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Saturday Night Live (11/21)

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WMC2006

No live blogging this week. Watched Wanda Sykes from 11pm to midnight (eastern). Her show was mostly very funny.

I then tuned into tonight's SNL with host Joseph Gordon Leavitt and musical guest Dave Matthews Band.

What I did see was better than last week's show with January but not as good as two weeks ago with Taylor Swift.

Dave Matthews himself was in a sketch portraying Ozzy Osborne. Very funny.

Weekend Update had just one bit (just ONE!) and that was AL GORE!! It was very refreshing to see Update and not have too many unfunny/way too long bits like last week. And Seth had some funny stories and lines. Al also appeared in a sketch.

Leavitt was VERY enthusiastic introducing the Band both times and way too over enthusiastic at the goodbyes.

The show is off next week. They return on December 5th with guest host Blake Lively. The lovely Rihanna will be the musical guest.
 
WMC2006 said:
No live blogging this week. Watched Wanda Sykes from 11pm to midnight (eastern). Her show was mostly very funny.

I then tuned into tonight's SNL with host Joseph Gordon Leavitt and musical guest Dave Matthews Band.

What I did see was better than last week's show with January but not as good as two weeks ago with Taylor Swift.

Dave Matthews himself was in a sketch portraying Ozzy Osborne. Very funny.

Weekend Update had just one bit (just ONE!) and that was AL GORE!! It was very refreshing to see Update and not have too many unfunny/way too long bits like last week. And Seth had some funny stories and lines. Al also appeared in a sketch.

Leavitt was VERY enthusiastic introducing the Band both times and way too over enthusiastic at the goodbyes.

The show is off next week. They return on December 5th with guest host Blake Lively. The lovely Rihanna will be the musical guest.
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I thought Al Gore was quite good tonight on update, and in a brief earlier sketch. Plus, he looks like he has lost weight. Which, in politics means one thing...he is still in the game!
 
WMC2006 said:
...Watched Wanda Sykes from 11pm to midnight (eastern). Her show was mostly very funny.....
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I have watched all three of the Wanda episodes and I will pass on the future ones. While I do enjoy her very openly liberal take on things, she needs to lose her BFF male "comic" announcer/co-host, who brings the show to a standstill every time he clutters the stage and opens his mouth. And having him around for three segments of the show is dreadful. Her panels always have so much potential, but it's mostly just a mess. The huge drag queen has potential -- she has some charisma and seems able to control her segments quite well.

For me, SNL has been tapeworthy for a couple decades. Sometimes I can watch it in 10 minutes, sometimes it takes a full hour if the musical guest is worthy. I'll stick to re-watching Wanda's HBO specials over and over......
 
Finally watched the 21 November SNL.

Thanks again to WMC for starting this thread.

I give this a thumbs up just on the merits of Joseph Gordon-Levitt. What an incredible monologue! Total high energy. JohnJay & Rich, a syndicated Phoenix morning radio show, mentioned any singer who dances should be spent and out of breath like Joseph was. Plus I thought he did a good job during all of his sketches.

No sketch was horrible. Most were descent. I laughed at the Digital Short with Reba McEntire. I like that Weekend Update was short and to the point. Dave Matthews did a good Ozzy Osbourne. A couple of other notes:
  • While I like the "What's Up With That" sketch I think they made a mistake with doing it again only after a few episodes. I could see people getting tired of it.
  • Abby Elliot's looking-sideways-at-you-with-her-eyes-while-pouting is becoming her signature facial expression, which isn't a good thing. Just ask Melanie Hutsell, who a writer said that "she is an actress with a thousand faces, and all of them are the same."

WMC2006 said:
Watched Wanda Sykes from 11pm to midnight (eastern). Her show was mostly very funny.
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I've watched every episode of the Wanda Sykes Show. After the 28 November episode of TWSS, I'll start a new thread and write comments then.
 
brian4 said:
I've watched every episode of the Wanda Sykes Show. After the 28 November episode of TWSS, I'll start a new thread and write comments then.
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I would just like to caution you that you should not 'live-blog' The Wanda Sykes Show. The nice people here at Radio-Info have asked me to stop blogging tv shows (I blogged a few SNL's plus last weekend's American Music Awards). Their point is that R-I is a discussion board and not a blogging board and they have a point there. They did say that they deleted those threads where I blogged the AMA's and SNL's although they missed this one (probably because it wasn't live-blogged, it was reviewed more than anything else).

Anyway, point is, don't blog it as it happens. I'd suggest wait until the show is over, write a thread talking about your thoughts on that particular show and the 3 previous ones, and then ask for comments and discussion. Or, perhaps write a review of the first half hour of tonight's show, then later on, review the second half hour. Just don't blog as it happens.

And, if you are REALLY unsure, email them and ask.
 
And haven't we been discussing SNL? Sorta seems like a discussion to me. Then again, I could be wrong.
 
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