Host Brendan Gleeson; Willow performs.Host Brendan Gleeson; Willow performs.Host Brendan Gleeson; Willow performs.
Willow Smith
- Self - Musical Guest
- (as Willow)
- Directors
- Liz Patrick
- Amber Schaefer(segment New Cast Advice)
- Tim Wilkime(segment Tommy)
- Writers
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- TriviaUnusually for this series, the cold open is a game show spoof.
- ConnectionsFeatures 60 Minutes (1968)
Featured review
Wait, SNL is a COMEDY Sketch Show? Saved by Brendan Gleeson
Oh, wow, yet another game show sketch -- has there been an episode in the past five years where they didn't do one? And look, it just keeps going, too.
No amount of hamming and mugging with big Pepsodent smiles will change the fact the show is creatively flat.
Poor man's John Wayne, Brendan Gleeson, hosts. Now, he's a funny guy. He looks like the Wish version of The Duke, which means he'd be right at home in a Kentucky holler despite his gurgling Irish brogue. That makes him funny to start, but this is a guy who has been in greats like The Guard. As he ages, he becomes more and more Benny Hill like, and they should have considered a sketch along those lines for this show. They come close when he dressed like a woman, with no effort to hide his beard. He plays it with the right aplomb. He's a guy I'd hang out with.
But, then, it's SNL, which has languished into the sort of "What, we got to do it again?" attitude about trying to stay on the air each week. Take the "Try Guys" sketch. What exactly is the joke here? That a group of nobodies is being elevated to fame . . . On a national TV show? As usual, it just keeps going on and on and on, long after the joke (whatever it was) has been made. Is this Gen-Z humor? That is, to not be funny? I mean, I get if it was aimed at Millennials since they're more about being whiney, self-righteous, and hypocritical. But this had a more 12-year-old's humor vibe.
The new cast members get a sketch where they introduce themselves, and the most telling thing is how utterly forgettable they are. I mean, there's nothing interesting or individual about any of them. If I was walking down the street and passed them by, I wouldn't remember. The only one mildly interesting is the loud, chunky, stringy haired one, but that's only because she seems the type who works a bar near a railroad and keeps a baseball bat next to the cash register. It had moments, and then they had to stick Kenan Thompson in and ruin it.
A sketch about Marilyn Monroe just goes on about her being called names. That's it. Another has a photographer getting far too enthusiastic over a grandfather chaperoning his grandson to a shoot, until Colin Farrell, who looks more and more like Tennessee Tuxedo the older he gets, comes in to ham it up. A bit where Gleeson plays a 67-year-old pretending to be a high school student has promise but just ends. Like I said, 12-year-old humor vibe.
Let's be real. The age of the greats -- Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Gilda Radner, Jan Hooks, Kate McKinnon -- is long over. Pretty much anyone who can read off a cue card and make faces can get on SNL now. That means the writing has to sustain the show. And right now? That ain't happening.
No amount of hamming and mugging with big Pepsodent smiles will change the fact the show is creatively flat.
Poor man's John Wayne, Brendan Gleeson, hosts. Now, he's a funny guy. He looks like the Wish version of The Duke, which means he'd be right at home in a Kentucky holler despite his gurgling Irish brogue. That makes him funny to start, but this is a guy who has been in greats like The Guard. As he ages, he becomes more and more Benny Hill like, and they should have considered a sketch along those lines for this show. They come close when he dressed like a woman, with no effort to hide his beard. He plays it with the right aplomb. He's a guy I'd hang out with.
But, then, it's SNL, which has languished into the sort of "What, we got to do it again?" attitude about trying to stay on the air each week. Take the "Try Guys" sketch. What exactly is the joke here? That a group of nobodies is being elevated to fame . . . On a national TV show? As usual, it just keeps going on and on and on, long after the joke (whatever it was) has been made. Is this Gen-Z humor? That is, to not be funny? I mean, I get if it was aimed at Millennials since they're more about being whiney, self-righteous, and hypocritical. But this had a more 12-year-old's humor vibe.
The new cast members get a sketch where they introduce themselves, and the most telling thing is how utterly forgettable they are. I mean, there's nothing interesting or individual about any of them. If I was walking down the street and passed them by, I wouldn't remember. The only one mildly interesting is the loud, chunky, stringy haired one, but that's only because she seems the type who works a bar near a railroad and keeps a baseball bat next to the cash register. It had moments, and then they had to stick Kenan Thompson in and ruin it.
A sketch about Marilyn Monroe just goes on about her being called names. That's it. Another has a photographer getting far too enthusiastic over a grandfather chaperoning his grandson to a shoot, until Colin Farrell, who looks more and more like Tennessee Tuxedo the older he gets, comes in to ham it up. A bit where Gleeson plays a 67-year-old pretending to be a high school student has promise but just ends. Like I said, 12-year-old humor vibe.
Let's be real. The age of the greats -- Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Gilda Radner, Jan Hooks, Kate McKinnon -- is long over. Pretty much anyone who can read off a cue card and make faces can get on SNL now. That means the writing has to sustain the show. And right now? That ain't happening.
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- bkkaz
- Oct 8, 2022
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