Totally agree with all of this, and especially the contrast with that
Golden re-run. That Bush-Dukakis sketch is in my top 20 all time, Hartman
of course was a genius, and Jan Hooks is in my top 5 players of all time.
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 2:36 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV <
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> The problem isn't Carrey; his Biden actually isn't that bad, and he's more
> or less doing what the writers (ineptly) give him. The problem with the
> sketches (as with the rest of the show) is Michaels, who apparently wants
> his audience to think that if he portrays both men as being (in their own
> ways) equally undesirable, he can somehow avoid conservatives screaming
> that he's playing favorites. The right working the refs has worked
> particularly well on SNL
>
> This week's show set new low standards for a show that always find deeper
> bottoms to the barrel (Rae's opening monologue was so bad that even the
> hyenas in the audience stayed mostly silent), but suffered especially from
> being aired in juxtaposition with the rerun from 1988, where every sketch
> ("Jew, Not a Jew," Hanks and Lovitz's losers on the make,
> and--especially--the Bush/Dukakis debate, with its "I can't believe I'm
> losing to this guy") landed--big time. It was also another great reminder
> (as if we needed it) of how great Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks were. My gosh,
> they could do anything.
>
> --Dave Sikula
>
> On Sunday, October 18, 2020 at 7:19:55 PM UTC-7 steve...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> It wasn't great. I think the problem is Jim Carrey. He seems to need
>> broad humor and he's not getting it with the Biden imitation.
>> Weekend Update was good.
>> On Oct 18, 2020, at 5:17 PM, PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> They had one job this weekend, and it wasn’t to make fun of Trump or
>>> Biden. They’re only job was to skewer NBC News for cashing in on the Trump
>>> Town Hall. The cold open should not have recreated the dueling Tiwn Halls,
>>> it should somehow have parodied, brutally, the meeting in which NBC
>>> executives decided to green light it.
>>>
>>> Of course they failed. There was one tepid joke on update, but nothing
>>> that really held NBC’s feet to the fire.
>>>
>>> And no, it doesn’t matter how tough Guthrie was on Trump, or how bad it
>>> made him look.
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