HIS HATE WAS LIKE GOOD MEDICINE: The profoundly weird comedy of Will Forte -- noteworthy for MacGruber, the Falconer and Jon Bovi --
will not be returning to SNL. Below the fold, Will Forte likes his potato chips, and he will help organize your closet:
Talented performer used in some really bland, annoying ways, with the notable exception of the BCS song.
ReplyDeleteA Second City guy who has been the highlight of some stuff on the ETC stage the last year or two has been hired as a writer--Tom Flanigan who was outstanding in Studs Terkel's Not Working--so here is hoping some things as funny as that show make it on air.
ReplyDeleteForte, at his weirdest, was the best thing about the show in the last few years. I get the feeling that Michaels put a lid on his weirdness, too.
ReplyDeleteOne of my very favorite things on SNL in years is the last Falconer sketch, several years ago, in which because of multiple time-travels the final scene ended being performed by the entire cast, with four copies of each of two or three characters.
ReplyDeleteI also got that feeling, that he wasn't used nearly as much as he should have been. But I don't know why Michaels would keep him on if he didn't like his vibe.
ReplyDeleteOkay. That's awesome.
ReplyDeleteExactly. When he was being weird and loud, he was very funny, but he was used more as another boring white guy than a funny weird guy.
ReplyDeleteOK, my total was vaguely correct, but I factored it wrong. (Also, my name being Donald, the recurring cries of "DONALD! NOOOOOO!" please me.)
ReplyDeleteI wish I could find the video for one of my favorite Forte sketches. Never appreciated in its own time.
ReplyDeleteI liked how he could play someone getting really angry and could get a vein really badly bulging out on his forhead, apparently on command.
ReplyDeleteAnd when he was a football coach or something and he did that really long prolonged dance? I liked that too.
Don't forget his answer to the immortal question "What Is Burn Notice?"
ReplyDeleteI'm heartily amused by really, really fake animal puppets and this one was top of the line.
ReplyDeleteIsaac, 12/7/09: "Incidentally, despite the fact that he appears as a performer in just about every movie there is, I can't shake the thought that when Bill Hader leaves the show, he is going to write and run a transcendently funny TV show."
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