw right away that Baldwin was ripping it off, at least partially. Sure there are aspects to actual Trump that would be common, but it's a lot more extensive than that. It's a shame, because Atamaniuk's take is funnier and more original in several ways than…

first thing i thought of too. conscious/serious/fun/catchy/aggressive punk sounds like just what the doctor ordered, again

Backstairs

The Body Says No
Jackie, Dressed in Cobras
Stacked Crooked

+1

they're speechwriters, not organizers. like trying to get wilderness survival advice from bear grylls' cameraman. they don't have the answers, and av club editors or whomever is thinking otherwise will be disappointed.