This barely seems worth mentioning, but Taylor Lautner hosted “Saturday Night Live” this weekend and *fart noise* *both thumbs down* *dogs barking* *long whistle and explosion noise* *bom bom bom bommm wooooo*
I was looking for a laundry list of things to complain about with this episode, but it was the same complaint repeated several times: painfully long skit with an unfunny premise. Lather, rinse, repeat. The only thing that kept this from being as bad as the January Jones episode was (a) the part in the monologue where Lautner showed the clip of him doing nothing during Kanye West’s interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the VMAs, and (b) the PGA Tour press conference skits with Jason Sudeikis (video below). They were sharp, well-executed, brief, and wisely broken up and sprinkled throughout the show.
You wanna know why I rarely write more than three paragraphs in a post? Well, yes, because I’m lazy. There’s that. But also because if what I write isn’t funny, at least I didn’t waste your time. It’s a pretty easy concept, and you’d think “SNL” might catch on after 35 years.
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Who does less with more talent?
Cowboys or SNL. Seth Meyers is Wade Phillips.
Trustfund Jones III damn near killed me.
Maybe I’m a bad person, but I kinda liked Fred Armisen’s bit on Weekend Update.
You know that your show is a sinking ship when you can’t even get one of the two headliners from a teen cult queer movie to host.
I thought the Taylor kid was funny. He really should’ve been shirtless more and I agree that the skits were too long, but I appreciated his willingness to mock himself in the Edward v. Jacob debate.
I’d still rather watch this show 24 hours a day than 16 seconds of Jersey Shore.
Danger: the Fred Armisen thing, like everything else, went on way too long.
The PGA sketches were awful I thought. Just a terrible overall episode, but kudos for them for resisting the temptation to resurrect the awful Jon Bovi sketch.
The best part was when my dad texted me asking who the hell Taylor Lautner was.
Total shitshow- the PGA sketches were the only saving grace. Basically you could figure out the premise of each sketch, realize it was somewhere between completely unfunny and mildly amusing- then fastforward the way to long execution of that premise. This show tricked me into caring about it again with the last two surprisingly decent seasons and now I feel like an abuse victim.
Last season ended pretty strong but this season seems so lazy. It’s like they’re all just hanging out and writing sketches when they’re not busy doing other stuff.
That episode was great. Mostly seems like people who have blogs and couldn’t write a sketch to save their lives have criticism like this. I can’t imagine the writer’s get to choose who hosts, or how talented that host is. You wanna blame someone blame the jackasses who are making it profitable to make stupid teeny bopper soap operas about vampires and werewolves. Blame the idiotic masses for killing pop culture and supporting really bad movies, tv and music. Blame our system of education for not promoting good literature so that people who grow up in this world actually think a book like ‘Twilight’ is good writing.
SNL is doing the best it can with a dearth of talented available hosts. You can’t even audition for a role in something now if you don’t look like a super-model. These days Dan Aykroyd or John Belushi couldn’t get arrested because of the standards of how an actor has to look for the networks or studios to put you in something. God forbid the masses lay their eyes on a normal looking person. GASP. Instead of badmouthing SNL, why don’t you go produce your own sketch program instead of another blog. After all according to Technorati, there are 50 million blogs and only 1 SNL. Maybe you should submit some work to it and see if they’ll hire you. But since they won’t, when you go to produce your own sketch show, do it in 6 days with a busload of people reading, revising and changing your sketch up to the last moment. Don’t forget sets, costumes, blocking and music. Then do that over and over again for an entire season. Oh and repeat that for 35 years, which is probably longer than you’ve been alive nitwit.
PS – The prior post was aimed at the author of the review. Not any of the comments.
ha! get fucking told, matt.
@Todd
TL;DR, but it appears you’re butthurt about something. Go see your proctologist, it’ll feel better.
As an SNL fan since 1975 – yes, you guessed it, I’m old – this fucking sucked.