I missed this when it was new. Was an angry teenager in 1996 and mostly got into things like late night Liquid Television and those HBO and Cinemax specials that youngsters probably shouldn't watch. Only recently learned the Dana Carvey show was an epic disaster thanks to the documentary "Too Funny to Fail".
This episode doesn't really come off as hilarious or side-splitting. Mostly it seems like an amusing little diversion and insight into shock comedy of the mid 90's. The sketches arent as deep or introspective as they could be. They dont skewer pop culture or current events. They just set up little scenarios and keep pushing the punchline to the extreme in hope that some shock value might make the audience laugh. I appreciate the nobility of pushing boundaries but if they also could have made me laugh that might have been fun as well.
The stupid pranksters are funny but not laugh out loud funny. The head of Princess Diana isnt funny at all because it lacks wit and cleverness. I dont really care about murder one way or the other, nor do I care Princess Di was killed in a car wreck just a few months later. The bit simply is not funny.
Not a great result even though the writers probably beat themselves up for weeks trying to make it good.
This episode doesn't really come off as hilarious or side-splitting. Mostly it seems like an amusing little diversion and insight into shock comedy of the mid 90's. The sketches arent as deep or introspective as they could be. They dont skewer pop culture or current events. They just set up little scenarios and keep pushing the punchline to the extreme in hope that some shock value might make the audience laugh. I appreciate the nobility of pushing boundaries but if they also could have made me laugh that might have been fun as well.
The stupid pranksters are funny but not laugh out loud funny. The head of Princess Diana isnt funny at all because it lacks wit and cleverness. I dont really care about murder one way or the other, nor do I care Princess Di was killed in a car wreck just a few months later. The bit simply is not funny.
Not a great result even though the writers probably beat themselves up for weeks trying to make it good.