I am one of those in the minority who think that Saturday Night Live is an institution that should never be cancelled. I do think that perhaps it's time for Lorne Michaels to hand the show over to someone else (but I can't really see that happening).
Sure the show has it's good eras and bad ones (i read that other thread down below, where is the love for Will Ferrel?....I still say 'Gotta have more cowbell' at least once a week). As a Yankees fan, sitting though the bad eras is the only way I get to feel what it must be like to be an Orioles fan.
Last night's show was particularly bad. It would have been mediocre if it aired sometime in February, but the fact that the writers have had six months to make with the funny and came up empty is troubling.
The opening skit was someone doing a Bush impression (like the 50th person on the show to do it) and it just doesn't work. Showing actual clips of Bush speaking is way way funnier.
Anyway, I won't recap the whole show, but the first three or four skits were all satarizing current events (Hurricane Katrina, Jet Blue). Which is fine, but if you don't have an interesting perspective on it why bother? Just because it's topical doesn't make it funny.
Where are the characters? Where's Church Lady, or the Effeminate Heterosexual or Gumby or even Brian Fellows? The only recurring character was Debbie Downer (who I don't love, but her reaction shots always make me chuckle, I can't help it) and that was late in the show.
They introduced 2 new cast members, both male, both white, both look barely out of college. One of them does impressions, which I have always though of as kind of hack. Chevy Chase did a great Gerald Ford every week, without ever trying to look or sound like him.
I like Fred Armisan a lot,(like that skit he does where he's the drummer behind a hack comic and always plays the rimshot too late...genius) but enough with the music skits. We're glad you're a musician (aren't like 90% of all comics?) but please do something else. Except that latin drummer guy. Thats funny.
Steve Carrell was the host. But you never would have known it. He got less facetime than Horatio Sans.
As usual, the commercial parodies were funny. Always are. And whoever does those Fun with Audio and Saturday TV Funhouse cartoons. Why can't they just hire people like that to write SNL?
Weekend Update was awful. Come back Tina Fey.
Anyway, it's going to be another sub .500 season, but I'll be there.
Sure the show has it's good eras and bad ones (i read that other thread down below, where is the love for Will Ferrel?....I still say 'Gotta have more cowbell' at least once a week). As a Yankees fan, sitting though the bad eras is the only way I get to feel what it must be like to be an Orioles fan.
Last night's show was particularly bad. It would have been mediocre if it aired sometime in February, but the fact that the writers have had six months to make with the funny and came up empty is troubling.
The opening skit was someone doing a Bush impression (like the 50th person on the show to do it) and it just doesn't work. Showing actual clips of Bush speaking is way way funnier.
Anyway, I won't recap the whole show, but the first three or four skits were all satarizing current events (Hurricane Katrina, Jet Blue). Which is fine, but if you don't have an interesting perspective on it why bother? Just because it's topical doesn't make it funny.
Where are the characters? Where's Church Lady, or the Effeminate Heterosexual or Gumby or even Brian Fellows? The only recurring character was Debbie Downer (who I don't love, but her reaction shots always make me chuckle, I can't help it) and that was late in the show.
They introduced 2 new cast members, both male, both white, both look barely out of college. One of them does impressions, which I have always though of as kind of hack. Chevy Chase did a great Gerald Ford every week, without ever trying to look or sound like him.
I like Fred Armisan a lot,(like that skit he does where he's the drummer behind a hack comic and always plays the rimshot too late...genius) but enough with the music skits. We're glad you're a musician (aren't like 90% of all comics?) but please do something else. Except that latin drummer guy. Thats funny.
Steve Carrell was the host. But you never would have known it. He got less facetime than Horatio Sans.
As usual, the commercial parodies were funny. Always are. And whoever does those Fun with Audio and Saturday TV Funhouse cartoons. Why can't they just hire people like that to write SNL?
Weekend Update was awful. Come back Tina Fey.
Anyway, it's going to be another sub .500 season, but I'll be there.
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