Monday, December 26, 2005
They Call Me Aaron Burr From The Way I'm Dropping Hamiltons
The best Saturday Night Live skit in the last 5 years was on a week ago when Jack Black hosted the show. It was called a "Digital Short" and was entitled "Lazy Sunday". It starred Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg and it was a hardcore rap about them going to see The Chronic What?-cles of Narnia. Check out the video here.
I was telling Brian and some other people about this yesterday and he pointed out that it's a telling statement that people get excited when there's a funny skit on SNL nowadays. Although I think SNL is still pretty funny, this particular skit is just really original and inventive.
SNL is, by and large, not as good as it used to be, although people have been saying that since 1980. I started watching SNL when I was in like 7th grade, which would have been around 1990. I enjoyed it a lot then and I do feel like they his some lean years in between then and now. Today I think the show is not at it's zenith by any stretch, but they do have the potential to throw down a funny skit. The Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell types of guys were consistently funny and there were at least 2 or 3 good skits on every show. Now they potentially have 1 or 2 good skits on each show, so they are no longer consistently funny. When it's good, though, it is very good, but they just don't do it consistently nowadays.
The current cast is pretty good, and is somewhat ironically really female driven. Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, and Maya Rudolph really carry the show on most nights. Chris Parnell is funny as is Kenan Thompson. A couple of the new guys, Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis have been pretty good this year, too. I'm not giving up on the show like most people have. It's great to tape it on the DVR and then just fast forward throught the absolutely witless stuff they do sometimes.
I was telling Brian and some other people about this yesterday and he pointed out that it's a telling statement that people get excited when there's a funny skit on SNL nowadays. Although I think SNL is still pretty funny, this particular skit is just really original and inventive.
SNL is, by and large, not as good as it used to be, although people have been saying that since 1980. I started watching SNL when I was in like 7th grade, which would have been around 1990. I enjoyed it a lot then and I do feel like they his some lean years in between then and now. Today I think the show is not at it's zenith by any stretch, but they do have the potential to throw down a funny skit. The Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell types of guys were consistently funny and there were at least 2 or 3 good skits on every show. Now they potentially have 1 or 2 good skits on each show, so they are no longer consistently funny. When it's good, though, it is very good, but they just don't do it consistently nowadays.
The current cast is pretty good, and is somewhat ironically really female driven. Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, and Maya Rudolph really carry the show on most nights. Chris Parnell is funny as is Kenan Thompson. A couple of the new guys, Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis have been pretty good this year, too. I'm not giving up on the show like most people have. It's great to tape it on the DVR and then just fast forward throught the absolutely witless stuff they do sometimes.
# posted by ChuckJerry : 12/26/2005 09:42:00 AM
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First off, Lazy Sunday was hysterical. And I also agree that people hate on SNL a bit too easily, for a long time now.
The two or three years before Will Ferrell left, in my opinion, were just as funny or funnier than anything back from the Bill Murray/Eddie Murphy heyday.
Skits like Brian Fellow, the Professors (duckmeat, lambshanks), Robert Goulet covers Jay-Z, Celebrity Jeopardy, and Hardball during the years where the cast was led by Will Ferrell, Tracy Morgan, Jimmy Fallon (who sucks now, but he was funny for a while), Darrell Hammond, Horatio Sanz, Cheri Oteri, Rachel Dratch and Maya Rudolph still hold up over time. And as a whole, watching the show during the 1998-2001 years was, I think, the best and most consistently hilarious the show has ever been.
The years with Farley, Sandler and those guys produced some great stuff, but it tailed off terribly, which led to everyone getting fired and the new blood coming in. Will Ferrell, by the way, will go down as the funniest performer in SNL history. More than anyone else, every single line he ever spoke was funny, if just for a facial expression or an odd costume.
The two or three years before Will Ferrell left, in my opinion, were just as funny or funnier than anything back from the Bill Murray/Eddie Murphy heyday.
Skits like Brian Fellow, the Professors (duckmeat, lambshanks), Robert Goulet covers Jay-Z, Celebrity Jeopardy, and Hardball during the years where the cast was led by Will Ferrell, Tracy Morgan, Jimmy Fallon (who sucks now, but he was funny for a while), Darrell Hammond, Horatio Sanz, Cheri Oteri, Rachel Dratch and Maya Rudolph still hold up over time. And as a whole, watching the show during the 1998-2001 years was, I think, the best and most consistently hilarious the show has ever been.
The years with Farley, Sandler and those guys produced some great stuff, but it tailed off terribly, which led to everyone getting fired and the new blood coming in. Will Ferrell, by the way, will go down as the funniest performer in SNL history. More than anyone else, every single line he ever spoke was funny, if just for a facial expression or an odd costume.
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