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Ashton Kutcher's skits disappointed us on "Saturday Night Live," but we did like new Dave Grohl's new band Them Crooked Vultures. The Garth and Kat bit scared us a little.Let's just admit it. "Saturday Night Live" isn't very funny anymore. We had
Highlights? Lowlights? We'll just call them "lights" included:
--While the monologue (things the old and presumably "immature" Ashton would've found "awesome") wasn't that funny, it did include a bulldog on a surfboard, which is great. Unlike Monica Geller, animals dressed as people are a-ok with us.--The best Ashton skit of the night was Kutcher as the pool boy at the will reading of a deceased 110-year-old woman (pictured above). Apparently, the woman was riddled with various VDs and the pool boy exclaims, "No, we didn't use protection, she was 110! What was she going to do, give birth to a ghost?" Kutcher's delivery on that line was priceless. Plus, who doesn't love racist-veneral-disease humor? "Oriental Fever, Soviet Hives, Crabs Rangoon, Jazz Flu."
--There were the horrible parody of "The View," the fake commercial for "Cialis for threeways," the gay grape-feeding Roman slave and the rock-n-roll wedding band skits that were terrible and unfunny.
--We found the "What is 'Burn Notice?'" game show skit to elicit the "Oh, really?" response from us because... like NBC has any room to throw stones! First of all, the joke falls flat because we know what "Burn Notice" is about. Secondly, the entire premise of the skit seemed really weird coming from a show that hasn't been consistently funny in 10 or 15 or 20 years (depending on who you ask) and from a network that consistently finishes fourth. We realize NBC owns USA, but still.
--We did enjoy Dave Grohl's new band Them Crooked Vultures, which is weird. Not because there's any reason not to like the band, but just because we can't remember the last time the musical group was the best part of "SNL."
--Weekend Update, the only segment of the show that consistently elicits laughter from us, was unusually weird this week. --The Kristen Wiig/Fred Armisen singing couple sketch "Garth and Kat" is still either the stupidest thing or the most brilliant thing we've ever seen and we still don't know which. Are they supposed to be playing the improv game where you have to go along with what your partner is singing or are they just pretending to play that game? Could go either way. Here's a video of Garth and Kat from the Christmas episode if you are unfamiliar with this skit.
--The funniest bit of the entire show was the Rahm Emmanuel apology sketch. That was hilarious and brilliant, so it's too bad it was dumped at the end of the show.
Overall, we were not terribly impressed with "Saturday Night Live" and Ashton Kutcher tonight, though that doesn't come as a surprise to us anymore with "SNL," which is sad.
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--We did enjoy Dave Grohl's new band Them Crooked Vultures, which is weird. We can't remember the last time the musical group was the best part of "SNL."
Ummmm...where have you been? the musical guest is ALWAYS the best part of SNL. At least for the last couple of years. SNL has been quite dreadful. The writers need to be replaced...and fast.
I'm a loyal SNL fan and I think Jon Hamm's episode last week was the best of the entire season. I laughed at every skit, and I can remember them all because they were great!
This week was the exact opposite. Even worse than dare I say it the episode with January Jones.
Sorry but the band's performance was atrocious. Also i could not hear the vocals, did you?
It was a terrible show in every respect. It long has been.
NBC owns USA: that's the only explanation I can come up with for the unforgivable Burn Notice skit.
Other than Chuck, NBC has nothing that remotely holds a candle to Burn Notice.
The Rahm Emmanuel skit? Only an MSNBC viewer would find that funny.
i have to agree with Mr. McDouchebag the musical guest is often the best part of the show (it certainly is if it is a good guest, which it quite often is). often, it's the main reason i watch. that being said, i thought tonight's set (Them Crooked Vultures) was **** poor. and i love Dave Grohl.
Kutcher was a vast disappointment, but no big surprise there. that guy's lameness has not been exposed nearly enough.
"crabs rangoon" hahahaaaaa...& the Rahm sketch had me laughing quite a lot.
god, you can't even write the word "p_iss" now without getting censored...give me a m*ther f*cking break!!
Think about when you found SNL "funny" and "great". I guarantee you were 15-20 years old.
We're spoiled by both thinking things are funnier than they are when we're younger, and having a selective memory, thinking whatever era we consider "the glory years" were just filled with great sketch after great sketch.
Truth is, in every era save for one or two really strong seasons, there has always been more miss than hit. Part of it is the restraint Lorne gives to his writers, and part of it is just the fact that you're not going to put on a live comedy show on 5 days preparation that can please both the host (who can turn down any sketch he/she doesn't want to do) and every single viewer. It's an impossible task.
I thought there were 3-4 great bits on tonight's "SNL", which is below average for the show but still fairly respectable.
For the record, my favourite era of "SNL" was the early-to-mid 90s (Hartman, Carvey, Rock, Myers, Sandler, Farley, Meadows), which not coincidentally aired right when I was entering my teenage years.
"Dave Grohl's new band?" John Paul Jones of Led Zepplin fame and Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age are what you would call equal partners. One helluva supergroup.
Wow, did somebody turn the heat up in here? I believe these posts to be from intelligent people. Not so sure about the poster that referred to someone as "Mr. McDouchebag ... but, I'm still having an upper-medium laughing moment ...
As far as Dave Grohl .. let me make it known. I dig & respect all things "Foo Fighters!" Anytime Dave feels the need to get wild in some "line-up," he has my blessings!
So, it's "Super Bowl Sunday" ... if football ain't your thing ... THE WHO play the half-time show. Hmmmmm.
May all "bets be laid" to your favor. I'm "gunning" for The Saints. I won't be disappointed if the Colts win. I'm more interested in the commercials & The "OOH!"
p.s. I was at a high school "keg party," when someone came outside & mentioned that there was a new comedy show that we would like. '75 or '76.
more=Eric's comment about "Dave Grohl's new band?" is interesting. "equal partners." comment ... in particular. I must look "deeper." .. "One helluva supergroup" should be some band's name!
I'm sorry, but I have to agree. SNL just isn't funny anymore. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are funnier by themselves and with one day's preparation time than the entire SNL cast combined with a whole week to prepare.