Jon Bon Jovi hosting, with musical guest Foo Fighters.
Please, please let the skits be at least a tad better than last week’s were.
I tuned in right before the digital short, which started good and kept getting better and better.
I’m a little confused: was that Andy Samberg dressed as '90s-era Jon Bon Jovi, playing guitar with the real Jon Bon Jovi? He looked like he was really playing and singing. Where did he pick that up?
I fell asleep about 20 minutes in but the Adam Samberg digital short on Punching was hilarious. Did the rest of the episode live up to that?
Thw Weekend Update was good, and the Nicholas Fehn bit was hilarious. Most of the skits were just eh.
Was Richie Sambora high, or does he always look that weird in the eyes? He also couldn’t manage his 2 lines of dialogue. Wow.
I fell asleep during the Foo Fighters, but the show was good up to that point. The Al Gore skit was funny, the unintended humor of the brain dead Richie Sambora was great. The Bon Jovi song did not suck. The Whoooaa game show broke me up. Even the opening as funny.
The Digital Short was great as usual.
Weekend update blew every time moron boy* blew another joke. I think Maya proved that they should dump moron boy and put her behind the desk. She was funny playing the planned replacement, I hope it was foreshadowing.
Jim
- Seth Meyers has no comic talent on screen. He sucks worse than almost anyone ever has on SNL.
I guess I’m over the target age of Andy Samberg’s shorts, or I just prefer “pros” like Armisen, Wiig, Heder and Sudekis, because I thought last nights was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen on SNL, second only to his digital short about cats with lasers or something like that. And does Lorne think he’s that much of a talent that he’s apparently giving him a guaranteed five minutes a week to do whatever silliness he wants? Please don’t tell me they see him as a teen idol and are giving him more screen time then he deserves in a grab for a younger audience, otherwise why not just pull the whole cast from Teen Nick comedies?
Overall I thought the episode was way better than the first two of the year, but still could be better. No knock on Bon Jovi, but I found it odd that the only one on the game show sketch that couldn’t do a decent guido from New Jersey was the guido from New Jersey, but impressions aren’t his thing I guess.
Jon Heder was great, especially his game show host and Vinny Vedeci- I always assumed he was speaking Italian in the sketch, but Bon Jovi said he wasn’t- I wonder if he makes up the gibberish as he goes, or memorizes it in advance? Either way it’s amazing how he can break into it and have it sound convincing.
That’s a real talent. And I love the skewering of Dane Cook’s stupidity, like when Norm McDonald in one sketch many years back was able to summarize everything stupid about 20 years of David Letterman in five minutes.
That’s because he is not a Guido and he is from Central Jersey like me. His father was a Barber/Hair Dresser and Mom a Florist. He was just a lower middle class kid of Italian descent.
The Guido accent & attitude is more of a North East Urban Jersey/NY thing. He was basically a suburban guy.
As far as Andy Samberg’s, I think I am older than you and I like his stuff. I didn’t see the cats with laser one though. I loved the Narnia one.
Jim
Bill Hader, not Jon Heder! Bill Hader is probably my favorite current SNL cast member and a gifted impressionist, whereas Jon Heder is the unfunny kid from Napoleon Dynamite.
I’m an idiot :smack:
**What Exit?, ** you mean there are people in New Jersey who don’t act those in the sketch? 
I did like Sambergs two R&B song shorts though.
A handful of us, we are mostly on the dope though.
A friend and I once concluded that you could turn off SNL after the Weekend Update segment and miss nothing good. Except this week, when the best part was at the very end, with Bon Jovi’s performance.
Was that Jack Nicholson introducing Bon Jovi at the end? Why?
Charles Barkley and Bjork? That’s a *Studio 60 * throwaway. Except it was actually kinda funny.
I believe Nicholson is from NJ. I guess that’s why.
I’m pretty sure you’re not the only ones. They’ve been running it later and later.
It’s my impression that Samberg (and maybe even Hader) does ALOT of writing for SNL. As it was explained on an SNL behind the scenes, if you want to be on the show, you need to write your own stuff or have writers put you in their stuff. And Andy is in a TON of things on that show. Hader even more.
Andy used to be in a trio that did online short clips for their own website. Lorne picked up all three as writers and Samberg as an actor aswell. I don’t think its a matter of age but a matter of taste as to whether you find him funny. I think all of the digital shorts have been hilarious. Laser Cats, Dick in a Box, Natalie Portman Rap, Chronicles of Narnia, Peyton Manning, wonderful!
I’m also loving (again) Bill Hader this season. It is a tie between him and Andy over who is my favorite cast member. I can’t decide. I think they both make the show absolutely wonderful. I think they scored with these two.
I think my main problem with Sandberg is that he seems like one of those guys who doesn’t have a sense of history, like Avril Lavigne being a “punk” and not knowing who the Ramones were. Bill Hader, a 30 year old guy, does impressions of Vincent Price and Peter O’Toole for chirssakes, and Kristen Wiig of Judy Garland and Katherine Hepburn- I don’t think Samberg even knows who any of them are. It’s like the others have worked hard, studied comedy, practiced many hours on perfecting impressions, and then here’s Sandberg who wings it and gets by just on being silly.
But hey, others like him, so maybe its just me.
well I don’t think he is historically ignorant at all. If you listen to Chronicles of Narnia, there are some pretty high-brow references peppered throughout the piece. Honestly, I had to go and re-look up Aaron Burr because I didn’t know who the hell he was.
But, I think you are correct about his comedy not having those types of references. I can see how if that was your type of humor, Samberg wouldn’t cut it for you. He’s definitely a different type of humor.
At least we both like Hader 
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