I thought it was kind of cute. Very Creed/Tenacious D like. Obviously far from original (even though I don’t recal the Conan Obrien sketches in question)

Since I’ve actually never watched a Chuck Norris movie or TV show, certainly not funny enough on it’s own to get me as excited as the Narnia video. It’s less sincere. And not true to life (like making an adventure out of going to the movies)
But still though it was enough to make me smile. Reminds me of kids just goofin’ around making their own funny videos like Dan and I used to.
Their Chuck Norris is very in keeping with the Fish Man sketches we did. Amplified immaturity

I can’t defend Saturday Night Live for consistency or originality. But I do enjoy watching it and still do on a semi-regular basis. I enjoy most of the performers and I like watching them.

and just enjoy sketch comedy in general especially when it’s live for the “you never know factor”. I like watching things evolve from 1 times sketches to re-ocurring characters to things they’ve run into the ground. I like seeing performers find themselves and try different things. Like Chris Parnel suddenly going from Merve the Perv to a gangsta rapper. That’s fun for me. It’s all part of the legacy. I guess I’m more patient and have lower standards. The show still has the ability to make me happy. And so does rapping about cupcakes and being taken to a dreamworld of magic. Just because people don’t like the same stuff doesn’t mean they need to ruin everyone elses fun.

I’m sure I’ve been guilty about bitching about Shrek or the Matrix or whatever. But I don’t blame people for wanting things to be good and just enjoying them for their own reason. I like seeing people enjoy themselves.

As for the fucked Godzilla DVD, sorry to hear that. Though isn’t the first time I’ve heard about a Sony product not playing well with Linux.

By the way, I can’t play that Godzilla DVD on my linux box due to some bullshit Sony copy-fighting dick voodoo. Fuck you right in the brain, Sony. I’m taking it back to the shop.

Again, am I taking SNL too seriously? Of course I am, because also like everyone else, I take certain things that most people finds superfluous and overanalyze them to death. In this case its comedy, since I’m such a big fan of it, and at one point or another, I would love to be involved professionally. Also, I’ve been an SNL fanatic since I was literally 4 years old. When you also consider the fact that its always been considered a reflection of America’s taste in humor (among other things, such as who’s popular, what’s in the news, what the current musical trend it, etc.), it then becomes all the more unbearable to see it as bad as it is. Many state that it should remain on the air because its a staple of American television, and that it deserves all this respect, but if you ask anyone who’s doing comedy, at least at the grass-roots level, they will all agree that being too respectful of what is established, or being too careful in general, is pretty much the death of comedy right then and there. And that’s the general sense I get from SNL, and henceforth why I refuse to cut it any slack. But then again I guess in the end it really is an accurate reflection of the state of comedy in America today, as evidence by the Chuck Norris song and how funny many seemed to have find it (and I’m certain those same folks also probably liked that throughly unfunny pirate sketch… again, SNL has taken what should be comedy gold, and managed to fuck it up… perhaps they should stick to satirizing real life things instead of trying to improve upon internet gags).

And for the record, I avoid SNL like the plague, but its hard to miss since so many of my friends are into it. Plus I do check in from tim to time since the show does managed to have a re-birth and become very funny once again, every five years or so. Though I would say that its been long overdue, for about six years now. Also, a correction: I barely watch television these days, mainly because, once again, the state of comedy is so wretched.

Oh, and I still tune in in hopes of catching a Bear Country sketch.

I do like Tina Fey though.

Not that I’m defending the sketch in question, because I didn’t actually see it. I was just surprised by how angry the sketch made you so much that you needed to tell everyone they were stupid for laughing at it as soon as it was over. It just makes it seem like it struck a personal chord with you. So you had to get revenge

I DID see the hotel channel sketch on SNL (while I paused a movie I was watching to go to the bathroom) and found it pretty funny. But probably because I spend a lot of time in hotels and always remark on how mundane and pandering the hosts of those things are. So the idea of someone obsessing over it and eventually falling in love with the TV made me laugh. That probably doesn’t mean it would be funny to everyone else watching. Another friend of mine posted on her LJ how the opening sketch parodying Anderson Cooper was the best thing on the show this week. Probably because she is really familar with Anderson Cooper’s show and found extra context that you or I might not have.

So different strokes for different folks. Comedy is completely subjective.
Sometimes bad comedy is good! And sometimes good comedy is bad.
And you certainly have a right to bitch about it (it’s your blog!)
The initial point of my post was really just questioning if there was a deeper fuel for your fire. Because getting mad at the fact that people MIGHT be laughing at something seems especially bitter!

Anyways, sorry if this making it sound like a big deal. It obviously isn’t!

-Steve!