On Jan 10, 11:41 am, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > SNL apologist here, and I say not a great ep. Sir Charles was a little > stiff for much of it, and the writing was more miss than hit. BTW, I > generally love Kristen Wiig, but that clumsy, breathy quasi-sex kitten > character in the ski-lodge skit? Not funny.
If I may beg to differ, I thought it was a great ep. Not for the writing, which maintained its usual low standard, but for the way Barkley handled the sketches. I can count the number I've times I've even smiled at SNL this season on the fingers of one hand, but there were three or four times I laughed out loud at last night's ep -- especially the film game show, Armisen's Gov. Patterson (it's cheap and obvious, but I love it), the bank commercial, the Haney Project, and the "scared straight" sketch. Kenan is money in the bank for me, not for his talent, but his utter commitment to sell every sketch, no matter how bad the writing is, and Barkley followed along, playing everything for full value. Wiig, on the other hand, maintained her status as the most baffling mystery in show business. --Dave Sikula
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