With two rounds in the books already, the major stars have been claimed. Now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to find the remaining gems. Personally, I just hope we can get through one round without some knucklehead move. Will this be the round? Probably not, but let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s start it and see.<\/p>\n
Galen Black selects Jan Hooks<\/strong><\/p>\n Okay, methinks Galen has a strategy. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s out to get all the top women for his cast. He got Gilda in the second, and now he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s selected Jan Hooks. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always thought Hooks was one of the unsung stars, and she had some great characters; I had thought of getting Jan myself because of her work as the Sweeney Sisters and\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n AH HA! That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it! That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s his next pick! Nora Dunn! He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going for the Sweeney Sisters and will get all the best actresses he can! He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going for the Top Chick Gambit!<\/p>\n That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not going to happen. As the sole Van Gogh-Gogh with fantasy sports experience, let me take a moment to drop a little fantasy draft tip: know your position, use your position. Galen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spot in the draft allows him to select two people at a time. Why then would he tip his hand by picking only one member of a comedy duo? Use your position wisely. Galen didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, and if no one else beats me to it, I will destroy your Sweeney Sisters! Moo ha ha ha! (Note to the Van Gogh-Goghs: we need to perform the Legion of Doom Learning Annex sketch again. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gold! This time, though, I want to be Lex Luthor. Hey, you think anyone else reads this blog besides us?)<\/p>\n Charles Rempel selects Jon Lovitz<\/strong><\/p>\n Like Eddie Murphy is his day, Jon Lovitz should be credited for saving SNL. In the season that everyone I know calls \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Anthony Michael Hall Year,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the show was dismal and spiraling down the crapper. If it weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t for a disheveled genius with a penchant for catchphrases, Saturday Night Live would have been toast. Jon Lovitz single-handedly saved SNL and with it America, as well as impregnating his wife, Morgan Fairchild. Yeah, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the ticket.<\/p>\n Sure, you see the Subway ads today and you think Lovitz is washed up. That may or may not be true, but for those golden years, he was the king of the sketch comedy world. His comic ability, to me, is perfectly suited for the SNL format. In fact, the show doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t currently have a superstar, and Lovitz is in the midst of career lull. I say we bring Jon Lovitz back!<\/p>\n Hey, wait a minute, has Dan Aykroyd been picked yet?<\/p>\n Rob Terrell selects Chris Kattan<\/strong><\/p>\n Okay, Aykroyd must have been picked already.<\/p>\n Chris Kattan was a quality second-banana to Will Ferrell, and could he have more recurring characters? Seriously! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mango and Mr. Peepers and the Goth kid and on and on! Kattan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a perfect sidekick to Ferrell; their sizes, looks and comic stylings complement each other nicely. Oh, and Rob\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got both of the Roxbury guys now. So Rob and your precious science, if the Roxbury guys do it for ya, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re liking this cast!<\/p>\n Let me toss out a second fantasy draft tip: know your opponents. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care how high Kattan ranks in the system, Rob has to know that based on personal preferences, none of us would have picked Chris Kattan in the first five rounds. Some of us have certain strategies (see Galen) and some of us can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand him (see T. Mike), so why spend a high pick on someone you could get with a lower pick? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just not a smart value play.<\/p>\n Alan Benson selects Dan Aykroyd<\/strong><\/p>\n Crap! Crap crap crap! CRAP!<\/p>\n Boy, did I drop the ball on that. Well, on second thought, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty happy with Lovitz. Galen dropped the ball. He could have had the Blues Brothers! How is Dan Aykroyd even available now? Oh yeah, Jason picked Chris Elliott.<\/p>\n Alan will now tell you why he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as excited as a fanboy at ComicCon:<\/p>\n OK, I could come up with some big explanation about how Aykroyd was the hidden gem of the first cast, about how his greatest characters–my favorite being Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute–never got as much attention as Belushi’s. But hell, it’s Dan Aykroyd. It’s the third round, and Beldar was still in play. Hell yes I picked him.<\/p>\n But yeah. Aykroyd as hidden gem. Aykroyd the unknown. Whoo.<\/p>\n –Alan Benson<\/p>\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the steal of the draft so far. A Conehead, a Blues Brother, a Festrunk Brother falling from the sky, right into Alan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lap. Plus, Aykroyd only makes Alan’s Weekend Update segment stronger, while some of us have yet to consider picking a newscaster. Looks like Alan has turned this cast around.<\/p>\n I wonder how Jason is going to screw this up.<\/p>\n Jason Torchinsky selects Chris Rock<\/strong><\/p>\n Not a bad pick. Heck, considering his last selection, this may be the greatest pick in the draft. I mean, Rock\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got Nat X and Just Chillin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to work with, at least.<\/p>\n Some may point out that Chris Rock has had his greater success away from Saturday Night Live than he did on the show. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s totally true. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also true that his SNL resume is a little weaker than other actors still waiting to be picked. However, Chris Rock has a style and voice that differs from the white-bread SNL majority, and as long as his talent is used correctly (not just as the token black guy), he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an asset to any of our casts.<\/p>\n Then again, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just a little light-headed right now. I half-expected Jason to pick Fred Wolf in this round.<\/p>\n T. Mike Childs selects Chris Farley<\/strong><\/p>\n When Chris Farley is mentioned, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but immediately think of his Chippendale\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sketch with Patrick Swayze. Is there anybody else on this cast with a defining moment like that, and right at the beginning of his career? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hard-pressed to find another. Probably the closest is Andy Samberg with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lazy Sunday,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still second to that flap-flapping blubber.<\/p>\n T. Mike is downplaying the selection. Says T. Mike:<\/p>\n Belushi and Lovitz are gone. I needs me a fat man! – Chris Farley, who easily outweighs both. Gotta have a good fat man for a good SNL cast.<\/p>\n –T. Mike Childs<\/p>\n Sure, he always played the fat guy. Sure, we saw too much of his ass in that flying saucer sketch during the Deion Sanders shows. Yet every time I tell someone that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I live in a van down by the river\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (a la Matt Foley), I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but smile. Farley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good addition to Mike Myers and Dana Carvey; it looks like it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1990 all over again.<\/p>\n Round Three recap<\/strong> Not a bad round by the Van Gogh-Goghs. Sure, we let Aykroyd slip farther than he should, and Kattan and Rock were both picked a little early for my taste, but this was the first round where we all actually looked like we knew what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing.<\/p>\n I love my cast of Murphy, Murray and Lovitz. Galen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the only one of us to select any women yet, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s picked two. Jason and Alan are slowly gaining respectability again. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s game to win.<\/p>\n Or is it? Do you see a clear leader? Does one of the teams have a fatal flaw this early in the process? Who should go in the next round? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guaranteeing that Nora Dunn will, but who are the best remaining players? Drop us a comment and let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With two rounds in the books already, the major stars have been claimed. Now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to find the remaining gems. Personally, I just hope we can get through one round without some knucklehead move. Will this be the round? Probably not, but let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s start it and see. 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\nHalf the actors picked in the third round were named Chris. Does that just freak your shit out? I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think so.<\/p>\n