‘Saturday Night Live’ Ratings Up Week To Week; Cold Open Features Children’s Choir

COMMENTS (10)

• I thought the cold open was very classy. Overall one of their stronger episodes this season.

  Comment by Peggy — Sunday December 16, 2012 @ 10:45am PST  Reply to this post

• Martin Short is a genuinely funny man.

  Comment by Mike the Movie Tyke — Sunday December 16, 2012 @ 11:17am PST  Reply to this post

• it wasn’t funny straight. after a joint, still not. patron, no. xanax and a vicodin – still a fail. mushrooms – yes. a mild chuckle. snl just requires its audience to work too hard to laugh.

  Comment by oh, ok... — Sunday December 16, 2012 @ 11:26am PST  Reply to this post

• Last night’s cold open was simply fantastic. So moving and genuinely fantastic. This was a great episode.

  Comment by Chad — Sunday December 16, 2012 @ 11:30am PST  Reply to this post

• Wow, and SNL is officially MadTV redux in terms of quality. Poor impersonations and contrived sketch writing. Leave it to an old pro like Martin Short to carry on the showmanship. This current generation sucks.

  Comment by StillAtMyMoms — Sunday December 16, 2012 @ 12:54pm PST  Reply to this post

• Did I see little kids in the audience of that preview? The idea for lampooning Charlie Brown is OK, but why all the idiotic cursing, especially when there are youngsters seeing it? This lame example was straight out of a first-grade playground routine of spouting new curse words. Oooh, ain’t I naughty?

  Cursing has become the very poor substitute for creativity on TV, movies, theater and stand-up. It gets nervous laughs from the audience, and today’s unfunny comedians believe that’s better than no laughs at all.

  Comment by Old Unintentional Comedy Writer — Sunday December 16, 2012 @ 3:46pm PST  Reply to this post

  • The kids in the Charlie Borwn sketch were edited in video clips. The whole sketch was pre-taped.

    Comment by David Kavek — Sunday December 16, 2012 @ 11:57pm PST  Reply to this post

  • You actually think there was an audience for the “preview”, let alone kids watching it? Someday have someone explain the magic of Hollywood to you…taped segments, multiple camera set-ups and a little thing called “editing.” LOL, and you thought SNL was idiotic?

    Comment by abby — Monday December 17, 2012 @ 3:52am PST  Reply to this post

• Kate McKinnon is fantastic, I hope she gets more airtime in ’13.

  Comment by Wally Sparks — Sunday December 16, 2012 @ 4:13pm PST  Reply to this post

• The cold open was what Lorne Michaels does best – reacting to a topical event and canning what had been previously prepared. The tone of this opening was reminiscent of the cold open after 9/11, with Paul Simon singing, then Lorne Michaels and Rudy Guiliani surrounded by NYPD and NYFD, still covered with dust and ash from the Trade Center.

  SNL doesn’t always exhibit the best taste, but in these two examples they made themselves stand above the rest.

  Comment by Bob the Builder — Monday December 17, 2012 @ 12:02am PST  Reply to this post