Seven Reasons Why SNL is Terrible This Season
TMC...@gmail.com
1. After four months of hiatus, all we get is reprise sketches in the
season premiere.
2. Weekend Update is weak this season, yet it's the most entertaining
thing on the show.
3. The premiere's cold open wasn't even that funny; Tina Fey's
impression was spot-on but her writing wasn't even jokes; they were
things Sarah Palin had actually said, which demonstrates very amateur
writing.
4. Even after SNL got enormous amounts of overrated publicity for
their Palin/Clinton sketch, they didn't even try to live up to that
one in the second episode and made a very unfunny Mad TV-esque cold
open for the second episode's weekly political sketch.
5. SNL isn't just out of new jokes, but they're out of old ones; they
couldn't even create a new character, so they stole a character from
the host's most recent movie. Even worse: they didn't even make the
sketch funny.
6. While the sketches may have been funny once or twice in the middle
of them, they didn't even put fade-out jokes at the end of them. It
almost felt like some middle schoolers who tried to put on a skit for
a talent show, but wrote it within the past hour, and they were about
to say, "You can clap now, because that's the end."
7. The gem of the past three seasons has even gone stale; the digital
shorts are aimless without direction, and incredibly unfunny as well.
twentyd...@yahoo.com
> season premiere.
Sorry, but I have to admit that Lil Wayne's axwork had me rolling on
the floor.
The guy must think he's Hendrix now.
Mr.Just...@gmail.com
> 1. After four months of hiatus, all we get is reprise sketches in the
> season premiere.
I was disappointed with that too - you'd think with so much time off,
and even though they only work a week before air, they'd come in with
better ideas. I was sort of pissed to see the Will Forte quirky music
coach sketch come back.
> 2. Weekend Update is weak this season, yet it's the most entertaining
> thing on the show.
I think it's the most well written part of the show - they have a
staff dedicated to it - but I wouldn't say it was "weak". Sometimes
it's only as strong as the news.
> 3. The premiere's cold open wasn't even that funny; Tina Fey's
> impression was spot-on but her writing wasn't even jokes; they were
> things Sarah Palin had actually said, which demonstrates very amateur
> writing.
Tina's impression was fantastic, but the lines I remember were from
Amy. Watch the sketch again, but watch Amy. I think that's what they
were going for. Jim Downey probably wrote it.
> 4. Even after SNL got enormous amounts of overrated publicity for
> their Palin/Clinton sketch, they didn't even try to live up to that
> one in the second episode and made a very unfunny Mad TV-esque cold
> open for the second episode's weekly political sketch.
Tina didn't even want to do the first one, and she only agreed to do
it with Amy, so chances of doing #2 was already s.o.l.
> 5. SNL isn't just out of new jokes, but they're out of old ones; they
> couldn't even create a new character, so they stole a character from
> the host's most recent movie. Even worse: they didn't even make the
> sketch funny.
I assume you're talking about the Pineapple Express James Franco
character 007. That sketch was super flat, which sucked because you
could tell by the set how much time and money went into it.
> 6. While the sketches may have been funny once or twice in the middle
> of them, they didn't even put fade-out jokes at the end of them. It
> almost felt like some middle schoolers who tried to put on a skit for
> a talent show, but wrote it within the past hour, and they were about
> to say, "You can clap now, because that's the end."
I agree, even the best sketches in past years have had strange
endings.
> 7. The gem of the past three seasons has even gone stale; the digital
> shorts are aimless without direction, and incredibly unfunny as well.
The digital shorts have been super weak - the Michael Phelps space
olympics short was straight retarded.
SNL has been a show I've watched for most of my life, and I can't tell
if it's getting worse, or I'm getting older and it's targeted towards
jr high kids. What doesn't make sense is that the cast is so talented
- so many of them are phenom improvisers and actors - and kick ass in
everything else they do.
Kristin Wiig is incredible. Is it me, or does her face look different
this year. It looks like she had her nose or eyes done. She doesn't
look as good.