So, this is a real thing: there’s 
Weekend Update, musical guests (“Cookie Gaga”), and established skits (Macarooner instead of MacGruber).
Don’t get me wrong: I think it’s cool the way that a Facebook campaign led to Betty White’s (successful) hosting gig, and this video is cute and clever. But I really hope that no one takes this too seriously: “SNL” has a hard enough time putting together funny shows, and locking the cast into an entire episode with a one-note puppet from a children’s show doesn’t exactly set the table for hilarity. If you think “SNL” has a bad habit of repeating an unfunny joke throughout a six-minute sketch, just wait until you get 90 minutes of “GET IT? HE LIKES TO EAT COOKIES.”
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Terrible idea, Elmo should definitely host instead.
It could be brilliant though. Plus I’d rather see Cookie Monster than Bristol Palin hosting.
This would suck- and I agree the betty white thing was cool but if they start letting grass root internet campaigns determine their hosts on a regular basis its going to get ugly… and unfunny. Plus, if they get to the point where they start ignoring legit candidates, like Alison Brie, because they don’t want to appear to be too responsive to pop culture trends well then I’ll just have to beat cookie monster to death…. assuming the crippling diabetes doesn’t take him first.
Only if Cookie Monster yells “Fight the real enemy!” and rips a photo of Kirstie Alley in half.
Know what? I’ve seen Lindsay Lohan ruin this fucking show like twice now. There is no way in hell that the Cookie Monster wouldn’t be better than that talentless addict.
I can already see a bunch of trendy douchebags “liking” or “fanning” or whatever Facebook people do, saying crap like “Cookie Monster on SNL is gonna be so EPIC! EPIC EPIC EPIC EPIC!”
Better idea = Admiral Ackbar
If these SNL facebook campaigns keep working, we need to start one for Scarlett Johansson to take her clothes off on the show. With Brie. And oil wrestling.