LeBron on SNL: Some Kind of Disaster

• Doctor Dribbles

  +6

  Not sure why I bothered to TiVo SNL in the first place--would've taken the comedic equivalent of 25 straight fourth quarter points for LBJ to save the show.  But Ziller gets it right: Awful writing, nervous LeBron, and total waste of time.

  Posted 10/1/2007 [reply] [flag]

• MVNsoccer

  +4

  too many sketches where he 'played himself'

  and too many about basketball, even with him as 'another' character

  not much effort toward originality went into it at all

   

  Posted 10/1/2007 [reply] [flag]

• mmiracle

  +4

  That show has sucked for 10-15 years. The only funny thing I've seen since Joe Montana hosted was the Peyton Manning skit. Where he was playing a pickup game with some kids, that was funny!

  Posted 10/1/2007 [reply] [flag]

• chone

  +7

  Boy, I thought the Cavs supporting cast was bad, then I saw SNL's.

  Posted 10/2/2007 [reply] [flag]

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Sunday Afternoon Ganons
Published 9/30/2007 by TZ <info@sactownroyalty.com> at Sactown Royalty: Front Page Posts
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Published 10/1/2007 by JCN at John Clifford Ness
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FanHouse: Mon AM 'T-Mac in Darfur' Edition
Published 10/1/2007 by JCN at John Clifford Ness
... LeBron on SNL: Some Kind of Disaster: During that monologue, LBJ had more yips than Dirk Nowitzki in the playoffs. And when you score at home, most of the skits were outright terrible. Blame it on the writing -- a lot of the jokes were just lame. But LeBron didn't provide much help on-screen. ...

LeBron’s Mixed SNL Reviews
Published 10/1/2007 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... . We missed it all, but the intro was decent and Kanye West had a good skit. If you see any other videos floating about the net, kindly email us, we’d like to check them out. Speaking of SNL, we had no clue ...

Reviews: LeBron on SNL
Published 10/1/2007 by Beau Dure at Sports Scope
... on Saturday Night Live , though it didn't seem to be James' fault. That's because sports bloggers tend to be the guys who wander into the dorm's TV room late Saturday night to scoff at the small group watching SNL and claim the show hasn't been good since: - (1989 version) Belushi, Aykroyd and Bill Murray left - (1996 version) Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman left - (2003 version) Will Ferrell left - (2007 version) Seth Meyers took over as lead writer from Tina Fey At the FanHouse , Tom Ziller correctly says LeBron was upstaged by Kanye West ...

LeBron return carries hint of quiet amazing
Published 12/12/2007 by Doctor Dribbles at We Rite Goode
... and the SNL appearance that made bloggers' eyes' bleed . But...all is forgiven and forgotten, when you show up for work the way that LeBron has. With new focus, he's leading ...