Not Even Lady Gaga and Madonna Can Make SNL Interesting

By Mark Lorenz on October 4th, 2009

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Jesus christ, SNL is like watching a trainwreck have a baby out of wedlock.

Thanks to the internet, the show can now be cut down to the funniest sketches, and that number has been steadily declining. SNL has turned from being edgy and actually having an opinion, to blatant starfucking. The most talked about sketch? Lady Gaga and Madonna getting into a catfight. Bam. There you have it. I’ll save you the trouble.

Lady Gigi and the Holy Mother fought during a Kenan Thompson and Andy Samberg sketch, singing insults. In a talk show about house music. Where people sang songs about Facebook. To recreate this, find your token black friend and have him not make you laugh for three minutes with five different conversational threads. It’s sad that a cast with talent like Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, they have to languish in the trenches of bad writing. Does the Daily Show nab all the funny satirists?

The other noteworthy sketch was the cold opening, trying to offer an indictment of Obama by saying he’s done nothing in office over the past year. But Jesus christ, SNL writers calling out people for being ineffective is like eating at the Old Country Buffet and laughing at fat people. Your only job is to write funny sketches, and you haven’t done that for eight years. That’s way easier than, y’know, running a country. Fail.

Also, it appears Lady Gaga likes being choked.