Stephan and I have always been big Saturday Night Live fans (at least before, when it was more consistently funny), and now we try to watch it when we think it’s going to be good, and Tivo through the parts that hurt us with their lack of funny. This week’s show was actually decent, which got me thinking wow, sometimes I really wish I wrote for them.
Sometimes it’s so funny, then other times I totally know where it’s going and it kind of bums me out. I think I mentioned, I think they always get a better show when they go with someone for host who isn’t professionally funny. The Rock (I guess he’s going by Duane Johnson now) is a good example. He’s an action movie star now, but seriously? That guy is total commitment. Like, the opening number where he’s supposed to be gay and he’s singing showtunes? Very ballsy, especially for a giant guy who still has muscles so big he can’t help but flex them.Also, who knew that The Rock (sorry, can’t stop calling him that) would end up doing a better Barack Obama impression than their go-to Barack Obama guy Fred Armison? Here is that sketch, which I thought was the funniest:
I don’t know why, but NBC doesn’t have a clip of my favorite “Weekend Update” bit, which featured Andy Samberg’s new thing where he does an impression of the cartoon character “Kathy,” which is just totally, brilliantly absurd. Also, I thought the “Activia” sketch where everyone poops themselves was funny (if a little too long), but as a rule I try not to encourage or support humor that focuses on lowest common denominator stuff like pooping. I mean, what are we, chimps? Sorry, it sounds snobby, but I just think hey, we have words. Let’s make funny with those. “MacGruber/ MacGyver” is really a one-joke wonder bit so I always fast forward through anything after the first one of those, though I happened to catch the last one, which had a funny call back (though again, it was about poop, so I’m not really going to talk about it too much here).
This “NBC Celebrity Apprentice” sketch was also funny, so here is that:
Alot of the reason I was in a good mood about this week’s episode had to do with the fact that the musical guest was Ray LaMontagne, an artist who (as I might have mentioned) whose latest album I currently have on “Continuous Play”. Here is his performance of “Trouble,” though I thought both of the songs he did were really good. Go Ray LaMontagne!