ok, my turn to review
I watched it live, and boy was I disappointed!
not by Jakey, but by the lame pathetic skits. Of course I had
such high expectations, so no wonder I was so let down. The dancing meatballs were the worst, talk about cringe-worthy!! They belong on Sesame Street. My inital impression was that every skit sucked big time, and I was totally pissed at the writers. Poor Jakey did what he could with such crappy skits.
The reason for this late review is I surprised myself very much, I watched it again yesterday (oh yeah!) and actually liked it
way way more. Probably because it was Jake, of course, but I did laugh, and a lot. I still think the meatballs skit was THE stupidest, and I did not care for the lazer cats thingie either, but as for the wheelchair skit, I thought it was funny for Jake and the girl's over-acting. Even though the two other characters were in wheelchairs, I mean, so what! Can we never have skits using wheelchair-bound characters? The skit was about people's stereotyping, so??? It was funny, laughing at the stereotypers. I don't think anyone was laughing at the wheelchair people... Well anyway, I thought it was funny. and Jakey was good, of course.
The opening was excellent, I mean, Jakey did GREEEEAT, he really belted out that song, and never faltered, at least that I could tell. As for the planted cowboys, they were funny, the expressions were priceless. Yeah they were caricatures of gay cowboys, but funny..... I go back and forth on whether Jakey dissed the gay community on that point. He did do a drag bit, which should not offend, I guess, some gay people like drag shows don't they? For those that don't oh well. As for the planted cowboys, well that is SNL's way, typical SNL humour. I guess all I can say is I don't think it was too disrespectful to BBM, we gotta be able to laugh at it sometime. I mean, look at the PT!!
Anyway, that is my review, the main point I wanted to get across is, you might want to watch the show again, it was wayyyyy funnier for me the second time around.
J