It was pointedly pointy, sure, but was it proper comedy or Sorkin doing his thing? It only had close to funny line - the one about secularists eroding God's protective shell around the US. The rest felt strained to me. It was the sort of thing that was a good idea for a sketch, but obviously not written by a sketchwriter. Which, of course, it wasn't - but we are supposed to believe it is.
I mean, sure, SNL isn't always funny. If Sorkin were writing a show about how SNL isn't actually that funny, that would work. Unfortunately, he is writing a show about how SNL could be funny if it was written and performed by people as brave and wunnerful as his characters. Like TWW, it asks 'what if?' The problem is, Sorkin could write politics. He can't write comedy. I believe Jed is a genius and a fabulous politician because he gets clever lines and cogent philosophies. I do not believe Matt is the great writer I'm being told he is, or Danny the great director, or Harriet the great comedian. And that's a problem.
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Date: 2006-10-08 11:15 pm (UTC)It was pointedly pointy, sure, but was it proper comedy or Sorkin doing his thing? It only had close to funny line - the one about secularists eroding God's protective shell around the US. The rest felt strained to me. It was the sort of thing that was a good idea for a sketch, but obviously not written by a sketchwriter. Which, of course, it wasn't - but we are supposed to believe it is.
I mean, sure, SNL isn't always funny. If Sorkin were writing a show about how SNL isn't actually that funny, that would work. Unfortunately, he is writing a show about how SNL could be funny if it was written and performed by people as brave and wunnerful as his characters. Like TWW, it asks 'what if?' The problem is, Sorkin could write politics. He can't write comedy. I believe Jed is a genius and a fabulous politician because he gets clever lines and cogent philosophies. I do not believe Matt is the great writer I'm being told he is, or Danny the great director, or Harriet the great comedian. And that's a problem.