Tue 21 Oct 2008
Confession time - and I realize this may put me in a big minority - but I still love Saturday Night Live. I still record it every single week, I still gobble it up as soon as I get up on Sunday morning (because only losers admit that they actually watch it on Saturday night, and I’m no loser!!!), I still watch sketches I like three, four, five times, I still think there are way more funny than unfunny sketches, and I think the current cast is one of the strongest they’ve ever had. Even the sketches that completely, utterly bomb (and there are a lot of those) don’t bother me. In fact, in what has been another typical up and down season for the show, there was only one thing I saw this year that actually made me cringe.
The Killers performance on the October 3rd Anne Hathaway show.
Now I’m not saying that the performance in and of itself was particularly bad. For all I know, that was entirely indicative of what a standard Killers show is like. And I’m not even going to start in on the lyrics, except to simply reproduce the following - “Are we human? Or are we dancer? My sign is vital. My hands are cold” - and let you judge for yourself. No, what made me cringe were their facial expressions. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that these guys must spend as much time practicing looking cool in the mirror as they do rehearsing. Never has a band with so little to express looked so utterly pained in expressing it.
And I’m not trying to pick on Brandon Flowers. Against all odds, he is the least ridiculous member of the group. I mean, have you ever seen this guy?:
But Brandon Flowers is unquestionably the face of The Killers, and it is therefore by definition that his is the face most deserving of a punch.
I’m sorry, Brandon, but I’m only human. I’m not a dancer.
The “Forgot Your Birthday”
The “Condescending IT Guy”
The “Uh…Guys? Can We Go to Another Casino?”
The “Bass Player Tried to Sing Back-Up (Pt. I)”
The “Bass Player Tried to Sing Back-Up (Pt. II)”
The “Is That a Chocolate Cake?”
The “Wants You to Guess What His Favourite Colour Is”
The “Correction! He Came With You”
The “Forgot to Pick Mom up at Airport”
The “How Many Scores ’til a Basketball Match is Over?”
The “You’re Wearing That to the Party?”
The “Fine. I’ll Go See The Duchess Myself”
The “No One’s Buying It”
More Punchable Faces:
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:01 am
A quality choice-that fop needs a curb stomping post haste. But I said it before and I’ll say it again: Quentin Tarantino needs to on this list. Fine director and all but every photo of him automatically makes me want to frog punch him.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:42 am
Even this one, IATL?
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Regarding your thought that this is the strongest cast that SNL has put together, I beg to differ.
Granted, this ensemble might be better than some recent years, but the original cast was the best of them all. John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris, Larraine Newman, Gilda Radner, writing from Buck Henry…sorry, but you just can’t do better than that.
Love your site!
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Agreed, Mark - I just think it’s one of the strongest, not the strongest.
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Ronnie Vannucci lights my fire, dorky faces and all.
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:28 am
my favorite is the “is-that-a-chocolate-cake?” i’ve seen that pic lots of times and i never get tired of looking at it.
i love the killers and brandon especially but i have to admit this was hilarious.
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:48 am
hahahahha! this is amazing! I love this:
The “Bass Player Tried to Sing Back-Up (Pt. I)”
October 26th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I am a HUGE Killers fan, and I must say that I find this hilarious, despite it being slightly mocking.
That last caption is hysterical. Trust me, he’s not fooling me either.
November 4th, 2008 at 1:35 am
Brandon Flowers is a “Man Candy” at it’s finest. Mmmmmm. I would be his cougar any day.
Great way to spice up pictures we have seen a million times (but never get tired of looking at).
November 5th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
He is just so beautiful. I think these all look cute. Ronnie’s cool. Most drummers make “drumming” faces. Drumming is physical so your whole body has to get into it. I like guitarists “guitargasms” too.
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March 31st, 2009 at 4:33 pm
May be Brandon Flowers deserves something but it will be not a punch. Punch sounds like critical condemnation.
April 24th, 2009 at 3:14 am
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June 28th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
You know nothing of Brandon flowers, and the reason as to why you dislike the lyrics is because you can not, in any way understand them. And Brandon flowers is STUNNING. He does not pull ridiculous facial expressions. He gives a real performance, with emotion. What do you expect of a perfomance? Do you expect the lead singer to just stand there with a straight face? That would make him very boring and average.
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September 18th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Human is my very least favorite song, I think it has the most minimal amount of meaning of all their songs but it was such a big hit. Blah! The Killers give an amazing performance and it doesn’t hurt that Brandon Flowers is f n GOREGOUS gah!
December 1st, 2009 at 6:37 pm
You have no idea what your talking about, never criticize an artist because you don’t understand them. Cheap points and a lack of comprehension is all thats displayed here.
January 11th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
You probably shouldn’t punch Brando in the face… he’s too sensitive. And he might write a homo-erotic song about it.