Usually Saturday Night Live season finales would be peppered with celebrities to ease the creative burden of writing a twentieth episode of a season and to give viewers some positive things to talk about the show during the summer hiatus. (Think last year’s big star-filled Billy Joel singalong.) But this wasn’t the case for last night’s season finale. We can all blame Betty White for that. Thanks a lot you old hag.
Still, this was an okay installment. Read more…
Betty White is getting the credit for this being the highest rated episode of Saturday Night Live this season. While it’s true that the audience was REALLY excited to see her, I thought the real draw was the one night only return of the best female cast members of the last ten years. Poehler (preggers again), Rudolph, Gasteyer, Fey, Shannon and Dratch all made sure Nasim Pedrad had absolutely no air time, and Pedrad herself probably didn’t care.
I mean, she probably did care, but felt like she couldn’t complain without seeming selfish. Read more…
Well this week was the exact opposite as last week – I hated the episode while the critics and few friends that still watch the show liked it. I personally found the entire show to have little to no energy to it but I’ve been wrong before believe it or not. Even a fully functioning watch will someday get stolen as they say.
This episode wasn’t as bad as the stinky old media said it was. Oh, Ke$ha was Ke$ha, and there were a few stinkers in the bunch, but it wasn’t January Jones hosting awful. Plus it made fun of the ICP. Read more…
So true story: when this edition of SNL aired this past Saturday night I was actually not in my home in front of my television. Look, it happens. Because of this egregious mistake of trying to be more social (ew) I missed whatever Steve Martin and Mark Sanchez participated in on the show. But thanks Hulu for letting me see the good nights with those two celebrities and not the sketch they were in for some stupid lawyer reason.
Anyway, in honor of Tina Fey hosting, tonight’s categories will be 30 Rock seasons one and two for the great sketches, SNL in the Tina Fey writing era for the average ones and What Date Night seems to be for the shitacular bits. Read more…
Anyone who knows me knows I am totally in the tank for Zach Galifianakis. I’ve been a fan of his since his 2001 Comedy Central Presents, which he concluded by revealing he was wearing a dress, with musical accompaniment by an all-female choir singing “Eternal Flame”. The guy mixes one-liners that Steven Wright would be proud of with random, unjustified and hilarious fits of anger. Zach is so good that he is even funny when he bombs. In a recent podcast interview, he recounted how host Marc Maron and himself enjoyed dinner at an Indian restaurant. “I phoned ahead to reserve a table. To get an Indian reservation…I’m sorry that was so terrible.” He then laughed. A lot of other people did too. Read more…
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Just biding time before next week’s Zach Galifianakis episode. It hasn’t even aired yet but it’s the third greatest Saturday Night Live of all-time, according to No Seriously Digest.
For now, Jennifer Lopez. Read more…
Ashton Kutcher, in the grand scheme of nouns, isn’t someone that deserves a lot of shit. Basically, Ashton Kutcher knows what people think of Ashton Kutcher, and he adjusts accordingly. He can play stupid and obnoxious very well, but when we get bored with it he dials the Ashton meter down. The Kutch is a really good host for Saturday Night Live for that reason, which explains why this was his fourth episode hosting. And ladies and gents may I say that this was a really really good episode. Read more…
I don’t think I’ll ever be completely fair with Saturday Night Live. After being exposed to the great sketch comedy shows The State and Mr. Show, mostly anything SNL does will pale in comparison. But what can you expect from a show that has to run twenty 90-minute installments over an eight month span? Whatever, *I* didn’t tell them to do it that often, for thirty-five years, live every single time.
However, last night’s episode featured a set of bits that reminded me of Mr. Show in the happy happy joy joy way – a running gag occuring in more than one sketch. Read more…
Earlier this week Seth Meyers cheerfully tweeted that by hosting tonight’s SNL, Sigourney Weaver will take the record for the longest time between hosting gigs. The previous record holder? Last week’s host, Charles Barkley. Eat it Barkley*.