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Saturday Night Lifeless

Saturday’s SNL was the season premiere with guest Jack Black and John Mayer. The only funny skit other than the animated feature was the Queer Eye for the Straight Gal. The show stinks and it’s due to lack of brilliant writers, washed up cast members, or members not hitting the mark.

Some of the things that I (or Pat) noticed:
Tina Fey: Still funny and hot as ever with those sexy glasses.
Jimmy Fallon: Looks like he stepped on stage after a 24-hour drinking and drug binge and still is annoying.
Horatio Sanz: Sans Horatio SNL would be much less entertaining and he’s still being given the same character: the less than intelligent character with varying clothing and some disability or ethnicity – but judging by Saturday’s show he can sing or something.
Darrel Hammond: This is his 8th season and I think it’s time for him to move on to making stupid movies like everyone else.
Rachel Dratch: I don’t think her breasts are as prominent this season but her eyes still freak me out.
Maya Rudolph: SNL has a gold mine with Maya; she can play almost every ethnic character they need and in the business that’s a key for keeping one employed. Of course that also means you get to be the token ethnic character but she has more skills than any cast member and gets to show off her extremely toned body.
Jeff Richards: He’s back and that means more Drunk Girl but I continually get him confused with Seth Meyers so who cares.
Seth Meyers: Didn’t notice him or Jeff Richards much this episode. However, with him returning along with Sanz and Fallon that means more DJ Jonathan Feinstein.
Chris Parnell: He is my favorite repertory player (as they’re so called on SNL’s site) and he returned this season as well, though the opener didn’t feature much of him or he was in make-up and I didn’t notice.

As for the newbies joining this year, it's too early to tell, but I think I'm going to keep an eye on one guy, Finesse Mitchell. Sure he's a featured player but during his brief solitary moment on WU he was quite amusing.

This episode was not at all humorous or entertaining or worth watching. In fact, I think I laughed more at all the funny mid-coitus-esque faces John Mayer made whilst singing than the entirety of the skits. The opening sketch was someone, could have been Parnell and I hope not, doing an impression of Arnold giving a “what I’m going to do for California” speech. The accent was off, the hair color was too and the speech itself was funny but without the other elements playing backup it was lost. Let me just go on about this pathetic display of attempting an accent: if a person can’t hold an accent for more than two words, find someone else who can. The guy had it for a brief moment and then would lose it into one that was more Latino than Austrian. Pat and I knew then that we probably wouldn’t make it past the Weekend Update and well we didn’t.

The highlight of the show was Black almost exposing his junk amidst donkey kicks during a white trash soul train skit. Yep, that was the only moment in the skits that was amusing. The commercial for Huggies Thongs was also pretty good, if only all that writing and time could go into live action rather than commercials then the show would be significantly better.

So, next week’s host and musical guest is Justin Timberlake. For his music alone I will watch it, and it can’t be much worse than this episode, at least I’ll enjoy the musical guest. One of my guilty pleasures is Timberlake’s music – it’s surprisingly good without the rest of that boy band crap. I would have taken Timberlake alone without having to deal with all that annoying shit that accompanied him in the earlier years.

12:10 PM

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Posted by: texasyankee at October 6, 2003 04:44 PM

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