You brought it up, you suggest something. We like the word.
I think I’ve put my finger on why I despise Rachel Dratch.
She’s like that goofy kid in school who’s always doing stupid and/or embarassing things, but everybody’s afraid to say anything to her because you swear somebody told you she was retarded (or “mentally challenged” depending upon when you grew up) and you were afraid or upsetting her or bringing the teacher’s wrath down upon you.
When in reality, she’s just a spastic idiot who likes to annoy people because she has no social skills and it’s too late to teach her any.
Just a theory.
Generalization aside, I think this is pretty close to the truth.
In other words, we have: that you’re having too much fun acting superior to us and ignoring the substantive comments on the show’s humor is your problem, not ours.
If, however, you think that the substantive criticism of the show is inadequate, we wait with bated breath for you to demonstrate the standard of critique which we should all evince.
Lead onward, Great One!
Daniel
He must be a good writer or a good salad tosser, cause he’s a lousy actor.
Sucks, in this case, means “not funny and/or stupid.”
I don’t think I really know any “sophisticated critical terms” anyway. Maybe we could all whine about how nothing has human scale anymore? Oh wait, that’s from the architectural blowhards, not the television ones, never mind.
Great drug dealer.
Denny Dillon (remember her?) is funnier than Horatio Sanz.
I saw the documentary Life of Python – Eric Idle said that the Monty Python team used to have a joke: “What’s the difference between life and a Saturday Night Live sketch?” “Life doesn’t go on forever!” When they were flming a Monty Python sketch, often as not they’d stop halfway through and say, “You know, it’s not funny any more, let’s change it!”
Well I’d hate to try another word, only to fail your Superiority Test.
You know what kind of person tries to force a product onto a free market that doesn’t want it?
A COMMIE!!!
It’s almost like SNL keeps getting worse, so when the re-runs – even those from three years ago – are better in comparison. Even the re-runs aren’t on as often as they should be because of E! hardly running them, and Comedy Central stupidly opting for Mad TV.
Some of the older SNL episodes have acts that aren’t part of the show anymore. I’ve seen some re-runs with the magician Rick Jay, a music video of Bob Seger’s “Night Moves,” and little videos of eccentric people. What happened that those aren’t part of the show anymore?
It was even worse than you think: it was like a bad rip-off of a Dean Witter mock commercial from the early-to-mid-90’s. The first time they did it, it was mocking a Dean Witter commercial that was being run at the time. Black-and-white footage of Old Guys sitting around a table in suits talking about how they would take care of customers. The fake commercial had the same actor as the one from last week. He talks about how they will have a list of customers, and keep it in a safe place. If a customer is saying something, and you aren’t listening, and they catch you, then you should act like you know what they’re talking about. It’s funnier in-person. Yeah, it was a rip-off of an old SNL commercial, so it was doubly disappointing for me.
Yeah, but the cowbell sketch had Christopher Walken in it, and Walken can make anything work.
Do people actually watch Mad TV?
As far as I can tell, the show follows the same premise as that old MAD Magazine piece about “no-liners” (“I grew up in a town so small, the hooker wore a helmet!”): it has all the structure of a sketch comedy show, but without the actual humor. It’s easy to tell which lines are supposed to be jokes, but I don’t think I’ve even cracked a smile while watching Mad TV.
:dubious: Not monoverbally, no. You’ll find lots of incisive and insightful criticisms of SNL in this thread. They all take at least a complete sentence to put across. If you want to pack all your disparagement into a single snarl-world, “sucks” serves as well as any. I defy you to improve upon it.
“I got a fever and the prescription is… MORE COWBELL!”
To me, the quintessential Walken sketch will always be “Pranksters”, with “The Continental” series close behind.
I have a soft spot for Rachel Dratch b/c she hails from my hometown in Taxachusetts and spoke at my sister’s graduation as the keynote speaker simply b/c her mom is friends with a kid in my sister’s class and said kid’s mom asked her mom and she said yes (this was after she made it on to SNL). You gotta love a celebrity who gives in to Mom-pressure. IRL she came off as a really cool person.
I think she is hysterical with Will Ferrell as the “luuuuuuvers” but I hate that Debbie Downer skit. I didn’t even think the first one was all that funny.
That’s great!
Yeah, Monty Python often does the same thing (think of the Holiday sketch, for example), which is part of why they’re funnier than SNL. But it seems like every KitH sketch I’ve seen–not very many, mind you, but a few episodes’ worth–had multiple jokes and changes in it, which kept me laughing throughout.
Daniel