Seriously. Put it out of the misery it’s been languishing in for the last five years or so.
I’m amazed “MAD TV” has gone under, especially as right now would be a perfect time to launch a competitor to “Saturday Night Live.” Lord knows how many hours of comedic talent go into making five completely similar Kristen Wiig characters, or the sketches where Kenan can barely read the cue cards in character.
The guest this week was Taylor Lautner. Provided is a link to his monologue. You might watch it and say, “Wow. They referenced an event that happened months ago, instead of doing something that was more immediate and hilarious. And not only that, he didn’t really tell jokes, he just did back-flips. He’s like Dane Cook with superhuman strength.” And you’d be right, soul-mate of mine.
What happened? Did Tina Fey take all the talented people away? Is SNL trying to build up a hipster-like cast, where they’re pretty to look at, but utterly useless otherwise? Words fail me. I’ll think of a better premise for the monologue, and it’ll take 15 seconds. I encourage you to submit your own.
People keep calling Taylor Jacob, and he has to insist that’s not his name. Then a whole Team of Team Jacobs storms the set, including Jacob Marley, Jakob Dylan, Jacob from the Bible, and Jacob Lawrence, trying to recruit him, and he has to fight them off.
Done. Instead, they had him fight with a Kanye doll. And that was a high point.
Comments
Philomorph
December 14th, 2009 - 2:39:49 PM
I've been saying it for years: if they'd stop trying to fill up 90 minutes of show with 30 minutes of funny, maybe they wouldn't suck so bad. Cut the show to an hour and keep the two-song musical guest and maybe they could focus on quality rather than quantity.
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