Seriously, what is funny about SNL?
Seriously, what is funny about SNL?
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#1Seriously, what is funny about SNL?
Posted: 5/23/09 at 11:59pmEvery so often, I tune-in, and wonder why the hell I bothered. I mean since the 1970s!!! However, it just may be worse than it's ever been. I just watched a wretched skit with some girl character named "Gilly", who never did anything funny. The skit went on and on and on and on, and there wasn't a single thing that would make anyone smile, let alone laugh. Somebody actually collects a paycheck for writing this sh*t?
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#2re: Seriously, what is funny about SNL?
Posted: 5/24/09 at 12:01amHi Roxy.
#2re: Seriously, what is funny about SNL?
Posted: 5/24/09 at 12:02amAren't the re-running the Zac Efron episode? If I remember correctly, it wasn't that great. The Justin Timberlake episode was quite funny, in my opinion.
#3re: Seriously, what is funny about SNL?
Posted: 5/24/09 at 12:02am
HAHAHA I was going to post something similar!
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#5re: Seriously, what is funny about SNL?
Posted: 5/24/09 at 12:07am
The Zack Effron Show had one or two highlights. The best shows this season IMHO were the Justin Timberlake, the Dwayne Johnson and the Will Ferrell The beginning of the season had some very great episodes specially the ones Tina Fey appeared on.
Despite a clunker now and then this season was pretty strong.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6re: Seriously, what is funny about SNL?
Posted: 5/24/09 at 3:24pm
I stopped watching years ago, when they did very unfunny skit about braided nasal hairs.
There are, however, people who thought that piece was hilarious. They were about 12 year old, though, and would laugh at anything.
#7snl will bf your mom and top yer dad if you taunt it
Posted: 5/24/09 at 3:38pmhumor is subjective. nothing is universal.
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ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#8snl will bf your mom and top yer dad if you taunt it
Posted: 5/24/09 at 3:43pm
nothing is universal.
Except that Republicans are evil, there is no God, abortions should be mandatory and people who eat meat are going to hell.
#9snl will bf your mom and top yer dad if you taunt it
Posted: 5/24/09 at 3:47pmso there is no god, but there is a hell? i f****** knew it. why else would jersey exist?
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#10snl will bf your mom and top yer dad if you taunt it
Posted: 5/24/09 at 4:26pmSee, now you've got it all figured out Papa. You're welcome.
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#11snl will bf your mom and top yer dad if you taunt it
Posted: 5/24/09 at 5:00pmThey need to bring back Chevy Chase!
#12snl will bf your mom and top yer dad if you taunt it
Posted: 5/24/09 at 5:05pmThe painfully unfunny and bitter?
#13yeah, I don't get it
Posted: 5/24/09 at 6:02pm
I thought the Gilly sketch was not remotely funny, except for the Zac-Efron-wearing-lederhosen part. And honestly, I just don't get the humor of SNL. Most of the sketches don't really seem to have punchlines... they're just an unfunny running gag repeated ad nauseum. Which could be funny if they had really eccentric characters or were outrageously absurd like Monty Python, but they're just... not. There have definitely been sketches that have made me laugh, but it's almost always the acting, not the writing, that's funny.
It's weird, because usually, I'm SO easily amused. Every stupid youtube video or cheesy pun usually cracks me up, and I'm always the one who has to choke back laughter at the movies because I think everything's funny when no one else does. But I just don't get SNL>
#14snl will bf your mom and top yer dad if you taunt it
Posted: 5/24/09 at 6:08pm
It's all subjective, obviously, but Gilly is pretty stupid by anyone's criteria. Kristen Wiig really overextended herself this year, she's great in small doses but really needs to cool it next season.
I'm not going to waste my time typing out a long credo as to why I'm an SNL fan (short answer: I do improv/sketch and would really like to be on the show at some point) since there will always be someone there to refute every point I make, but I'll just say that it's not all crap. Obviously any sketch show is going to be hit-and-miss, but there've been a few pretty strong hits this season.
ETA: Sally, Chevy Chase is getting a new show on NBC this fall. I'd be really excited for it if it didn't mean 30 Rock wasn't being pushed back until November/December.
Updated On: 5/24/09 at 06:08 PM
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#15snl will bf your mom and top yer dad if you taunt it
Posted: 5/24/09 at 6:51pmthe fall schedule NBC has posted says 30 rock returns in october
#16snl will bf your mom and top yer dad if you taunt it
Posted: 5/25/09 at 12:25amI find Gilly hilarious because it's absurd.
#17snl will bf your mom and top yer dad if you taunt it
Posted: 5/25/09 at 1:06am
I too find the absurdity of Gilly amusing.
The problem with most of Kristen Wiig's characters (and writing) is she comes up with wonderfully absurd characters but really doesn't know exactly what to do with them.
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