Saturday Night Live has at times meandered along, riffing largely on the events of the week in predictable, but charming, ways. There’s just rarely much electricity in the product anymore.
But when it comes to having Kenan Thompson portray LaVar Ball. the show has … NEVA LOST.
Thompson-as-Ball stopped by the Weekend Update desk last night to give his thoughts on his son LaMelo’s incredible rookie season and it was genuinely laugh-out-loud funny for almost the entire bit. What makes the whole thing work, really, is that Thompson can barely hold it together. He’s being absolutely ridiculous — and yet, try as he might, he still can’t sound as grandiose and unwired as LaVar himself.
Thompson can never really get all the way into character. He’s too excited to deliver the next joke. And it works beautifully.
“Neva Lost to Godzilla. Neva to the Zilla.”
