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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
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| They're using Wiig more and more, and it's a good thing. She's terrific. I also liked her in the surprise party sketch last week w/ Walken. |
Right. She's terrific at playing nervous wrecks, but this time, I thought she REALLY outdid herself.
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| I wondered if the Cougars sketch was written for Demi but she didn't want to do it. It makes more sense that way. |
That's what I was wondering. It would have made a LOT more sense, but they were able to save it by having Diaz show up and help boost interest in her and Kutcher's "Vegas" vehicle.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
WOW - just watched the Ashton episode - one of the strongest SNL's in a lont time IMO. Gnarls Barkley was nothing short of incredible, too. Was that the cast of The Big Bang Theory as the backing band?
The Cougar Den was great, Whig in everything was great, Weekend Update was great.
They really should think about dropping the political opening sketch - it is the stalest part of the show anymore...
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
While I liked Whigs "just kidding" character, I thought following it with the political comedian, which is almost the exact same verbal gimmick, was a bit much.
I'm all for putting these to rest, and lets see some new stuff.
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Randy: I thought Fred Armisen's "political comedian" was the perfect follow-up to Wiig's fast-talking BECAUSE of the similar verbal gimmick. I was actually HOPING they'd follow with Armisen, but didn't think they'd actually do it.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
"It's a Match" was pretty funny, though I'm not sure why they didn't just use the "Match Game" name and the real names of the panelists?
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
I agree. I thought "not another mcgruber sketch", but these were very funny.
Match Game was great. The Digital Short was lame. Scared Straight was kind of funny, but otherwise, not that great
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I think the game show was funnier with the fake names for some reason...
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| I think the game show was funnier with the fake names for some reason... |
I think it was that much funnier for those who know who each character was based on. It was sort of like watching an alternate universe version or something.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
The Japanese version of "The Office" with Ricky Gervase introducing it on the SNL Digital Short was pretty funny.
Steve Carell did a good job as host last night.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
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| The Japanese version of "The Office" with Ricky Gervase introducing it on the SNL Digital Short was pretty funny. |
"It's funny because it's racist." HA!
It was an excellent hosting job by Carell. Very well done.
And an interesting appearance by McCain. I didn't like his first commercial - it didn't seem to quite know what the core joke was - but his Weekend Update was great (especialy when he started suggesting they take another look at Edwards.)
And speaking of the candidates, the split-face Obama/Clinton bit was also very funny.
But was I missing something, or was the entire joke with the weight-loss guy that he kept breaking through the paper figures. I couldn't for the life of me see any other joke in it. But surely they wouldn't structure an entire sketch of that length around that one joke.
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Re: Saturday Night Live - Season 33
I thought McCain was great. I (and my friend that I was watching with) almost died when he talked about the gaydar jammer.
We both figured that someone came up with that joke 5 years ago and saved it for *just* the right moment.
We were also just talking about life in Arizona the other day (another friend lives there for in-law reasons and loves to complain about it).
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