‘SNL’ Features ‘Cape’ Parody, Pee-wee Short

COMMENTS (20)

• Usual trash.

  Comment by Tired Fan — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 4:04pm PST  Reply to this post

• Good show. Kristen Wiig is the new Carol Burnett.

  Comment by rome — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 4:09pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I bash SNL endlessly–deservedly.

    But those two pieces were both well-executed. Credit.

    Comment by Dustintime — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 9:27pm PST  Reply to this post

• Why didn’t they shoot the Samberg skit in a triple-X adult theater like the one Pee Wee was arrested in back in ’91? That would have been way funnier and young Samberg could have learned a thing or two.

  Comment by Large Marge — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 4:23pm PST  Reply to this post

• What the fuck? Did I lose my sense of humor somewhere in the mid-90′s or was that NOT funny? Seriously. The way the studio audience cheered in anticipation when they saw the words “SNL Digital Short”, as if “Oh boy! I’ve been waiting for THIS!” and, like all other Digital Shorts, we’re left with polite chuckles and overall disgust once it ends. It’s not that SNL is not funny anymore – NOTHING is that funny anymore. The way comedy has changed, it’s sad.

  Comment by Shimmy Shimmy CoCo Pop — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 4:24pm PST  Reply to this post

  • You didn’t lose your sense of humor at all. This show, in general and with few exceptions, hasn’t been funny in forever. I don’t understand why these even pop up here — they’re not funny and not relevant.

    And Kristen Wiig is the new Carol Burnett? More like Wiig is the latest female cast member of SNL to play every single sketch as a crazy woman.

    Comment by Doc Michaels — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 5:23pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Oh, grandpa.

    And, for the record, I’m not a big SNL supporter. But if you’re looking for “What comedy is now”, SNL is the last place you should be looking. But there’s a lot of very cool and very funny stuff out there online, on podcasts, and on cable. But until then, comments like “Nothing is that funny anymore” are just embarrassing.

    Comment by FunnyHaHa — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 7:01pm PST  Reply to this post

• Too damn long!

  Comment by Ethan — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 4:32pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Indeed, but that’s pretty much every SNL sketch. There’s a funny idea in there somewhere, but they drag it out to death. They’ve done that for years.

    It seems odd to parody The Cape — since surely that show is supposed to be comedy, right? I mean if you are presenting Summer Glau as an “actor”, that has to be parody, surely?

    Comment by Dave — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 7:38pm PST  Reply to this post

• It made me happy. I still love me some pee wee

  Comment by HeavenlyVixen — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 5:16pm PST  Reply to this post

• PEE WEE is a PERV!!! I won’t even watch that shit! I’m 56 years old, remember when comics had class and only watch Jay L. because he has MORALS.

  Comment by Max — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 5:26pm PST  Reply to this post

• Thanks, Doc. Glad you see my point. What’s really heartbreaking, is you have a comic genuis like Paul Rubens, a very creative and funny man, who’s hardly in ANYTHING anymore, as Hollywood has put him out to pasture with all the other aging comics – in a crappy sketch. It’s as if there’s a new style of comedy that’s out there: bland comedy. Not only is SNL not funny, nor is anything Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey or the rest of the dull minded hacks we call comic genuises who have helped changed the comedy landscape to the wasteland it is today – any good.

  Comment by Shimmy Shimmy CoCo Pop — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 6:01pm PST  Reply to this post

• Why does Deadline feel this awful, 30 years past its prime skit show is worth highlighting every week. Its irrelevant now and has been for a long time.

  Comment by why — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 6:49pm PST  Reply to this post

• SNL is as funny or not funny as it’s ever been. Please stop bitching about it if you don’t like it. Obviously many people, like myself, are fans and find it worth watching for the writing and performances, even if it’s sometimes lacking. I still never get tired of watching these people churn out new episodes live every week.

  Comment by brian — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 8:31pm PST  Reply to this post

• Samberg is keeping SNL afloat…

  I smell a big bonus.

  Comment by nbcDEAD — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 10:24pm PST  Reply to this post

• Reubens, a genius? I want what you’re smoking. He looks 100 and hasn’t been funny in 40 years and maybe not even then. I don’t know why Samburg bothered. It was painful to watch.

  Comment by ex-pat — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 11:08pm PST  Reply to this post

• SNL is bad as always.

  Comment by Ron Mexico — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 9:44am PST  Reply to this post

• Come on – I hate SNL normally, and The Cape spoof was not even smile worthy, BUT the Pee Wee Herman piece was pretty darn funny. You could criticize it as being too much “Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?” imitation, but it’s still pretty darn funny. Any time Anderson Cooper gets hit by a chair, I am going to laugh. Every time. And if they could curse on the show, the Chairy line would have been laugh out loud funny.

  Comment by David S. — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 9:53am PST  Reply to this post

• SNL is still on the air????

  Comment by w dirks — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 9:54am PST  Reply to this post

• Reubens hasn’t been put out to pasture because of his age, it’s because he’s unpredictable and got put on that sex offender list for the kid porn. He copped a guilty plea, remember? And that was just a year or so ago. The Cape parody was funny as hell, along with the rest of the show. I forgot how good SNL can be. But if they book Reubens as a host they may get picketers.

  Comment by Ath — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 2:11pm PST  Reply to this post