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September 15, 2008

Lil Wayne Brings His Autotuner To SNL

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Weezy added another stat to his career year this weekend as musical guest for the season premiere of Saturday Night Live. Unfortunately he didn't do much to bring excitement to an episode that really could have used it, Palin/Clinton bit aside. (I'm not sure how you spend a summer working on new material only to rewrite old sketches and not once lampoon the presidential candidates after talking it up so much, but that is among the many reasons I'm not a writer for Saturday Night Live. Also, that stereotype-spitting waiter sketch -- ugh.) Dwayne and his autotuner did the singles, "Lollipop" and "Got Money (Remix)," the most entertaining part of which was a Mack Maine verse and once again watching Weezy's jeans balance beneath his ass and somehow never fall down. If you missed the show, Videogum's harvested just the funny parts (there were a few), and here are videos of Mr. Carter's two songs and magic jeans:

Lollipop

"Got Money (Remix) (Feat. Mack Maine)"

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cold war kid

whats the deal with his guitar? why is pretending to play it?

Posted by: cold war kid profile link at 09/15/08 11:39 AM | Reply
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Pathetic. I'd rather listen to T-Pain. At least he doesn't make us endure 'guitar solos'.

Posted by: nk at 09/15/08 11:41 AM | Reply
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grace6697

SNL was my first exposure to Lil Wayne.

why is this guy famous?

Posted by: grace6697 profile link at 09/15/08 11:50 AM | Reply
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P4k <3s him

Posted by: Peter in reply to grace6697's comment at 09/15/08 1:19 PM | Reply
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jdubs

hey, i love your little MMJ bears. what show did you take that at?

Posted by: jdubs profile link in reply to grace6697's comment at 09/15/08 3:15 PM | Reply
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grace6697

pooch got a girlfriend! how cute?!

i yoinked it off the mmj site. i don't think they'll mind :)

Posted by: grace6697 profile link in reply to jdubs's comment at 09/15/08 6:38 PM | Reply
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This site is so fucking stupid. It rehashes the same news stories from billboard.com and rollingstone.com.

Posted by: jippy at 09/15/08 11:57 AM | Reply
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grace6697

that might or might not be true. but i don't have the time to weed through those sites for the parts that interest me. nor can i make snarky comments with some like-minded people there.

also, calm down. it's just the internet.

Posted by: grace6697 profile link in reply to jippy's comment at 09/15/08 12:14 PM | Reply
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"Obama / Weezy remixxxes could've been tight / but then came the eye walls of great big Ike"

Posted by: bellz at 09/15/08 12:18 PM | Reply
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k

what they SHOULD'VE aired > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yN-s2h9mn0

Posted by: k profile link at 09/15/08 12:24 PM | Reply
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k

- see also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j23wlm_zzIg

Posted by: k profile link at 09/15/08 12:27 PM | Reply
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douglas martin

the secret to making sure your pants don't fall off your ass: keep your legs spread pretty far apart. the only downside is that you have to waddle instead of walk.

Posted by: douglas martin profile link at 09/15/08 2:01 PM | Reply
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Lil Wayne Shreds

Posted by: HamSandwich at 09/15/08 2:53 PM | Reply
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god, that waiter sketch DID suck ass.

i only know that because a friend told me. a really dumb friend.

Posted by: fuckstick at 09/15/08 3:15 PM | Reply
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That was the new guy's (Bobby Moynihan) popular character at UCB. Is that his only idea? A waiter who says "pepper" funny? I can't believe SNL let him do that on TV

Posted by: Superhero in reply to fuckstick's comment at 09/15/08 4:29 PM | Reply
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this guy is worse than a ham sandwich

Posted by: louis at 09/15/08 3:17 PM | Reply
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Lollipop was taken down. Damn you, Universal!

Posted by: b.LOUD at 09/15/08 4:55 PM | Reply
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That new guy is obnoxious as hell. Which is probably why the waiter sketch was on at the very end of the show. And Michael Phelps was a train wreck. I can't watch SNL anymore.

Posted by: Skitter at 09/15/08 5:13 PM | Reply
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Calliwell

Why does SNL recycle skits? Also what happened to the digital shorts, I thought those were supposed to keep the funny. Space Olympics techno? Huh? What? A milli?

Posted by: Calliwell profile link at 09/15/08 5:35 PM | Reply
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In the words of Papa Bear O'Reilly...

FUCKIN' THING SUCKS

Posted by: Evan at 09/15/08 7:17 PM | Reply
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The episode was total crap. I was looking forward to it because of the time they had to prepare and all the laughable political material they could use but they totally blew it.

On a positive note, I thought Lil' Wayne killed it, especially on Got Money. I love Lil' Wayne, but I'm not a fan of that song, Lollipop, or any of the R&B-type shit he put on his new album (more of a mixtape fan). That being said, I think he made the song good live and he and his sidekick Mack Maine looked as if they were having a ball and really working to make the performance tight. Live hip hop can be touch and go, but this was one of the best performances I've seen on SNL.

Posted by: Mike at 09/16/08 10:41 AM | Reply
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and I can see Russia from my house

Posted by: matthew at 09/16/08 12:14 PM | Reply
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that pepper skit was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad,

like worst, WORST, skit i have witnessed on SNL....seriously.

Posted by: truth at 09/16/08 10:31 PM | Reply
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not worse than the obnoxious brother and sister where she always goes "I SAID WEEah!"

a terrible skit is bad enough, but i don't understand for the life of me how SNL could think its a good idea to make some of these awful skits into recurring ones like this and the pepper.

Posted by: Knoxy profile link in reply to truth's comment at 09/21/08 7:31 PM | Reply
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OMG 'I said WEEEEAhhhh.." was *amazing* lol.... IT'S FOR KIDS!!!

Posted by: Jeff in reply to Knoxy's comment at 09/22/08 10:54 AM | Reply
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