80-something Don Francisco liked...

[Bob Jersey]

...Marcello Hernández' sendup of him and "Sabado Gigante" on this past weekend's "SNL"...

https://deadline.com/2024/10/don-francisco-marcello-hernandez-sabado-gigante-spoof-snl-1236108710/ (link)

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[Kevin M.]

When I took high school Spanish, we were required to watch a certain amount of TV in Spanish every week. Sabado Gigante was a favorite of mine. It was The Price is Right meets You Bet Your Life meets Let’s Make A Deal. It was a big party. 

Kevin M. (RPCV)

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[Dave Sikula]

One of the (many, many) problems with the sketch was that it's impossible to parody something that's already a parody. There was nothing there that wouldn't have seemed out of place on the real show.

I think a much more promising approach would have been to have the guy desperate to be a part of the wackiness but have everything turn serious and tragic.

Of course, Bargatze's (and if I misspelled that, I have no interest in looking him up) idea of cutting-edge humor is that monologue with the obviously canned laughter and a re-hash of the Washington sketch, which was already something Carlin would have rejected as being too hacky in 1968.

--Dave Sikula