Did anyone watch? I started but fell asleep right before Weekend Update.
I enjoyed Jim Carrey in the black swan parody even though I’ve not seen the movie.
Triangle Sally FTW.
I thought it was great - one of the best shows of the season. It’s easy to forget what a huge comedic talent Jim Carry is, but he absolutely blew away the cast members in every skit he was in. Even if a sketch is poorly written, he can make it funny by sheer comedic presence. John Belushi, Eddie Murphy, Phil Hartmann and one or two others could manage that. Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin are the only other hosts that are in the same league.
And the Black Keys were awesome. As usual.
I’d love to see a movie with Jim Carrey and Bill Hader in it. Their talents are quite similar in style - comedy, impressions, and ‘rubber faces’ they use to not just sound like other movie stars, but look like them.
I loved Jim Carrey’s impressionist psychic character, but am sick to death of Kenan’s old-guy sex guru schtick.
The Merryville Brothers and the “I Just Need One Titty” song had us rolling! This one will definitely stay on the DVR for a while.
I hardly ever watch SNL, and this show was a good example of why. I thought the cold open (Bloomberg) was very funny. There were probably one or two good jokes in Weekend Update. And, um … Triangle Sally was pretty funny, so that was a good 8 seconds of television. Other than that I spent the whole show cringing.
Granted, I’ve never cared for Carrey’s schtick, and for some reason I can never watch him and see his character instead a self-obsessed asshole, so, you know…
Ok, in fairness I also like Murray Abramowitz (or whoever the Hasidic Jewish guy was on the Soul Train sketch), and the carnival ride sketch towards the end of the show was also funny — not because it was funny, but because it was amusingly weird.
Still, the hit:miss ratio is just awful. YMMV, of course.
The amusement park ride scetch was really great and had some really good animitronic looking physical comedy going on for it. They ramped things up nicely on it, making it creepier and creepier, but somehow they blew it at the end. Having Keenan yelling “Hey that’s me!” really threw off what was a great sketch.
I think they blew it on the cold open. That’s fine that they’re New York-centric because they ARE in New York, but the rest of the country could really give a rat’s behind about how much snow fell in the city. They should have made it Philly and they could have made jokes about cancelling the football games and stuff.
Just One titty was very funny, I like when they get sketches where they get everyone involved. It guarantees that you’re not going to get another lame scared straight and wacky Kristen Wiig character.
Black Swan, the Oprahcolypse and the medium sketch were also very funny. Jim Carrey really is a great commedian with that always present “In small doses.”
I disagree with you on that point. The failure of New York–the largest city in the U.S.-- to handle the “snowpocalypse” (despite the fact it seems to get these every few years) was discussed all over the national media and a target for jokes on Letterman, Fallon, TDS, and Colbert. Because it was on holiday break, SNL was actually pretty late to the party on the subject.
In any case, what I did find interesting about the sketch is the new stereotype of New Yorkers (in particular, Manhattanites) as sheltered wimps with the constitutions of hothouse orchids. The SNL sketch during the 2008 presidential campaign about the New York Times selecting a reporter to go to Alaska to do a story on Sarah Palin had this same theme. Have New Yorkers really gotten that soft in the last 20 years?
Agreed. I was worried because SNL is so hit-and-miss with their musical production. But they sounded really great. Grammy noms, cover of SPIN, and SNL - pretty big coupla months for the boys.
The only laugh out loud moment I had was during the “Taste of New York” band , when Kristen Wiig was singing, “When I went to the drug store, the called the cops on me” She tried so hard not to laugh. haha
The talking bird and fish as Weekend Update guests had us laughing out loud.
My wife, through her laughter, said, “Why is this so funny? It’s so stupid.” I replied, “I don’t know, it just is.”
Those are the best kinds of sketches, when they just totally commit to something absurd.
Jim Carrey’s rubberface shtick really doesn’t work now that his face looks like antique upholstery, but I did laugh at the “Cowardly Lion” John Boehner.