SNL: Outside The Lines with Coach Melissa McCarthy
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Whenever you see a talented sketch comedian like "Mike and Molly's" Melissa McCarthy stop by Saturday Night Live, it makes you realize how untalented some of the cast members have been over the past few years.
Below are a few of the "Bridesmaids" star's standout sketches.
Unfortunately I have a bootleg video of her "Honey Baked Ham" sketch. Like Bruno Mar's Sirius XM and Justin Timberlake's Harlem Shake/Veganville sketches, "The Presentation" has copyrighted songs (2 Unlimited’s “Get Ready For This”, Salt-N- Pepa’s “Push It” and MC Hammer's dance to “U Can’t Touch This”), I guess SNL didn't want to pay the fees for the online version.
Melissa McCarthy in Falling in High Heels Monologue
The past few weeks,my interest of the "Harlem Shake" has quickly evaporared and when Melissa Harris Perry drove a stake through the heart of the over-hyped "dance" with her MSNBC Footnote on the real "Harlem Shake," it was a fitting end to the mostly nonrhythmic phenomenon.
However, when my pop culture in crime Leah Haslage posted the Peanuts version of the "Harlem Shake" on Facebook, my heart grew two times bigger like the Grinch.
Watching the Snoopy dancing happily alone in front of a frowning Lucy and Schroeder then bouncing into to the dancing scene from "A Charlie Brown Christmas", officially puts a cherry on top of a dance that was once hot but cooled very quickly.
Part history lesson, part dance experience, MSNBC's Melissa Harris Perry brings some sense to this "Harlem Shake" explosion, by giving love to the real "Harlem Shake" with heartfelt words, while New York City dancers giving the true "Shake" its due.
Last week, I wrote while the new "Harlem Shake" is funny, but it has nothing to do with the the true Harlem Shake dance from the 2000's.
Now Its one thing for a guy in Akron, Ohio to say this, but when you talk to the residents of Harlem, New York about the true "Harlem Shake" and the poorly dance version of today, you gain great insight and video gold!
When I first heard of the latest version of the "Harlem Shake", I thought that the old dance from the late 2000's which were featured videos from Eve's"Whos That Girl" to Diddy's "Let's Get it" had made a comeback.
Um, no.
This latest version has a person in a mask dancing poorly by themselves to Baauer's song "Harlem Shake", then as the beat slows, the video suddenly jumps to a bunch of other rhythm-less people in masks dancing, (although I dig what chicken is doing below).
Ironically, parts of the dance looks like the Weekend at Bernie's dance that appeared a earlier this decade)
Although most of the videos last for only 30 seconds, they are pretty humorously to watch like the Gradma version below, (she probably has no idea what's going on, but that's what makes it funny).
However, "Southland" star Regina King, summed it best on Anderson Cooper when she said after viewing his staff's version that "Harlem Shake" is definitely for people who "can't dance".
Although I concur with Regina, I will give a nod to T-Pain's version, which is probably the rhythmic of them all (and he didn't even need auto-tunes to do it!)
Sadly, the "Harlem Shake" might have jumped the shark already as the Today Show did their version for Valentine's Day. Where's David Gregory when you need him to give the Today Show staff some rhythm! (Kudos for Al Roker for trying to do best he can, while being the only brother on the set)
Hey Today Show! Watch KSLA News 12's version of the "Harlem Shake", this is how you do it!
So what's your favorite version of the Harlem Shake or do you think the whole thing is dumb?
