Mad TV vs. Saturday Night Live

Dante, she may have drawn that impression from an episode where the Vancome lady was running down the various characters/skits on the show and critiquing them to the fat Jewish producer guy in the running suit. She described Ms. Swan as “finally, a realistic television depiction of the Icelandic people.” Meant for a laugh, and it got one.

But I must concur with the iconoclasts who put their $1/50 in for the Kids in the Hall. Anybody remember seeing their “Dr. Seuss Bible”? They used to be on HBO, as you recall, same episode thrice a week. This one only made two airings before they got yanked for the remainder of the season.

"… He didn’t come in a car, he didn’t come in a Jeep,
He didn’t come in the pouch of a high-jumping Vo-Veep!
He didn’t come on the back of a black Sassitou,
Which is the blackiest creature you ever could view…

… Jesus spoke on a mound, which is a pile of ground,
And the Jews gathered around without making a sound…

… One Pharisee said to another he knew,
What shall we do with this uppity Jew?
We will wash him in wine, and make him all clean,
Then into Sam Zittle’s crucifixion machine!
For you twirl the geverl, and release the gevease,
And in go the nails just as fast as you please!"

Apparently, even HBO has a cut-off point for sacrilege.

Wall, MadTV was a dissappointment tonight, except for the skit with a cop tearing apart a black guys car and he pulls out a candy bar and the caption says “Gonna be a while? Have a sniggers!”.

SNL sucked as well. (Sigh) Not many amusing tv shows left.

Last night’s SNL (a rerun w/Christopher Walken) had ONE funny sketch: The heavy metal band Blue Oyster Cult was in the studio about to record its biggest hit, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”, and Walken was the producer. The sketch revolved around how much cowbell should be used in the song. (for those of you who don’t know the song, there is a cowbell being struck on every beat). I thought this was one of the funniest things SNL has done in a long time. Why? Probably because of the obscurity of the reference.