SNL premiere indicates
humorless year ahead
Nr.W H)Kk IAI'1 — Nations
come anti go The hundred dol
lar bill gets a fresh new look
Then there’s "Saturday Night
Live." hopelessly stuck in the
post
What about all the grand talk
of bringing this 1970s relic into
the '90s. of "reinventing” it for
the new season?
Sadly, that was "Saturday
Night” jive
That's the disappointing news
from NBC's Studio HH. where
"SN1.” launched its much-await
ed. supposedly do-or-die 21st
season Saturday night, with
Marie! Hemingway as guest host
The program served as an apt
warm-up for the 1996 presiden
tial campaign: empty promises of
change. From the (),}. Simpson
sketch whore '"Judge fto" orders
lawyer “Johnnie Cot hran"' to
der I are, "l.ivo from New York
.!."' to the self-congratulating
group huddle as the final credits
roll. Saturday 's show was 'SNl.''
business as usual
After all the hype, was it too
much to hope for at least one gen
uine surprise during the long,
long 90 minutes7 In retrospei t.
yes
Oh. and was "SNl." even fun
ny in its season opener?
Not so's you’d noth e
If anyone from producer la>rne
Michaels on down really believes
this is a different show from last
April — or April 1976 - they're
detosioned. Sure, there are new
people on board, hut the show's
the same old heap with just
another coat of paint, traveling
the same road, stu* k in the same
nils
Of course, this is hardly the
first time Michaels Has promised
great things, then failed to deliv
er In fact, year after year he's like
Lucy in the "Peanuts" strip,
swearing she'll hold the football
The viewer is Charlie Hrown.
always falling for it
This time the only auspicious
sign comes from the freshman
class of repertory players
Although it's premature to rate
the six rookies, one of them, Dar
rell Hammond, is clearly a wel
come addition thanks to his
impersonation skills Ihis was a
dead-on Ted Koppel in on other
wise limp "Night line" send-up).
As for the (leys crop of writers,
they 're clearly saving their good
stuff for later in the season
Veteran player David Spade
has been rewarded with a week
ly feature that, on its first outing,
could just as well have been part
of "Weekend Update" (or. better
yet. bagged! It was a five-minute
monologue addressed to the
Unnltfwtbvr. during which Spade
cautioned. "You're coming off
gay." Pointing to the much-pub
Fished sketch of the anonymous
terrorist, Spade likened his looks
to those of Little Richard, "and
that's not helping your 'straight
case.' "
The show's brightest elements'
Mu sit al guest Blues Traveler,
which traveled in at the last
minute to sub for the dropout for
merly known as Prince, and
Hemingway, who displayed an
unexpet ted gift for comedy Nei
ther. of course, will l>e but k soon
enough.
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