It was no more terrible than any other episode this season, so it was a push.
One correction on McKinnon. Shooting her into the sun would be far too generous. Trapping her in a room for all eternity with Wiig would be more appropriate. --Dave Sikula On Monday, October 26, 2020 at 11:20:25 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > To set this up: Literally the last time I *know* I watched an SNL live > would've been the December 20, 1986 episode > <https://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/86h.phtml>. I'm sure it's happened > since then, but I have not the recollection of it, and that includes > Adele's last appearance in 2015. > > Two questions and a statement for the panel: > > 1. I admit fully I'm in the bag for her, but that seemed like a > rather...mediocre...episode. The Bachelor skit, which I thought worked > best, didn't have nearly the laughs I thought it earned, but c'mon: if you > can't get the 19-21-25 reference, I can't freaking help you. So that leads > to my question: I know the audience is smaller, especially on the floor, > but could it be that smaller audience means jokes that land didn't? > > 2. I don't care if watching her break was worth it: I don't think a > post-Weekend Update slot was worth making sex tourism jokes, and it looks > like a bunch of other people didn't think so, either. > https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/entertainment/snl-africa-sketch-adele-controversy-intl-scli/index.html > > 2a. I enjoy Kate McKinnon, but I also understand now why Sikula wants her > shot into the sun. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/e19a02fa-0175-4f2e-baee-767636598d1dn%40googlegroups.com.
