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Whoa. How did Blake Lively (Blake Lively!) manage to score the best episode of Saturday Night Live this season? She stole that honor away from two-week-record-holder Joseph Gordon Levitt, and that dude can do a backflip without even slipping in his own panic sweat. Well, actually, there are two ways in which Blake Lively managed to deliver: the first is that she was surprisingly good! She seemed game for just about anything! And once we got past the opening monologue (which could just as easily have been called the opening YIKESohWHAT?) she was capable of holding her own in the sketches. Of course, the second trick is that they pulled the old January Jones on her and kept her performance time limited. She wasn’t even in two of the best sketches. But whatever. Congratulations, Blake Lively.
Speaking of Best Sketches, you guys saw the Gathering of the Juggalos parody, right?
Um, that thing blew tens, literally tens of minds on Saturday night. Incredible. It was like a gift just for us! But I’m sure that people who didn’t understand what this was did some research on-line and totally get it now. Welcome to the club!
And see what I mean about Blake Lively being willing to goof around?
She can goof! You did not see Taylor Swift goofing around like this. I guess J-Jonez had that farting sketch, but she seemed to only begrudgingly participate in that, and it was as much a goof on Grace Kelly (2009′s most googled celebrity) as it was on January. Like, the takeaway is that she looks really pretty like one of the prettiest women who’s ever lived? Haha I get it! (Also, I wish that Gossip Girl: Staten Island was a real show, no joke.)
This week’s Digital Short was also very good! Very good digital Short!
Speaking of Rihanna…
Lady Gaga called. She wants her “nice try” back. (Nailed it.)
But maybe the best and most surprising sketch of the night (well, second best and second most surprising after the Juggalos parody) was the final sketch (known in the late night cultural touchstone sketch comedy business as “the writers’ sketch”), which was so unapologetically weird, and also so unapologetically HILARIOUS.
Great. Sincerely.
This post is dedicated to the memory of Ass Dan.
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I can’t finish reading any of your comments with you using that icon. Please for the love of gum pick a different one so I can actually listen to what you are saying.
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i see what you’re doing with the overly wordy reply, but you icon-ized a woman who had her face ripped off by a chimp. fucking change it, dude.
Keep trying, little guy!
Horrible disfigurations aside, that is fucking adorable. I love red pandas.
hope this will satisfy. it was not my intention to offend. i feel about as loved as da cake eatur. you’re a bunch of the meanest girls ever
It’s allright, you don’t really want to read Mangum’s poorly written comments anyways.
Mangum, if you want, I have like, three other Pepper Ann avatar’s you can use?
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Oy vey. If we’re really going to bring up a discussion of who has more grammatical errors in their comments than I could bring up the fact that you didn’t capitalize or punctuate your sentence. Just saying.
Present company was totally silent during the Juggalo sketch, but I was like, “My friends and I joke about this, oh my god!’ as if you guys were my real-life friends. “Going have to bring this up at the water cooler on Monday!”
Upvotes times a thousand. That line of thinking comes up ALL THE TIME now. My ifriends? My monster friends? ?friends????
This happened in my house as well. Everyone was like “hmm…” and then I was like “I get it! It’s awesome!” and they were like “It’s pretty funny…” and I was like “You just don’t understand — you’re not my REAL friends!!” and I ran to my bedroom crying. At least, that last part *would’ve* happened if Roland Emmerich directed my life.
Start to finish, this was THE BEST SNL this season. Mrs. Potato Dick, right? It’s amazing to me to that I don’t know Blake Lively considering I’m a male in my 30′s and that is Gossip Girl’s exact demographic, but that girl KILLED IT!
I tried explaining to several people exactly why the Gathering of the Juggalos parody was so funny, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to translate well to people who haven’t seen the video. That’s okay, I’m perfectly happy over here laughing to myself, thinking about “Mrs. Potato Dick”.
I respect what SNL was trying to do here, but this isn’t as funny as the original.
That’s just unfair, nothing can beat Vanilla Ice, Pauly Shore and JJ Walker
Boom, SNL, ya nailed it! Ass Dan? Are you shitting me with a straight face? What is wrong with you. That is hilarious.
I seriously thought I was imagining things when the “Gathering” parody came on. I thought “Has SNL finally started paying attention to all those letters Gabe has been writing?”
What made the original so fantastic was that it was basically the formula for an SNL sketch already.
No love for the UPS parodies? Spot and on.
Pour one out for Ass Dan, my Ninjas.
Honestly, I never watch SNL. Not for, like, meaningful reasons. I just never seem to watch it. But this week, the clouds parted, and the gods pointed my remote (or my husband was flipping channels, whatevs), and I showed up right as the Underground/Gathering sketch started. Serendipity! I managed to hold it together until “Everybody gets PITCHFORKS!” For some reason, that did me in. Should I watch more often, or was this a flash in the pan?
I liked when she emphasized, “Literally everyone is getting a pitchfork.” I feel like that might have been an actual idea proposed at the original Gathering of the Juggalos.
