Remember when that gig was funny? To be fair, I haven't watched SNL or seen any of its popular characters since long before my kids were born. Not for any particular reason. I'm just, you know, not interested. But - funny is funny. Passion, depth, talent, charasma, timing...these can be used to devastating results. However, boredom, apathy, silliness, laziness, et al; these things can destroy the gig and/or any good intentions.

I caught a clip of Church Lady this morning and instantly I forgot what she (he) was talking about and, instead, was turned off to what I was watching. Mr. Carvey, the gig is tired. You're tired. What it was was unfunny. It was actually lame. In fact, I was a little perturbed with the gig for its lack of energy, passion, depth, cleverness and funny.

Of course I understand that not every performance of a thing is stellar. And that sometimes you and or your writers can have bad days and maybe there just isn't anything funny in the world to take from; or, ugly enough to be made funny. But this wasn't the case with what I saw. Sure, the dialog was crap, but the character was crap, too. Maybe it got funny, or you did, or you showed signs of life, I dunno. I had to stop watching it.

Anyway, that's all. I just wanted to comment on how much what I saw of a recent Church Lady skit sucked. Carvey looked tired, old...slower, uninterested. carry on.