"SNL" produces a good episode
Sarah Palin: Lie, Lie, Lie, Drill Drill Drill!
I become Jane...
Everyone is, not surprisingly, talking about the vice-presidential
debate sketch and how well Tina Fey continues to play Sarah Palin, and
she's certainly nailed it. But I'm starting to feel diminishing
returns with the impression, in part because nothing's going to sting
quite as much as "I can see Russia from my house!" from the Palin/
Hillary sketch, in part because Palin almost seems to be copying Fey
at this point, rather than the other way around.
(The sketch also ran into the same problem "SNL" has had going all the
way back to the 2000 election: the Democratic candidates, both
presidential and vice-presidential, don't lend themselves as well to
caricature because they don't have obvious physical or verbal
mannerisms that can be easily and recognizably exaggerated. Even
McCain's been a toughie, which is one of the reasons we're getting
more of Palin and her Marge Gunderson accent than we are of the guy at
the top of the ticket.)
But beyond that, this was the first episode of the season where I was
glad I kept watching past the political sketches. It had the usual
weird pacing choices, where some of the weakest sketches (dancing at
the bar, people talking about the bailout) were near the front, while
some of the funniest (Mary Poppins has a social disease, Mark Wahlberg
talks to animals) didn't come until after Weekend Update. But the good
sketches were very funny, as was Update. The bit where Amy Poehler and
Seth Meyers went on a run of jokes about the world's fattest man
getting engaged was particularly nice; Update always works best when
the anchor or anchors inject their personality into it, and you could
tell that Seth and Amy and the Update writers had spent a while coming
up with all these punchlines and couldn't resist trying to get every
single one of them into the show.
Hopefully, Anne Hathaway will wind up as a semi-regular host after
this outing. The Mary Poppins impression wasn't that surprising, given
that she's done a couple of movies with Julie Andrews, but she was
good throughout; versatile and bright and more than willing to goof on
herself with that monologue about having dated a con man. (It's not
online anywhere I can see, but if you missed it, she went on about how
her new boyfriend is a much nicer man: an African prince she met on
the Internet, who's so interested in everything about her that he asks
about things like her Social Security number and her mother's maiden
name.) And she even got to cameo in the Digital Short.
Before I open it up, I'm going to make a simple request: when
discussing a show that does contemporary political satire, it's
impossible to not discuss politics in some way, but please try to keep
it civil. I had to shut down one of the Letterman/McCain threads from
a week and a half ago because it was getting ugly, and the latest "Mad
Men" discussion is almost getting derailed by people noting the
(physical) resemblance between Betty's dad and McCain. If people can't
play nice, I may have to introduce a No Politics rule around here, and
that means no more "SNL" discussion right along with it.
What did everybody else think?
Labels: SNL
wolfagain
Most intelligent voters don't let silly SNL skits to influence their
vote, but that's the Problem! Idiots just might win this election.
Jason Todd
>
Yeah, unlike the last two elections*.
Jason "sheesh" Todd
(*y. the Presidential )
DGS
"Sarah Palin: Lie, Lie, Lie, Drill Drill Drill!"
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> Some thoughts on this weekend's "Saturday Night Live" just as soon as
> I become Jane...
>
> Everyone is, not surprisingly, talking about the vice-presidential
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The Mary Poppins sketch had me rolling. Great comedic timing by all
involved.
DGS
The idiots will win again. Apparently there are more idiots that are moved
by belittling terms such as "Joe Six Pack" and "they hate our freedom" than
there are intelligent people who understand that the last 8 years have been
the most damaging in US history and that the Republican "mavericks" will do
NOTHING different than the previous idiots to curtail that.
Remysun
> The Mary Poppins sketch had me rolling. Great comedic timing by all
> involved.
Say it again-- ALL involved. The SNL band had a part with the sound
effects for Bert, and they added that little bit of extra umph that
pushed me to the floor laughing.
Note the deflating kazoo as Bert squats down for his little talk with
Mary.
just bob
"Sarah Palin: Lie, Lie, Lie, Drill Drill Drill!"
> I had to shut down one of the Letterman/McCain threads from
Tell me how exactly you are going to shutdown a USENET thread?
M. MacDonald
Someone suggested her as host early last year and they were right. She's
good and has a lot more comedic ability that I expected. The Mary Poppin's
sketch was well done with the "Supercalafrag... disease" and she sang pretty
well too. I was expecting some "Get Smart" too.
She reminds me of a young Natalie Wood with her captivating eyes (ugh! need
cold shower...)
Mack
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Wow! What power! Now let's see...
ALL BANKERS GO TO JAIL
BRING BACK "JERICHO"
SEND ANNE HATHAWAY TO MY HOUSE
Nah. Doesn't work anymore. Damn, damn, damn.
B. Peg
Thank you and I'll take the credit. I suggested her in Jan. & May. this
year. Guess I can recognize talent - and she's a New Yorker. I'd actually
pay to see her in a Broadway play if she does those.
Now I need to think of someone else for SNL....
B~
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SNL has not produced a good episode since 1981.