Saturday Night Live (NBC) — Jeff Bridges hosts, with musical guest Eminem (featuring Lil’ Wayne). Bridges has good timing: he’s got two movies to promote this month — Tron: Legacy (out today), and the Coen brothers’ True Grit (opening next week). If you gave me enough money to see both of those movies, I’d probably just get two tickets to True Grit and watch it twice. (Drew adds, “Note to Seth Meyers: If you have Jeff dress up as The Dude and make a lousy sketch out of it, you will pay the consequences.”)
Survivor: Nicaragua (CBS, Sunday) — Season finale. Even Jeff Probst admitted that it’s “not one of our greatest seasons.” But hey, Jimmy Johnson was there for a couple weeks. That’s something.
Gold Rush: Alaska (Discovery, Friday) — An exhilarating reality show about six men who are 160 years late to the peak of their profession.
Leverage (TNT) — Season finale. Timothy Hutton is the poor man’s Kevin Bacon.
Ricky Gervais: Out of England 2 (HBO, Saturday) — A stand-up special that follows Gervais’s 2008 Out of England, which I thought had some great moments but lagged at times. Gervais is a comedic genius, but sometimes I want him to tell his jokes without cracking up at himself. I understand that that’s blasphemy to some of you, so I welcome your scorn.
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Consider me surprised that “Survivor” is even still on. I thought it ended years ago like “The Apprentice.”
Projected SNL sketches with Jeff Bridges: (1) Topical cold open where the Dude is hanging with Julian Assange and the one joke is the Dude having a hard time figuring out what “Wikileaks” means; (2) monologue with several painful drug reference “jokes;” (3) Crazy Heart sketch with one joke about beer shits that they repeat 16 times; (4) What Up With That with special guest John Goodman where the Dude tries to dance; (5) Gilly as Walter Sobchak; (6) some sort of outdated Starman sketch with one joke; (7) the Dude gets stuck in Tron; and (8) a horribly unfunny and dated Fabulous Baker Boys sketch with Gilly in the Michelle Pfeiffer role. Fin.
I don’t care what Gervais thinks. When I break an egg, I always go to a horse first to put it back together.
I think the fact that Ricky wasn’t involved in comedy in anyway until his 40′s, gives him more of a personal style than a traditional stand up that started when he was 18. Ricky has a sitting around and talking with your buddies vibe which I think makes him laugh when he is telling a funny story much like when normal people are doing the same thing with their friends.
“comedic genius”
fuck me….
Alright, I’ve only seen half of it, but the Letterman interview with De Niro and Hoffman is fantastic. Hoffman is awesome and De Niro seems a huge douche, or was he?. Great and weird. Not sure what to think. Need to see all of it.
SNL was a f’n mess once again.
I get the feeling they shoehorned a movie-plugging Bridges into the mix on friday afternoon. Par for the course, really. I sure as hell couldn’t do it any better.