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autographedcatTonight, I watched this weekend's episode of Saturday Night Live, because Hugh Laurie was hosting and I love Hugh Laurie. I genuinely believe he could make just about anything funny, so I figured, how bad can it be?
Turns out, it can be pretty bad. Laurie himself was good in several sketches, but....I'd known it had gone downhill, but I wasn't aware it had reached the bottom of the hill, careered off into a deep ravine, and was lying in a flaming wreck at the bottom of mineshaft.
In the immortal words of Opus the Penguin, it "brought the word 'BAD' to new levels of badness. Bad acting. Bad effects. Bad everything. [It] just oozed rottenness from every bad scene...Simply bad beyond all infinite dimensions of possible badness. Well, maybe not that bad. But Lord, it wasn't good."
I think I need to get me some *old* SNL on DVD.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kitanzi says she's never really understood what the fuss was about, because she never has seen it when it was exceptionally good.
Turns out, it can be pretty bad. Laurie himself was good in several sketches, but....I'd known it had gone downhill, but I wasn't aware it had reached the bottom of the hill, careered off into a deep ravine, and was lying in a flaming wreck at the bottom of mineshaft.
In the immortal words of Opus the Penguin, it "brought the word 'BAD' to new levels of badness. Bad acting. Bad effects. Bad everything. [It] just oozed rottenness from every bad scene...Simply bad beyond all infinite dimensions of possible badness. Well, maybe not that bad. But Lord, it wasn't good."
I think I need to get me some *old* SNL on DVD.
kitanzi says she's never really understood what the fuss was about, because she never has seen it when it was exceptionally good.
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Date: 2006-10-30 03:20 am (UTC)It's sad when you can't find an hour's worth of funny from the full archives.
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Date: 2006-10-30 03:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-30 03:45 am (UTC)I've been told it's gotten better again since then. But I haven't bothered to watch since then. I really miss the days of Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscopo, Lorraine Newman, Mary Gross, and that era. And the writers that were able to give them such bits as "Buckwheat Shot!"
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Date: 2006-10-30 05:31 am (UTC)One thing's been true even since Day 1, though: the show's great weakness has always been that they take five minutes of great comedy and try to stretch it to fifteen minutes.
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Date: 2006-10-30 07:50 am (UTC)Some of the comic strips are the same. Some of the wiser authors notice when they are getting towards the limit and get out (or take a break) before they get there, but some don't.
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Date: 2006-10-30 01:35 pm (UTC)Yeah, I've commented on that before. The news segment was very poorly paced as well, not in a "this is too long" sense as much as a "too many awkward pauses" sense.
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Date: 2006-10-30 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-30 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-30 07:04 pm (UTC)Also? Hugh Laurie has, clearly, never seen a single episode of Python in his life. :-> *vbg* *runs away, runs aWAAAAAY!*
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Date: 2006-10-31 01:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-31 02:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-01 01:05 am (UTC)OTOH, tonight House is back!!!
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Date: 2006-11-01 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-02 08:33 pm (UTC)I agree with the folks who say SNL comes and goes in waves. The reason no cast has ever quite achieved the level of "funny" of the original cast is those folks had spent several years working together before SNL as cast members of the National Lampoon and in Second City troupes.
Since then, they've mostly been bringing in the occasional Second City player and a lot of standup comics, some of whom are better actors than others. Still, because these folks hadn't worked together as an ensemble, they don't have the teamwork-thing quite down.
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Date: 2006-11-02 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-02 08:38 pm (UTC)Meanwhile, use irc.gafilk.org as an alternate server.
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Date: 2006-11-05 10:14 pm (UTC)For the clever, cool, funny SNL feel, watch "Studio 60"; it rocks! both individually & ensemble-y.