Comments on: Saturday Night Live http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/03/17/saturday-night-live/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:14:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shari http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/03/17/saturday-night-live/comment-page-1/#comment-15096 Shari Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:07:57 +0000 http://seanpaune.com/?p=985#comment-15096 I don't watch SNL very often but I did see the one hosted by Hugh Laurie and my feeling was precisely the same as yours. The sketches dragged on past the point of being funny. It feels as if they are trying to fill time rather than write for humor. They end up ruining a good sketch this way time and again...not that there are that many good sketches to begin with. :-p I wonder if this is something the writers are unaware of or that they are merely indifferent to it because people will continue to watch the show regardless. It's probably a lot easier to drag out a sketch than write more material, particularly since they have to consider the sets and re-setting them for different sketches. I don’t watch SNL very often but I did see the one hosted by Hugh Laurie and my feeling was precisely the same as yours. The sketches dragged on past the point of being funny. It feels as if they are trying to fill time rather than write for humor. They end up ruining a good sketch this way time and again…not that there are that many good sketches to begin with. :-p

I wonder if this is something the writers are unaware of or that they are merely indifferent to it because people will continue to watch the show regardless. It’s probably a lot easier to drag out a sketch than write more material, particularly since they have to consider the sets and re-setting them for different sketches.

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