“Boston…they just hate black people.”
I too was very pleasantly surprised as to how good the show was – certainly exceeded my expectations.
But IMHO the best comment was the last – and really blew me away, especially coming from Rev. Al –
This might be a slight paraphrase, but this was what I got out of it:
“I’m glad we were all able to laugh together. Now if we could only live together.”
God, I hated this episode.
Okay, maybe hated is too strong a word. I’m think what happened is the last half or third of the show totally ruined the entire thing for me. The opening monologue was okay, and I liked the Michael Jackson skit, the 3 Kings, and the Weekend update.
But after that? Al Sharpton’s sushi? That thing with the other Dem candidates? Ick. And those Johnny Cash and Taxi Cab skits take the new prize for least funny skits on SNL ever (the previous holder of the title being Time Travelin’ Scott Joplin). Did the audience laugh once during the duration of those back to back abominations? Blech.
Also: Will Forte. Has he ever done anything funny? At all?
That show was a fucking trainwreck.
Tina Fey needs her Head Writer ass fired. The show is so female-centric now it’s a disaster. It’s supposed to be a comedy show, not Maya Rudolph’s American Idol.
Al Sharpton’s Sushi was possibly the unfunniest thing on that show since David Spade’s bitchy secretary character.
Was it possible the show went an entire week without Jimmy and Horatio laughing uncontrollably at each other’s antics? Thank God for small favors.
Oh, and FYI, the Brian Fellows shit is played.
shy guy wrote
I had the misfortune of only catching the second half, and this was my sentiment exactly. The News thing is generally funny, and it was this one, but that was it. Everything else was lame. Of course I came in with the bias of realizing that Sharpton is an idiot, but still, could he be any less funny?
I hope Gary Larson sues them for stealing his “More like three wise guys” cartoon.
If your NBC affiliate didn’t show SNL (or you got the Steve Martin rerun), it could be because your station is picked up in Iowa. Our local (southeast Minnesota) station was told they couldn’t run the Sharpton episode without running “matching time” for all of the other Democratic candidates.
I thought the Steve Martin rerun was funny!
Is Tina Fey even head writer anymore?
I liked most of it , but it was very uneven. Sharpton was wooden at times but I don’t think he did any worse than an other non-professional actor type I’ve seen host.
That was the only Bryan Fellows sketch I’ve ever laughed at. “We could have used that money to go clubbing.”
And why was Tina Fey acting in it, I realize she was the straight man during her part of the sketch, but her acting was awkward. And Snooooopy, from reading the closing credits, Fey is listed as co-head writer this season. I’ve felt the writing this season has been the big weakness, most of the sketches during the Alec Baldwin episode sounded like they didn’t even bother to finish writing them to begin with. SNL has always had the “neverending sketch” syndrome and the “It gets on because it’s 11:30” syndrome, but if the taxi sketch and the ghost of Johnny Cash sketch can make it to air I’d hate to see what didn’t make the cut. And that taxi sketch just reinforced my loathing of the unfunny Horatio Sanz. He even did a lame Belushi/Farley fat guy falls and crushes furniture gag during the sushi sketch. Ugh.
The WU segment wasn’t as bad as most of them have been this season. The Paris Hilton bit was cute just because they got the real one, but it’s a bad sign for her hoped for “acting career” that she was stiff in front of the camera playing herself.
I liked the sushi sketch in spite of myself for the most part, although it was a little too long. And what’s with SNL’s facination with lame musical numbers this season? It’s nearly as bad as all the pathetic “white boy” raps they kept doing last season (was that Seth Meyers doing those?).
My favorite line from the “other candidates” sketch late in the show: “Your candidacy is like a David Spade movie. It looks good on paper, but the people just won’t go for it.”