I cannot remember the last time I sat through an episode of Saturday Night Live, but it has definitely been at least since I was in high school. I remember being a kid and Saturday night were an event with my brothers, my friends, and I, awaiting the latest episode of SNL and literally ROFLing late into the night. Maybe my sense of humor has just changed over the years, or maybe there really was a time that SNL was funny. Needless to say, sometime during my early high school years, it stopped being funny. It actually became painful to watch.
Now, there is a reason to tune in again (or, more likely, watch it after the fact on the internet): Joseph Gordon-Levitt is going to be hosting. Here’s to hoping it is a success for him, but if nothing else, maybe it will pique the interest of the kiddies enough that they check out some of his movies, if they already haven’t. I also checked out the current SNL cast list on Wikipedia. I had no idea that Bill Hader was on the show. He’s funny sometimes.
Here is the promo for Saturday’s show below.
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The writing was just as terribly unfunny as I remember, but JGL’s ability to get into his roles and his enthusiasm were above and beyond the majority of celebs that I remember being on the show. Just watch the final moments of the show when he’s saying goodnight and you can tell how much of a thrill he got out of doing this. This won’t make me watch SNL again anytime soon, but he did a hell of a job still.
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I have to agree with Jonathan. I too was drawn in by JGL to watch the show after years of avoiding its terrible writing, and alas I was incredibly disappointed. I can’t see how they can’t notice the lack of laughter from the audience. That being said, JGL did his damndest, and there is some great talent on the show going to waste (Bill Hader, Kristin Wiig, Andy Samberg). It will be a good long while until I watch that show again. I’ll just keep the wonderful memory of JGL as Llyod Dobbler.
Andy Samberg’s “Mark Wahlberg talks to Animals” still makes me laugh though.
I don’t know what show Shelagh and Jon were watching.
I mean SNL has been particularly bad this season (thanks to cast members and top writers being away on other projects) and Seth Meyers needs to be fired as head writer, but this past episode was as good as SNL gets in ANY season. JGL absolutely killed, and it just shows how much a host who wants to be there matters. I’d endorse about 6 of the 8 sketches.
Which skits did you find so good? The monologue was awesome, one of the best I’ve seen since SNL’s heyday, which I posted above. Other than that, the sketches themselves weren’t very funny. The only humorous parts would be when JGL was doing something (or Al Gore). He shined.
The Say Anything skit had promise, but was overdone. What Up With That was kind of amusing. The others… not so much.
monologue, what up with that, say anything overall (especially as a ‘last skit of the night’ it works), reba digital short, mellow show (all about Dave Matthews and the non sequitors), jars of beer (i think that may have been online only though) and the weekend update was short and sweet, the way i like it. the ‘bad’ sketches weren’t offensively bad. i mean to see what a bad sketch looks like check out anything from the January Jones episode.
the opening Obama/China skit and the 2012 Palin things were okay if obvious/repetitive.