There have been a lot of bad hosts of Saturday Night Live over the years, and more often than not, they fall into the category of people who don’t act for a living (Michael Phelps, Tom Brady), can’t act (Steven Seagal, Paris Hilton, Andrew Dice Clay), or are just really bad at sketch comedy (Adrian Brody, Lindsay Lohan). But even the terrible hosts seem to be able to show some enthusiasm for their Saturday Night Live promos. Justin Bieber? Not so much.
Bieber is set to host and be the musical guest this weekend, because God is cruel, perverted, angry, and a little on the insane side, particular on the weekends when he just feels like f*cking with us. The promos for the show have been released, and if Bieber’s cue-card reading FOR THE PROMOS are any indication of how this weekend’s show will go, I think we’re going to be in for a long night. If it’s going to be a train wreck, I hope it’s at least a fun train wreck. Not that it will matter: The kid’s legion of soft-brained fans will probably make it the highest-rated SNL of the year.
Eesh.
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Charisma!
About as much as a wet bag.
Why would he have to read the cue cards for the line “Hi, I’m Justin Bieber, I’ll be the host and musical guest this week on SNL.”…?
It’s just his name and what he’s doing this weekend…
You seem to have missed his masterful inflection of, “host AND musical guest…” Things like that don’t come easily.
I think we’re going to be in for a long night…
Not me. I’ve got better things to do (i.e. sleep, be drunk) than watch this freshly stewed turd of a show.
This.
I’m going for my 28th consecutive year of not watching SNL. And, yes, I do know what I’m missing, thanks to WG and my own internal quality control system.
I too will be drinking in my sleep instead.
Real talk: If Bieber is willing to take many jabs at himself, it could actually be pretty good. If he doesn’t, it could be Daniel Craig bad.
I’m really not liking how Musicians are now hosting and Musical guests at the same time. There’s a reason why they aren’t actors. If SNL wants to get them in a sketch or two that’s one thing. But hosting? That’s a different beast.
Fuck you NBC, for gleefully playing your awful commercials BEFORE telling me I can’t watch your stupid videos in Canada.
How to watch NBC, Daily Show, etc. in Canada:
1. Use firefox.
2. Get and install extension: “Modify Headers”.
3. Go into options for Modify Headers. Click “Select Action” and choose “Add” from dropdown menu.
4. In the first box (Header Name), type “X-Forwarded-For”
5. In the second box (Header Value), type “12.13.14.15″
6. (Optional), type in a description in third box
7. Click “Add”
Make sure the Header is Enabled (big green dot) whenever you want to watch a blocked video.
I have used this for NBC and Comedy Central. I am pretty sure it works for Hulu now, too.
I think there’s a similar fix for Chrome (ModHeaders?), but you’d have to google that.
Good luck.
Get the Hola Unblocker for Google Chrome.
Sorted.
Nice Gozer cut, dude.
why must he talk like that?
if biebs was around during the 80s, people would have mistaken him for a member of Flock of Seagulls.
that is not a compliment.
This is going to be painful. DVR, go!
Ugh. They need to counter this with an old school Ralph Nader/Leon Redbone combo.
Even when they get a decent host SNL can’t put together a funny sketch nowadays.
Reading is clearly pretty hard for the Biebs. Stay in school, kids.
Or cut yourselves. Whatever’s hot these days.
God I hate this little shit. Sorry, nothing clever or insightful to add. Just me, hating this little shit.
Same here.
He is just so hard yo. Street cred fer realz.
Honestly, though, what’s up with his eyebrows all the time. I didn’t know someone could look high and perpetually surprised at the same time.
I think I might hate him less if he didn’t have to be so street (yo, dawg, I guess) and just sang his little songs (none of which I’ve heard, as far as I know).
the reason this is gonna suck so bad is that this kid has no fucking clue what goes on in the world outside of his little circle. He won’t get any of the jokes because they’ll be mostly topical pop culture references. Not realizing why something is supposed to be funny is a surefire way to ensure it doesn’t come off as funny.
Exactly. That’s the tragic (?) reality of child stars or whatever. They are raised in their glamorous little bubble, so when they step out into the real world they expect it to operate like their bubble did. Did anyone read that interview with James Deen about Lindsay Lohan? He said she would do shit like say “water”… not ask for it politely or even impolitely. Her reality has always been that she could say a word and shit appears like magic.
Is there any chance there might be a screw up with the airing, and they will accidentally show the Stallone Orange Julius skit for 90 minutes?
For someone as popular as him..he’s got no charisma..it’s like…someone’s…writing…for…him?
I’m just happy he’s getting older and will fade away soon.
Once his voice changes, he’ll lose his allure.
He talks urban. LIke Tiny Tina.
So we’re all going to hate-watch the shit out of this, right?