It's not that I necessarily dislike her, but her recurring characters on SNL are one trick ponies and get old really fast.
Humor is subjective, I don't believe she's getting as much praise as you think, and she is a halfway decent writer. It's possible she's getting compensated for a whole slew of performers before her: Jackson, Sweeney, O'Teri, Shannon, Dratch even Rudolph to some extent; who just couldn't cobble together a decent career. If anything I think some of the MAD TV girls were underexposed as well. Aniston, Barrymore and Bullock, in making romantic comedies insanely lucrative at the turn of the last decade, might have inadvertently made things a little more difficult for bona fide comedic actresses.
Honestly, with the exception of Tina Fey, I can't think of another female cast member on SNL that I actually didn't dislike.
Bridesmaids was very underwhelming. I guess I was expecting more witty exchanges and insults and less "fat chick made a fart!" jokes. That being said, Wiig was probably the only member on this current, abysmal incarnation of what was once a humorous sketch comedy show that actually did amuse me in any way, usually just by being extremely strange and using goo-goo eyes and condescending tones in a Martha Stewart faux-humility voice.
i was expecting more witty exchanges and less "watching someone depressingly destroy their life for 85 minutes before putting it back together in the last 5 minutes" action.
Unfortunately this is where big-budget comedy went 15 years ago between Dumb and Dumber, Something About Mary and Meet the Parents. For lack of a better example, a Jerry Seinfeld would not have been able to make successful (non-animated) movies in the current era; Larry David tried and failed dreadfully. That female actresses are now willing or able to do this market-ably is considered some kind of parity. I've flat out stopped watching SNL just because it devolved into a tourist trap and relies too much on pop culture parody and "Goatboy" type meme-comedy. Their political satire seems to have been co-opted somehow by the targets themselves; although I enjoyed Giuliani and McCain, I just about threw up when Palin showed up. Maybe I'm just a grouch who idealized the '86 - '94 eras in the same way boomers claimed that Gilda Radner saying "Baba Wawa" for ninety minutes was comedy gold.
I agree with all of this except the Goatboy slant. Look at how round my ass is, British scientists use it to calibrate their instruments.
I think she is awesome. One of the funnier female comics around. I hardly ever watch SNL anymore but when I do she is the only one that ever makes me laugh. I didn't see that movie, I don't watch movies like that, I just don't like them. But I do think she is funny.
In a world where Adam Sandler is damn near a billionaire the idea that Wiig fits this description is pretty funny. All you anti-Bridesmaids people are stupid and should be castrated.
I like Wiig, but her act on SNL has gotten well passed stale. Gilly was never funny. She is gone at the end of the season though. The new girl they brought in was pretty funny as Penelope Cruz. <object width="512" height="288"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/o7vBfdFyXGuCISQC26R5MQ"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/o7vBfdFyXGuCISQC26R5MQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="512" height="288" allowFullScreen="true"></embed></object>
that's the show's fault, not hers. the writing is so awful that they are forced to beat every slightly recurring character into the ground until they aren't funny anymore. i personally think wiig is pretty damn funny and talented. i'm also in the minority who thinks that tina fey is unbearably unfunny though.
I actually like Wiig and I watch SNL regularly. However, I will agree that her characters on the show get beaten to death. Those that don't care for her won't have to deal with her on SNL any after this year, as it has been rumored she is leaving the show.
