The problem isn't Carrey; his Biden actually isn't that bad, and he's more
or less doing what the writers (ineptly) give him. The problem with the
sketches (as with the rest of the show) is Michaels, who apparently wants
his audience to think that if he portrays both men as being (in their own
ways) equally undesirable, he can somehow avoid conservatives screaming
that he's playing favorites. The right working the refs has worked
particularly well on SNL
This week's show set new low standards for a show that always find deeper
bottoms to the barrel (Rae's opening monologue was so bad that even the
hyenas in the audience stayed mostly silent), but suffered especially from
being aired in juxtaposition with the rerun from 1988, where every sketch
("Jew, Not a Jew," Hanks and Lovitz's losers on the make,
and--especially--the Bush/Dukakis debate, with its "I can't believe I'm
losing to this guy") landed--big time. It was also another great reminder
(as if we needed it) of how great Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks were. My gosh,
they could do anything.
--Dave Sikula
On Sunday, October 18, 2020 at 7:19:55 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:
> It wasn't great. I think the problem is Jim Carrey. He seems to need broad
> humor and he's not getting it with the Biden imitation.
> Weekend Update was good.
> On Oct 18, 2020, at 5:17 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> They had one job this weekend, and it wasn’t to make fun of Trump or
>> Biden. They’re only job was to skewer NBC News for cashing in on the Trump
>> Town Hall. The cold open should not have recreated the dueling Tiwn Halls,
>> it should somehow have parodied, brutally, the meeting in which NBC
>> executives decided to green light it.
>>
>> Of course they failed. There was one tepid joke on update, but nothing
>> that really held NBC’s feet to the fire.
>>
>> And no, it doesn’t matter how tough Guthrie was on Trump, or how bad it
>> made him look.
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>>
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