I had to pause the sketch midway to receive a delivery and, when I came back, rewound the sketch to the beginning and start again so I could really enjoy it. I also love that the Dad (played by Beck Bennett) sort of gets into the back and forth with Brown’s character. The argument is hilarious because the topic is so silly, yet Brown’s character keeps throwing really mean insults at his girlfriend’s parents over it.
#Crippled rejex movie#
The friendly dinner immediately devolves into a viscous argument about the movie Shrek. Mark: Sterling K Brown plays a man meeting his girlfriend’s rich parents. Sketch of the Night – Family Dinner-Shrek Mostly for what I will now declare the Sketch of the Night: I say mostly because I think the first two sentences hold up.Įither way, I thought Sterling K.
Then this paragraph was mostly a waste of time. Usually the audience cries, but this time he is crying. So, Sterling cried a lot during the monologue. Brown, but I know enough Moms and Drunk Aunts to know that This is Us is about crying. Mark: There is a joke in amongst Moms and Drunk Aunts right now that This Is Us is the show that makes everyone cry. If that doesn’t interest you, I think you’re safe even the This is Us parody “This is U.S.” was such a soft execution on a decent idea that it didn’t really register as anything. If you didn’t watch and hate to be that person who misses out, maybe watch the cold open, which was a parody of The Bachelor finale as well as the Mueller indictments. When I write these reviews I always try to think about what the highlights are in additional to what people will be talking about online the next day, and I’m kind of coming up dry. I want to file him in the category of “hosts that I’m excited to see try again” because for someone as excited as he was, and as genuinely talented an actor as I know he is, I think his performance will only benefit from knowing what to expect next time.Īside from Brown’s performance, this episode wasn’t a particularly exciting one. This isn’t to say that his performance in every other sketch was bad, but a joke can’t land if it isn’t delivered right, and there was some shaky delivery all around this week. Oddly enough I think “Doctor Love” might have been his strongest performance of the night, because there’s a kind of comfort in playing a character with so much frantic energy that he just sank into it and relaxed.
When Leslie Jones came out to tell him they had to get on with the monologue I was like, “Thank God someone said something.” I think Brown’s energy level was right, and he had more enthusiasm I’ve seen from a host in a long time, but one week just isn’t enough time to adjust someone to performing on live television. A really weird thing to focus so heavily on in the monologue, to the point where his whole monologue was just him overdramatically discussing his week at SNL and crying a lot. Brown a dramatic actor? I wouldn’t have any way of knowing that if not for this episode of SNL. Written by Mark Henely & Melissa Jouben The Host – Sterling K. Brown (host), James Bay (musical guest), Vanessa Bayer (cameo appearance). Photo Credit: Will Heath/NBC Saturday Night Live: Sterling K.
0 kommentar(er)
