Warning: This is a bit of a rant.
Did you know that there is a Spanish version of Saturday Night Live? Guess what it's called? No, not La Noche del Sábado En Vivo. It's called Saturday Night Live. The opening music is almost exactly the same and the opening credits are formatted almost exactly like the New York version. The format of the show is the same. It is a copy, in Spanish. Now, I know the American SNL has lost its luster over the years, but I am an SNL fan. I have seen that show through the good years and the very bad years. Judge me if you wish. Call me proteccionist, patriotic, whatever. It bugs me that the Spaniards have re-made the show. Don't they have their own ideas for a sketch comedy show? A little creativity please! Plus, the innovation of SNL is old news. Now we have the more entertaining 30 Rock, a meta-version of SNL. Spaniards, please, get with the program. Do something original. What is it that people often say? Oh yeah, imitation is the highest form of flattery. In this case, lo dudo.
P.S. As I am watching the show, the first two skits have un-funny farting as their central theme. Seriously?
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Yeah, Spain should really get their own ideas. How about that show that was a rip-off of Friends?
I don't remember that show. I guess we do it too with British show - a monumentally failed attempt at redoing Coupling, Life on Mars, The Office - but somehow this seems different. SNL is an institution, it's part of our cultural history.
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