Saturday Night Live???
I know pre-taped segments have always been a part of SNL, but I think a little goes a long way in the case of the only "live" show on television. There have always been the commericial parodies, Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse, and the occaisional short film. Saturday's show with host Steve Martin, had a pre-taped cold open, a commercial and two SNL digital shorts.
It's the digital shorts that I have a problem with, mostly because the cold open was probably the funniest part of the show. Ever since "Lazy Sunday" has become everyone's favorite thing it seems Andy Samberg and the digital shorts crew are getting some automatic airtime.
I personally didn't get a lot out of Lazy Sunday, but I can see why people like and it was clever.
The Young Chuck Norris from the last episode, I didn't like, but it seems I'm in the minority on that one too.
The first one to air last Saturday was perplexing to me because it did not need to be pre-taped. Steve Martin and Will Forte play business men who meet and then hold a conversation with their lips only centimeters apart, as if they are going to kiss. Whatever.
The second one was called "The Tangent." It featured Fred Armisen playing a guy, who basically gets asked a simple question but goes off on the longest tangent of all time. While he conintues to talk to he gets cast in a movie, makes the talk show rounds, becomes a minor celebrity and then is immediately forgotton when the public moves on. This one was not too bad, but I thought it was out of place on SNL. Scarlett Johansson makes an appearance so maybe it was left over from her episode.
Other thoughts on this episode....
Very dissapointing. Even Steve Martin couldn't save this episode. I don't know what happened, but the writing on this show has gone downhill in my opinion. A pretty good cold open (though it was pre-taped), that had cameos from Kelly Ripa (an unusual choice, but I guess it worked) and Alec Baldwin.
Maya Rudolph returned to the show after her maternity leave. She joined Martin on stage for his monologue, but the bit was short and the joke wasted - they don't seem to have very good timing on SNL anymore. Good jokes are cut short before they realize their full comic potential and lame jokes are stretched beyond comprehension.
I liked Prince's first musical performance, he always demonstrates his awesome guitar abilities when he plays live. The second performance was given to his newest protoge' Tamar (?), and wasn't all that great.
Why, why why -- didn't Prince make an appearance the Fred Armisen's "The Prince Show"?????
I was really hoping he would, I thought they could have done something funny with that.
It's the digital shorts that I have a problem with, mostly because the cold open was probably the funniest part of the show. Ever since "Lazy Sunday" has become everyone's favorite thing it seems Andy Samberg and the digital shorts crew are getting some automatic airtime.
I personally didn't get a lot out of Lazy Sunday, but I can see why people like and it was clever.
The Young Chuck Norris from the last episode, I didn't like, but it seems I'm in the minority on that one too.
The first one to air last Saturday was perplexing to me because it did not need to be pre-taped. Steve Martin and Will Forte play business men who meet and then hold a conversation with their lips only centimeters apart, as if they are going to kiss. Whatever.
The second one was called "The Tangent." It featured Fred Armisen playing a guy, who basically gets asked a simple question but goes off on the longest tangent of all time. While he conintues to talk to he gets cast in a movie, makes the talk show rounds, becomes a minor celebrity and then is immediately forgotton when the public moves on. This one was not too bad, but I thought it was out of place on SNL. Scarlett Johansson makes an appearance so maybe it was left over from her episode.
Other thoughts on this episode....
Very dissapointing. Even Steve Martin couldn't save this episode. I don't know what happened, but the writing on this show has gone downhill in my opinion. A pretty good cold open (though it was pre-taped), that had cameos from Kelly Ripa (an unusual choice, but I guess it worked) and Alec Baldwin.
Maya Rudolph returned to the show after her maternity leave. She joined Martin on stage for his monologue, but the bit was short and the joke wasted - they don't seem to have very good timing on SNL anymore. Good jokes are cut short before they realize their full comic potential and lame jokes are stretched beyond comprehension.
I liked Prince's first musical performance, he always demonstrates his awesome guitar abilities when he plays live. The second performance was given to his newest protoge' Tamar (?), and wasn't all that great.
Why, why why -- didn't Prince make an appearance the Fred Armisen's "The Prince Show"?????
I was really hoping he would, I thought they could have done something funny with that.
posted by Sherry L at 12:09 PM
1 Comments:
If it's between being live and actually being funny I think it's much more important to be funny. Say what you want but Saturday Night Live hasn't been funny in a long, long time and the guys from Awesometown have finally breathed some new life in to the show. People are actually talknig about SNL again so I think you're taking issue with a non-issue.
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