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inturnaround:
As I guessed, SNL did do a Rod Roddy joke. I'll have to paraphrase because I wasn't taping it at the time.

Jimmy Fallon: Rod Roddy, the announcer on the game show "The Price is Right" known best for his line "Come on down!" died this week. You know, I'd like to think that he's still saying "Come on down" at the right hand of Satan.

Roddy died at the age of (audience screams suggestions) um...um...I'm gonna have to go with my girlfriend and say 66! (bell rings) I won! I won! (Fallon jumps up and down as the number 66 flashes on the screen)

Tina Fey: Hey, that was somebody who died!

Maybe someone on the west coast will tape it and get a better transcript, but that's  the gist.

Skynet74:
I think the Satan thing was weak. Didn't even make much sense to me.... and it got a few groans from the audience. Obviously the joke went over my head. The studio got pretty quiet, so I don't think I was the only one who didn't get it. The show went for a cheap laugh that simply did not even make sense. If I got the joke then perhaps I could of at least defended it. After Fallon said it....... I was trying to figure out what the hell he was even talking about! The rest of the joke was a blatant rip off of the Canadian skit that was talked about here. The Stern stuff was funny to me. But the SNL skit lacked originality and actually seemed kind of insulting when you start talking about Rod and Satan. But like I said...... I just did not get the joke to begin with.


John

BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'Skynet74\' date=\'Nov 2 2003, 01:12 AM\'] I think the Satan thing was weak. Didn't even make much sense to me.... but it got a few groans from the audience. Obviously the joke went over my head. The studio got pretty quiet, so I don't think I was the only one who didn't get it. The show went for a cheap laugh that simply did not even make sense. If I got the joke then perhaps I could of at least defended it. After Fallon said it....... I was trying to figure out what the hell he was even talking about! The rest of the joke was a blatant rip off of the Canadian skit that was talked about here. The Stern stuff was funny to me. But the SNL skit lacked originality and actually seemed kind of insulting when you start talking about Rod and Satan. But like I said...... I just did not not get the joke to begin with.




John [/quote]
 I didn't catch SNL tonight (other than Outkast's performance), but reading the part about the audience shouting numbers made me laugh out loud. Other than that, Weekend Update hasn't been funny since before Norm McDonald. If it's one thing I can't stand about the current version, it's how Tina and Jimmy mug for the camera after the joke bombs, like it'll make it any funnier.

ObGameShow: Tonight's SNL host, Kelly Ripa, co-hosts a daytime talk show with this guy who used to host "Millionaire." :-P

inturnaround:
[quote name=\'Skynet74\' date=\'Nov 2 2003, 01:12 AM\'] I think the Satan thing was weak. Didn't even make much sense to me.... and it got a few groans from the audience. Obviously the joke went over my head. The studio got pretty quiet, so I don't think I was the only one who didn't get it. The show went for a cheap laugh that simply did not even make sense. If I got the joke then perhaps I could of at least defended it. After Fallon said it....... I was trying to figure out what the hell he was even talking about! The rest of the joke was a blatant rip off of the Canadian skit that was talked about here. The Stern stuff was funny to me. But the SNL skit lacked originality and actually seemed kind of insulting when you start talking about Rod and Satan. But like I said...... I just did not get the joke to begin with.


John [/quote]
 Yeah, I forgot to mention the audience groaning at the Satan joke.

The joke was only a ripoff if they saw the Canadian show and I doubt they did. It's kind of an easy joke to make if you've ever seen TPiR and, of course, many comedy writers have.

chris319:
[quote name=\'Skynet74\' date=\'Nov 1 2003, 10:12 PM\']I think the Satan thing was weak. Didn't even make much sense to me.... and it got a few groans from the audience. Obviously the joke went over my head. The studio got pretty quiet, so I don't think I was the only one who didn't get it. The show went for a cheap laugh that simply did not even make sense. If I got the joke then perhaps I could of at least defended it. After Fallon said it....... I was trying to figure out what the hell he was even talking about! The rest of the joke was a blatant rip off of the Canadian skit that was talked about here. The Stern stuff was funny to me. But the SNL skit lacked originality and actually seemed kind of insulting when you start talking about Rod and Satan. But like I said...... I just did not get the joke to begin with.[/quote]
Did the joke last longer than 18 seconds?

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