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"SNL" may have copied a sketch from "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" this weekend
By James Brady RyanSeptember 27th, 2010, 1:30 pmComments (2)Saturday Night Live's season premier was on Saturday, hosted by Amy Poehler, and while the episode seems to be getting fair-to-decent reviews, some are questioning whether or not the show ripped off a sketch from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Specifically, people are curious about this bit, in which Poehler and Kristen Wiig play rival Sex and the City-type ladies who are dueling over who can wear the tiniest hat. It's very strange:
And wouldn't you know it? Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim just so happened to have written a sketch a while ago called "Tiny Hat":
Even the creators themselves noticed, and indulged in some good-natured ribbing about the whole situation via Twitter. Of course, I doubt the writers of SNL actually plagiarized the routine; it's not like they could really "get away with it" if they had. And while it is strange that both sketches revolve around tiny hats, a concept which is not exactly... popular, these seems like unconsciously borrowing an idea at worst. Hopefully this doesn't rend the comedy community asunder.
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I liked the tiny hat sketch. Great visual humor when Wiig brought out the microscope. Hader in pink jacket with poodle doesn't even have to say anything to get laughs. Hader gets stuck with playing all the gay characters. Stefon is a riot. One Stefon is funnier than ten Bronx Beats. Poehler is versatile, but not that funny to me. Yeah, she call pull off white trash and hip-hop bitches, but i'm not splitting a gut over her. Jay Pharoah seemed nervous in his debut, understandably, but he pulled off the Will Smith that we know and love with no hitches. I guess Denzel will be next.
Aside from the fact that they both feature tiny hats, the two aren't really very similar.The Tim & Eric sketch's conceit is so much funnier, though, in my opinion. A guy needing to find hats for his "dolls" before a date comes over is pretty clever, whereas the Poehler v. Wiig contest for the smallest hat gets formulaic and predictable after the first go-round (like pretty much all SNL sketches these days).