On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > I stand by my earlier comment that, though Swift is an attractive > blond, her music is uninspired. Having enjoyed the 75-80 degree > weather here in San Diego this weekend, I can state definitively that > one out of six women in Pacific Beach look as good or better than > Swift. Place one of them in a short dress holding a blinged-out guitar > and too much eye makeup and you have achieved the Swift phenomena. > > By contrast, Caitlin Evanson managed to express a dynamic energy, > despite the fact she and the rest of Swift's band were kept in the > dark during the performances. I have got to meet this woman. > > As for Neil's performance in last night's episode. I noticed a unique > energy from the audience. They seemed to really be supportive of > Harris in anything he said or did, and generally unenthusiastic > towards the cast itself. Neil was killing during the monologue (he > even made me laugh), until a few of the cast members posed as > hecklers, at which point the laughter immediately died... replaced by > disdain. The Today Show sketch... same thing. The two female cast > members rattled off their lines to a tepid crowd response, but the > energy tripled when Neil took the stage as the aerobics instructor. > Good for Neil. Bad for SNL.
I did watch both of her songs. I don't want to be snarky, because I appreciate that she is a young female singer who seems not to be posing as a slut. Her voice, especially on the second song, seemed tinny and thin to me, but maybe that is part of some kind of authenticity vibe that she is going for. It was nice that she did not seem to be using a backtrack to fill-in her voice (though, in retrospect it seemed like she could have used it). She is not unattractive, but as you note, she is pretty average for a California girl. I could not get a really good luck at the fiddler, but from what I could tell she did seem potentially more interesting and enchanting than young Swift. I agree with others who have rated NPH one of the better guest hosts in recent years - and that is coming from someone who never saw one episode of Dougie Howser, and has not seen a single episode of his current show either. But he was likable and funny and have that trooper energy that you comment on that characterizes most of the good hosts. I actually liked some of the skits after the news - they were a little quirky and were more conceptual than filled out, but that is in the best tradition of SNL. Most of the real good skits don't have a real ending. When they try to write them so they have a formal ending, it usually sucks the life out of the body of the skit. One huge problem they must solve asap is the lack of funny black people on the show. As has been commentated on, they have no black women, and their black man is almost always not funny (I do like his Rerun character - but that seems to be his basic character). The Cold Open was dead while he was on, then popped when the Ill Gov came on. What does it mean about American that we can find a black man who most people agree is competent to be president during the most difficult period since WWII, but we can't find a black man funny enough to do 2 skits on late night television? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
