SNL's Continued Downward Spiral Thread

Well, I thought the silences were intentional. Like it was the new generation's Chris Farley show. Pharaoh was the guy who did no research on his guests and just relied on his impressions. I think that was the intention, but I think it backfired.

IMO.

 

I wonder who wrote the Jay Pharoah show? It was ballsy because it seemed deliberately unfunny. Makes me think Pharoah wrote it.

 

No mention of the Ashlee-Simpson-like musical act?

 

At least he admitted it. Unlike Frank Caliendo, whsoe impressions are of guys no longer relevant.

 

Denzel is relevant?

 

She was . . . nothing special.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2012/01/snl-introduces-the-world-to-lana-del-rey.html

In fact, I unplugged my Wii and PS2 today just to spite her.

 

I fast-forward through the musical act 97 percent of the time.

 

Ditto. She was easy on the eyes, but the music, meh. I normally listen to the first 30 seconds of a song, since every once in a while, you do have an artist that clearly brings it for SNL. (For all of his bluster, Kanye always backed it up when he was on the show.)

 

I agree completely. Definitely intentional, and it definitely backfired. Life imitating art.

 

I thought "You can do anything" was hilarious...

Pharoah may very well be a one-trick pony. He's really not that different than Bill Hader, who when he first got on SNL, did the talk show rounds doing Pacino and Alda. We'll see if he evolves.

The crime is that Pharoah isn't doing Obama.

 

I can empathize with the calls for Pharoah doing Obama -- especially since I despise Armisen.

But I just have to think Pharoah should have established more of a footprint after more than a year on the cast.

If it's a matter of him not finding writers to write for him, I have to ask, how great might, oh, Jenny Slate have been if she'd found writers to write for her?

 

Well, the difference is that if that is the case, it would be the same complaint that Chris Rock and Tracy Morgan had. There are African-Americans on that show that fit in nicely playing the one black character in a normal sketch (Keenan Thompson, Tim Meadows) who hang around forever, while guys like Rock and Morgan, who are considerably more talented that Thompson and Meadows, have a harder time fitting in.

But Lord knows there have been plenty of white actors on SNL who have gone on to do well after the show that were widely ignored or misused when they were on the show.