On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 12:02 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > I won't even try to explain humor to you, but I will vote on the side of > those who found Betty White to be amazing in the episode. First of all, she > may have literally been in every single sketch, including the cold open (but > not, I suppose, Update) - which is more work than those 1/5 her age often > can handle. I don't think it was the best episode of the season, and I guess > if you are of the view that SNL is never funny any more then that > observation alone would be a death sentence, but it was generally funny - > and she is almost always the funniest part of whatever she is in. They > probably relied too much on contrasting her superficial persona with "dirty" > content, which has long been in her stock in trade. I was hoping for a > Password sketch, but either that was too much of a reach for the show's demo > (yet, that was probably the 3rd time they have done the Welk thing) or she > decided that was too pure to make fun of. > > I thought her monologue was great by the way, and Welk bit makes me laugh, > except for the part that I guess is supposed to be the topper (Wiig's > thalidomide parody - which was the only thing that may really have been > offensive in this show).
I never post about SNL as I have found it unwatchable for about the past 10 years. If I'm in front of a TV, I'll watch the cold open, host monologue, and parody commercial and then turn it off. Last night I thought I would give the whole show a shot. Like Kevin, I gave up at the third MacGruber spot. I saw that the San Jose/Detroit hockey playoff game was tied 1-1 in the third period and I decided to watch that instead. No regrets. I've seen Betty White with Craig Ferguson and a little bit with Jimmy Fallon and she's been much funnier with them than she was on SNL. At the beginning of the week the writers come up with lots of sketch ideas and most fall during the week. A Password parody could have been an early idea which dropped when there was no way to make the sketch work or would require too much explanation for people not raised with the game show. I don't get how the "lesbian" sketch could be considered homophobic. Amy's tomboy character wasn't the butt of the jokes, Betty's wordplay with the word lesbian was. Tom > BTW, I wonder if Kevin is serious in raising the possibility of racism and > homophobia about those two sketches, or if that is just the kitchen sink > being thrown into his characteristic hyperbolic panning of the show? I won't > waste any space responding to that unless I hear that it was serious. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! 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
