For me, the biggest problem with SNL isn't that it's not funny (and, of course, it isn't), it's that Lorne's questionable sense of humor has come to be the mainstream model for American comedy by inflicting people like Murray, Sandler, Farley, Farrell, Wiig, and McKinnon on the American and world public and making them the standard.
When he goes -- and that day can't come soon enough -- that model will hopefully fade away. I'm reminded of what Stella Adler said to her class the day Lee Strasberg died: "A great man of the theatre died today: Lee Strasberg. (Pause.) It will take the American theatre fifty years to recover from what he did to it." --Dave Sikula On Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at 11:51:07 AM UTC-7 Tom Wolper wrote: There was a narrative about rock music that went music was stupid and boring and was played by square people for square people. Then one day some white boys plugged their electric guitars into amps and brought forth rock and roll, which was and is awesome music, and freed everybody’s minds, and then Woodstock and so on and so on. As time passed and the artists and audience matured, a much more introspective and complex narrative emerged. It’s a lot more satisfying to read and watch and it really points out the shallowness of the previous narrative. There is a parallel narrative for comedy where comedy was square until SNL came along and made it awesome. There has been a smaller amount of introspection and those of us who are dreading the SNL movie feel that as long as Lorne is in charge the shallow narrative is the only story that will be allowed to air. -- 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/eb468807-0676-4383-862b-7da1de33c404n%40googlegroups.com.
