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re: SNL’s Lafayette skit
Posted on 10/14/18 at 1:23 pm to Carson123987
Posted on 10/14/18 at 1:23 pm to Carson123987
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Painfully unfunny. SNL is a steaming pile of shite
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Posted on 10/14/18 at 1:33 pm to Brosef Stalin
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No one here remembers Adam Sandler doing Cajun Man? Or was that not offensive because it was funny
Sandler was funny, Waterboy was hilarious. I don’t find either terribly offensive, this new skit was just bad.
Posted on 10/14/18 at 2:04 pm to Dam Guide
I will go ahead and admit I don't actually watch the show, other than some clips here and there. But I've seen so many sketches where it seems like the humor basically relies on the characters being complete morons that sound and act ridiculous.
Look at their traffic stop clip. Where are the jokes?
Look at their traffic stop clip. Where are the jokes?
Posted on 10/14/18 at 2:46 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Beck Bennett probably plays better as the straight man. Everytime they have him do some wacky over the top character, the baby boss excluded, it’s just awkward and cringey.
This post was edited on 10/14/18 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 10/14/18 at 2:58 pm to lsutigersFTW
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Beck Bennett probably plays better as the straight man. Everytime they have him do some wacky over the top character, the baby boss excluded, it’s just awkward and cringey.
This. He's perfect as the straight man, but tries WAY too hard when given an outlandish role. What would have made the sketch work would be for Beck to be the seemingly normal host with a very mild accent trying to wrangle the crazy panel consisting of the alligator, a swamp people stereotype, a green peace enviromental hippy trying super hard to mask having come from a rural conservative small town background, and a bewildered, smug Seth Meyers trying to make sense of weird Louisiana-centric niche causes like “crawfish contraceptives” or “alligator hunting bans”
This post was edited on 10/14/18 at 3:16 pm
Posted on 10/14/18 at 3:35 pm to el duderino III
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SNL has always been a cesspool of self-anointed cultural elites
They really are...well, it started that way in the 70's - and for a purpose - they wanted to be political and were formed with drama queen baby boomers living in New York and looking down on backwards folks who voted for Nixon or whomever that wasn't Jerry Brown or Fidel Castro.
Liberalism was really at its height after Nixon's fall but crashed and burned in the 80's - ergo 80's SNL is funnier and the best decade because all the show cared about was laughs and ratings...and condescension and ridicule took a back seat for the most part.
There were a lot of blow-hards that started SNL and chief among them Chevy Chase.
The show has definitely had periods of being totally tone-deaf to the country over the years.
Posted on 10/14/18 at 4:01 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Arguing anything pro SNL on this site is going to get you as many downvotes as upvotes even if you make a legitimate argument.
Maine Justice and this are two very completely different skits and Bennett tried terribly to be Sudeikis moderating. The skit wasn’t funny. I never said it was. It sucked and I didn’t even finish it.
I just think people getting pissed about them portraying Louisiana this way is a smidge stupid and very hypocritical as we’re portrayed the same way in both skits.
Maine Justice and this are two very completely different skits and Bennett tried terribly to be Sudeikis moderating. The skit wasn’t funny. I never said it was. It sucked and I didn’t even finish it.
I just think people getting pissed about them portraying Louisiana this way is a smidge stupid and very hypocritical as we’re portrayed the same way in both skits.
Posted on 10/14/18 at 4:35 pm to Dam Guide
I assume someone saw Orgeron on tv and then remembered Waterboy and figured it was time for a Cajun skit.
Posted on 10/14/18 at 5:42 pm to biglego
It sounded like ed o and colonel sanders had a retarded baby
Posted on 10/14/18 at 5:57 pm to ShamelessPel
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I just think people getting pissed about them portraying Louisiana this way is a smidge stupid and very hypocritical as we’re portrayed the same way in both skits
People aren't pissed at the skit, it just wasn't funny... at all.
Posted on 10/14/18 at 6:04 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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ergo 80's SNL is funnier and the best decade because all the show cared about was laughs and ratings
You could take that all the way into the 90's. People like Sandler, Dana Carvey, Dennis Miller, Norm MacDonald, etc were just interested in entertaining people.
Watching the clip in the OP just reminds me that SNL can't get that kind of comedic talent anymore in today's diversified media world. So they try to substitute condescending political commentary for humor.
Posted on 10/15/18 at 8:02 am to Fewer Kilometers
I know the accent is difficult to nail for most non-Cajuns (especially the doofus who was like the bizarre love-child from a 3-way between a poor, POOR man's Justin Wilson, Colonel Sanders and Foghorn Leghorn) but at least figure out how to pronounce the fricking names correctly. It's not like this shite isn't available online. 
This post was edited on 10/16/18 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 10/15/18 at 8:26 am to Bard
They invited Seth Meyers on the show to do whiney political commentary about Trump in the middle of a random skit and then fluff his own ego a little bit?
That was supposed to be funny?
Here's his weekend update skit where he resurrected that stupid "Really" bit he used to do with Amy Poehler:
Kanye hugged Trump. Really?! Rarely do you ever get to see white supremacists and black people betrayed in the same photo. Really?!
That was supposed to be funny?
Here's his weekend update skit where he resurrected that stupid "Really" bit he used to do with Amy Poehler:
Kanye hugged Trump. Really?! Rarely do you ever get to see white supremacists and black people betrayed in the same photo. Really?!
This post was edited on 10/15/18 at 8:43 am
Posted on 10/15/18 at 10:29 am to ShamelessPel
I thought he did the exact same voice as Maine Justice (Jason Sudeikis (sp?))
That accent is more old school southern, like a Carolina or Georgia.. not really Louisiana at all.
I agree though that they are two totally different skits and how one can work and the other is awful.
That accent is more old school southern, like a Carolina or Georgia.. not really Louisiana at all.
I agree though that they are two totally different skits and how one can work and the other is awful.
Posted on 10/15/18 at 11:03 am to hendersonshands
Was thinking the same thing. Since when does Foghorn Leghorn/Boss Hog = Cajun. They needa watch a few DJ Rhett videos before they try doing another skit like this.
Posted on 10/15/18 at 12:44 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Accents were bad, as expected. But the accents were also bad in Maine Justice, and that skit was awesome.
Posted on 10/15/18 at 1:05 pm to Brosef Stalin
quote:None of it is offensive. It's just lame. There's plenty to make fun of down here. We have a wealth of dumbasses, and everyone is drunk all the time, but showbiz can't ever seem to get any of the details right, except the spelling of places and names.
No one here remembers Adam Sandler doing Cajun Man? Or was that not offensive because it was funny?
This post was edited on 10/15/18 at 7:48 pm
Posted on 10/15/18 at 1:16 pm to Fewer Kilometers
#peoplestillwatchthat?
Posted on 10/15/18 at 2:13 pm to ShamelessPel
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ETA: Where was the outrage around Maine Justice?
Sudekis was very funny in Maine Justice as he went so over the top. Timberlake's belly laugh was also very funny. Jaime Fox also was REALLY funny the time he did it. He basically combined the personalities of about 5 dudes I worked with growing up on the westbank.
This post was edited on 10/15/18 at 2:17 pm
Posted on 10/15/18 at 2:36 pm to PhilipMarlowe
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I liked it.
We comin'.
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