(Season 34, Episode 11)

Here we are at the last episode of 2008, the big holiday episode. Saturday Night Live was good enough to leave us all a little surprise for the holidays: a big pile of turd! Seriously, there was barely anything funny going on here. It was a real shame, especially considering that it was Amy Poehler’s final episode as a cast regular. I have to imagine that we will see her again from time to time doing Hillary Clinton; after all, she is leaving to do a sitcom on the same network.

If you can endure the pain, come listen to me bitch about this stinker….

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(Season 34, Episode 6)

Going into this episode I was a little skeptical. I wasn’t sure how Jon Hamm would be in a comedic setting. Mad Men may have some laughs in it, but Don Draper is in no way a funny character. Add to that concern the fact that Amy Poehler was absent from the episode because she was having her baby, and it should have been a terrible episode. Perhaps it was because my expectations were lowered, but I thought this was the strongest SNL episode this season. Not every skit hit it out of the park, but there was at least one solid laugh in every one, and Jon Hamm really came through.

Join me as I break the episode down, sketch by sketch.

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