Comments on: Dear Saturday Night Live

By: Mandy

Mandy — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:07:46 +0000

Maybe it’s a Dinsmore thing, I think she’s hilarious and I challenge anyone who has seen Knocked Up to not second that, she’s the reason I’ve watched that movie more than once. Also, even though the Neil Patrick Harris episode wasn’t the best, the very last skit about Burger King was awesome. Although, no one probably saw it since it was last and that meant sitting through 2 Taylor Swift songs.

By: Harmon

Harmon — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:04:35 +0000

Your books manage to come out at times when I’m extremely poor, and then, well, um. I kinda forget about them.

So, well, if that correlation implies causation, please don’t publish any more books right away.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:38:04 +0000

Well, no one bought my books, either, so I guess I must not know as much about funny as I think I do in my head.

By: Harmon

Harmon — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:34:34 +0000

My friends and I watched the NPH episode last week, and all agreed Ms. Wiig is the least funny woman ever to appear on SNL. So at least among my cohort, you would indeed be in the minority.

By: lilya

lilya — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:11:49 +0000

i friggin’ adore ms. wiig. she’s no amy poehler, but i heart her nonetheless.

that said, dennis & i almost killed ourselves after sitting through the first half hour of snl this week. i’m not even gonna bother to watch the rest on dvr. it was on par with me having to listen to radiohead.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:03:59 +0000

A fine point. I would suppose the SNL “you’re weird” characters are supposed to be straight men. So I can’t say for sure what comedic rules they’re breaking, but I’ll still contend that, for whatever reason, sketches in which one character acts weird and the other characters say, “you’re acting weird” are never funny.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:47:57 +0000

I haven’t seen the skit in question, and I’m sure it’s not that great, but it should be noted that there’s a difference between negation and being the straight man. I can’t come up with good examples of each off the top of my head, though.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:18:58 +0000

It’s a good thing I don’t use you as my comedic barometer, then.

C’mon, people! I know I’m not in the minority on this. Any Wiig defenders out there?

By: McCarron

McCarron — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:49:05 +0000

Sorry, buddy. I’m with Harmon. I don’t find Wiig to be funny in the least.

Cringe-inducing.

That said, “…and then his face fell off and his skeleton fell apart.” is pretty damn funny to me. I giggled even out of context.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:38:59 +0000

Ouch. Putting Kristin Wiig in the same league as Molly Shannon? You insult me, sir. I think she’s hands down one of the best female cast members they’ve ever had. She does have some repetitive characters, but repetitive characters are SNL’s bread and butter. Plus, her impressions are spot-on. I will say that I read an interview with her and she kinda sounds like a dick. And I have friends of friends who know her and second this opinion. You are free to think what you will, of course. But I win, anyway.

The Gretzky episode was probably the best sports episode they’ve done, I’ll grant you that. But he was also the Great One, and those don’t come around too often.