Sunday, September 27, 2009

Big "Whoops!" on SNL Season Opener

I stayed up to Watch the season opener of SNL last night. It was only so-so, with the exception of Weekend Update, which was completely hilarious -- is it me or was Seth Myers totally killing it?

U2 is officially too big for anything but stadium shows. They looked straitjacketed on the tiny SNL stage, and both of their performances were oddly bloodless.

Now, Megan Fox. Who seems to have had the fastest hot-to-not trajectory of any celebrity in living memory (maybe the Octomom has her beat). Can any of you guys explain the Megan Fox thing to me? Because I just have never gotten it. Generally, I can look at the latest object of male lust (Angelina Jolie, Jessica Biel, Scarlett Johanssen) and say, "yeah, I get that," but Megan Fox has me completely baffled. From an empirical standpoint, she's pretty enough, but there's always been a vaguely "ick" feeling about her, as if inside her shoes she has dirty feet. Doesn't a date with Megan Fox require a course of penicillin for a week afterward? There's just something "schkeevatz" about her. Plus, lately, stories have started to ooze out that she's a big asshole. So -- if any of you men out there can explain her appeal to me, I'd really appreciate it.

Best (unintentional) moment of the show: the biker chick skit, when one of the new female cast members, in a "frickin'" and "freakin'" laden skit, slipped and blurted "I fuckin' love you!"

I've spent a little bit of horrified time with biker chicks, and trust me, the skit didn't go far enough. These are tough and scary women, so coarse and rough in their speech that it will turn your hair white. "Fuck" is not the worst of their words, let me tell you. The c-word flies with just as much casual frequency. They scare me a little bit, because these are females who think nothing of getting into fights at the slightest provocation. The amount of anger, resentment at the world, and violence that simmers under the surface in the biker lifestyle is astonishing. It ain't pretty, let me tell you, and I'm puzzled by the dark glamour it holds for my best friend. And I won't say anything about the rampant drug and alcohol use and casual criminality...its so far outside the boundaries of reasonable society that I feel like a big narc when I'm at a biker party. I know, Jane has standards for acceptable behavior, albeit pretty low ones, but they do exist.

Anyway, I'm sure the skit is all over Youtube by now. Catch her expression as soon as the f-bomb flies -- "Oh, SHIT! I am so fired." Then watch her try to regain her composure for the rest of the skit. You actually have to feel a little sorry for the poor girl!

2 comments:

Irene said...

I saw it on youtube - OMG!!

Annie said...

seth is the funniest part of the show these days, i.m.o.