is there a rule i don't know about that says that saturday night live can't have a funny season premiere? because it sure does seem like it, especially in recent years, and this saturday's season premiere was no exception. hosted by lebron james (ugh), i found myself struggling to find something to laugh at. so let's break it down to the bad, the worse, and the ok.
the bad:
should it have been a sign that the announcer didn't start, well, announcing, until the opening credits were at seth meyers? i think yes. instead of the opening, let's start with weekend update. besides the stuff on iran president mahmoud ahmadinejad (which i'll get to later), there wasn't much to enjoy. even kenan thompson's oj simpson schtick wasn't that good. ok, except for "what happens in vegas, you must acquit." the funniest thing on weekend update: a man in boston that proposed marriage via crossword puzzle. the punchline: just six months before, he divorced his wife via the word jumble "ist ovre btcih". sadly, that wasn't enough to save the segment. the first skit after the horrible monologue was penelope, kristen wiig's character that always has to one-up everyone. am i the only person that finds this character not funny at all? in the last half-hour, we got a skit centered on kanye west getting mad at various awards presentations, including the nobel and a pumpkin contest. although i have to give props to kanye for being able to make fun of himself, the skit fell way flat.
the worse:
the mahmoud ahmadinejad overload! e-fucking-gads! we get it. he says the gays don't exist in iran. did we really need a love song dedicated to how gay he is? i'm looking at you, samberg! not to mention the various jokes in weekend update that could've been spent on anything else. speaking of jokes that have already been worn out, the ambiguously gay duo cartoon centered about sex in the men's room? look, i know you all were on break during the summer, guys, but the larry craig shit is old. kthxbai!!! oh, and the angry dog food commercial? meh. and what was lebron doing on the bag of dog food? that made no sense and didn't really add anything to the joke. then again, lebron added nothing to anything he was in. and since i don't care about high school musical and have never (or will ever) see it, i guess the parody was over (or under) my head. blah.
the ok:
besides the one joke from weekend update i liked, the only thing that didn't completely suck for more than one second was the lyle kane show (on BET, or as lyle calls it, the Black ET channel). it was actually funny, and will forte was hilarious. then lebron entered the scene and ruined it. yup.
overall, i miss tina fey. ok, i shouldn't say that because her last year on the show wasn't that great (except for weekend update, and that was because of her and amy poehler). but really, the show never does well when an athlete is the host. and i'm just glad maya rudolph is back, even though she's just barely back after much back and forth about her not returning to the show. maybe next week with seth rogen will be better. please?
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