On Saturday Night Live, where most of us saw him for the first time, he had a specialty in playing jocular blowhards and loud, self-impressed white men, a specialty he took to Hollywood, in films like Horrible Bosses and Sleeping With Other People. Sudeikis is acutely aware of “the vessel that my soul is currently, you know, occupying”-six feet one, good hair, strong jaw.
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Sudeikis has been riffing on it, in one way or another, for his whole professional life-particularly the comedy of unearned confidence, which he is well suited, physically, to convey. Watch, $6,300, by Cartier.Ĭonfidence is a funny thing. Black Jeopardy hasn’t worn out its welcome as a recurring sketch because of details like that-despite the identical format and unchanging characters played by Thompson, Leslie Jones and Chris Redd (and Jay Pharoah and Sasheer Zamata before them), the third contestant always has a fundamentally different relationship with black people and black culture, and that lets the sketch keep not just its jokes fresh but its commentary on racism, as well.Jason Sudeikis covers the August 2021 issue of GQ. Of course that makes his answers the exact opposite of what the show expects them to be he guesses that the cable bill is in grandma’s name to honor and respect her memory and importance to the family, when the correct answer is because she’s going to die soon and won’t need that good credit anymore. This time Boseman plays T’Challa (aka Black Panther) as the wise and respectful leader that is he in the Marvel movies, answering questions like “why is the cable bill in grandma’s name” in the wholesome and positive way you’d expect from the resident of a utopia like Wakanda. Previous versions have featured a well-meaning white man afraid of seeming racist and an openly racist Trump supporter who’s revealed to have a lot in common with his black opponents. SNL’s Black Jeopardy sketches find new angles with each installment. But the result isn’t just political comedy devoid of actual comedy it’s an anchor dragging the entire show down week after week, and a great way to undermine the regular cast in the eyes of the viewers. Instead of writing insightful or incisive political satire, SNL knows all it has to do is bring an unannounced celebrity on stage as the latest cartoon character from Trump’s orbit, recite some lines that often aren’t recognizable as jokes in any way, and then wait for every website ever to post it as soon as it’s online. With every cold open the show continues to confuse cheers of recognition for Baldwin’s lifeless, stultifying impression as actual excitement from the audience.
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This is the show whose big Mueller investigation sketch was a callback to the 18-year-old movie Meet the Parents.
SNL’s political comedy is bad because it never says anything, never has an actual point of view, and rarely shows any kind of actual effort on part of the writers or performers. No, we’re not anti- SNL because we’re pro-Trump. Some of our Facebook comments have accused us of saying that because the show is critical of or “mean” to Donald Trump-as if there’s any possible way to be too mean to that ruinous fraud. Our stance has been clear all season: Saturday Night Live’s political comedy is bad. It’s what the show is most known for today, its most prominent calling card, and it should be no surprise to regular Paste readers that there isn’t a single political sketch on our list of the season’s best. SNL’s weekly political sketches are staples of social media on Sunday mornings, with a bewigged Alec Baldwin and the latest celebrity cameo mugging on almost every news and entertainment website through the magic of embedded YouTube videos. Saturday Night Live’s 43rd season, which wrapped up last week, was another year defined by its relationship to the Trump Administration.
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