True, this totally unfunny sketch from “Saturday Night Live” started with a lame premise: secret word, or password, or $25,000 pyramid…you get the idea. The generally reliable Joseph Gordon-Levitt is miscast as the Latin actor, Will Forte has nothing to do, Bill Hader has nothing to do. The chick whose name escapes me is at least adequate.
Enter Kristen Wiig. God-awful, over-the-top, cheap, uninspired Kristen Wiig. The only thing less funny than a cliché theater performer is Kristen Wiig playing a cliché theater performer; it’s way too accurate. What makes this sketch even more unbearable is the fact that every Wiig character is like this one, and she could have done stupid Penelope or the Target Lady and the end result would have been the same: over-the-top, unfunny and look-at-me, look-at-me smug. Also: Where the fuck is her chin? Wretched.
i gotta say that throughout this entire episode, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was way more offensive than K-Wiig
Eric, you’re operating under the assumption that there’s something out there that could be less funny than Kristen Wiig to begin with. Interesting tack. Must ponder.
Dude. I love you like a brother. But lay the fuck off of KW. There’s a lot wrong with SNL right now (see January fucking Jones, Black fucking Eyed Peas and Black fucking Eyed Peas’ choreographer, not to mention Taylor fuck me Swift). Kristin Wiig isn’t even CLOSE to the problem. If SNL was the Bush Administration, Wiig would be Colin Powell. Fuck you. Happy Thanksgiving. Lots of love.
Wow, I just fundamentally disagree with that. I’d say she’s actually Don Rumsfeld: she’s very much responsible for the problems at SNL; she’s on TV far too often; she thinks she’s significantly funnier than she actually is; and her sketches rarely have an exit strategy.
Well put.
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