Well, that’s at least two reasons to watch.
Jake Gyllenhaal?
Maggie’s weiner brother.
I think FilmGeek is referring to the OP’s creative spelling of the actor’s first name.
Good lord, you are probably the only person to spell Jake Gyllenhaal’s first name wrong!
I like him, but I’ve been suckered into suffering through SNL before (Jaime Pressly, I’m looking at you) and regretted it.
It was not good. It was not good at all. The Presidential address in the opening had some laughs, but I did not laugh again for 85 minutes.
Why do I bother anymore?
I sorta chuckled at the Stock Footage Awards. Maybe it was the stock footage of the audience.
Jake put his heart into the opening number, didn’t he? He was even on key a couple of times. And the guy’s buff.
I thought the Stock Footage Awards was well done.
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See what I did? I just Dog Whispered you.
Laser Cats and the Cool Food sketch made me laugh. Both were absolutely ridiculous, but I guess I like that kind of humor. And I’m sorry, but I always succomb to Deep Dish. I don’t find Kennan all that hilarious in it, but the “performers” always make me laugh. Loved that “True Dat” song.
IMHO, it wasn’t the best SNL but not the worse. Of course, I always stop watching after Weekend News because it usually drags after that point.
:smack: Sorry, I had his Brokeback character in my subconscious when I typed that name–and it seemed right to me at the time! yeesh.
I watched because I was curious about the Shins, whom I had just read about in glowing terms.
The songs they played would be been buried deep on an album in the old days, forgotten by people who played only the hits. Today they seemed like the sort of non-song that you fast-forward past or skip over when playing a CD. Are those really representative or is it just the SNL curse in that nobody ever sounds good on the show?
The opening Presidential speech was excellent and few of the other sketches were cringeworthy. Not bad overall, even if Jake Gyllenhaal is the acting equivalent of the Shins’ music.
Not sure what they played last night, but the Shins’ first two albums, *Oh, Inverted World * and *Chutes Too Narrow * are indie-pop masterpieces, some of the catchiest albums I’ve heard in recent years. You might want to give them a second chance and hear the two songs that introduced most people to them for the first time: “Caring Is Creepy” and “New Slang,” which were both featured in the film Garden State and on its soundtrack.
Because every so often Adam Sandberg does something awesome like Laser Cats
Seconded. They’re absolutely magnificent. Lots of layered subtleties that might not come over well in a once-off live performance. They’ve been top of my MP3 playlist for more than a year now.
“New Slang” was one of the songs they played last night, though the arrangement was a bit different than on the album. I don’t know what “old days” Exapno Mapcase is referring to, or what bands s/he’s thinking of that would have had such songs buried deep on their albums, but The Shins sounded fine to me. Of course, their music doesn’t generally knock you out on first listen anyway. It’s the stuff that grows on you.
The Donald Trump interview was hilarious, and Steve Jobs on WU was pretty good.
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I don’t know what “old days” Exapno Mapcase is referring to, or what bands s/he’s thinking of that would have had such songs buried deep on their albums, QUOTE]
The 60s, of course. Is there another era in music? 
Agreed. There were some good bits, though overall it was weak.
I’m sure I read somewhere that Jake (yes, I can spell!) can actually sing pretty well. Too bad they didn’t let him do that for the Dreamgirls number, but it was still amusing. His muscles aren’t hard to look at either.
That worked because of the final punchline.
*–How long does the battery stay charged?
–20 minutes.*
The same was also true with the “Cool Food” sketch (“We’ve got to stop doing mushrooms before going to restaurants.”)