SNL's Continued Downward Spiral Thread

Britpop fares well on SNL. The second song gave me just about the same "Holy Shit!" I got three years when Florence + the Machine did "No Light No Light." (That wasn't Danger Mouse on piano, was it?)

 

Had that been me I wouldn't have been around those dogs in the first place.

"Who is Michael Vick?"

Sorry, Mark. We were looking for Sara McGlockton.

 

Weird that I noticed the musical guest had an actual first name and last name. Most of the time you can't figure out if the MG is a group or lone performer.

Thought the episode was off throughout. Timing seemed off in sketch after sketch. Don't know if they had a new cue card person with bad handwriting or what - and WU? Try setting up a joke WITH a punchline. They work better that way.

 

The next musical guest — Pharrell Williams — also goes by just Pharrell. He's also playing SNL on his 41st birthday. Didn't know Pharrell was that old.

 

What I hadn't realized until recently is that Pharrell had been a major player as a producer for more than (or over) a decade before he ever gained true notoriety as a performer. He's been in the game for quite a while.

 

It's still hard for me to think of him as a performer. I know he is. But it's still like "Oh, there's Pharrell, up on stage again. Weird."

 

Lord, Weekend Update was awful. Looks like they're really struggling in the writing department for that segment. And I hated the baby sketch the second time around. I appreciate the talent ti takes for Bennett to sell that, but it should have been one and done.

 

Yes and yes.

 

They can do more with baby-man, but having "the joke" people meeting him for the first time isn't it.

 

This was better than several sketches that made it to air.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/videos/louis-c-k-relishes-hunky-earth-guy-art-in-unaired-snl-sketch-20140401

 

The only thing I liked in the Anna Kendrick show was the one thing everybody seems to be panning -- the Dongs song.

Well, that and Pharrell being Happy.

 

I thought Kendrick was good, but SNL writers' / Lorne's lust for singing was on full display. Whenever they get someone who can sing a bit now, it seems like sketch after sketch is just full of it.