(Season 34, Episode 12)

There was a lot of excitement about Neil Patrick Harris hosting Saturday Night Live, particularly around the secret hidden CliqueClack home base. Expectations were high, which is always a dangerous thing. My expectations were fairly high for Hugh Laurie too, and I ended up hating that episode. Luckily, NPH (and credit has to go to the writers too) delivered a great episode of SNL. It was definitely one of the better episodes of the year, and certainly the best since the election ended.

I was slightly disappointed that they didn’t have a skit about the recent lunch meeting between the five current/future/former presidents. I think that could have been a really funny scene. Oh well, I won’t look this gift horse of an episode in the mouth.

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