I’ve gotta hand it to Taylor Swift, she did an excellent job as host of SNL this week. Not only was she solid at performing on live TV, but her acting was totally up to snuff and she was in nearly all of the skits (all but a pre-taped commercial and Weekend Update), along with performing twice. I’ll throw up at least a golf clap for all that. That’s the way to do it, though — why only appear in a few skits when you’ve got the honor of being on SNL? (Videos clips of most skits are embedded below.)

Cold Open — Am I the only one getting sick of the politically themed cold open? I think we may as well call it the Political Open at this point. Alright, so seeing them mock FOX News’s coverage of the election was pretty funny. I’m still tired of the politics, though.
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Nation, at this tumultuous time in history, ask not what you can do for your country, but ask where the hell are your manners, young man?

Look, I can be a totally rude person, even for the extraordinarily low standards set for my generation. I burp. I fart. I praise other people for burping and farting in my presence. (This makes me very popular with children.) I have no issues with bluntly discussing any and every function my body or any body does (hemorrhoids? Bring those puppies on), or various orifices and the things people do with them in almost any company.

But I do have standards. I say please and thank you to everyone. I hold the door. I say “bless you” to strangers in public locations and “excuse me” if I bump into them. Most importantly, I do not interrupt people when they’re speaking, especially in an extremely rude manner. And if I do, because such things do happen by accident, I apologize.

So why doesn’t anyone else?

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I will be the first to admit that this past season of Saturday Night Live was uneven. There were, however, some really standout episodes and skits. Cate loved The Lawrence Welk Show sketches, as she wrote about. Those were a couple of great sketches and they showed that sometimes simplicity works. What can I say? There’s something undeniably funny about tiny doll hands bursting bubbles.

One of the skits that really stands out in my mind came during one of the better episodes of the season, the one hosted by Neil Patrick Harris. Now, I’m no fan of musicals, but I’m knowledgeable enough about a lot of the shows that I found the “Save Broadway” sketch to be really clever and funny.

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It certainly worked for CSI this week. And, really, considering the way the Fox Friday is hemorrhaging viewers, I don’t think they should rule anything out. Once again, both Terminator and Dollhouse were down. They shared bad news with Chuck, Heroes, and Life On Mars. Reaper, Lie To Me, and Jesse Stone found themselves somewhere in the middle. Good news this week went out to Brothers & Sisters, The Bachelor, and CSI. Read the rest of this entry »

(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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