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(BET and, I think, Telemundo) by implying that there was very little talk and a whole lot of dancing around for no damn reason? TWO DIFFERENT SKETCHES using the same joke of nothing much happening on a talk show because there was too much DANCING! And then they do "Weekend Update" and they have DANCING on that! And then, of course, they had to have another one of those sketches about the family that embarrasses strangers brought into their midst by French-kissing and feeling each other up at every opportunity and calling it "family affection." And what EVER gave them the idea to parodize a supposed Vincent Price Christmas special from 1954? Oh yeah, and anything that has senseless bloody violence in it is funny, right?
The worst thing about SNL, though, is the way so many of their sketches (and the ones they bring back in various forms) are completely one-note jokes: "Family members kiss and fondle each other sexually in front of strangers." "Christmas-tree seller is in love with all his trees as if they were women, and hates to sell them away." "People on talk shows dance instead of actually talking." And they keep repeating the joke over and over again, the same way you can get a six-month-old baby to laugh if you keep doing the same silly thing over and over (because the baby's only half laughing at what you're doing and half laughing because it's so tickled at itself over being able to anticipate your doing the silly thing again). I know it's gotta be hard to write fresh comedy every week, but jeez...is that any excuse for replacing them with "EVERYONE DANCES AROUND STUPIDLY" and counting on getting another cheap laugh every time you have everyone dance around stupidly?
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