This was literally the first episode of SNL I’ve chanced upon all season, and I popped in just in time for Gossip Girl: Staten Island and the Juggalo parody. It was like they wrote the episode just for me! (And anyone else who reads Videogum ((but also, me!!))).
Additional note, did anybody find it odd that they said Bill Cosby released his ridiculously mediocre rap album last week, when we were all making fun of it back in October when it ACTUALLY came out?
Yeah, I had a little moment with the Juggalos sketch and was all, “the Monsters should all be watching this together, we’d be LOLing in the aisles.”
Also, not to be all DudebroGum, but Blake Lively’s opening monologue was saved by her face/dress. Very good face/dress, Blake Lively! And, as long as you’re reading, what’s up with you?
The Juggalos sketch was literally the only one that I saw on Saturday night. I turned it on and was like “oh my god … lololol”. My boyfriend (a curmudgeon) even walked in the room and said, “now that’s funny.”
This whole episode was rife with Videogumisms – As I shared with all my Tweeps, Twitterati, Twinjas and the like – Methinks someone reads videogum over at SNL.
The Best Parts of the Juggalo Video (The BEST Sketch):
VIRUSES!!!
Dirk Nowitzki in an open field shooting at you with a BB Gun
Everyone gets A PITCHFORK!
THE SNAPPLE LADY WAS GOING TO BE THERE TOO.
SNAPPLE.
There is a Vgum conspiracy afoot. AKA the best kind of conspiracy.
Have you guys heard the new Donkey Crust? I think it blows away Merriweather Post for best album of ’09.
I’m more of a GUNT fan myself. (Which, btw, is REAL band)
I laughed SO HARD at the idea of there being a “GUNT” watching the parody, and even harder viewing their myspace. AWESOME. They need to tour with Vampire Mooose and I’d totally go.
Ah, fuck you again Hulu. We can’t see that shit in Canada.
I’m pretty sure the SNL writing staff is reading a lot of Videogum these days. And yet, not nearly as funny.
It definitely felt like The Juggalo parody sketch was SNL’s little gift to us monsters. Also, next week: Taylor Lautner hosting with a performance by Bon Jovi? Did my vagina read that right? nnnNNNnnnNnn!
You are of course referring to your Gorgon vagina with its unblinking Cyclops eye on top (Weekend Update was pretty good this week, right?). Yeesh at that author.
Vaginas actually look like a bag of sand with a vertical iPhone dock in the center and a red Gobstopper on top. If only he would have used my description; he missed out on a best sex in fiction award.
The offending excerpted passages can be found here, and by god, it gets worse: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/30/bad-sex-award-jonathan-littell-kindly-ones
Thank you making a kitten mittens avatar. It hath been too long.
Also, does anyone look forward to Weekend Update as much as I do? Is it wrong that it’s usually my favorite part of the show? I have questions but no where to put them.
why was a young Colonel Sanders interviewing for NASA? And is it just me or does every other old-timey southerner impression pale in comparison to Ed Helms’ interpretation? The man plays a banjo for the love of Pete.
That sketch was great. It was like a tribute to the memory of Horton Foote, now that we’ve all had enough time to grieve.
I was really shocked by how committed Blake Lively was in each of her sketches! Some of them were duds, but she didn’t betray that AT ALL.
Good episode. Nasim Pedrad did an awesome Sugar Slam. And also: “I scream. You scream. We all scream for VAGINA CREAM!”
Lots of love.
Maybe it’s just the blonde wig and how tiny she is, but in the Juggalo sketch, Pedrad evokes Amy Poehler in Baby Mama, no?
Totally agree. She blew me away. I think she might be right I think Blair really DOES try to clip her wings to keep her star from shining.
Do you guys know what this means? We are changing the world over here! First stop SNL, next stop white house. Gabe for president!
If you like Gossip Girl: Staten Island, then you have this to look forward to: http://www.statenislandthemovie.com
Came up as an ad on Facebook for some reason, as if I just love all things Staten Island. (I do.)
Actually I think the Facebook ad was for “Staten Island” starring Ethan Hawke and Vincent D’Onofrio, but this one looks better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAhdIsiynVE
Hey guys, I’m curious. I love Videogum as the rest of you guys do. I’ve been a reader since it’s very first post about that cage fighting movie and I think Gabe is hands down the best writer on the Information Superfreeway, and I know that I’m gonna get downvoted a bunch of times for not towing the party line here, but….that said, how come you guys don’t…..I mean, making fun of juggalos is something that pre-dates Videogum. I’m curious about why you guys think that Gabe invented making fun of juggalos. In fact I’m curious about a lot of the things you attribute to Gabe/Videogum. I mean it’s obvious that mainstream media reads VG (congrats on the NYT thing by the way—neet!).
its hard to convey sarcasm ovr the internet but i get it
I speak specifically of the list that werrtrew compiled.
