As Josh mentioned during his SNL recap over the weekend, the show has booked Louis C.K. as host on November 3. This is a good thing. Even if every sketch is stupid and features Kenan Thompson in drag, the monologue alone should make the episode a must-watch. Although considering it will air just three days before the 2012 presidential election — and Louis has worked with SNL vets Robert Smigel, Conan O’Brien, and Dana Carvey in the past — I think it’s safe to say they’ll have some other material to work with.
One other note: SNL took a fair amount of heat for booking Bruno Mars as host and musical guest this weekend (some from me, admittedly), but I’d just like to make one small point: You can’t just, like, force someone to host Saturday Night Live. This isn’t Russia. I would very much like to see Joel McHale and Aaron Paul and Paul Rudd and Alison Brie host the show (perhaps all at once), but it’s a serious time commitment, and it takes place on the opposite side of the country during the same time of the year that their day jobs are eating up a lot of their time. Just because the show brings in some weird, non-hilarious person to host doesn’t necessarily mean they snubbed everyone else. For all we know they tried to book other people and they just couldn’t make the schedules work. That’s why we should consider the fact that they landed Louis C.K. for the episode right before the election to be a real blessing.
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Louis is great at comedy but I just don’t see how he will succeed in sketch comedy. I hope he does great and is hysterical but his skill set doesn’t lend itself to sketch comedy
That’s a bit unfair. Louis wrote for Conan during his golden years and for The Dana Carvey Show, and he’s been making sketches/short films forever (see the video I added to the bottom of the post). Just because he’s been exercising his stand-up and TV show muscles lately doesn’t mean he lost the other ones.
He also wrote for and preformed in on the Chris Rock Show. So, yeah, it makes total sense that a guy who has written for 3 sketch shows and performed on 2 probably won’t be good on SNL.
Well, the world is a twisted place.
As I said I’ll be watching it , im a big fan and I hope he kills it but I’m going in with low expectations
Sometimes past writers will come back for a week, which makes me think JB Smoove will be there, and he has a pretty big past with Louie, so I’m really looking forward to it. Also with Louie hosting there’s always the chance Chris Rock, Seinfeld, or Ricky Gervais do a drop-in
I’ll be tuning in for his usual whimsical take on life and, of course, his version of “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”.
This will make the most deliciously awkward episode of Louie next season.
I was just picturing the scene where Henry Winkler, playing a thinly veiled version of Lorne Michaels tells him about how being funny on ‘real tv’ isn’t the same as being funny on cable.
I am hoping this turns into an hour and a half episode of Louie
This is the first time in as long as I (or my goldfish-like attention span) can remember that I’m really looking forward to watching an episode of Saturday Night Live. Time to dust off the VCR!
Also, big T.Hanks for posting the ice cream video, DG
I’ve never seen that ice cream video before. It’s the perfect crime! …I mean if they weren’t filming it as evidence.
It was one of if not his first youtube video’s the first episode of Louie was a call back to it as its the exact location and escape his date uses.
Side not he actually talked about how scared to death he was to tape this as he wasn’t buckled in when the helicopter turned sideways and felt like he was about to fall out.
The idea of Louie hosting excites me, but the success of an episode of SNL rarely hinges upon who is hosting.
I remember reading an interview (or maybe it was Bill Simmons’ podcast) where Louis CK talked about hiring the helicopter for the scene with Chelsea Perretti in the first season of his show. I think he said he only had enough money to rent it for an hour. I’m so happy to see that video and to know he made full use of all 60 minutes.
“SNL took a fair amount of heat for booking Bruno Mars as host and musical guest this weekend”! Really? From whom? Every notable critic has praised Mars. I will suggest you to snap out of the alternate reality, but I just don’t have the means to contact you.
They prasied Bruno Mars having SEEN the show. Criticism for booking someone often comes before the show is even done.
This will be the first episode of SNL that I will watch in about 15 years.