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Our BetterMost Community => Chez Tremblay => Topic started by: southendmd on April 12, 2022, 04:38:55 pm
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So, Jake hosted SNL last weekend, but no one noticed. Last time was 2007, with the infamous "gay cowboys" crack and Jake in drag singing from Dreamgirls.
I kept waiting for him to pull his suit off to reveal.....something. But, at least he sings. I probably won't post the sketches because with one or two exceptions, they were uniformly BAD.
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Here's the monologue from 2007 (most of them had been shut down; this German one works):
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This was the only decent skit from the show; the rest are pretty lame. This one is a great parody of Dick and Liz in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf":
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I don't get it. Admittedly, either I've never seen WAoVW or I've only seen parts of it. I do vividly remember the Mad Magazine parody -- it was in the very first Mad Magazine I ever owned.
But what's with Jake's performance, specifically? Is he failing to do a good Richard Burton accent or did Richard Burton attempt an American accent in WAoVW? And what's with the kind of bumbling overacting? I know the movie was pretty melodramatic but wasn't it at least Richard Burton-level acted? (I once read something that listed RB as among the worst actors -- ALSO among the best, but prone to overacting, perhaps the way people might think of Al Pacino now).
As I (very vaguely) remember the plot, they kept referring to a son but it was later revealed they didn't have one. Is that why they were alcoholic? Was not having a baby considered that life-destroying back then?