Good: Julia Louis-Dreyfus hosting, Snow Patrol performing, Chris Rock, and the Restless Penis ad, most of the news bits.
I fast forward through Deep Dish because I just can’t get into it.
Bad: the Gold ad.
Yeah, I usually like Kristin Wiig, but yikes.
The good: The Chris Rock intro, a couple of jokes during Weekend Update.
The bad: Everything else.
Worst show of the season so far, I think. The ‘Gold’ commercial was painful to watch. At the end of it, the audience wasn’t even sure whether or not to clap. Yeesh.
That started out funny, but I think you have to have seen the commercial they were parodying, which is on *very * infrequently. Then they added another two minutes or so to it, just to make sure all the funny was sucked right out of it.
It seems like they’re getting back into the habit of putting on three mini-sketches during Weekend Update, and I wish there were fewer of them. They usually get more applause than laughter.
I liked the dig on “The Secret”. ( it needs to lampooned as much as possible)
Brian
I liked that too, although the Darfur gag made me laugh more when I saw it in last week’s “Letters to the Editor” in Newsweek.
I must be the only person who likes Deep House Dish. I love Keenan’s cracks at Tiara Z and now T-Shane and I find the songs hilarious. If they made a CD of all the snippets, I would buy it. That’s how much I like that sketch.
That’s pretty much my opinion too.
The “Gold” ad, I’d figured that it must be some kind of parody but I hadn’t seen the original and yeah, it got to the point where I was wondering where the really funny punchline was going to be and it just kept going…
I laughed at the restless penis syndrome. Been a long time since I’d laughed at an snl sketch.
Also loved the Public service mammogram spot.
Loved Bill Hader as the Italian television host.
I found that sketch hilarious too, especially when the ostrich (or whatever it was supposed to be) began pecking at Julia’s head. It was the kind of borderline-surreal humor that SNL used to do very well in its more inspired moments, when not lapsing into obnoxious characters and catchphrases repeated ad nauseam.
I wonder if Hader really speaks Italian—I don’t, but his diction and pronunciation sounded pretty convincing to me.
Yeah, that was a good sketch. JLD seemed a little weak, but all that cigarette smoke made me laugh my ass off.
The funniest part of that sketch to me was the fact that the talk show’s producer was sitting there eating spaghetti and meatballs for no reason.
The rest of the show was pretty weak, though.