Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 84

2002 he starred in three movies where he was the villain

 

It’s crazy to think it’s already been over 5 years since he died.

 

I miss him all the time.

 

Yeah I always got mild enjoyment at worst out of most everything of his I saw. I thought he was pretty funny, or at the very least, interesting/entertaining. His frantic style was pretty unique.

I too miss him.

 

World’s Greatest Dad rules

 

Jumanji is great and not boring at all

 

Y’all are butt with Robin Williams slander. Wtf

 

RT

 

If we're sharing controversial opinions on comedians who have passed

I don't think Chris Farley was that funny

 

Farley wasn't always in the best movies, but his commitment to physical comedy was impressive.

 

My mom’s the only other woman I know who can take a sandwich like that!

 

I don't know if this is considered unpopular or not, but current-day Saturday Night Live is so bad. The Farley to Will Ferrell era had so many great bits, but the current stuff is painful. I see it at the gym and it seems like they just make faces and flail around at the absence of wit and nuance.

 

Apparently Farley had recorded almost all of the dialogue for Shrek before he died. The world would have been a different place.

 

I’m curious what age you were during the Farley-to-Ferrell era because I’ve always heard everyone thinks the best era was what they grew up with from 10-20 or so.

 

I am 31, so that kind of fits, but I didn't really watch it when it aired. I discovered the Will Ferrell Harry Caray bits last month and thought they were excellent.

 

The Tina Fey/Andy Samberg/Bill Hader years had good stuff, after that they had some talented cast members but the quality started to really dip and it’s pretty abysmal now under Che/Jost. It’s awful.

 

ROLLIN STONES STREET FIGHTIN MAN G-SEVUNNNNNNN

 

I think snl has always been inconsistent because live sketch comedy inherently is but they're just a dinosaur now with the political stuff

 

SNL is insanely not funny right now

 

That's definitely true. Chappelle's Show has a lot of classic sketches, but if you go back and watch entire episodes there are a ton of misses.

 

It’s SUCH a different feel. His Shrek was much softer and with a totally different backstory.

 

As a long-time fan and apologist of SNL, I think it's more unpopular to think the show is good since the familiar take is that it hasn't been watchable since (insert whatever year it was when you were in high school).

Its politics are usually terrible and irrelevant, save for a Fey as Palin or McCarthy as Spicer. Every Trump sketch is abhorrent, no doubt, and they tend to favor people that mug a little too much (Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon. But they consistently get a cast of weirdos that churn out solid sketches (most recently Kyle Mooney, Heidi Gardner, Beck Bennett and Alex Moffat). The "Grouch" sketch last week was gold and the odder sketches like Adam Sandler's Italian Vacation Guide and Adam Driver as the Oil Tycoon are why I watch. But it takes some digging to get to those.

 

My wife sent me the video of The Grouch and I loved it

 

The sketches I always find most funny these days are the ones that get Cut For Time and are posted on YouTube the next day. That’s usually where Kyle Mooney or whoever else is able to get weird in a way that I think *would* play well if given the chance but the show won’t do live because it’s not as straight forward as Celebrity Family Feud or whatever

also imo the funniest thing they’ve done in years is have Jost and Che write provocative WU jokes for each other. They should just do that every time

 

Kyle Mooney and Beck Bennett are great