The opening sketch with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler was good. And then everything else sucks. They don’t know what to do with Michael Phelps, and unlike Peyton Manning he’s got no comedy charisma. The skits are just unfunny. There are funny people on the show – Bill Heder, Amy Poehler – not Fred Armissen – but the skits just are not funny.
I was totally going to watch it but then I forgot but now I’m glad I didn’t. I would have been mad if I had missed Obama but I already knew he had dropped out of the show, sadly.
I couldn’t agree more. Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin was spot on. There wasn’t another funny moment in the show.
The writing has sucked hard on SNL for the past ten seasons or so. Even with a very funny guy like Will Ferrel, the best parts where when he went off on his own. The sketches were always just a vehicle for his funny, not an enhancer.
Lorne Michaels is Bush-esque in his desire for loyalty over talent, methinks.
To be fair, didn’t they have to rewrite the whole show once Obama cancelled?
I basically stopped watching, post Ferrell and Darrell Hammond. It kinda surprises me that it’s still on. Nostalgia, probably.
I am glad the rest sucked because I fell asleep and missed it and I can at least see the clip of the good stuff. (I woke up really disappointed about missing Fey as Palin.)
If the show had anything going for it, they wouldn’t have had to pre-announce/leak Tina Fey’s participation in it as Palin. They would have just gone with it, and let people figure it out and enjoy.
(Of course, SNL was probably last funny before you were born….)
I enjoyed SNL in the Dana Carvey/Phil Hartman/Chris Rock years but then I only watch it now out of habit.
Here’s a clip of Fey as Palin. She was so good that I truly hated her.
http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/48ccb88e412736ae/4741e3c5156499a7/afed2496
I mean, I hated Palin (forgetting that it was actually Tina Fey).
I’ve often wondered why SNL is 90 minutes long. Why not make it an hour so that at least 30 minutes of suck doesn’t have to be seen?
Its amazing how well Tina Fey gets that Gov. Palin’s voice perfectly.
Darrell Hammond is still there! I think he’s going for the world record for sucking.
SNL’s always hit or miss, but remember that the host makes or breaks the show. They get to pick the sketches. Great swimmers aren’t necessarily comedy geniuses.
I missed the show – no doubt it probably sucked – but I saw the clip of the opening bit with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler this morning.
That was the single best and funniest piece of political satire I’ve seen the whole campaign. When “Palin” cocked the imaginary shotgun I almost fell out of my chair. God, those two are geniuses! …Genii?
Gotta give SNL credit for the opening segment. The rest of the show sucked (HARD), I completely agree.
But, if I have to trade 85 minutes of semi-conscious viewing for a quality 5 minutes worth of Daisy Cutting the Republican talking points…I’ll continue to show up every week.
This segment is political GOLD because it attracts the “undecided” disaffected Hillary camp, and clubs them with reality.
I think Tina Fey deserves one of Sarah Palin’s paws for that take down.
At one point I wondered aloud what the hell they’ve been doing all summer, ‘cuz it sure hasn’t been writing.
it was funny if you weren’t sober
Definitely, the worst SNL I remember seeing. I fast forwarded close to half the sketches before they had ended. The question is why the good long 10 year drag or spiral? Chauvinism aside, the question I keep hearing (at a lower volume…we have been quite right winged since Clinton) is whether it is because women are more involved to the roots (writing, casting, decisions, etc…)? I love women, but in my 36 years in Toronto & all over Europe, the Carribean & N. America (my folks were loaded & road trips), generally, girls are not really as funny as guys (picking up rythms & switching gears). If it was only because they got screwed/discriminated wouldn’t it be obvious. I wouldn’t be suggesting the lack, after all. Cosmetics and what they stand for aside, Sarah Palin? Chicks who pack heat are lame, and beside the stupid “my friend” thing from McCain, he actually might think he’s Old Hickory. Deluded, all right. Andrew Jackson wouldn’t have gone to Iraq, let alone voted with Bush over 90% of the time. Who would? Oh, yeah his father. Completely lame family. Trust me.
Will Ferrell as comic genius. Next you’ll be telling me that the economy is sound.
Fey rocked as Palin. After years of not-funny, she’s found her niche.