Well, at least they’re consistent. These days every good SNL episode (see: last week’s Charles Barkley affair) is almost always immediately followed by an underwhelming effort. Despite the buzz they drummed up last week, and the return of Sigourney Weaver (coming back after 23+ years, the longest such stretch between hosting gigs in SNL history), [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Bad Humor’
2010/01/14
Something Funny Happened on the Way to Five Thursday’s Ago
(This a post I intended to compose a month ago, but then the holidays hit, and then the Thursday night comedies went on winter vacation so there was no real rush to write this. But with the comedy block returning tonight, save for The Office, this seemed like the right time to finally record these [...]
2009/12/08
Way to Ruin Christmas, ‘SNL’
So maybe now we know why SNL seemed particularly Kristen Wiig-light this past weekend. She must have been working on new Gilly material, as the Washington Post reports that Wiig, as Gilly, will host a “brand-new”* two-hour Christmas** special entitled “SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas.” Which basically translates to “SNL Presents: A Series of [...]
2009/11/16
January Jones Was the Worst Host Ever On the Worst Episode of ‘SNL’ Ever
Or so it would seem. The reaction to last week’s Taylor Swift SNL was overwhelmingly positive, with most critics/bloggers declaring it the best episode of the (mediocre) season. While I think it was one of the stronger episodes of the season, I’m not quite sure it was the best (I’d probably have to hand that [...]
2009/11/12
Out of Curiosity: ‘The Love Guru’
So a couple months back I was adding some items to the Netflix queue and on a lark I decided to include The Love Guru, just out of sheer curiosity. I never thought it’d actually come though, I assumed we’d keep bumping other more important things up to the top. But then lo and behold [...]
