# Timberlake Night Live
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timberlake-night-live/495929
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 10, 2009, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timberlake-night-live/495929 "2009-05-10T07:56:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2009, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timberlake-night-live/495929/21 "2009-05-11T05:50:17Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#):
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> I want to hate JT, I really do. But I can’t, because he is so damn good on SNL. Acting, comedic timing, singing, willing to look the fool, you name it - a great host. If only he could wean himself from the cue cards, he’d be perfect.
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> I can’t speak about the sketches, because I tend to be multi-tasking when SNL is on, but [Mother Lover](http://www.hulu.com/watch/72434/saturday-night-live-motherlover) was one of the best-conceived, -written and -performed things SNL has done in years.
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> I just watched it again on Hulu. Frakking brilliant. I’m going to watch it again.
And again. Some of the lyrics were a little muddy - does anyone have a link?
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### Author:  [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2009, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timberlake-night-live/495929/22 "2009-05-11T06:03:03Z")
That Was Susan Sarandon, right?
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### Author:  [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2009, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timberlake-night-live/495929/23 "2009-05-11T06:43:39Z")
> [@Tamara+](#):
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> That Was Susan Sarandon, right?
Yep. And Patricia Clarkson.
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### Author:  [@Coup\_Fourre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coup_Fourre)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2009, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timberlake-night-live/495929/24 "2009-05-11T13:44:20Z")
I thought it was a very funny ep., too. Like others, I want to dislike JT…but when he hosts SNL, it is so funny! I was commenting to my husband during the Plasticville skit that JT was really getting into his character. The big hands cracked me up! They really should have him be in the cast.
I was also laughing about the two guys who kept walking in front of the camera on WU. I was unsure of where that came from, but I laughed nonetheless.
I rarely think SNL is funny anymore, but this ep. I really liked. At least we didn’t have every skit with Kristin Wiig. She is extremely funny, BTW, but c’mon!
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timberlake-night-live/495929/25 "2009-05-11T13:57:36Z")
> [@Coup\_Fourre](#):
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> I was also laughing about the two guys who kept walking in front of the camera on WU. I was unsure of where that came from, but I laughed nonetheless.
They were portraying the current and former governors of the State of New York. Eliot Spitzer was governor until he resigned in disgrace after it was revealed that he had frequented a prostitute and David Paterson is the current, mostly blind, governor. So it was a joke mostly about Gov Paterson’s blindness.
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2009, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timberlake-night-live/495929/26 "2009-05-11T14:35:32Z")
The New Jersey jokes crack me up every time. It’s not that they’re so funny, it’s just waiting to see how they are going to work a lame Jersey joke into every frakkin’ possible conversation.
Timberlake is one of the all-time best SNL hosts, right up there with Alec Baldwin.
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