> And yeah, explaining humor is an exercise in futility. I thought last
> night's SNL its best in years. I thought everyone stepped up to the
> opportunity.
Different strokes for different folks. Betty delivered exactly what I
expected, but the lack of cleverness around her (especially including
t
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Dave Sikula wrote:
> On May 9, 6:07 pm, televisiongirl wrote:
>
> > Of course now I've got the Jon Miller/Joe Morgan tandem ruining my Sunday
> > night game. Free Orel Hershiser.
>
> I'd like to free Hershiser to become the Dodgers' pitching coach, but
> that's n
I agree with you that good writing is really, really difficult and therefore
really, really rare, but I also agree with the NYT about the Zach
Galifianakis show, which I found completely unwatchable (even worse than
last week's show).
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On May 9, 6:07 pm, televisiongirl wrote:
> Of course now I've got the Jon Miller/Joe Morgan tandem ruining my Sunday
> night game. Free Orel Hershiser.
I'd like to free Hershiser to become the Dodgers' pitching coach, but
that's neither here nor there. Morgan is a well-documented moron, and
Mil
I just found a mistake in a Netflix movie blurb. Their "contact us"
link leads to a telephone number, but it would be so much quicker if I
could just drop them an e-mail. Anybody know if that's even a
possibility? Thanks.
jd
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On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:08 PM, televisiongirl wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Kevin M. wrote:
>
>> The most recent episode "Found" is as close to "must see" as
>> procedural dramas get. Well acted and well written, it was a very
>> unusual way of furthering the story arc about the missi
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Kevin M. wrote:
> The most recent episode "Found" is as close to "must see" as
> procedural dramas get. Well acted and well written, it was a very
> unusual way of furthering the story arc about the missing junior
> agent. I won't give any spoilers, except that it
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:05 PM, PGage wrote:
> I would like to see Little Joe get a chance to do baseball with someone
> other than a guy he seems always on the verge of calling "Uncle Tim"...
>
Sadly, almost all my happy sports moments over the last 15 years feature Joe
Buck, including all fo
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Dave Sikula wrote:
> On May 8, 10:01 pm, televisiongirl wrote:
>
> > The highlight of the game, however, was the two minutes of silence
> offered
> > for Ernie Harwell and Robin Roberts. Two glorious minutes of Joe Buck
> > saying nothing.
>
> I'll be the first t
On May 8, 10:01 pm, televisiongirl wrote:
> The highlight of the game, however, was the two minutes of silence offered
> for Ernie Harwell and Robin Roberts. Two glorious minutes of Joe Buck
> saying nothing.
I'll be the first to complain about announcers (being raised on Vin
Scully spoiled me)
On May 9, 12:07 am, "Kevin M." wrote:
> The Welk cold open made me want to kill myself.
The Welk sketch is always dead on until Wiig appears, and then it dies
a horrid death.
The rest of the show wasn't bad (far from the best in years; this
season alone has had two better shows), but relied too
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Melissa P wrote:
> Bad writing is bad writing, no matter where it comes from, which would
> include performers who write their own material.
>
> As I said, with rare exceptions, the writing on the show sucks. Wish I
> knew why, but I don’t.
>
Well, good writing
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/betty-white-in-the-mother-of-all-saturday-night-live-episodes/?src=mv
Looks like the reviews are mostly rave (like the one above from the NYT -
except I don't agree with their panning of the one with Zach Galifianakis,
which I liked).
They also link to
If not the best guest host they've EVER had.
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Subject: RE: [TV orNotTV] Re: Watch the Betty White SNL
SNL's only serious problem is
Bad writing is bad writing, no matter where it comes from, which would
include performers who write their own material.
As I said, with rare exceptions, the writing on the show sucks. Wish I knew
why, but I don't.
From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvorno...@googlegroups.com] On
Beha
I don't disagree that the main problem with SNL these days is the writing.
But don't many of the cast members also double as writers - or at least
contributing characters that they've done onstage before? I've just had a hard
time figuring out what's so funny about running characters from the
- Original Message -
From: "Tom Wolper"
At the beginning of the week the writers come up with lots of sketch
ideas and most fall during the week. A Password parody could have been
an early idea which dropped when there was no way to make the sketch
work or would require too much expl
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:29 AM, donz5 wrote:
> Betty was in every segment of the show, including "Update" (Molly's
> "I'm 50" vs. Betty's "I'm 90"), beating even Will Ferrell's last cast
> appearance. (Betty's two introductions to Jay-Z ensured her surpassing
> Will's record.)
>
> And yeah, expla
SNL's only serious problem is the writing. Of course, that's a huge
problem. You can complain about a performer, but it's actually the material
that performer has to work with that's the real problem.
So, given that the writing generally sucks from week to week (there are
occasional bright sp
Could part of the reason for last night's quality was that they relied
so much on former cast members and so few of the current cast were
used?
(While I wouldn't say that last night's show was great, it was certainly
better than most of their recent efforts and lacked the unevenness that
has plag
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 12:02 PM, PGage wrote:
>
> I won't even try to explain humor to you, but I will vote on the side of
> those who found Betty White to be amazing in the episode. First of all, she
> may have literally been in every single sketch, including the cold open (but
> not, I suppose,
A decent review of the MOW:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100509/ap_en_ce/us_tv_tom_selleck_stone
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:28 PM, David Bruggeman wrote:
> I'm hazy to the specific Stone film, but at that point Selleck made the
> rounds with a similar clip of Jesse talking with his do
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:02 AM, PGage wrote:
> I won't even try to explain humor to you, but I will vote on the side of
> those who found Betty White to be amazing in the episode.
Hey, it was a given that she would be amazing, but amazing doesn't
translate into laughter.
> BTW, I wonder if Kevi
Betty was in every segment of the show, including "Update" (Molly's
"I'm 50" vs. Betty's "I'm 90"), beating even Will Ferrell's last cast
appearance. (Betty's two introductions to Jay-Z ensured her surpassing
Will's record.)
And yeah, explaining humor is an exercise in futility. I thought last
nig
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Kevin M. wrote:
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:22 PM, David Bruggeman wrote:
> > This is for those that were on the fence. Get off. Tape it, watch it,
> > whatever.
>
> The Welk cold open made me want to kill myself. The monologue fell
> flat. The MacGruber sketch
stan:
Yep, honestly...what exactly can NASCAR do?
televisiongirl:
> Which was a great disappointment to this Yankee fan since I was somewhere
> without cable. Following the game on UberTwitter just isn't the same.
MLB.com/CBS/ESPN live game trackers are no great shakes either. That's
why I stil
On May 9, 12:17 am, "Kevin M." wrote:
> > Let me know if later sketches were funny. It is too painful to
> > continue. I know humor is subjective, so I welcome others who found
> > humor in this installment of SNL to explain it to me.
There's no way to explain the funny to someone who is unamuse
> By the way, did they fire Andy Rooney? I notice as I watched the full
> episode that he did not appear, and I thought the bushy-browed little
> moleman was still under contract to appear each week. Maybe he finally
> ran out of things to complain about.
Occasionally, if the segments are too long
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Kevin M. wrote:
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:22 PM, David Bruggeman wrote:
>> This is for those that were on the fence. Get off. Tape it, watch it,
>> whatever.
>
> The Welk cold open made me want to kill myself. The monologue fell
> flat. The MacGruber sketch mad
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:22 PM, David Bruggeman wrote:
> This is for those that were on the fence. Get off. Tape it, watch it,
> whatever.
The Welk cold open made me want to kill myself. The monologue fell
flat. The MacGruber sketch made me want to kill others. The NPR sketch
was better than th
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