NBC’s “The Sound of Music Live” got NBC boffo ratings and some smello reviews — and gave Saturday Night Live some material. It’s a sketch that also has the rythmn of a sketch on one of the classif 1950s 1960s comedy shows when they spoofed a movie — partially due to the scene stealing appearance by Kristin Wiig, doing her popular Denise character. (Despite hideous reviews, the huge rating suggest we may see other live musicals or gimmicky live drama specials on network TV, which is always tying to find a way to grab back some of the audience lost to cable). Watch this sketch and see how Wiig steals it:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.