SNL 10/25

Jon Hamm is really, really hot. That's about all I have to say. I thought the Vincent Price Halloween special skit was pretty funny.

Plus, David Cook next week! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

 

yeah, this opening skit is ... bad. ugh, now i realize why i don't mind this is the first Saturday night I've had at home in about a year.

 

Sarah Palin would have sucked it up. What a piker, this Poehler is.

That said, loved the Mad Men stuff, nice seeing Peggy and the old guy. I imagine Jon Hamm will be headlining movies before too long. He's got skills.

 

Maybe I'm punchy since I'm still at work, but that cracked me up.

 

Getting two other Mad Men cast members in that skit was excellent. That's where I am so far, and I think it's been pretty good.

Then again, I absolutely love Mad Men.

 

The opening skit went after Biden and Murtha. That's why you guys think it sucked.

 

Actually, the Obama 1/2 hour variety hour was funnier than Biden/Murtha.

 

Memo to tony: There's more to comedy than your latest political hard-on.

 

I don't know if it was better material, but Jon Hamm did a hell of a job. He's got that Alec Baldwin thing down pat, a loveable smugness. Loved his James Mason, the John Ham, and his Don Draper bit.

 

No, we think it sucked because it was completely devoid of anything remotely resembling humor.

I clocked that skit at around six minutes. It had enough material to stretch, at the most, 45 seconds.

Four minutes of going "Ha Ha! Look! I'm pointing to a guy in the crowd that you can't see! That's funny!" is not funny and the whole "let me clarify what I meant" thing was funny the first time. Not so much after 45,053 uses.

 

I saw the last hour of SNL last week (10/18), the first time I'd seen the show in years. It was stunningly unfunny. Even Weekend Update blew, and that's usually the easiest thing to do since you just need a couple of good lines to save it. The two anchors would deliver bad material, then sit there and smile until they got nervous laughter.

 

You forgot Schroeder flipping over.

Then again, just how the hell do you show that on a computer screen?