I can't applaud this the way others have for one significant reason: What made the two moments memorable was they weren't funny. You can say they were moving, and Chappelle's story at the end of his monologue certainly was, but it wasn't funny. And not my usual subjective opinion about whether the attempt at comedy worked... both moments were intentionally serious. SNL is a sketch comedy series, but the cold open wasn't funny, and much of Chappelle's monologue was intended to be somber and reflective.
I'd have accepted a cold open featuring an unusually contrite Lorne Michaels, apologizing profusely for giving Trump the free airtime as host and making jokes about a racist, sexist, sexual predator, but this wasn't a mea culpa. I know, I am too critical of SNL, and I'm decades outside their target demographic. But it didn't work for me. On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 10:25 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I know there is some McKinnon hate here, but I think all but the deepest > Hillary-haters (and there may be more of those on the left than the right > these days) will have to give er credit for the cold open last night, which > managed to combine a sad good bye to Cohen with a nice coda for Hillary. > And Chappelle just nailed it, on all cylinders, and managed to end on just > the right note of rooting for the new president but also calling him to > account. > > Well done SNL. > > > > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kate-mckinnon-snl-leonard-cohen-hillary-clinton_us_5828125fe4b0c4b63b0d0949 > > https://youtu.be/--IS0XiNdpk > > > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
