Wednesday, September 20, 2006

My Name Is Jeff...Gwarf?...No, it's Jeff...Boranon?...No, Jeff!

It's a sad day for SNL...well, I guess every day has been sad for SNL over the past few years considering how unfunny the show has become. Except for the efforts of a few key cast members, the show has become, as I like to put it, "Kenan-ized". It's about to get worse.

SNL released their official cast list for the upcoming season and it does not include Chris Parnell or Horatio Sanz (also, Finesse Mitchell won't be returning and if you're saying "Finesse who!?", you're not alone). Horatio Sanz had his ups and downs (sometimes he's hysterical, sometimes he messes up the whole sketch), but Chris Parnell was easily one of the most versatile cast members of recent SNL seasons.

His most memorable characters include Tyler, the trailer park hick that finds himself at the Appalachian Emergency Room because he "accidentally" rams various items (including a jar of cotton balls and a can of Axe Body Spray) up his you-know-what; and Tato, the spirited man-servant to Nuni and Nuni Schoener (pronounced "new-knee"...well, the pronunciation is actually half the hilarity). Nobody makes liquid yogurt spit through a straw look as delicious as Tato does.

Mr. Chris Parnell, I salute you.

2 comments:

Andrea said...

i'm really going to miss tato : (

Clarke said...

SNL has pretty much jumped the shark about 10 times already, hasn't it? I mean, some of the sketches are funny, but most times they're just horrid and hard to watch.

The Daily Show. That's the new breeding ground for comedy. :-)