This was one of their better "WTF?!?!" skits in quite awhile, but I feel like the follow-up makes it much stronger.
Well, at least in concept... in execution the skit dwindled for a long time in where the guy finally recognized him and the blow up of pissing him off. I'd of shaved up to three minutes off that skit and it'd still be funny.
SNL seems to lacking a Matt Albie.
I know you personally have been loving the show, but I feel this entire season has had too many flaws, feeling like Lorne has been hands off.
A perfect example was in the Hamm & Buble skit.
That shit was creepy and funny... but it was murdered in the end with the very unneeded Jay Lenoesque explanation "because Hamm means pork and bubbly means champagne"
Yeah, the follow-up didn't work that well for me, either. that was a blown skit.
Honestly, I look back at the '80s heyday episodes, and I see ones that have about four decent skits in them; I think there's a tendency to forget the ones that flop (or that get overused), but I don't see more problems now than I did back then.
The Hamm and Buble skit could have cut the last line, but I think it also worked the way it was -- Hamm's smarminess made the line work. That said, the entire skit felt like they needed a way to one up John Hamm's John Ham.
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Date: 2010-02-01 06:55 pm (UTC)Well, at least in concept... in execution the skit dwindled for a long time in where the guy finally recognized him and the blow up of pissing him off. I'd of shaved up to three minutes off that skit and it'd still be funny.
SNL seems to lacking a Matt Albie.
I know you personally have been loving the show, but I feel this entire season has had too many flaws, feeling like Lorne has been hands off.
A perfect example was in the Hamm & Buble skit.
That shit was creepy and funny... but it was murdered in the end with the very unneeded Jay Lenoesque explanation "because Hamm means pork and bubbly means champagne"
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Date: 2010-02-03 08:14 pm (UTC)Honestly, I look back at the '80s heyday episodes, and I see ones that have about four decent skits in them; I think there's a tendency to forget the ones that flop (or that get overused), but I don't see more problems now than I did back then.
The Hamm and Buble skit could have cut the last line, but I think it also worked the way it was -- Hamm's smarminess made the line work. That said, the entire skit felt like they needed a way to one up John Hamm's John Ham.