Posted: 11/4/18 at 10:18am
This is pretty great (and painfully accurate)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBy6Fnyss4c
Updated On: 11/4/18 at 10:18 AM
Posted: 11/4/18 at 11:02am
Posted: 11/4/18 at 11:26am
Spot-on creepy and so perceptively accurate.
Painfully so.
Posted: 11/4/18 at 11:28am
Is it meant to be a parody of In The Heights?
Posted: 11/4/18 at 12:03pm
Posted: 11/4/18 at 12:25pm
Is it meant to be a parody of In The Heights?
Huh? Because they cleverly referenced Lin-Manuel Miranda you assumed it was mocking IN THE HEIGHTS? If anything, that portion winked at HAMILTON.
Sophisticated, intelligent humor evades the simpletons once again. If you can’t laugh at yourself, misery and bitterness will sour your life. Even Lin-Manuel Miranda has poked fun of himself and doesn’t take anything seriously.
Posted: 11/4/18 at 12:41pm
I was actually pleased to see dancers in two other sketches last night. Good on them going with a theme.
Posted: 11/4/18 at 2:14pm
Posted: 11/4/18 at 2:42pm
I've noticed a lot more theatre humor on SNL in recent years. There was Crucible Cast Party and the Legally Blonde parody last year, and I love it.
Posted: 11/4/18 at 5:37pm
Crucible Cast Party. Already a classic as far as I'm concerned.
The throwaway reference at the end of the Off Broadway Parody to the Mariska Hargitay Theatre gave me a laff too. ( sorry Jerry Orbach) also the Wicked ahh wah ahhh too!
O agree w u re the pull quotes too.
Posted: 11/4/18 at 5:43pm
Posted: 11/4/18 at 6:25pm
Rewatching the sketch, I feel like you could make a full show out of this. The sketch is built off cringe humor, which can get old fast, but I feel like you could make a musical that's a satire of well-meaning people trying to get a political message across, despite being the wrong people to send that message.
Posted: 11/4/18 at 8:01pm
Later on in the night, during the "Americas got talent" sketch Jonah Hill also sang from Joseph!
Posted: 11/4/18 at 9:16pm
Those pull quotes still gave this fake show a better review than Gettin' the Band Back Together.
Posted: 11/5/18 at 3:51am
BrodyFosse123 said: "Is it meant to be a parody of In The Heights?
Huh? Because they cleverly referenced Lin-Manuel Miranda you assumed it was mocking IN THE HEIGHTS? If anything, that portion winked at HAMILTON.
Sophisticated, intelligent humor evades the simpletons once again. If you can’t laugh at yourself, misery and bitterness will sour your life. Even Lin-Manuel Miranda has poked fun of himself and doesn’t take anything seriously. "
What? Yes, it was funny. No idea what you’re going on about.
Posted: 11/5/18 at 8:55am
The two or three sketches that they have done with theatre are fantastic! Anyone remember this gems of a "High School Theatre Show"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPAtpAelwe4&t=20s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=323v_FtWqvo
Posted: 11/6/18 at 10:26am
The $140 ticket price was the best line of the whole sketch.
Posted: 11/6/18 at 10:45am
Alex Kulak2 said: "I've noticed a lot more theatre humor on SNL in recent years. There wasCrucible Cast Partyandthe Legally Blonde parody last year, and I love it."
and let us not forget this year's LOBSTER DINER
Posted: 11/6/18 at 5:23pm
This....this...this...
https://www.metatube.com/en/videos/344109/SNL-Before-the-Show/
Posted: 11/7/18 at 11:47am
It really bothers me that this is supposed to be about "Off-Broadway," when it is really about "Off-Off Broadway." Off-Broadway is made up of actual professional theatre organizations, including some very prestigious ones like The Public Theatre, Signature Theatre, Pearl Theatre, etc. However, OFF-OFF Broadway is indeed basically out of work actors (usually in their twenties) casting themselves in shows they produced themselves.
The skit is hilarious, but also furthers the myth that Broadway is the pinnacle of theatre, and everything else is garbage.
