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Had a random dream about this topic for some reason. I guess it was meant to turn over to the FFA. Discuss.
100% this.Kate McKinnon is really good at her impressions and acting. I find her to be really funny.
Kristen Wiig was just annoying.
Target lady and Gilly were hilarious to me.McKinnon is better with impressions. Wiig has better original characters (though I absolutely hate both The Target Lady and Gilly). Wiig is more attractive. I'd be more likely to watch a movie because Wigg was starring in it than I would be with McKinnon.
I have good news for you!prosopis said:Every time they open with Alec Baldwin doing Trump I had a blech feeling. I always wanted to fast forward through that but I never did. It seemed more mean spirited then funny. Like Baldwin was exercising his personal agenda and NBC was letting him.
Not trying to argue your point but when I read this comment this was the first thing that came to mind - https://youtu.be/8KLSg1h0e-Mprosopis said:I like them both but I went with Wiig. I feel she is more diverse. Mckinnon is starting to rely to much on make up and prosthetics for the funny.
Very funny stuffNot trying to argue your point but when I read this comment this was the first thing that came to mind - https://youtu.be/8KLSg1h0e-M
This is accurate.Wiig a bit more versatile. Mckinnon makes me laugh more though.
Nice observation, one I'm inclined to totally agree with. I've argued about identity being the scary new and last American frontier, and she nails the inevitable "how am I being perceived?" part of that identity creation; that part which has to appeal to other people's fetishization of the personal.i have certainly NOT found a mean or angry bone in Wiig's comedy, but there is a savage willingess to explore how repulsive personal fetish can be. her most famous characters are subversively imbued with desperation over how they are being perceived
At first, it seemed certain that all the outgrowths of personal liberty would have an apogee and society would rebound with a few extra segments of community. But license and indulgence are becoming so embedded in our culture that American life is writing its own manual for how to be a sick, unhappy ####. Normally, humor would be the first to have at it but, being that the culmination of the phenomenon resulted in a Clown Prince who's far more hilarious than anything we could make up and has just become another factor which further stunts our growth. Just as i fear that our institutions can't keep up with 300,000,000 separate constituencies wanting special attention, i fear that society will crash from the weight of a similar number of identities.Nice observation, one I'm inclined to totally agree with. I've argued about identity being the scary new and last American frontier, and she nails the inevitable "how am I being perceived?" part of that identity creation; that part which has to appeal to other people's fetishization of the personal.
This is great, but otherwise I don't find McKinnon especially funny. She can make me laugh occasionally, but not consistently.The Duff Man said:The skit where Kate is trailer trash who was abducted by aliens is one of the funniest in a long time.
https://youtu.be/PfPdYYsEfAE
What are you cats smoking? Pass that #### over this way.At first, it seemed certain that all the outgrowths of personal liberty would have an apogee and society would rebound with a few extra segments of community. But license and indulgence are becoming so embedded in our culture that American life is writing its own manual for how to be a sick, unhappy ####. Normally, humor would be the first to have at it but, being that the culmination of the phenomenon resulted in a Clown Prince who's far more hilarious than anything we could make up and has just become another factor which further stunts our growth. Just as i fear that our institutions can't keep up with 300,000,000 separate constituencies wanting special attention, i fear that society will crash from the weight of a similar number of identities.
And now i will say that Kristen Wiig was playing that from the inside while Kate McKinnon's success lies in playing 2-3 types of characters riding that wave of postmodern ridiculousness so it isn't a hijack.
That's really an astute observation about the difference between the two. One also might posit that the distance between that which we see in Hollywood and the characters presented by Wiig tells us the real story of America via its characters vs. the send-ups of the overblown and famous that McKinnon lampoons.And now i will say that Kristen Wiig was playing that from the inside while Kate McKinnon's success lies in playing 2-3 types of characters riding that wave of postmodern ridiculousness so it isn't a hijack.
all natural, my brother. set free-range bipolars with grandiose tendencies adrift in this torrent of preening individualism and this is what you get.What are you cats smoking? Pass that #### over this way.
Wiig seemed so close to really getting inside the quantum burgoo of relativism (think Cap'n Cranks'll like that?) that drives women. I was proud that she recoiled into personal projects when the Great Hollywood Machine went after her as a hitmaker following Bridesmaids, but disappointed that she and her writing partner didn't take the next step.That's really an astute observation about the difference between the two. One also might posit that the distance between that which we see in Hollywood and the characters presented by Wiig tells us the real story of America via its characters vs. the send-ups of the overblown and famous that McKinnon lampoons.
Admiration and the worship of the telegenic do not always tell the real story of what is actually going on.
eta* Huh. Just watched the best of Wiig. I think you nailed it.
How I feel.Wiig seemed so close to really getting inside the quantum burgoo of relativism (think Cap'n Cranks'll like that?) that drives women. I was proud that she recoiled into personal projects when the Great Hollywood Machine went after her as a hitmaker following Bridesmaids, but disappointed that she and her writing partner didn't take the next step.
Target lady was awesome. Gilly was just dumb.Target lady and Gilly were hilarious to me.
Word. I have nothing to add to that.set free-range bipolars with grandiose tendencies adrift in this torrent of preening individualism and this is what you get.
What's the situation here? Are you already on the floor and then begin to roll around laughing, or do you get up from the couch and make your way to the floor for the laughing?I like them both immensely.
Maybe it's recency bias, but I think Wiig has been funnier/better in her roles since leaving SNL.
Wiig never fails to get a laugh out of me, but McKinnon has the ability to literally make me ROTFL -- like her alien abductee character.
Usually slumped on the couch in some haphazard yet supremely comfortable shape, start laughing, roll onto the floor wheezing from laughter. Momentum keep me going until I'm just rocking back and forth on the ground on my back, holding my sides.What's the situation here? Are you already on the floor and then begin to roll around laughing, or do you get up from the couch and make your way to the floor for the laughing?
Dunno about Tom (tho i imagine there's stompin' involved) but i have a competition-level floor routine for my ROFL, complete with tumbles, cartwheels, li'l sticks w ribbons on em and, sometimes, i'll even go to the local drunk tank and bail out a Russian judge or twoWhat's the situation here? Are you already on the floor and then begin to roll around laughing, or do you get up from the couch and make your way to the floor for the laughing?