Solaris001

I came to give a lackluster rating for a lackluster episode of Saturday Night Live, only to find a great number of ratings either 10/10 or 1/10. So clearly another bit of entertainment that has succumbed to the political culture wars. Whatever this episode was, it wasn't the greatest moment in comedy ever, nor the worst. Those extreme ratings are dissociated from reality.

I knew when the host made a point about being fired and that 'you shouldn't google him', that the episode was likely to involve more un-pc insult humor than normal. I don't know who Shane Gillis is, but from how dull the humor was, I'm not likely to bother finding out more. The monologue just wasn't very funny. You can change the targets of the jokes to whoever you want, politically okay or not, but they still aren't very sharp.

As for the episode, as usual, some brief moments were decent. But a lot of filler. What let me down the most was Weekend Update, which felt formulaic, and also suffered from weak random character interviews. I.e., the Truman Capote shtick did nothing for me.

So, for folks who haven't been ideologically blinded to what is actually in front of their eyes, all in all perhaps just slightly lower than the usual SNL quality. Meaning not that great. But hope lives on.