Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Holy cow this episode sucked. Even the most conceptually funny bit -- Mike O'Brien's Oprah skit -- was a predictable re-hash of his Jay Z skit. The highest point of the show was Kate McKinnon in the cold open, and mostly dogshit from that point on.
Those were the two best things of the show. Russell Crowe was horrible except for the monologue, and when he said "munch a box" on the dating game show.
God their writing is so bad. They get Larry David with Julia Louis Dreyfuss in character as Elaine, and all they have them do is spout barely connected Seinfeld quotes. Ugh. It's like they're not even trying.
This Prince tribute is something else:
-Starts out really cool with good performances
-Fallon is terrible in front of the camera and even explains a reference that Prince makes before the performance is even shown
-they show Prince at the 40th anniversary show performing and its awesome again
-they then have currently shown 4 skits of Fred Armisen doing a Prince impression and its fucking terrible. Like, the impression is fine, but it seems inappropriate to show this parody version of him.
Sasheer Zamata is seriously the worst cast member ever. Her bit on Weekend Update was pathetic. It was like watching a nobody picked randomly off the street try to do live comedy. Really an inexcusable performance from an SNL cast member.
Also, Brie Larson was a terrible host. People who just smile and giggle at everything aren't funny. And she put on these weird, overacted, off-putting affectations for every part she played.
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Sasheer Zamata is seriously the worst cast member ever. Her bit on Weekend Update was pathetic. It was like watching a nobody picked randomly off the street try to do live comedy. Really an inexcusable performance from an SNL cast member.
Also, Brie Larson was a terrible host. People who just smile and giggle at everything aren't funny. And she put on these weird, overacted, off-putting affectations for every part she played.
yeah i completely skipped over her weekend update bit
also, brie larson has a nice set of teeth so all is forgiven
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Yes, the Weekend Update chemistry has improved dramatically as the season has gone by.
Kate McKinnon's the cast MVP right now. The sketch with her near death experience being a prime example. It wasn't a great bit but she sold it so well. I know, it was a re-packaging of a similiar skit from earlier this season but they do that all the time.
I caught the skit this week about it taking forever for them to bring Jon Snow back to life on Game of Thrones. That was pretty funny. But anything with Cecily Strong in it is gold. I love her.
