Man, last nights season premiere was embarrassingly awful
Late night comedy sure has changed, hasn't it?
shareIt was actually awful, not just badly written. You could tell they didn't get their usual rehearsals in.
shareSNL misunderstands its role right now -- amid extraordinary national uncertainty, the season premiere offered up normalcy
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/10/snl-season-46-premiere-jim-carrey-joe-biden/616609/
Michael Che "inadvertently underlined SNL’s lack of nimbleness in the face of a constantly changing election story," says David Sims. "The show will have a five-week run straight through to the November election, but all that hard work won’t mean much if the best it can offer is the kind of genial, lightweight winks to the audience that filled the opening debate sketch. The rest of the show’s pandemic humor felt warmed-over. A sketch about the NBA bubble in which teams drafted women to stay with them in quarantine was baffling and offensive in equal measure, oddly mocking the permeability of a system that actually proved to work over the summer. A faux news report about a super-spreader event was simply a vehicle for a procession of characters with silly double-entendre names. A pretaped sketch, titled 'Stunt Performers,' had a premise so convoluted, it would take me an entire paragraph to explain it, but it was largely lacking in actual jokes. Saturday Night Live is often rickety in its first week back, as writers settle into the strange rhythms of producing such an elaborate show. The transition must have been stranger than ever this year because of COVID-19; that the show can be produced at all feels miraculous and tenuous, down to the socially distanced, masked audience (which, for the premiere, was made up of first responders). The circumstances of Trump’s hospitalization surely only made the execution of this week’s episode that much harder. But the biggest problem I had with SNL’s return was how normal everything felt despite all the chaos. I understand the desire for comfort television right now, but this is not the time for SNL to feel safe."
You did it on the Trump post also. Please break your responses up into at least a few paragraphs. I get a headache just looking at that mass of words. No way in hell does that look appealing to read.
White space is cheap! Carriage Return is your friend!
Thank you and have a pleasant tomorrow!