Thanks to several readers for sending me this clip from yesterday’s Saturday Night Live. It’s very clearly a parody of the risible movie “God’s Not Dead 2,” starring Melissa Joan Hart—famed in her previous life as Sabrina the Teenage Witch. To see the model, the trailer of GND2, click here. Even the lettering is the same.
I don’t watch SNL any more, since I cut my teeth on it in the days when it was truly great, with John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Dan Akroyd, and Chevy Chase; and I’m always disappointed when I look at its latest incarnation. But there are still some good bits, and this is one.
The disparity of views between critics and the public is clear from the divergent ratings on Rotten Tomatoes (click on the screenshot to see the critics’ take):
Oh, Lordy.
hilarious.
the only funny thing I’ve seen from SNL since I last watched clips from the early nineties on Youtube.
Is the name not Melissa Joan Hart?
Typo; I fixed it, thanks.
You’re welcome.
This clip was OK, but the fake ad for Heroine A. M. is hilarious.
Oh man, this one’s a keeper. Sharing on Twitter.
The sad thing is I know Christians here in Alabama who would not only not find that funny of course, but see it as evidence of their oppression.
One of several tests of how healthy a religion is IMO is their ability to appreciate jokes at their own expense. Unitarians really like most Unitarian jokes!
I remember a movie where a character said “Nice shooting!” and his friend replied “You mean good shooting. There’s no such thing as nice shooting.”
This is a good parody.
The SNL clip is prohibited in my country. Help!
Try: http://www.gossipcop.com/snl-god-boob-man-movie-trailer-saturday-night-live-gay-watch/
(It worked in France)
That one worked for me in Germany. Thank you!
It worked for me in NZ too. Thanks!
(And a pox** on the uploader who ‘didn’t make this video available in your country’)
cr
** preferably of an embarrassing sexually-transmitted nature
SNL pretty frequently has good skits now. But what bugs me? You wanna know what really bugs me? I will tell you. CNN repeating SNL skits in its broadcast and on its web site. That’s what really bugs me. I just don’t think the news should be interested in providing fluff and entertainment.
ok, now I would sit back in my rocker on my porch if I had a rocker.
GND2 (and suggested sequels) is the butt of humor in this online comic:
http://pvponline.com/comic/2016/03/30/gnd
doesn’t work in Canada but will google around
That was pretty funny!
Several reviewers have notices that the first GinD film was patently silly right from the get-go, while the second seems superficially semi-reasonable for the first 20 to 30 minutes and then does a bait-and-switch descending into increasing rationality.
I have followed a rule that I will only see these films if I can pay only $5 to see them at a second-run theatre, did catch #2 this Saturday and I totally agree.
The film opens with an essentially false accusation that MJH proselytized in a classroom but her defending lawyer ultimately argues that she !*should be allowed to proselytize anyway*! and then the jury finds her innocent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait-and-switch
To me it is also painful since while I have never been too impressed with Kevin Sorbo (star of the first one), I think Melissa JH to be actually very appealing. That is sadly wasted in this travesty.
At the end of the film viewers are told to text their friends “God is not dead.
In instead sent this Woody Allen clip.
https://youtu.be/eEETZTs795U?t=4m24s
The music for the movie is godawful.
For the last few years, I’ve described Saturday Night Live as “15 hilarious minutes packed into an hour and a half.”
But to be honest, every sketch comedy show has been like that. Even golden-age SNL, even SCTV, even Monty Python. We just remember the good stuff, and forget the forgettable.
Now, I just record, and fast-forward through the boring bits.
Yeah, I remember that even the old SNL’s had some boring bits, but who could ever forget the Land Shark;-). But I would say that most Pythons were at least 75% funny.
I think that the old slogan “if you never make mistakes, you never make anything” is just as true in comedy as it is in most activities.
My daughter said something like “I watched that old stuff and it was ok but really, isn’t taste in any art form formed in your formative years?”
It was funny then and it’s funny now, just not to the same people.
In the next sequel, during Melissa Joan Hart’s victory party, they find out she was Sabrina the teenage witch and burn her at the stake.
That was hilarious!