Saturday Night Live

Yeah, I surprised anyone is up in arms over January Jones considering that they'll even let athletes host this show.

the rock was a radical host as i recall

yeah, dude. He did it twice! Once as the Rock and once as Dwayne Whatever The Fuck His Real Name Is

sometimes the non-actors can be good if they just go for it and don't mind looking silly. i don't see jeter going this way though.

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/celebrity_photos/derek_jeter_big_screen_cameo_HAUnrIHKNBtbI829udviXL

peyton manning was pretty funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L42C7wphzVY

peyton manning is funny in commercials too

iirc most of the athletes that host tend to bring in huge ratings no matter how bad they are -- wasn't Nancy Kerrigan one of their highest rated episodes ever? i can at least see the rationale for that more than getting the 3rd or 4th most famous person from an award winning but not massively popular cable drama.

If memory serves, this will be an encore performance for Jeter. I don't remember his first time being funny, though. In fact, I barely remember it at all.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, November 16, 2009 11:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

derek jeter's taco hole was great

<3 peyton manning's comedy.

Part of the allure of athletes on the show is watching highly successful people fail, imo.

Part of the allure of athletes on the show is watching highly successful people fail, imo.

― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:51 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nah, people have low expectations for athletes on snl so then as long as they aren't awful they come across pretty well

I don't remember who it was, but there was an athlete on, a baseball player I think, and Chris Kattan is a kid about to go to sleep, and the athlete shows up like a ghost to offer all these aspirational thoughts and it's really touching, then one by one more show up till it's just annoying and creepy and finally Will Ferrel enters. That was a great skit.

Here it is. Helen Hunt was the guest but real athletes show up.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/97/97ibaseball.phtml

hahaha, remember when Wayne Gretzky hosted in 1989 and he did that sketch where he just said everything he thought outloud.

"Bye guys, if you need me, I'll upstairs masturbating"

actual lols just from reading the transcript of that baseball sketch

That was Joe Montana, not Gretzky.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/86istu.phtml

Ugh, SNL Transcripts...

"This is my master, Hannibal" instead of "mastiff"

come on fuck a guy

thanks, dan... shit that was 86!

I remember being incredulous that my parents were not stopping me from watching the show at that point

ha i totally remember that one!

it was such a weird thing for Joe Montana to say

think that was maybe why it was funny

thanks

I still bust out the line "I've got the rolling papers if you got the weed" from the baseball sketch fairly regularly. I'm rarely taken up on the offer though.

you're welcome, jazzgasms! (/joe montana voice)

loool @ 2012 sketch

Dave Matthews as Ozzy was big lulz

what is up with that

Wow, this kid likes cassettes.

not very funny episode, but from JGL monologue alone...will you deny his talent?

Part of the allure of athletes on the show is watching highly successful people fail, imo.

SNL goes to great lengths -- too great -- to keep the host from looking stupid.

OK SNL can just fuck off for real with that China-Obama skit.

"How many jobs have you created?" "None" AARCCCHHHGDSS!O#IF$@H!!!

"Wah! Wah! SNL is only supposed to make fun of the OTHER guys, not my guy! Wah!"

I thought the China-Obama thing was funny!

Good episode all around, actually. JGL seemed a little frantic but he did a good job.

He was entertaining, Kenan MVP of this ep though. Between Reba and What Up With That.

Jason Sudeikis's bboy dancing is still the mvp of "what up with that" imo.

I don't know, seeing Moyinahan in those wrestling tights twirling the snake kinda did it for me.

True

Of course a lot of my love for this episode comes from the fact that it wasn't last week's episode.

yah this one tailed off a little near the end with the thanksgiving sketch and some other crap but it was a pretty funny episode overall, the return of "what up with that?" almost killed me. the china/obama thing was one of the better recent cold opens (which are usually pretty awful, they should maybe try something other than lame political humor here for a change?) but it went on way too long.

I loved the Wilson Phillips/En Vogue part of the thanksgiving sketch.

I'd be fine with them making fun of Obama. But sorry, dumbass misrepresentations of policy debates you don't understand isn't funny. Neither is Fred Armisen.

Neither is Fred Armisen.

Agreed; that guy is especially horrible.

i mostly just liked the "making sex with me" punchlines.

Armisen was funnier when he was under the radar. Ferricito 4EVA

I loved the Wilson Phillips/En Vogue part of the thanksgiving sketch.

― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:48 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

y'know I was thinking during the sketch that they've done probably a dozen different variations on that kind of 'tense family dinner' sketch with a dozen different casts over the years but they're pretty much always really funny to me, then they broke out a wacky singing routine which feels like a much more recent vintage SNL cliche and it kinda ruined it for me.