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SNL Manages To Be Funny, Yet Still Ultimately Disappointing
By Skwerl, October 19th, 2008
Johnny occasionally posts silly videos from Saturday Night Live, as he’s one of like, a dozen people left on the planet that still watch it regularly. They’re never funny, but Friday night I was out drinking absinthe in Hollywood Cemetery with Jeremy from Mongo Nation, and he was telling me about a great Andy Samberg skit that aired last week, where he talked to animals as Mark Wahlberg. It sounded pretty fucking hilarious.
I was amazed to find the actual clip as funny sober as Jeremy’s re-enactment was while tripping balls on glowing booze that tasted like cat piss.
Then I saw the clip of Mark Wahlberg on Jimmy Kimmel’s show. When Jimmy asks Wahlberg what he thought about the skit, he doesn’t seem to have a sense of humor about it, threatening to break Samberg’s big nose. In fact he promises to fly out to New York to track him down and kick his ass.
As much as I’d love to see Andy Samberg get his big stupid nose broken, It still wasn’t enough to get me to watch Saturday Night Live. But today I hit YouTube to see if it delivered. I skimmed through clips of Tina Fey, Sarah Palin, Josh Brolin, and Alec Baldwin, all being sorta maybe funny, and then I got to the clip where Wahlberg, seemingly committed to fulfilling his promise, confronts Andy Samberg backstage:
The ‘Wahlberg Talks To Animals’ skit did it right: It was funny, didn’t milk the gag, didn’t go on forever. The staged confrontation backstage was the opposite, typical SNL, a diagram explaining why I don’t bother to watch the show anymore.
Oh well.
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October 20th, 2008 at 6:42 AM
Oh man, I’m sorry you didn’t like it. I thought it was pretty damn funny. I had heard what Wahlberg had said earlier this week so it was just really amazing to actually see him come on the show.
On the other hand, Max Payne sucked major ass balls.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:31 AM
Absinthe? Jesus man, love yourself, just a little!
This is awesome, the MP review over at Crave killed the punchline (read it before JCs post) so knew the Kimmel interview was just a play up… which kinda made me laugh even more that he not only took the punch but played it out as well. He is completely doable. Makes me wish I was somebody’s mother just so he’d say hi to me.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:09 AM
That shit wasn’t nearly as funny as the MacGruber episodes.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:09 PM
MacGruber? Oh Johnny, I think so highly of you at the moment, please don’t burst the bubble.
October 20th, 2008 at 5:08 PM
@ryan- i thought the original skit was really funny. i was just disappointed that andy samberg didn’t get his nose broken. even a staged fake ass beating would have been funnier than recycling the gag- marky mark’s impersonation of himself was actually somehow less accurate (and thus less funny) than samberg’s.
October 20th, 2008 at 6:47 PM
After three Absinthe’s anything is funny, especially the green fairies floating around the room.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:39 PM
I am seaching for some idea to write in my blog… somehow come to your blog. best of luck. Eugene
October 21st, 2008 at 8:41 AM
I watch the weekend/thursday updates now.The show has pretty much sucked since I was a teenager, but atleast now they sprinkle in some funny again
October 21st, 2008 at 11:57 AM
Man, I love this article. This is why there’s no reason to watch SNL anymore, when there are bloggers to watch it for you and only show you the good parts.
October 21st, 2008 at 1:28 PM
I know Junkyard, it should count as community service or something huh.
October 29th, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Mark Wahlberg beating Samberg’s ass would’ve been so predictable. The original impression itself wasn’t all that funny, but Wahlberg continuing it kinda was for me.
October 29th, 2008 at 3:14 PM
I didn’t think the impression was that good until last night, when I saw the abomination that is The Happening. After that batch of nonsense, M. Night Shyamalamalammnalamanan shouldn’t be allowed to make any more movies. Terrible acting, one-dimensional story…. everything was wrong.
And Mark Wahlberg acts exactly like that in the film.