I tuned in and out of most of the sketches (par for my course), but it seemed
to me that the sketches where Burr's character(s) returned to the basic themes
of his comedy also fell flat. I'm thinking mostly of the Mafia sketch. He's
done much better with this kind of material in most, if not all, of his
sit-downs with Conan.
FWIW, I thought Pete Davidson's mini-monologue during Update on J.K. Rowling
managed its points better and was a little funnier.
David
On Sunday, October 11, 2020, 7:15:54 PM EDT, PGage <[email protected]>
wrote:
I am not really a fan, but my critique was more charitable than yours. I
thought he was nervous, which is not a good look on a comic of his type. I
thought his white women material was pretty strong, though not different nor
better than what you would see on Black Twitter on any given night. His
strongest line was when he said white women, having benefited from all the shit
white men have done over the centuries, should “stand here next to me” and take
their share of the reckoning.
What made the set weak in my eyes was two things: 1) he never really owned the
shit that white guys like him have done and 2) he used his articulation of the
various low level complaints of many Black people (getting the short month for
BHM, Pride month being in the summer) to claim moral high ground for his cranky
old straight white guy bashing of women and LGBTQs.
In the end though I think you (Kevin) are right that it read like a comic
workshopping promising material. OTOH, that is better than the average SNL
monologue, so, not sure it is worthy of special complaint.
On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 at 2:41 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 12:26 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
Bill Burr hosting is intriguing
Wow. He tanked the monologue. I mean even taking into account that there were
fewer people in the studio, he tanked. It’s like he used 8H to work out new
material. And the material didn’t land... at all.
https://youtu.be/O1xgXJ5_Q34
On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 10:05 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
<[email protected]> wrote:
Alec Baldwin, not confirmed as Don, and before the debate and diagnoses,
compares him to Norman Bates...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/alec-baldwin-says-trump-is-like-norman-bates
(link)
B
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