Well, of all the possible wastes of a good setup lately, this was one. We could have had Kate McKinnon and instead we got...Melissa McCarthy.

Let's all tweet at them, maybe they'll recognize their error and pie Kate McKinnon during the end credits just for us.

What a tease it was having Kate land on the pie at the end and pass it. I still found the skit funny as hell, but RIP funny and sexy.

For all who haven't been paying attention....

....Melissa M is THE female comedian willing to get pied/slimed/caked/etc. It's like a foregone conclusion. Kate M hasn't had a single messy skit in her X years on SNL.... So she wasn't gonna start now.

Pretty sure this is like the third time Melissa has gotten messy on SNL alone. (Not counting Ghostbusters and other stuff.) Only other female cast member to get messy in the last decade (if I remember) is Vanessa Bayer. (Pretty good scene actually.)

This is the problem with wishing for vaudeville/variety show-style slapstick to come back: You can't specify WHO is gonna embrace it. And... Melissa is the one. Not my personal pick (or many of yours, apparently) but maybe her example might convince other female comedians to give it a try??

Also, I think I know how male WAMmers felt when Soupy Sales took a billion pies.

I'm a fan of Melissa, and glad for their decision who to pie. I just wish her hair/makeup wasn't made so terrible for the skit.

Pray tell?

Actually that's not entirely true, although it was nowhere near the greatest. If you watch the John goodman episode a few years back. Her drunken bar character gives him a whip cream beard then he gives her a whip cream mustache and then the do a long over the top/comical make out scene. If you got Hulu season 39 ep 9, it's sketch near the end of the episode.


Also I remember outside of snl she did that sketch where she face plants into a cake but there was no aftermath shot in it. However, there was aftermath pic online, if you can find it.

He's talking about the episode with Alec Baldwin where she gets a bucket of batter dumped on her head. It was ok, she was wearing a wig though, but her face does get covered.

I thought that was really funny and Melissa did it all brilliantly!
Here is it on You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0r-dKImVLk

At first, I cringed while watching this last night, and thought:
"This is so humiliating."
But Melissa McCarthy so BRILLIANTLY mugging and hamming it up
took away the cringe and made the bit VERY funny.

I'm an antinatalist, yet I found the opening Mother's Day monologue,
when McCarthy led an audience mom through the backstage area
very sweet and funny. But, who was the young long-haired blonde
female next to Ryan Reynolds?
I do not recognize her.

Now, had they gotten Kristen Wiig into this "Just Desserts" pie skit,
I'll bet SHE would have taken quite a few pies in the face.

This scene gets an A+ for script, but Melissa McCarthy............ geez. I would have preferred ANYBODY else.

I think this is a great idea for a MG scene.

I agree with Zoidberg: MM does a great job of actually making messy slapstick humor FUNNY again...I think also it was a form of initiation/rite of passage as this was her 5th time as host...but that's just my view....MM is a great comedic talent, male or female.. .three cheers!

I watched this with someone I've been dating for a little while who has no idea about WAM. Sadly, she never said "That looks kind of fun...", which is probably for the best as my brain would've exploded.

To follow up on what I said earlier.... Regardless of how you feel about Melissa as a sex object, or the wig, or the pie consistency.... Anytime a well-known and well-respected comedienne does a scene like this, it can only be a win.

Wanna know why there are basically zero pie scenes on American TV now? Because that gag fell out of favor by the mid-80s and really hasn't returned since. Wanna bring it back? Scenes like this help. (Along with Jimmy Fallon's game, lame as it is...) The "cool" factor goes a long way.

I still think it's gonna be an anomaly, unfortunately. Because MM is fearless about going for this kind of broad, physical, MESSY comedy in a way few other comediennes (or comedians) will. The AV Club approved of this skit in their review, but also mentioned that MM always had a skit or two on every SNL where she goes for the "big, broad laughs".... and usually winds up covered in something. (One time it was salad dressing...)

Anyway. That's her "thing" when she does SNL. So I don't see it being a trend, but you never know... Successful comedians get ripped off regularly, and I'm fine with a lesser comedienne (or an actress on a lesser show) trying to do the messy stuff.

Why are some of you idiots objectifying Melissa McCarthy? She likes slapstick and embraces it. Instead of bitching because she is not what Cosmo says a woman should look like, why can't you appreciate who she is? I think she is great. I hope the day comes soon when boys will become men and find women attractive for who they are and their personality instead of wanting the paper thin thing. There is a ton of negative pressure on women to look a certain way. It is slowly changing but it is a very unhealthy situation. People like some of you in this thread are part of the reason why there are women that have died from anorexia or bulimia. How many of you that are judging Melissa look like what you wish she did? How many of you have the chiseled chest and 6 packs?

Because everybody here IS objectifying/evaluating/judging everything everyone else
- well, I mean, what the producers & models produce - already.

So, NOBODY is doing ANYTHING FUNDAMENTALLY different in evaluating/objectifying
(whatever the fuck that unfalsifiable word "objectifying" means) Melissa McCarthy that
they don't already do to all the female and male models in all WAM models.

And, yes, negative opinions have to be allowed along with positive opinions,
if you care about free speech. (Not that you HAVE to.)
Of course allowing negative opinions about those negative opinions, as you have done, and so on...

Sad that SJW idiocy has now even found it's way here on a remote fetish site. White CIS men, now you need to feel guilty and wrong about not being attracted to each and every woman, how dare you.

Has nothing to do with SJW. Has to do with there being a legitimate issue with women and weight. Having to do with the fact that women are shamed for how they look. But I guess male chauvinism is ok here.

I don't like that free speech means negative opinions, but I accept it. Unfortunately OZ you are right about the objectifying of all models.

Actually, sorry, it's kind of the definition of being a SJW what you're doing. Whoops. I hate to be the bearer of bad news. And, not finding someone attractive and wishing someone thinner and more conventionally attractive is actually *normal* for finding someone to fulfill your wanking material. Sorry for the confusion, you seemed to mistake that as them being in the wrong and/or responsible for dead bulemics and things of that nature, but it's actually perfectly normal.

Oddly enough, when men are looking for fetish material, they actually look for women they find attractive and generally avoid those they are not attracted towards. The amazing this is, this actually isn't chauvinistic as you claimed but, once again, absolutely normal -- because women actually also do the very same thing, which is why Chipendale dancers or the models on romance novels are all lean, muscled and handsome specimens. Crazy!!

Sorry too about free speech. What a shame it allows people to express ideas that you don't always agree with all the time. Things certainly would be easier if they couldn't, I'm sure.

What could go wrong there?

I thought one of the best ones was the episode where Vanessa Bayer ( guest host Alec Baldwin) had a bowl of Tapioca Pudding dumped over her head

https://www.hulu.com/watch/282328

Thanks for finding the Hulu link. I tracked it down once before for someone, just too lazy to do it again.

There is a huge difference between how the sexes are treated. You can't really toss out chippendales and romance novel models out there as the same playing field as the way society tells women they have to look. There is such a thing as lookism.

Please, I'm nearing my limit of SJW tolerance, any more and my head might explode (or to translate from normal-to-SJWneese, I will be "triggered").

Thank you for your opinion, though. I'm sure it is all very equal to ignore the times women objectify men and then only denounce it when men do it to women. That's equality, folks.

Meanwhile, society is telling Melissa McCarthy how to look. Think about it. She's only incredibly successful, at the top of her game and an A-player in Hollywood. Society really told her off. Why, if she was simply thin-privileged enough, she'd be President of World right now, I guess.

Good, excellent points as always.