Like I mentioned last night, I decided to give myself a reason to update this blog regularly again on the off-days of Survivor and when I don't have anything worthy to blog about: recap "Saturday Night Live", and also, I decided to recap the upcoming season of "16 and Pregnant" as well. For now, I will recap last Saturday's episode of SNL.
Last Saturday's episode of SNL was a rebroadcast of an episode that originally aired on December 5th, 2009. Blake Lively of "Gossip Girl" fame was the host, and Rihanna was the musical guest. I have never watched Gossip Girl, but I sort of want to buy it on DVD. My best friend Jenny loves that show and she and I always talk about it.
I'll do a rundown of the skits in chronological order. This will include Blake's opening monologue and the cold open.
Cold Open: this was a parody of the incident in Pennsylvania where two ordinary people crashed an Obama event. It was cute, but I never get why the cold opens are usually centered around politics.
Opening Monologue: I've always been a Muppet girl my whole life, and to see some of the cast members playing them alongside Blake was cute. It was really funny and Jason Sudelkis had some good lines.
Carter & Son's BBQ: This skit was also show in the episode where Taylor Swift hosted and performed, and it wasn't that appealing the first time. And it wasn't any more appealing the second time either.
Ladies' Bowling: the sports commentators that make jokes about the sponsors for a particular tournament are pretty good. Altho the sponsors make products that are a bit inappropriate for my taste. But whatever.
Tiger Woods incidents on The Situation Room: Kenan Thompson did a nice job as Tiger Woods, and Blake Lively pretty effective as his wife Elin. I don't know how to spell or pronounce her last name, so I'll just leave it off. And the joke was that it was female on male domestic violence, where normally it's the opposite. Pretty good skit.
SNL Digital Short: I'm gonna say this right now: I have a crush on Andy Samberg and go nuts whenever he comes on screen. Him and Rihanna worked well together for this short, altho I'm not a fan of Andy as a redhead.
Gossip Girl: Staten Island: Of course, they had to do a skit making fun of Gossip Girl, since that is Blake's claim to fame. This was one of my favorite skits of the night and I loved the faux-Italian accents. Maybe if I watch the skit a little more I can imitate them (like I did when I re-watched Nasim Pedrad's imitation of Kim Kardashian on an earlier episode).
Underground Festival: An advertisement for an underground death metal festival. It was funny the way they delivered it, but it's just not the type of music I listen to.
Weekend Update: One of my favorite parts of SNL is Weekend Update, partly because I also have a crush on Seth Meyers, and partly because he has really good delivery. On the original broadcast of this episode, there was a bit making fun of Brittany Murphy, who died two weeks later. After her death, NBC took down the clip from Hulu and NBC.com, and on this rebroadcast, the segment was removed. I wondered if they were going to take it out because it would be in poor taste to make fun of someone who recently died.
Virginiaca: Blake did another great faux-Italian accent in this sketch, another one of my favorites of the evening. Kenan was also very funny.
Late Night With Chris Hansen: a good concept that should be brought back. Andy Samberg as Keanu Reeves and Blake as Cher were both very good.
Potato Chip: not funny at all, and the end was just so nasty that I had to look away from my screen this time. That's all I'll say.
So that's a recap of SNL for this week. This coming Saturday, Jon Hamm is the host, and Michael Buble is the musical guest. Will do my best to recap it.
Love y'all,
***-Lily-***
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