Welcome to the first installment of my daily rants, raves, and darts. There are lots of things in this world that really piss off your fearless leader and instead of keeping them bottled up. I’m just going to spew them here in this regular column. It’ll mostly be showbusiness related, but occassionally I will vent my spleen about the cable company, phone company, satellite television companies, and just crappy big business in general. But the first target of my hit parade is Saturday’s “”Saturday Night Live””.Feel free to comment on anything in this column, although I speak universal truths, it’s hard to imagine anyone disagreeing with my all knowing comments.
Did anyone catch this past Saturday’s SNL with Drew Barrymore and Macy Gray? My god that was a horrible show. It was the first time I watched SNL in over a decade and now I remember why. What happened to the days when “”SNL”” had a “”small”” but extremely talented cast that we can all “”relate”” to? Or at the very least remember their names. I watched the opening credits and there must be what 10 or 15 cast members and contributors now, none of whom I could have picked out of a line-up. The only name I recognized was Chris Kattan, and the only reason I even remotely knew who he was, was because we promoted his film “”Who Is Corky Romano””. Who the hell where all those no-talented people?Drew Barrymore’s opening monologue was mercifully short, but totally self indulgent and pitiful. “”I was scared to fly, but Rudy said be brave and come to New York. So listening to Rudy, I wanted to be brave so I came. Then when I got here, theydiscovered Anthrax in the building and I was going to go home, but then I remembered Rudy saying, be Brave, so I stayed. And you are brave to for being here. Even my husband, Tom Green, made the trip with me.”” Of course they show Tom Green with his gas mask on. Oh my god, that was sooooooooo funny, I was rolling on the floor laughing. God, can I puke now?And please, do we need to see Tom Green, everywhere Drew Barrymore goes? Yes, you two are in love and are married. So what? Who cares? Stop rubbing our noses in your “”happiness””.The only semi amusing segment in the entire program was the “”Weekend Update””, the rest of the sketches seemed to be totally self-involved “”in jokes””, like that annoying hot tub bit where they were so amused with themselves without letting the rest of the audience in on the joke. Or another totally self-involved bit about a mock television station called WUUB. I guess it was supposed to be a spoof of the WB and local UHF programming, but it was wretched and lasted way to long.And Macy Gray’s performance was HORRIBLE. It looked like she was high, and what happened to her voice? She was off key, and you could barely hear her. Being a huge fan of Drew Barrymore’s and Macy Gray, I thought this “”SNL”” couldn’t go wrong, but it did, and in every conceivable way. Huge disappointment.Awful. Wretched. Complete shit.Just Bring Itby Michelle Alexandria