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Date Posted: 19:46:24 02/16/07 Fri
Author: Jim Bevan
Subject: The Last Reviewer of Wales
In reply to: Patrick 's message, "REVIEWS: Forest Whitaker 02/10/07" on 19:33:02 02/12/07 Mon

Okay, the title is a bit of a misnomer - I'm only a quarter Welsh. Regardless, I might as well get in at least one review for this show.

MFL: Finally, the lost sketch from last year has been salvaged and once again sees the light of day! As I said when I first saw it last year during it's temporary position on the site, it was quite good. The team names were very clever, though I don't think Al Pacino would have been truly necessary. An average joe could have been put as the owner of the team.

Bob Dylan Documentary: Not my kind of sketch. Too many celebrity parodies, music references I didn't really get, and the portrayal of Bob Dylan as an incoherent rambler is kind of stale. Sorry.

Hours and Minutes: A so-so buddy cop piece. Some of the lines fell flat (The going to disneyland and black/white argument pieces didn't do it for me), though I thought the frequent uttering of "bad pun here" to demonstrate how much it's overused in this genre was very humorous.

Swear Jar: Not bad. An interesting surreal sketch. It was fun to read how the concept of a swear jar erupted into dark revelations that tore a family apart. The "Die in a fire" line was a little too harsh and not very funny, though. But I did like how you broke the fourth wall with the bleeped-out swear, and the question about calling fellatio "fun jobs" was good too.

Rehab: Eh... I'm not a celebrity parody person, and this just dealt with overdone bashing of celebs who did dumb things. My apologies, but it didn't appeal to me.

Last King of Scotland: Nice. I'm not really a fan of sketches that deal explicitly with SNL's past, but this was carried out quite well. The dialogue in the sketch-within-a-sketch was clever, and the banter between Garret and the others was very funny.

Okay, that's another lonely review dropped off. Maybe he'll have some more playmates come by soon.

... yeah, that metaphor sucked, I know it.

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Bonus comedy tip: When wit won't work, wackiness will do. (NT) -- Jim Bevan (who stole that line from Matt Gill), 16:36:59 02/18/07 Sun