Saturday Night Live

haha, I was like, wait, what JT skits did I miss?

hahaha so in order to get bill o reilly on what up with that they had to promise him that he'd get to sit next to kate upton right?

Or just let him plug his new book.

I think when Brittain bailed/got canned, they had to use Pharoah more

Still would like to know what happened there, it seems super-sketchy for someone to leave or be let go in the middle of the season like that.

Molly Shannon and Dana Carvey both left midseason, but they were in a position to do that I guess.

no one in rehearsal was like "hey kristen... you're using the same exact voice as your character from the mystery word sketch"

Its pretty obvious that Wiig just gets to do whatever she wants at this point. Like during Rudolph's monologue, there was absolutely no reason she should have been hoisted up on the shoulders of the dancers. Like, can't Rudolph just have her moment without Wiig shoehorning her way in?

She is the cast member I'm most ready to get rid of.

think everyone knows if kristen isn't allowed to repeat some of her stuff the show would be about 20 minutes long each week.

I'm pretty sure I read that Brittain got an offer to do something else. Given that he and Pharaoh were probably the featured players most likely to get cut next year, he might've just figured it was a safe gamble? I'm just hypothesizing here, but I know people who know him, so maybe I'll get the real scoop sometime?

Yeah, I keep meaning to ask my buddy.

Is Maya's monologue online anywhere? (It's not on Hulu.)

okay I'm watching now, the first skit is killing me lol

"never say chicken"

THE GONG!!

the voice-over! hahahaha

hahaha @ "Do you wanna funk"! sylvester <3

ok i'll stop liveblogging now

don't want to be that guy but if i didn't laugh during the jeremy lin sketch, bronx beat, maya angelou pranks, or the parade of 15-second impressions that was the beyonce baby sketch, am i not going to laugh during any of this? sorry, i guess i am that guy. there are some things here that are funny in an abstract way (lin voice-over, "act of whimsy,") but nothing that tempts to laugh except for armisen's prince face which is not even a joke. (and his funny faces on portlandia are much funnier)

No, you are not going to laugh during any of this.

well you basically watched the entire episode

Tbh, I didn't really laugh during Jeremy Lin or Bronx Beat, but I thought they were nicely done.

can we get more reports on when people didn't laugh

I don't usually laugh during the musical segments, although there are exceptions.

Has "Weird" Al ever been a musical guest?

Trying to figure out what Sudeikis up to in each of those gifs

Sending the pitcher signals? Hard to tell, it really is.

was JT really playing fingerstyle guitar? props if so

It sounded pretty similar to the recorded version of "Holocene."

Who was that girl playing Nicki Minaj bcz tha was horrible

I mean not that Maya was anything like Beyonce but at least she was rly fucking funny

Nasim Pedrad, dude.

also that was hilarious

I mean she was basically playing her as Snooki dressed in a space costume but the rap bit was a bit lol

Snooki dressed in a space costume

... how is this not an accurate description of Nicki Minaj

"You're scaring him."
"I thought Blue Ivy was a girl?"
"No, I mean Prince."

"Baby Blue Ivy, Uncle Pruhhns has brought you a gift"

Made more funny bcz the day prior my coworker and I joked abt how we should do side to side head bob + presentation arm gesture every time we answered a customer's question and then BAM Maya stole it

xpost It's really not that complicated: Sudeikis is pretending someone is pulling him by his ear.

I thought Psychic Awards was funny, but man everything involving Lohan is just a travesty.

lol'd @ the end of the scared straight sketch but lindsay was so bad in it

Yeah, maybe you don't want the first time you've acted/performed in years to be on live tv?

I liked the "Real Housewives of Disney" skit with Lohan in it

Yeah, that was prob best of the night. Of course, it was prerecorded.

I kept wondering why Jimmy Fallon was there -- usually cameos in the monologue are a bit more purposeful than "hey, it's an ex-cast member w/no relationship to the host" -- and then I watched Thursday's episode of Late Night, in which LiLo begged Jimmy to drop by. He was like, "OK, sure, whatever."

all i saw was the scared straight bit. it wasn't very good. the best part was sudeikis and the rest of them breaking at the end. did i miss anything?

I kept wondering why Jimmy Fallon was there -- usually cameos in the monologue are a bit more purposeful than "hey, it's an ex-cast member w/no relationship to the host" -- and then I watched Thursday's episode of Late Night, in which LiLo begged Jimmy to drop by. He was like, "OK, sure, whatever."

― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Monday, March 5, 2012 9:04 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

does jon hamm have some relationship with lohan? think the purpose of cameos is to reninforce the anything can happen vibe in order to get people to watch.

maybe lorne michaels called in favors to keep the thing afloat

The only sketch that really made me laugh was the 'weird guy by a fire' bit at the end.

Backups in case she didn't show up, or passed out backstage or something.

otm

She was so awful in that Scared Straight skit.

She was bad...but she wasn't any worse than Channing Tatum, for example.

otm, this was a better than average episode with an average (ie pretty bad) host.

John Hamm is also in a new movie written and directed by his wife that also stars Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph. So no doubt promoting that.

I thought the episode was OK, had some good moments, but LL didn't add anything, had very few good lines and was mostly a straight-man.

so to speak.

tl dr ! ! !

but i was glad to see that lindsay lohan seemed to be in good shape. the snl writers i can only assume are in far worse shape than is she. laughed more during the blood-soaked local news preceding it