You're crazy, Solon. I thought that both the K.O. segment and the View segment were right on! I actually hated the QVC opening--but I think that's because I can't find anything funny about McCain right now. The prospect of his winning this election is far too frightening. And I can't stand to look at him.
Leaving the questions about my sanity aside, I though that the QVC skit was funny for the in which McCain came to terms with his campaign: "it has come to this," a selling out of his campaign. He could at least laugh at himself to save-face and move beyond the campaign.
The Countdown and View skits did not transcend anything. They just sais look these show are not good, which they are not.
Well Solon, Harrogate thinks you are perfectly sane, but he still disagrees with you, especially with respect to the Olbermann skit.
First of all there is value in pointing out that something popular is in fact not good. Such was the case with The View.
But with Olbermann it was trickier. Definitely it had all kinds of teeth, but it was still satire of a kind that even fans of Olby's show could appreciate.
Put another way, in Harrogate's view there is much to respect in Keith, though there be much to skewer as well. And again in Harrogate's view, Afflek did a great job with the skewering....
What is needed next, is an SNL skit of Hannity and Colmes. The wormiest possible interpretation of Alan Colmes would be mandatory.
I found both the Olbermann sketch and The View sketch to be indicative of my major complaint of this phase of SNL. They found one note, over exaggerated it, and blared it about three minutes past it being funny.
The funniest thing about the Olbermann sketch is the first minute-and-a-half, and really nothing to do with content, just the big blustery Affleck-y-ness of it. And that they got his old-mafioso suit-and-tie combo right.
Beyond that, it felt like a broad parody of his show based on one prior viewing. I tried not to let my enjoyment of his show (and I will argue that it is a damn fine show at times, solon, what are you, a Nazi?) get in the way of the parody, but little things like "Keith tears people apart pretty much on a weekly basis for facile Hitler-analogies" and "Richard Wolfe isn't a Bond villain" felt corrupted by the Mad TV mindset of "anything's funny if you scream it many times."
As a fan of Olbermann's show, I want to see him skewered, to keep him humbled, and to keep myself critical. But The Daily Show has done a better job recently just by playing his histrionics back-to-back with his mortal enemies'.
What SNL did wasn't funny, though, it was "referential."
Now, "Psst! I'm going rogue here..." was fucking wonderful.
I also have to say, I feel better informed on the vampiric tendancies of giraffes. That's worth something.
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So awesome.
I didn't like this segment or the one on The View. While I thought the QVC opening was good, these were just under written.
You're crazy, Solon. I thought that both the K.O. segment and the View segment were right on! I actually hated the QVC opening--but I think that's because I can't find anything funny about McCain right now. The prospect of his winning this election is far too frightening. And I can't stand to look at him.
Leaving the questions about my sanity aside, I though that the QVC skit was funny for the in which McCain came to terms with his campaign: "it has come to this," a selling out of his campaign. He could at least laugh at himself to save-face and move beyond the campaign.
The Countdown and View skits did not transcend anything. They just sais look these show are not good, which they are not.
Well Solon, Harrogate thinks you are perfectly sane, but he still disagrees with you, especially with respect to the Olbermann skit.
First of all there is value in pointing out that something popular is in fact not good. Such was the case with The View.
But with Olbermann it was trickier. Definitely it had all kinds of teeth, but it was still satire of a kind that even fans of Olby's show could appreciate.
Put another way, in Harrogate's view there is much to respect in Keith, though there be much to skewer as well. And again in Harrogate's view, Afflek did a great job with the skewering....
What is needed next, is an SNL skit of Hannity and Colmes. The wormiest possible interpretation of Alan Colmes would be mandatory.
As far as enjoyment goes: I'm with Solon.
I found both the Olbermann sketch and The View sketch to be indicative of my major complaint of this phase of SNL. They found one note, over exaggerated it, and blared it about three minutes past it being funny.
The funniest thing about the Olbermann sketch is the first minute-and-a-half, and really nothing to do with content, just the big blustery Affleck-y-ness of it. And that they got his old-mafioso suit-and-tie combo right.
Beyond that, it felt like a broad parody of his show based on one prior viewing. I tried not to let my enjoyment of his show (and I will argue that it is a damn fine show at times, solon, what are you, a Nazi?) get in the way of the parody, but little things like "Keith tears people apart pretty much on a weekly basis for facile Hitler-analogies" and "Richard Wolfe isn't a Bond villain" felt corrupted by the Mad TV mindset of "anything's funny if you scream it many times."
As a fan of Olbermann's show, I want to see him skewered, to keep him humbled, and to keep myself critical. But The Daily Show has done a better job recently just by playing his histrionics back-to-back with his mortal enemies'.
What SNL did wasn't funny, though, it was "referential."
Now, "Psst! I'm going rogue here..." was fucking wonderful.
I also have to say, I feel better informed on the vampiric tendancies of giraffes. That's worth something.
That's right. I've got eloquence and humor on my side, thanks Roof!!!!
What have you got: ad hominems. It's as if you are Republicans...
To quote Charlie Brown, "Good Grief." I'm going to go wait for the Great Pumpkin, resting my tired head on that familiar brick wall.
Maybe my homie Sir Cumference will join me?
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