> The return of Saturday Night Live > > For a while there, Saturday Night Live felt painfully irrelevant, > mired in a sludge of lacklustre writing and few standout performers. > But this year, SNL rocketed back from the crypt, providing fodder for > Monday-morning water cooler conversations week after week. > > Granted, they were blessed with satire-ready material: a presidential > election whose putative prom queen (vice-presidential nominee Sarah > Palin) happened to be a dead ringer for one of the show's most > talented alumna (Tina Fey). But writing off this remarkable comeback > as merely the result of a perfect storm is too easy. SNL also > demonstrated renewed acuity in its writing (largely thanks to head > scribe Seth Meyers), a willingness to take risks on absurdity (see: > the GIRAFFES! video; Andy Samberg's digital shorts; that wacky > Lawrence Welk skit) and the continued evolution of Kristen Wiig, whose > zany characters rank with those of Gilda Radner and Lily Tomlin.
Either there's a different SNL in Canada, or Ms. Liss has very different tastes than me. Aside from Fey as Palin, everything else she mentions belongs on a Bottom Ten list. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
