I look forward to Scarlett; not so sure about Bjork…I don’t know if I’ll like what she does musically, though she might wear something amusing.
Thanks, I just saw this. It almost 11pm so I probably missed Bjork’s first song, damn. Bjork being an absolute genius, I’m sure I’ll adore anything she does, so I set my Tivo. If anything funny happens during the show anytime after the skit where Scarlett is acting like a fashion-challened black girl (where I came in), please post so I can fast-forward to it.
Bjork hadn’t performed as of that point in the show. I just changed channels around midnight EST, and she still hasn’t been on.
I thought the material her dress was made out of was cool. It was red and green at the same time. Musically, she had me thinking that maybe Ashlee Simpson’s appearance on SNL wasn’t all that bad after all.
There’s a scene in the awful kung-fu movie Kung Pow: Enter the Fist! (which takes old martial arts film footage and redubs it into a stupid comedy) where they laugh at a particular fighter who was trained wrong on purpose when he was young, and his martial arts style is awful even though he doesn’t know any better. I often suspect this is what happened to young Bjork, only with music.
While Bjork’s music isn’t my cup of tea, I’d much rather watch people like herself instead of the latest Fallout Boy or Ashlee Simpson who are fresh off the Music Industry Assembly Line.
There were some decent skits in this one and I liked Scarlett J. as the host. I especially appreciate that she doesn’t look like she’s starving herself to death.
The Torboto cartoon was disturbing, yet probably not as farfetched as it might seem to some.
Scarlett’s singing voice in the opening monologue was much deeper than I expected, and I actually wondered if that was her real voice or if she was fooling around and “doing” a voice. In any case, that might help explain why she’s recording an album of Tom Waits covers (which I am definitely looking forward to!)
I had actually never heard Bjork’s music before this. had heard people make fun of it and seen the cartoon where her crazy swan dress attacks her, but never in a serious sort of way.
I actually liked it a lot. I only saw the first song (or really, the first 3/4 or so of the first song. I fell asleep during it.) but I thought it was pretty cool.
As for the rest… I hate the Virginiaca sketches (the ones where the starlet of the week acts like she was raised by Kenan in drag) and I’m not into the Kelly Ripa sketches either. The opening with Scarlett J was pretty boring and I always find the inappropriate lesbian newscaster a lot more uncomfortable than funny. I kind of liked the opening, though. And the digital short thing was mildly amusing. The rest was either after I fell asleep, or I just don’t remember it.
I guess my sense of humor is broken.
But I do like Bjork.
Guys, am I the only one who is going to mention ROY RULES!
I love Andy Samberg.
“He watches Dora with my niece and then macks on ba-nah-nahs!”
ROY RULEZ! was awesome. So bizarre, but I couldn’t stop laughing.
The marble columns skit was good too.
I liked it too, and it was a callback to Scarlett’s last appearance on SNL, when she and Fred Armisen made a similar commercial for chandeliers, or “Shana-LEAHS!” I imagine television in the NYC area must be full of locally-produced commercials like these.
I like those two, and before that it was Alec Baldwin IIRC in the Fred role hawking photographs in brandy snifters. As I like Fred in that role, I hope there are a bunch more similar items that New Yorkers specifically have in their homes to make them classy 
ScarJo’s accent was really impressive. Color me surprised that she could do it so well. But she is from New York anyway.
As was the proud little smile she gave at the end of her speech.
I tuned in about the time of the “neighbor saves everybody” sketch, where the newswoman forgets the story to clumsily come on to Scarlett. I started channel-surfing again when the very odd, irridescent Bjork came on the first time. I thought, “So that’s Bjork.” Later, I came back, just in time for her other number. I searched around frantically, eager to watch anything but that. Yes, even a UFO “documentary.”
I commented to my wife that it’s odd that both the sitcoms about writing this show are better than the show itself. So sad.
I was impressed by Bjork. As others have said she is not churning out the usual stuff you’ll hear from Ashlee Simpson or Britney Spears. She is not part of that Music Factory™.
(Bjork was barefoot during both songs, which is always a plus in my book).
This cast seems incapable of going more than one sketch without someone singing. It’s really getting annoying.
There are many flavors of shit, it seems, but even the rarest varieties still taste pretty bad.
I know Björk has her adherents, and I do dig the whole pixie-cute thing she has going, but her music is like a double-icepick jab to these tired ears.
I believe Bjork was wearing raw silk.