Response to Whit's lead blog post

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this skit from SNL and it was the first time I have seen anything from this show, as we don’t have it in the UK. I thought that Bruno Mars performed the impressions of the other artists exceptionally well, to the extent that he even got all the hand movements and facial expressions spot on, for example, the eye twitch movement of Justin Bieber. The artists that kept ‘cutting off’ got better and better, leaving the viewer anticipating who on earth would be next in the line up. In addition to this, Devin gets extremely into the impressions and seems ‘in the zone’ which is hilarious to watch. I furthermore enjoyed the part where Devin was so insistent that he could not possibly perform Michael Jackson without the holy glove. When the other characters suddenly whip out a perfect match for the glove he was looking for, caused me to be caught off guard and laugh as I was not expecting this. This links to incongruity theory, because the fact that the 3 men all pulled out the precise glove is so totally random. When Devin (Bruno Mars) doesn’t even know words to the songs, but makes up some gibberish this made me think of myself and how I don’t actually know the lyrics to many songs but pretend I do as I make up my own version of what sounds similar, to the same beat. It makes you think that the person listening to Panodra is probably thinking “what the heck is going on”, which may be why they kept skipping the songs. Lastly what made this skit great was the sheer talent of Bruno Mars and how versatile is music skill is that he could do such a good job of impersonating a whole array of music artists.