From: jtruss@rajeesh.WPI.EDU (Free the Expo 67!)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: SNL Review/12-12-92
Date: 14 Dec 1992 18:07:08 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <-VDZ5LAN=@linac.fnal.gov> lewis@linac.fnal.gov (June Cummins Lewis) writes:
>In article <1gi86jINNh9a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen) writes:

>>Well, overall IUd say that last Saturday's SNL was good,
>>but not great, with it's usual share of high and low points.

Yeah, I'd have to agree...

>>"Where you headed?" sketch:
>>Definitely one of the funnier bits in the show, although
>>I'm still not sure why. Phil Hartman was especially hilarious
>>as the slow-talking, annoyingly calm contestant.
>
>I think it worked so well because it took a stereotype that isn't as 
>familiar as some others (like New Jersey types) and really made it
>believable.  It was tightly written and the acting was good.

They must have done *something* right, since our viewing group was almost
entirely from New England.  I have to agree that Hartman was the best, if
only because he was the most understated.  He was painfully realistic, I
know some people like him back home (Gardiner, Maine)...

>>Lesbian sketch:
>>Potentially funny, but ultimately dull and stupid. The 
>>characters were all there, but there was no funny script
>>to keep up with them.
>
>I enjoyed this because again I felt they got the stereotype right on
>without being obnoxious.  

Ergh...I didn't *hate* it...I just didn't think it was very well
executed, in character terms.  Of course, the fact that they crossed
over the line to 'obnoxious' in my mind (if only by overdoing it too
much) was probably why.

>My biggest gripe with the show overall was the serious lack of use of
>the female cast members.  There was the Tori sketch and this one, but
>for the first part of the show, the women were seriously underused
>(except for Close, of course).  Since right now only one permanent 
>cast member is female, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, but more
>and more SNL is looking like an old boys' club.  Get with it, SNL!
>Stop ghetto-izing women players.  (Off soapbox.)

Sorry, I truly hope they *don't* increase the usage of the female cast
members, with the exception of Sweeney (though preferably not as Pat).
The other two female cast members (and I've forgotten their names *again*)
annoy me to no end whatsoever.   Don't get me wrong, I think they should
use more actresses...just not those two.  Yuck.  ("Those two" were also
the ones that probably ruined any enjoyment of the lesbian skit as well.
Nauseating.)

>>Scrooge sketch:
>
>Hated it.

Aww, it wasn't *that* bad...

>>Coffee Talk:

Hated it.

>>Tori:

>This reminds me:  It was good to see this actress playing the butch
>lesbian type.  For the first time, we saw she could do a character
>that is not a ditz living in Southern California. 

Sorry, she was playing a ditz lesbian from Southern California.  Gag.
(And can she possibly get that constipated expression surgically removed?)

And, just out of curiosity...am I the only sentient being on the planet
that thinks Stuart Smalley is about the most unfunny thing to come down
the line since explosive decompression (and a close second in painfulness)?

Just wondering...

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