Saturday Night Dead

Saw some parts of a very un-funny SNL rerun last night with Hilary Swank. I don’t know why they have gotten so bad in recent memory. All the skits I happen to have seen, including the very first one (about Michael Jackson), were unwatchable (whenever the actors feel the need to yell out every line, you know it’s a bad sign). Hilary Swank doesn’t seem to have a funny bone in her, however a fantastic actress she may otherwise be (which I wouldn’t know). All those years of playing martyrs that get beaten to death have made her so sincere that any attempt at irony was just painful.