Comments on: Brittany Murphy: Thoughts on the Saturday Night Live, December 5, 2009 Sketch

By: Nora

Nora — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 01:08:48 +0000

I don’t think any one person did the wrong thing . It was done because it was one’s job to create spoofs on the newest dirt on performers. Obviously, it definitely gives you a feel for the type of person the spoof actress is . But It’s her job to be a thoughtless heartless jackass on tv. They didn’t know she was going to die soon after it. It is so sad what happened to her. But perhaps she was ill from mental abuse and pill use and this made her normal bubbly happy person morph into something deeper and seemingly deranged seeming to any “normal” person wouldn’t have the instinct to notice something more is going on with her . Keep in mind, when you are taking drugs prescriptions or illegal drugs this weakens your immune system. Now many different things are coming out to light about what was happening in her home and with her. There’s more to everyone behind the seems always. So much more. I’m sure one day they will let the vedio back out to allow us to study it for ourselves what a highschool bully may act like due to jealousy at their first chance to be a bucket dipper. Not a bucket filler. And maybe the fact we should get the full scoop before we make asses out of ourselves thinking we are funny is a good lesson learned here.Seriously.

By: jennifer

jennifer — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 06:45:48 +0000

Brittany Murphy was a exceptional actress! To name a few of her best work, Girl Interrupted, Don’t Say A Word.
She was smart, funny, talented, and always appeared kind. I choose to remember her for her phenomenal work. As for SNL ‘s skit.. bad timing, yes. I don’t believe any disrespect was meant . It’s SNL.

By: stan

stan — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:59:56 +0000

I thought BM looked like crap when she hosted. She looked like she was coming off of a binge. I don’t think I was wrong

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:28:09 +0000

I had the same reaction as Mary when I saw the skit on SNL. Now that I understand what it was about, I want to see “8 Mile” again.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:13:16 +0000

I had the same reaction as Mary when I saw the skit on SNL. Now that I understand what it was about, I want to see “8 Mile” again.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:10:40 +0000

I had the exact same reaction as Mary. But now that I understand it, I want to see “8 Mile” again.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:41:35 +0000

I saw this when it aired. Having no idea who Brittany Murphy was, I thought “well, that’s weird.” Then she turned up dead a few weeks later and I thought, “what!?”

I am still thinking, “what!?

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:35:58 +0000

I’m trying to figure out if this shows more ignorance about Brittany Murphy or Josef Stalin.

By: Lady T

Lady T — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:10:44 +0000

Okay,after reading the “transcript” of this skit and actually watching it(thanks to one of the links set up here),I have come to the conclusion that Hulu and NBC’s decision to take it down from their site was a good one.

The skit itself isn’t that memorable and if not for the tragic death of Brittany Murphy,no one would bother much to look for it. Acting like this is some grand conspiracy on Hulu or NBC’s part is actually funnier than the bit was. I think that out of respect for Brittany’s loved ones,we should focus our attention on her work as an actress rather than someone else’s parody of her-just my two cents on this.

By: Kitty Krueger

Kitty Krueger — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:14:25 +0000

You know what is hilarious? Comparing NBC pulling a clip off Hulu to a governmental breech of civil liberties. Hope you didn’t pull a muscle making that ridiculous reach.

By: Gil Thomas

Gil Thomas — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:50:39 +0000

SNL has been doing stuff like this forever. Goofy/silly celebrity impressions are not a new thing for this show, or pretty much any other comedy or sketch sow on television today. Look at Mad TV. Look at the Dave Chappelle Show. Yeah, the comedy value of this sketch is in question, but this one sketch alone should NOT be a launch pad for philosophical discussions on the merit of comedy in the 21st Century, and especially not an indication of the overall quality of the show or this season. This is one 2-minute segment from more than 10 hours of other material the show has produced this season. It’s like taking one bad performance on American Idol, then the singer dies, and everyone suddenly rips apart the American Idol producers and FOX as a network. To rip apart SNL and NBC for one (completely innocuous and cute) skit is mostly insulting to poor Abby Elliot more than anyone else. NO ONE COULD HAVE REASONABLY KNOWN Brittany Murphy was going to die some time after this. If we should be overly sensitive to how celebrity impersonations will make said celebrity feel, then you may as well stop watching any tonight show / news commentary show / sketch show on television. I am completely ad utterly convinced that SNL, its writers, and Abby Elliot did *not* do anything wrong with this sketch. Anyone who thinks they did should familiarize themselves with the privacy and parody laws surrounding public figures.

