As I am watching a sketch of Jaime Lee Curtis pooping her pants while eating Activia yogurt, the shame kicks in and I feel like Adam after eating the forbidden apple. The lameness of my current state of being strikes from many directions. First, I am spending this Saturday night, at 23, watching SNL in my parents family room. Second, I had honestly been looking forward to watching SNL since noon and had stopped studying for my GRE 20 minutes early to ensure I would miss the 11:29 start time. The final strike comes from the high probability, that when I am discussing my weekend on Monday, the only conversation piece of any note,from the weekend, will be when I reference the mildly amusing digital short of Andy Samberg singing daiquiri girl while white words flashing over the screen call out Gnarles Barkley, for not showing up to the video shoot.
With SNL lowering my overall opinion of Brian Adams, I feel like I have a responsibility to myself to critique them a little bit. The most broad and obvious critique is this, if a fictional television program can not reinvent it self after 8-10 years it needs to go away (I am looking at you The Simpsons). Specifically, SNL seem to have such a rigid system to churning shows out that outside of the quite rare biting social or political commentary there is nothing fresh/entertaining about SNL. They have but four formulas to producing a sketch,
This is to not say producing a cleaver/fresh sketch is impossible within these constructs, it is merely to say, that it is rare. My suggestion to SNL is to focus more on inventive comedians like Andy Sanmber and his crew who produce the digital shorts. I would also advocate they do more Andy Kauffman types bits where you use the live aspect to your comedic advantage (and by that I don't mean laughing during the bit). My final and by far most important suggestion, would be to hire Brian Adams.
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