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Saturday Night Live (11/14) as it happens

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WMC2006

Since I'm sitting here watching it, I might as well blog it again unless someone else is doing it. I have a feeling this may be a long night.

Opening sketch had Jason Sudeikis as VP Joe Biden. It wasn't completely hilarious but it was much better than any of Armisen's Obama sketches earlier in the season. Thumbs halfway up.

Guest host January Jones had quite the lame opening monologue. Jason, Armisen, and Bill Hader talked to her from the audience in the guise of Mad Mennies who follow January (of Mad Men fame) everywhere. The three of them talked and sang a whole lot more than she did. Thumbs down and it's not looking good.

Next sketch had Kristen and...Jenny?? Abby??...as Kathie Lee and Hoda Kotb hosting their 4th hour of Today. Nothing new here. KL insulting Hoda, etc. January appears briefly twice in this sketch doing a very poor job of reading the cuecards. Black Eyed Peas appear also and beat up Kathie Lee near the end of the sketch. Thumbs down overall.
 
A 'Rear Window' sketch with Jason as Jimmy Stewart, January as Grace Kelly, and Bobby Moynihan as Alfred Hitchcock. January/Grace does alot of farting in this sketch. They can't get through filming a scene without her farting. Bobby does a pretty good Hitchcock impression. Jason does a pretty good Jimmy Stewart. January does break character for a couple of seconds and laughs. Sketch is moderately funny.

The Voice Of Don Pardo tells us that next week's guest host is Joseph Gordon Leavitt (who??). I've already forgotten who next week's musical guest is. ???
 
WMC2006 said:
The Voice Of Don Pardo tells us that next week's guest host is Joseph Gordon Leavitt (who??). I've already forgotten who next week's musical guest is. ???
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Joseph Gordon Leavitt is from 3rd Rock From the Sun, as well as tons of movies.
Dave Mathews band is the Musical Guest
 
Next sketch has Jason as a newscaster throwing it to Kristen as a field correspondent interviewing January as a Dairy Queen employee who foiled a robbery. This is Kristen's reporter character who fawns over pretty girls. She is constantly complimenting January's character on her good looks and how she basically would like to get into her jeans. Not alot of laughs from me or the audience. This character ran its course several sketches ago. Way toooooooo long. Kristen could have sat this one out. Jason too, poor guy. And Jason is appearing in sketches almost as much as Kristen.


Next: January in an old documentary style film on dinner parties. Lame but did have a funny line regarding how to greet dinner guests: "If a black person arrives.....just kidding, no black person will arrive." Thumb mostly down.
 
LowPayDJ said:
Joseph Gordon Leavitt is from 3rd Rock From the Sun, as well as tons of movies.
Dave Mathews band is the Musical Guest
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Thanks very much. Wanna take over?? Please? ;D ;D
 
Black Eyed Peas enjoying hamming for the camera during the quickie live stage cut between commercials just before their first number.

January has her best moment so far tongiht: introducing the group. January might have actually avoided looking at cuecards for that. ;D


Fergie, as usual, is wearing an extremely tiny miniskirt. It's sort of disco ball-shiny. "Tonight's Gonna Be a Good Night" is what they are singing. Fergie and the 3 guys are definitely into it and energizing the crowd. Lots of confetti shot from confetti cannons. They do a good job but I can see they didn't spend much time on lyrics for this song, did they. Fergie's skirt got shorter as the song went along. ::)
 
WMC2006 said:
Thanks very much. Wanna take over?? Please? ;D ;D
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Thanks, but no thanks. You do a nice job on this. I'll just chime in where needed ;D
 
Weekend Update:

-Seth's biggest early laugh: The United Airlines pilot who was arrested for being drunk. They knew he was drunk because he was seated in seat 22F.

-Darrell Hammond is back!!! He plays CNN's Lou Dobbs who recently resigned. Not a bad 2 minutes for Darrell. Nice to see him.

-January plays Kim Kardashian who promotes her sister Khloe's wedding on Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Theme is Kim's butt. Funny bit and I've never seen that show.

-Jason and Hader as Opposite Jon-Bovi. Never liked these 2 characters. Not funny. Always goes on too long.

And, unfortunately, that's the last sketch of Update. Very lame. Big thumbs down.
 
And we move on to a black and white sketch involving Hader as Dr. Jekyll and January as his wife. Apparently, after taking some serum, his alter ego Dr Hyde has sex with men.

Remember the sketch a couple of weeks ago involving a bunch of warriors (was it guest host Gerard Butler??) who found they were homosexual and enjoyed time with each other? This is pretty much the same thing in a different time period.

Man, I REALLY wish Taylor Swift would come by. She stole last week's show. We need her back. Apparently, she used up all the good ideas from the writers because this week's show is a major letdown.
 