By: swiss

swiss — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:28:36 +0000

thanks for your post — you’re spot-on re: taking NBC to task on cleansing the web of this clip.

And no, Kristen, NBC didn’t remove the video “out of respect for Brittany grieving family.” More like out of respect for their legal team…an over zealous attempt to avoid defamation lawsuits.

By: Bat of Moon

Bat of Moon — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:44:56 +0000

Ed, I think you gave this more thought than did anyone at SNL involved in that skit. Most of their skits are one-joke ideas stretched out to infinity, and most of the impersonations are so rudimentary that describing them as simplistic would be to overrate them.

By: Charles Herold

Charles Herold — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:17:24 +0000

Your complaint that the SNL sketch was repetitive, awkward and poorly written puzzles me; that describes almost every SNL sketch of the last 20 years. If you don’t like that, why do you bother watching the show?

By: ghost rida

ghost rida — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:26:28 +0000

Here’s the video…
http://brittanymurphy-snl-skit.blogspot.com/2009/12/snl-parody-video-of-brittany-murphy.html

It might not be up for long.

By: The Truth

The Truth — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:49:24 +0000

Get over it. It was funny and a dead-on impression. Yeah I said it. So what. People die. Life goes on. Everyone is so touchy about death. Well, let me tell ya, it comes for all of us. If you can’t laugh in the face of it, you are pathetic. Glad I have this on DVR.

By: risky minority

risky minority — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:47:53 +0000

I saw this Dec 12 airing and thought it was cheap and uninspired before the tragedy. Abby Elliot guest voiced on “King of the Hill” where Murphy was a regular. Who knows what their correspondence was? Classless nonetheless. But what else can we expect from 21st century forms of “entertainment”. Suck it SNL. RIP Brit.

By: AJLind

AJLind — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:26:45 +0000

NBC and others ridiculing and harassing people a la high school bullying tactics is disgusting. What is even more disgusting is that there is no thought given to the idea that people might be seriously damaged or kill themselves. Disgusting.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:51:12 +0000

Interesting commentary.

The imitation isn’t quite that bad. Looking at a SNL promo with her on You Tube, she does have that head bob thing going. The voice is workable. If you look at the DL clip in the last comment, her hands on firmly on the chair rather noticeably.

It isn’t that funny though the “revenge” she plans is sorta amusing by SNL standards. Removing the clip from Hulu because of her death is pretty stupid — she seems to have a sense of humor about herself (on Letterman, she cited goofball things she did) and it doesn’t somehow poison her memory to leave it up.

It would be different if it was in this week’s show or something.

By: Edward Champion

Edward Champion — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:19:36 +0000

I have seen footage of Brittany Murphy. Lots of “you knows,” forced enthusiasm, not always the most articulate (but then again not altogether different from other actors), someone who liked to use her hands, as seen in this Letterman clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtyrIQO5Vic

But none of that in this sketch. NBC removed it only because it didn’t serve its corporate interests. An impersonation is one thing, but it needs to have some motivation, some deeper purpose or understanding, some appreciation of the subject being sent up.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:03:49 +0000

Have you ever seen footage of Brittany Murphy? The impersonation was spot-on, right down to the head bobbing. I’m sure SNL removed it out of respect for Brittany’s grieving family, but doing celebrity impersonations has been their schtick for years – not sure why this one is any different.