Is it just me or did this weekend go by amazingly fast?
Today, after sleeping 10 glorious hours, Brent and I went to a little hole-in-the-wall dim sum place with Josh, Jami, Hallie and Baby Brendan. The food wasn't bad, but we had some serious language barriers. The waitress/cook brought us iced tea when we asked for water and kept insisting that we eat more scalion pancakes, after we'd finished our first order. She brought us a second order, then after we paid the bill, she motioned something about bring us more...to go. We thought we'd misunderstood her, so we made our way to the parking lot. As we approached our cars, out she comes, holding three more orders of the scalion pancakes.
After emerging from our salt-induced comas, Brent and I finally saw Borat. It was freakin' funny...NOT! Seriously, we compared notes after the show and were both very underwhelmed. I only laughed a couple of times. I don't know why, but I keep comparing it to how funny Jackass 2 was, a film in which I laughed until I cried. Maybe I was just expecting too much from Borat.
You know what was surprisingly funny? This week's Saturday Night Live. Alec Baldwin was the host. I haven't watched so much of an episode in forever. I only knew about Beck's fun puppet/dining room performance a couple weeks ago because Nicole told me. Brent's theory to why SNL might have been so much funnier is because the writers are taking notice of the criticism in and of Studio 60 and therefore trying harder. Interesting, if it's true.
Anyone a fan of Fresca? I'm trying the new peach flavor now, one of our purchases from grocery shopping tonight. I realized that we have a tendency to buy a lot of liquids. Tonight, for example, we came back with Fresca, Coke Zero, drinking water, sparkling water, milk and soy milk. Our fridge looks like we're stocking up for our own episode of MTV Cribs, yo.
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." -Sir Winston Churchill
mmmm...fresca! i am a fan. i saw both that one and the berry one last night but didn't pick any up.
ReplyDeletetoo bad about borat. still have not seen it.
mmm...pinkberry!
1. Totally Awesome Boyfriend and I enjoyed Borat. But, like you, I think he thought Jackass 2 was Way Funnier. (I didn't see it.) But, I will say that I Laughed Until I Cried at least once during Borat.
ReplyDelete2. I love Fresca. But, haven't had in Years because I Gave Up Soda. Poo.
3. Alec Baldwin is An Excellent SNL Host. I am proud to be able to say that I was an intern at NBC duing His First Hosting Gig (in 1989!), and Worked On The Show. I got to watch The Rehearsals and Everything! (Plus, My Fave Band Of All Time -- the B-52s were The Musical Guest!) That Episode is now considered A Classic and is still So Funny.
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ReplyDeleteMaybe you were expecting too much from Borat. Funniest thing I've seen in a long time, but that's me. I think it's just really smart (if you can get past the disgusting) humor. I've been going back and watching the Borat segments of Da Ali G Show and having a good laugh.
ReplyDeleteI agree that SNL was very funny this week, and has been funnier, in general. I think it has to do with Seth Meyers now being the head writer, but who knows. I'm not a Beck fan, at all, but I know several of the puppeteers touring with him. It was fun to see them on tv at the end of the show. I'm dying to hear how the after-party was too!
Oh, I completely forgot about Alec Baldwin! I'd heard he was hosting and wanted to watch it. ARGH! I didn't even record it. Oh well. Yeah, I haven't watched SNL in the longest time either.
ReplyDeleteSorry about Borat. I still haven't seen it.
Ooh. I'm the WORST friend ever! I still haven't even called Jami. I'm calling today. Right now!
ReplyDeleteI am the only person that can't stand Fresca? Grapefruit...blech!
ReplyDeleteUm, that should have said, "Am I," not "I am." It's been a long day.
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