![]() An OK idea, but they didn’t take this premise far enough. All the while, the organist (Amy Poehler) trudges through. How so? Walken has the cast (Andy Samberg, Bill Hader, Kenan Thompson, Jason Sudeikis) explain the lyrics to him and to each other. Walken leads the next scene of an all-male high school musical production of Grease, except they’re forced to change most of the lyrics to Greased Lightning because they’re too sexually explicit. But I get the sense that SNL only repeats a fake ad because they tried a new ad in the dress rehearsal and Lorne Michaels wasn’t completely convinced in the new ad yet, so they trot out an old one. The ad for Annuale appears again? The audience acts more favorably upon this repeat viewing. On the other hand, he’s responsible for all of the "more cowbell" meatheads and an entire swath of stand-up comedians with Walken impersonations (although I’ll be forced to like it later on this program). There’s something funny about putting Walken out of his element. On the plus side, he has a comic sensibility, even when he’s seemingly frozen by the cue cards and cannot look the SNL cast in the eyes. By the way, having Walken back on the program reminds me of what’s so great and what’s not so great about this guy in comedy. ![]() A special boo goes out to the couple in the audience who’d rather let us know that they know they’re on camera. Live from New York…it’s Saturday night!Ĭhristopher Walken gets a kinda clever monologue, in which he invites audience members to ask him questions Walken has prepared and written on cards, only to castigate the audience for their lack of inspiring questions. How about a little misdirection, eh? Reveal something hidden or absurd in the Clinton income stream. And just as in prior political sketches from this SNL crew, that was the only joke they went for here. ![]() Who knew? Especially since both Bill and Hillary had written best-selling memoirs. The SNL Clinton trail continues unabated with a cold open featuring Bill and Hillary (Darrell Hammond and Amy Poehler) talking about the news that "broke" just a day or two earlier about their post-presidential tax returns revealing they’d earned $109 million. Anyone want to guess how we open the show? Did you guess Hillary Clinton? Of course you did. ![]()
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