It's an SNL Digital Short with Armisen and Samberg.

Armisen keeps walking in on Samberg who is constantly sitting on the toilet everywhere: in the bathroom, living room, gym, sidewalk, and finally in the bathroom again where he sits right on Samberg's lap. Yup.


<sigh>
 
January again introduces Fergie and the Peas for their 2nd number. January seems to do well when she has little to say.


Fergie has changed outfits and is now wearing a black dress that is slightly longer than her disco shiny miniskirt. She sings with a guy who has a mohawk. 2nd guy singing is wearing massive sunglasses. 3rd guy looks like a pimp.

They sound good but I'm not familiar with the song. Something about "for you and I" and "can you meet me halfway". Audience reaction is a good one.
 
Jason and January on a first date, lying on a blanket, in a park. Her character is fairly ditzy and far from current: last movie she saw was The Wiz; last new song she heard was Muskrat Love by Captain and Tennielle; last tv show she saw was final episode of Trapper John MD.

January thanks everyone at the goodbyes: Black Eyed Peas; Darrell Hammond (who is on stage), the cast and Lorne.

And Fergie and the Peas do ANOTHER number as the show closes and the credits roll. Fergie is now wearing higher-than-knee high boots and a black shorts number with pretty good cleavage showing up top. And she bounces around. Alot.

That's 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Unless you are a Black Eyes Peas fan, I'd suggest skipping this episode and re-watching last week's show with Taylor Swift.

Next week, LowPayDJ guestblogs. ;D

I think I'll be watching Wanda Sykes on Fox instead. :D
 
WMC2006 said:
That's 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Unless you are a Black Eyes Peas fan, I'd suggest skipping this episode and re-watching last week's show with Taylor Swift.

Next week, LowPayDJ guestblogs. ;D

I think I'll be watching Wanda Sykes on Fox instead. :D
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I'd have to agree that tonight was a total waste of 90 minutes unless you are a big Black Eyed Peas fan.
The only reasons I made a point to watch tonight was to see January and Fergie. Both are pretty hot. ;)

However, even though I am a Huge Mad Men fan, January's acting skills tonight had alot to be desired tonight. This is a show that I won't bother to watch again if and when it reruns.

And as for me Guest Blogging next week, I think I'm going to have to pass and go do something I haven't done in ages,...get drunk!!! That's gotta be better then the writing that's been happening on SNL. Then again, if I stayed home and got drunk, maybe I'd find the show to be funny once again.

To WMC2006, Good Job tonight. Thanks once again for hitting the nail right on the head.
 
Comedy really shouldn't be attempted by a giant, corporate committee.
 
CUSS WORD ALERT:

during the performance of the black eyed peas while the closing credits were rolling, i heard one of the guys singing "shittin on yall with the boom, boom" while performing "boom boom pow". he only sang it once though, singing "hittin yall with the boom, boom" during the remainder of the song.
 
mr.ric said:
CUSS WORD ALERT:

during the performance of the black eyed peas while the closing credits were rolling, i heard one of the guys singing "shittin on yall with the boom, boom" while performing "boom boom pow". he only sang it once though, singing "hittin yall with the boom, boom" during the remainder of the song.
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I didn't catch that. Although, in my eyes, and ears, saying Shit on TV is no big deal
 
LowPayDJ said:
I didn't catch that. Although, in my eyes, and ears, saying Shit on TV is no big deal
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It isn't... on a cable network. This happened on a regular broadcast network, which is why i brought this up. I tivo'ed it and watched it again and again. Sounds like he really said it.
 
SNL seems to be averaging a cuss word once every two weeks this season. That has got to be some kind of record. Of course I only cuss at myself for watching this sh*t. Holy cow that may have been the worst opening monolouge ever! Made me wish we could have skipped over January and went straight to February. The only thing more painful was that Kathie Lee sketch. WOW, you could hear crickets chirp in the studio. That was the most unfunny piece of garbage ever. I literally had to turn my TV off. I didn't even want to see any more. I'm usually not this Tough on the show. But last nights program went downhill at record speeds. It began at 11:30 and by 11:37 the show had already crashed into a tree.
 
I gave up on it right around the time that I figured out that they were closing Weekend Update with Jon Bovi! That was so lame and it went on forever (and ever, and ever....). I'm in general agreement with WMC here and appreciate being filled in on what I missed (or didn't miss). Too many of the sketches run too long and Lorne is relying too heavily on too few members of the cast.
 
I'm glad Time Warner has made SNL available on Primetime on demand. But based on these posts, I'm likely going to skip it. How was weekend update? That's usually all I watch it for anyway.
 
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