For what it worth,
I think most of TG’s stuff on MTV is funny.
I thought that the SNL episode was really lame.
BunnyGirl, you pretty much summed up how I feel about Mr. Green. I’ve watched bits and pieces of his show, though not recently, and have always kind of hoped that the stuff was staged. I don’t get the comedy appeal of picking on people to the point where you make them furious, and humor based on humiliation just doesn’t appeal to me. I wouldn’t find it any funnier if it was staged, but it wouldn’t bother me as much.
He did a Pepsi commercial or two, and I didn’t like them, either.
Mrs. Kunilou and I got in late and only caught the tail end of the show, but we are assured by all three of the Kunilou kids that they find Tom Green pretty damned not funny (indeed, at least when I’m in range, they change channels when he comes on.)
However, the funniest thing on SNL actually came on after the show ended. It was an NBC promo about Titanic on Thanksgiving Sunday night, and featured a table full of Pilgrims and Natives singing “My Heart Will Go On.” We laughed for 10 minutes.
I kept waiting for that guy who was licked and had chewed carrots spit on him in that lame eagle sketch to get up and slug Tom Green. He could have at least stood up and said, “What the HELL are you doing?” But, I guess he knew who he was seeing that night. Or, he was a plant, a la Andy Kaufman (but at least Kaufman was funny.)
I had never heard of Tom before Saturday, and when he brought his fiancee, Drew, up onto the stage, I didn’t recognize her at first, and I thought she was just a, well, “civilian”–that this was the girl he really was marrying, and she wasn’t an actor, just a “regular” person with a bizarre taste in men. Her acting was pretty lame up there, but, I thought, “Would I, as a ‘civilian’ myself, have done much better? Nah, probably not. I would have been quite nervous.” Near the end of the show, I realized that it was supposed to be Drew Barrymore. Then her acting seemed pretty darn pathetic and sad. I mean, she has at least been in front of a camera before, right?
I am an SNL defender. I love the bad years, shows, and skits.
But Tom Green’s appearance made for the very worst SNL ever. Bar none. Unfunny, horrid, trash.
Not funny.
–Tim
I agree with Homer - positively the worst SNL ever. I just saw a tape of it, and I feel like getting a toothbrush and scrubbing my VCR heads with bleach. Yeah, most of the problem was Tom Green, but the writing has been shockingly poor for a couple of years now. Lorne Michaels should find some new blood for the writing staff - but then again, considering his participation in the rubber duck/bathtub sketch, maybe he doesn’t even realize how crappy things are.