It's 1:15 in the morning, and I have the Hamm & Bublé song in my head on repeat.
It's 1:15 in the morning, and I have the Hamm & Bublé song in my head on repeat.
Fun episode. Loved the Burn Notice sketch and always appreciate a nod to Bebe's Kids.
What Is Burn Notice was fantastic.
I've seen Burn Notice, and a bunch of my friends are into the show, so I guess maybe thats why it wasn't to funny to me.
The show had its moments though. WU was actually pretty good. Jean K Jean always cracks me up, and Fred and Kristens Valentine's Day improv singing was pretty fun. Other sketches weren't completely memorable, but maybe I am just so complacent with snl's recently terrible sketches I didn't realize how bad they are. That seemed awfully negative but...meh.
Also, was there no digital short this week? I missed the first 15 or so minutes, but I checked a recap blog on the episode and there was no mention of one.
Does Aziz write for the show now? It's just weird that they picked that show out of all shows to single out as "the obscure show that no one watches, but somehow gets good ratings".
"What Is..." seemed out-of-touch. Maybe none of the "SNL" writers watch "Burn Notice," but lots of other people do. And unlike certain sketch comedy shows, "Burn Notice" is consistently entertaining each week.
But all is forgiven, thanks to Crisis of Conformity's "Fistfight In The Parking Lot." Has there been punk rock on "SNL" since Fear?*
*(Not Green Day... I said PUNK ROCK)
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The Burn Notice sketch was right on the money. I watched about a season and a half of it before I got tired of it, but it's definitely one of those things that nobody I know watches. And yet, like the sketch said, it's consistently one of the highest rated shows on cable.
And I could watch Will Forte being fed grapes and making those noises all day long.
I think it was kind of the point that a lot of people watch the show, since they mentioned at least twice that it's the 6th-highest rated cable TV show. It doesn't show the writers to be out of touch in the least. It shows them to be snobbish about pop culture, and if that's their comedic POV I'm ok with it.Originally Posted by BFH
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Yes! I was thinking about that. Aziz's cousin who's yearbook quote was TNT knows drama. But yea... that was a good sketch. I've never watched Burn Notice, but somehow I got roped into watching a season of In Plain Sight. I have no idea what that was about.
And apparently IT also had amazing ratings. I don't know what USA's or TNT's secret is, but it's working.
I grasp that some of y'all don't know anyone who watches it... I don't know anyone who watches "Grey's Anatomy." I still don't think it, or "Burn Notice," is that obscure a show.
With some of the musical guests "SNL" has, I don't think they have any room to be pop culture snobs.
Besides...
...if you're not a Friend of Bruce, YOU'RE DEAD TO ME!
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This type of joke has been around for ages. The show "Wings" was big for this back in the day. Good stuff.
But obscure is not the point. Popular-but-no-one-in-my-group-of-smarter-than-the-masses-friends-watches-it is the joke. Like Burn Notice, the sketch is not for everyone. That's why it's on well after Update. Fringe on FOX gets higher ratings than 30 Rock, that's the joke. Night at The Museum 2 has four times the box office of Inglorious Basterds, that's the joke.
Gray's Anatomy isn't really a fair comparison. It peaked a few years ago at four times the weekly viewership Burn Notice has, and GA is very much a part of the lexicon now. You say McDreamy, I know who you mean, and I've never seen a frame of GA.
I don't know how they can't find a place for that when they can beat The View into submission once again or run that dumb pool boy sketch. By the way, did the pool boy thing seem off for anyone else? The camera cuts, the lines, everything was stilted or something.
Well, Ashton's performance was pretty bad in the pool boy sketch, but I thought the premise of it was pretty funny. With a better host I think it would have been a lot funnier.
I agree with you about the View sketch though. It's painful to see them hammer home the one note that they've established for Elisabeth Hasselbeck over and over again. Even if it were funny (which it isn't), what makes them think we want to hear her say the same thing 20 times in one sketch?
Maybe the set was expensive to build, and they have to get their moneys worth? Or they like when the View inevitably shows clips the following week, and assume it's free advertising.
Two thoughts:
1) The horse-penised slave boy feeding Will Forte grapes ("Woo woo woo woo woo!!") was so hilarious it balanced out any and all other weak sketches.
2) This really cemented for me that Kenan has arrived as one of the most reliable cast members. Even when he's doing stale material or he's in a weaker sketch, he delivers.
K, two more quickies: i. Liked the cold open, especially Abby Elliott's "Attractive Blonde Lady" (and not just for pervy reasons) ii. Garth and Kat wasn't as successful as last time, but I still love the conceit of it so much that I can forgive their constantly breaking.
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i imagine it's the same thing that motivates them to write all of kristen wiig's characters that way.
This is actually the one recurring Wiig thing I like, because it could be a spot-on impersonation of my sister-in-law who constantly preaches about politics and repeats herself with more emphasis and repeats herself with more emphasis and repeats herself with more emphasis each time she says the same thing to make sure that what she is saying is firmly nailed into your head since you're so far less intelligent and advanced than she.
Also, didn't the Update desk last night seem like Seth and the pop-ins were having the most fun at that desk since Poehler left? Armisen and Wiig did a nice job of just playing around together and having fun, and Jean K Jean was in-cray-ah-blay as always.
Part of the weirdness of Burn Notice is, not just that it's in a genre of shows that tends to be off people's radars, but that no one has any idea what it's about. I know The Closer is a detective, Monk is a detective, Saving Grace is an angel detective or something? Burn Notice sounds like it should be about firefighters, but beyond that, I'm clueless. If it was just pure snobbery, they could have done the sketch about Psych or Blue Shield. But there's something specifically weirdly elusive about Burn Notice that makes it funny.
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