Oh yeah: Bwump!
Nah. I naively wasted 90 minutes of my life for Jaime Pressly on SNL, and learned my lesson.
My Lord, I have a cunning plan…
It’s been so long since I’ve watched SNL that I’m not sure what channel it’s on! But since I just saw this thread, I have 5 minutes to figure it out!
I think this thread exposes one of the big reasons why SNL isn’t considered funny by a lot of folks: for their comedy (as it stands now) to work, they have to go for the lowest common denominator. I mean, there is NO way most people know Hugh Laurie’s great history in comedy. So any sketch that refers to, or takes advantage of it, is in serious danger of going over their average audience member’s heads. Hell, when Michael Palin and John Cleese reenacted the Parrot Sketch back in the 90’s, there was barely a laugh in the house.
And perhaps this could be addressed with changes in philosophy. But I think a good deal of SNL’s problems, as many 'Net critics see them, is with the TV audience.
Great way to improve SNL: replace it with the Ali G Show.
I guess I’m in the lowest common denominator, 'cuz I don’t know who this Hugh Laurie person is.
lowers head in faux shame
Okay, well the complete silence that followed the Shakespeare joke in the opening monologue doesn’t bode well. Sadly, Leaper may be right.
I was rather worried when I turned on SNL, and the opening was Borat.
Okay, a sketch based on a fart. For this we need Hugh Laurie? I’m outa here, folks.
Okay chesburster-Hillary was funny.
Also, Beck is the musical guest. Reason enough to watch, right there.
Not a good sign and Maya please shut up and go away. Not Funny!!!
She must have been funny because I laughed.
It’s official - even the comic talent of Sacha Baron Cohen and Hugh Laurie can’t save this festering pile of crap. Nothing so far has been remotely funny.
Perhaps there’ll be a flash of brilliance coming up, but I’m not hopeful.
Currently there’s the “Hardball” sketch, which is a big black hole of suck. Given current events, putting some funny sketches together should be a piece of piss…
Maya’s singing sketch was very funny, so was Hugh Laurie singing a protest song.
I liked the Protest Song. I liked Beck, I thought Hardball had some laughs.
Tim Calhoun makes me turn to the Time Life infomercial on the PAX channel.
Agreed. Though instead of Pax I started adjusting some clocks.
While I cringed at them having to use Gay Goombas to represent NJ, it was funny. Seth is doing a good job on Weekend Update. I think Amy is still dragging it down.
I actually liked the Tim Calhoun part. Came back to post about the awesome Beck performance on the second go around. Cool ass song.