I hear you underweareyes, but I think this (Videogum’s assumed ownership of all things Juggalo ridicule) is a fresh start. I was in a ska band in high school in 1998 (that’s right), and we wrote a song about ICP kids. That’s what we called them. One lyric said they “smelled like muff / aren’t so tough”. That was literally 10,000 years ago, but the information superintersection does change how you approach the subject. Now that we can reference hour-long youtube videos of Juggalo community organizing efforts, the whole game has changed. I don’t see it as undue credit to Gabe and Lindsay’s reporting efforts in the past year.
Well that certainly makes a lot of sense. I want to be clear that I absolutely, positively acknowledge the trailblazed by Gabe and Lindsay, both for style and content. But after I read werttrew’s painstaking list (we ARE going to intervention you soon werttrew, btw), I had to wonder, do Gummers think that Gabe invented the Internet? The other day I wrote something and said, “this guy knows what I’m talking about’ and someone was all, “you lifted that from Videogum” Er….no, I lifted that from hack stand-up comedians which is where I think Gabe lifted it from. And then later I used the “HINT: it’s blah blah blah” and again I got accused of biting VG style. But in all honesty I lifted that straight from Pee-Wee Herman.
For every well read ‘gummer there is a whole slew of babies. Maybe they’ve never heard those things before. Gabe is their gateway.
Okay, well that makes a lot of sense too. Nice one.
the phrase “this guy knows what i’m talking about” is from the movie Office Space when the O-face guy talks about the bone roller coaster.
nope. no it wasn’t. it’s like…from vaudville. srsly.
It’s going to become more and more difficult to trace phrasing structures to their roots, as they become repeated time and again throughout history. I don’t look forward to the day I sit my kids down in 2025 and explain that “Imma let you finish” is not robot slang for temporarily overriding manual control.
This is true. Eminem was on Gabe’s team long before Gabe was on Gabe’s team.
I am going to steal, “information superintersection” and I may or may not give you credit. Depends how I feel. Also, “Information Cloverleaf Interchange” is funny. You can use it. I’ll let you.
I didn’t know who the lady host was ‘cuz I’m old. I started LOLing as soon as the juggalo parody started ‘cuz I read Videogum. VIDEOGUM…keeping the Elderly forever eYoung.
Blake Lively wears the hell out of a short hemmed dress with a ton of cleavage? I think Gossip Girl is actually keeping her from being ridiculously famous.
Could we please make “It’s called…YOUR PANTS!” the new thing to say. I have been looking for a new thing to say for awhile.
Also, I didn’t see any Jenny Slate outside of the monologue
This is specifically for monsters on the twitter list –
The Snapple Lady was in the Juggalo sketch! Are you thinking what I’m thinking? That this is a just strange coincidence and I’m a nerd for getting excited about it? Good, glad we’re on the same page.
Sorry I said the Snapple thing totally forgetting you beat me to it. OLD NEWZ, CARRIE.
You neden hole.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned one of the best lines: “The study was conducted by the University of my Eyeballs.” (In reference to a study that says college football linemen are obese).
The second I heard that, I thought, “Gabe’s writing for SNL NOW??” Because, c’mon. That is such a Gabe thing to say/type.
Oh, and I laughed for about a minute after I heard it.
shy ronny was awesome but the southern astronaut chip thief was indeed killer. Taking the whole “Where’s my potato chip? I ate it. So barf it up” grade school joke and dressing it up in its sundays finest. The dedication from the actors made it pop.
The day after Thanksgiving, I went to Steak N’ Shake with my friends at 1 a.m. Right after we finished, the Insane Clown Posse tour bus pulled up and they came in with a bunch of Juggalos. Can’t make this shit up.
I am the only monster in the sea who loved the “To Catch a Predator”-style celebrity talk show? Bill Hader does those creepy investigative reporter types like nobody’s business.
SNL’s Juggalo gathering video?? Why would you parody something already insanely funny, you can’t top the original for pure comedic value. Way too easy.
I wish I had some chips right now.
I am not understanding Gabe’s nice words about this season, when he has nice words for it. Everything he is finding hilarious, I am finding excruciating, and I don’t get it, because I keep thinking we are like the same person all the time, but different. I thought Joseph Gordon Levitt was cringey. I thought Taylor Swift was surprisingly good and game. I thought the Kenan character who just sings during the talk show felt like it went on for eleven hours, and sucked. Is it just me? Last season Anne HATHAWAY of all people starred in an episode where I laughed at every single sketch. I haven’t laughed once this year.
so that parody makes us all famous now, right?
I guess I should just tell you guys…I’m chris farley.
I like how Rihanna gives this self-satisfied look after she hits every pube-curling note like, “Man, am I fucking nailing this or what?” Fake it till you make it – I guess?
word…pitch is pretty bad on that one. not to mention that she dresses like braveheart and sidenote: “bull cut: Any type of haircut that makes you look like a bitch ass john legend…God your bull cut is ridiculous… You look like rich butler”-urban dictionary.