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SNL Sketch - I Drink Your Milkshake
michaelicious:
--- Quote from: no one special on 23 Apr 2008, 00:45 ---But Bill Hader has a good range of impressions, Andy Samberg is funny and very creative, and Kristen Wiig rounds out well; she's pretty versatile in terms of fitting in a number of different types of sketches. Will Forte is a really strong addition to the cast as well - you can't look at a Tim Calhoun bit and tell me that's not funny. I just wish they'd get Maya Rudolph back, she was really great.
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Kristen Wiig is my favourite person on SNL ever. Example from a couple weeks ago. The Christopher Walken episode was pretty awesome all the way through.
Maya is taking time off because she is having a baby. I dunno if she will be back or not, though. I know Amy is leaving after this season :(
Ozymandias:
That was a little annoying.
This is great, though.
TheFuriousWombat:
I too found this dreadful and unfunny. The guy doing Plainview was OK but not as spot-on as the comments led me to believe. Why was Chigur blatantly Hispanic? Why, oh why, do people insist on always doing the most abysmally unfunny riffs on pop culture?
KvP:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 23 Apr 2008, 14:30 ---I too found this dreadful and unfunny. The guy doing Plainview was OK but not as spot-on as the comments led me to believe. Why was Chigur blatantly Hispanic? Why, oh why, do people insist on always doing the most abysmally unfunny riffs on pop culture?
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That's Lorne Michaels for you. Aside from maybe those first few years (out on DVD and interesting, if not always hilarious, to watch) SNL has coasted on catchphrases and recurring characters. Today's "airport ladies" (I last watched SNL a few years ago, they may very well have axed that sketch) are indistinguishable from the Making Copies Guy or the Church Lady. Which is why I and many others prefer more esoteric comedy shows like Monty Python and Mr. Show. I mean, it's telling that Mr. Show's weakest sketch was the only recurring one (Ronnie Dobbs).
SNL is at its best when it has a talented host who attacks what the writers give him/her. Alec Baldwin and Christopher Walken are the best examples. Recently the Rock has been a great host. John McCain was surprisingly self-deprecating, if not exactly born for comedy. I hear good things about Payton Manning, which is odd considering athlete hosts tend to be stiffer than most.
As far as Maya Rudolph goes, I always got the impression that she has two comic modes - "loud" and "singing".
carrotosaurus:
I thought it was funny for the first part, but it got old and unfunny fast.
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