Tonight is a rebroadcast of Saturday Night Live. The episode is one I have not written about. This episode originally aired on January 16th, 2010, and was hosted by Sigourney Weaver, featuring musical guests the Ting Tings. As always, the sketches will be written about in chronological order.
Cold Open: A nice way to talk about the feud between Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien. Jason Sudeikis as David Letterman didn't do much besides throw pencils at the camera. Nice to see former cast member Darrell Hammond pop up as Leno.
Monologue: Sigourney Weaver made her second hosting appearance on this show on the original broadcast, her first gig was in 1986. She talked about past roles, said "bitches" on live television, and talked about the years her father was president of NBC. I was surprised at how funny she was. She was awesome.
Grady Wilson's 50 and Freaky: On paper, this seemed a bit nasty, but executed, it was nasty and funny. Kenan Thompson has been awesome since the mid-1990's when he was on "All That". And Sigourney was pretty good.
Lady Stars of Darts: The ESPN Classic sketches always make me roll my eyes. This one was no exception. Sigourney looked a bit scary as a Russian girl. I didn't really laugh at this sketch, mostly groan at the douche jokes and roll my eyes.
Digital Short: the Laser Cats sketches appear once a season. This one featured James Cameron in a cameo role and Sigourney Weaver in her iconic role from the "Alien" series, Ellen Ripley. This short paid homage to all of Cameron's films over the years, including "The Terminator", "Avatar", "Alien" and "Titanic". It was pretty dang awesome.
Disco Booty Junction: I had one of the songs from this sketch stuck in my head last week, so I had to watch the sketch again. Sigourney and Kristen Wiig make a super team as Amber and Cream, even though we never knew who was who. Kenan was effectively frustrated.
Weekend Update: Seth Meyers, the current longest-running cast member of the current cast of SNL (having been on the show since 2001), is a comedic genius. Plus he's good-looking. I loved his breakdown of the feud of Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno as a marriage. Andy Samberg, also a comedic genius and very good-looking, pops up as Larry the Goose. His goose puns were fun, and I loved his honking, even tho it sounded more like squawking. Abby Elliott, who is one of my favorite SNL cast members because she's talented and also a sweetheart and has helped me through some rough times, pops up as Meryl Streep. She was funny in this. And I loved that Seth took a moment to talk about efforts to relief in Haiti, and also made a "Baby Got Back" joke. Like I said, he's a comedic genius.
Avatar parody: Of course they had to mention Avatar because of the host. Sigourney played her character in Avatar, and Bill Hader played the Jake to Nasim Pedrad's Neytiri. Having not seen the movie, it was pretty a pretty good parody.
Riley: "You bitch!" could become a new catchphrase around SNL. Fred Armisen was funny in this and I hope this character becomes recurring. Andy was a nice foil to Fred. Sigourney was the reasonable one, and Jason Sudeikis was good too.
Internet Buzz: This is what happens when you Google yourself. Sigourney was awesome in this, and she said "bitch" on air again.
Fire and Rice: I understand what it's like being afraid of heights, I am as well. Sigourney was pretty good in this. The ending seemed a bit painful tho.
That's a wrap for tonight! Survivor is on a special day this week, Wednesday. I am unsure what's going on that moved it up to Wednesday, but you will get your Survivor commentary a day early next week. And 16 and Pregnant is on Tuesday, as usual. This episode will feature a girl named Samantha who has to have a C-section. If anything else comes up that is worth blogging about, you will get that as well.
Love y'all,
***-Lily-***
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