On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > Somebody with less of a life than me kept track of how many times cast > members appeared in sketches this season. > > I don't recognize half the names in the cast. The other half are some > of the least amusing names in comedy. Kristin Wiig topped the list, > appearing in 124 sketches. By sharp contrast, Seth Meyers appeared in > just 26, mostly Weekend Update. > > Other statistics include which celebrities were impersonated most > (Obama), and the number of celebrity guest appearances (I wonder if > Richard Dean Anderson's crappy Pepsi commercials which closely > resembled an SNL sketch counted as one of his three appearances?). > > http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/05/snl_season_34_by_the_numbers.html
Sudekis, Hader & Forte are all pretty damn funny (if sometime hard for me to tell apart) - I don't think you could really support an argument that they are among the least amusing names in comedy. I would like to see a chart of sketches per episode over the course of the season - my own subjective count has Wiig screen time going down significantly over the second half of the season - and when she is on she is less unfunny. I guess they are counting anchoring WU as a skit, otherwise Meyers would never have made it to double digits. He is the head writer and the WU anchor and that is about it. I think I heard him say on Fresh Air some time ago that he mostly works on the writing the rest of the show all week, and turns his attention to WU like Friday evening. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
