Splitsider: SNL Recap: Channing Tatum Endures a Night of Catcalls

For this week’s SNL recap for Splitsider, I discuss the difficulties SNL faces by using a live studio audience, and how the strip club atmosphere of last weekend’s episode contributed to a frequently uncooperative crowd.

Excerpt:

“As we found out last episode, the studio audience is a fickle beast. SNL has suffered through stone-faced, easily offended audiences as well as annoyingly ticklish ones. Last week’s host, the ruggedly handsome Channing Tatum, presided over a studio audience that behaved much like the ones I suspect he faced as a male stripper early in his career — a past SNL exploited a bit too much and backfired when Tatum couldn’t enter a sketch without a few giddy hoots from the ladies in the house. I have to wonder about the uproar SNL would have caused had they whored out Katy Perry back in December as they did Tatum last Saturday.”

Read the full post on Splitsider.com.