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As we all know, Charles Barkley hosted the best episode of Saturday Night Live of the season, and it is going to be pretty hard to take that title away from him. To do so would require a perfect storm of crackerjack writing, a carefree cast, and if the host is illiterate that doesn’t hurt (apparently!). But Jon Hamm did great this weekend, so you can relax now, ladies. I know how nervous all of you ladies were that your ManCrunch would January Johnoes it up all over the place, but he didn’t. (No one was actually worried about that.) In fact, I am completely confident in declaring this to be The Second Best Episode of the Season. Is this our nation’s highest honor? Maybe. There is no way to know. But let’s go to the highlight reel:
The opening State of the Union sketch was boring and too long, but what is Saturday Night Live going to do? Not have a State of the Union sketch? Get real! It’s 2010! You gotta have a State of the Union sketch! It doesn’t matter though, because Jon Hamm’s monologue more than made up for it. The monologue wasn’t just better than some other monologues, or good, it was an actual sketch, and it made me laugh!
And from there things just got rolling. The 1920s dance party sketch was perfectly decent and charming!
And the advertisement for a clothing organizer was just solid, classic Saturday Night Live material, but the kicker was when they brought him back at the end of the episode for a call-back sketch. Complex comedy structures! What is this, an episode of Mr. Show?! LOL.
Speaking of comedy structures, it is funny how the Internet has become such a wellspring of sketch comedy to the point where sketch comedy in traditional media starts to seem like it was made for the Internet. Obviously, Digital Shorts do this every week, but even this Barnes and Noble sketch basically seemed like a Funny or Die video or something:
But the evening’s signature sketch must have been Hamm and Buble.
It is sort of odd how both times that Jon Hamm has hosted, the most popular joke of the evening is just that his last name is a type of food. Whatever. Farts and butts. Nothing changes.
Other highlights of the episode that I did not bother posting here were Weekend Update, which was strong this week, and had a good Snooki impersonation played by a construction cone. And although I am sure some people disagree with me, I always enjoy Game Time with Randy and Greg. Oh, and Robert Byrd’s fantasy about Scott Brown was the best. Like I said, a very solid episode. It was no Charles Barkley episode, but we can’t all be Borderline Retarded Living Legends.
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This episode had a little something for everybody. For the ladies, you had Jon Hamm. And for the ladies, you had Michael Buble!
Definitely one for the moms, god bless ‘em.
Buble is for the ladies? Poor ladies! Wage disparity AND Michael Buble. Awful.
Donde esta Sergio?
Where ever the wind blows…
I don’t know what I would prefer more, Hamm and Buble’s champagne and ham or Jon Hamm’s john ham?
Proof that THE SECRET works: Jon Hamm dancing in jean shorts, out of my dreams and into real life!
Cool it Huey Lewis, I think he’s taken.
Git out of those jean shorts and into my van, just kidding LOL haha, seriously
i tried to watch this at around 3am on sunday morning but ended up passing out with a bowl of pretzels and cream cheese on my face. whoops.
Whoa… great minds!
Sadly, I did not catch this episode because my eyes have to fast at least 72 hours before a season premiere of Lost
Enjoy!
Many thanks to werttrew for the .gif posting instructions. Servicey!
I feel like a proud father.
Ahhh, bless you. The flapper Scott Brown is my favorite
Wow, sir. And thanks. (Also, the saxophone thing had me ROTFL so much.)
The greasy sax man is the ONLY skit that needs to be mentioned. Seriously, you guys.
FTW:
I watched this for a good three minutes.
I LOVE YOU.
that barnes and noble skit had me LOLing but I feel like it’s only really funny to New Yorkers. I’m pretty sure suburban Barnes & Nobles aren’t dealing with those issues…
I have been to Barnes and Noble in the suburbs and in big cities, and they have always had nasty bathrooms. I think it’s just a FACT.
also, SERGIO!
The comedy was great but for me the standout was actually the music perfomace. The duet with Sharon Jones was great. It’s refreshing to see musical guests who can acutally perform live without the aid of autotuning.
I loved the State of the Union sketch–or at least the beginning, how they riffed on the constant standing up and clapping. President Armisen got a huge standing O for the line that Martha Coakley “couldn’t beat Dick Cheney for mayor of Berkeley”.
Calling Charles Barkley “borderline retarded” is CNN Nancy Grace Very Mean of you, Gabe. The dude is funny and witty as hell.
i stood behind kristin wiig at the grocery store last week and let me tell you, she is hot as hell in person. the fact that she plays gross/stupid/weird so much on the show makes her even funnier to me now. go k-dub.
I love it when SNL finds simple-yet-hilarious ways for the host to advertise a product referencing his or her own name. The best ever might be Peter Sarsgaard’s SARS Guards.
BEST NEW PARTY GAME??
wait, is no one going to mention the brendan fraiser laugh in the intro??
Charles Barkley? He is so your SNL host,
If by second best you mean best, then YES
and sesriously, no Sergio?
Sergio was perfect. Remember this dude from The Lost Boys?
Is that a vintage Pizza Hut ‘BOOK IT!’ t-shirt Forte’s wearing in the bar sketch? Holy crap, I NEED THAT SHIRT.
I had all weekend, and I still haven’t finished wanking to all the shirtless Jon Hamm’s in this episode. TMIgum.
The Sergio digital short was brilliant! Also, weekend update was great this week!
“You’ve seen them round-the-way girls. With their big booties. And the stank. They need to wash they ass.”
- Jon Hamm’s tombstone.
i have not seen it yet .