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Originally Posted by JohnnyPark1
Best: Fred Armisen, Will Forte, Jason Sudekis
Worst: Seth Myers, Keenan Thompson
Misused: Bill Hader, Kristen Wigg, Andy Samberg
Sexiest: Abby Elliott, Nasim Pedrad (sp?)
Next Big Thing? Bobby Moynihan
I've been as big of a supporter of SNL these last few years as anyone but it's trash now. Get rid of Myers as head writer ASAP. The guest host selections have been awful. The monologues are historically bad. And is it just me or are there double the commercials that there were 10 years ago?
I'm on the fence on Wiig being terrible or just badly used. Most of her stuff I hated the first time I saw it. I did actually like the one upper character the first time - though it went on too long LDO. She clearly is really badly used and I think is probably bad but she is somewhat funny in some skits and was ok in Walk Hard.
I still don't get the love for Armisen. His Obama is horrible and kills off a lot of potential humor since any skit with the POTUS is now going to be bad unless they have something ridiculous like Palin come up. I think that opportunity cost alone makes him the worst member of the cast because political jokes are usually a big part of the show. His Barney Frank is actually pretty good. His Paterson impression isn't bad but those bits are overrated IMO. Others seem to think they are hilarious. I'm perfectly fine with inappropriate (or at least borderline) humor, but I don't think it's actually funny. Every joke is "LOL this guy can't see!" I don't think Armisen's non-impression characters have a very good batting average either but that's certainly not all his fault. He did fine with the kid that says bitch all the time but other than the initial shock of a kid calling the guy a bitch there wasn't much to work with.
Otherwise I like your list.
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Originally Posted by TheUntouchable
Keenan makes the show unwatchable for me. They've been featuring him a lot and he does the same ****ing voice in every skit. We get it, he's black.
His James Harrison WU thing was awesome. Everything else is terrible and I basically always fast forward when he's a feature.