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Well, that was GREAT. Sure, the cold open about Barack Obama’s Health Care speech was a superdud, and there were a couple of other sketches that didn’t quite hit their marks (the kissing family in the funeral home was rocky at best, and I don’t think two guys kissing counts as a fully thought-out “joke”) but those minor stumbles will be washed away and forgotten in the great tide of history as this episode permanently solidifies its place in Saturday Night Live herstory. Zach’s monologue alone was an Instant Classic. And everything went from there. Zach appearing in the background of every NBC show flowing through to his appearance as himself on a Today show parody. The bidet couple. Will Forte’s song about women on “Weekend Update.” What Up With That featuring Frank Rich (Frank Rich!) and Paul Rudd. Even Vampire Weekend was pretty good! If there is a pantheon on a golden hued hill somewhere for great episodes of late night sketch comedy television to spend eternity in all their glory, this episode is packing its bag for that hilltop right now (huh?).
But perhaps the best sketch of the entire evening was the last, Pageant Talk. For some reason, that sketch isn’t in the full episode (above) or anywhere on-line. UNTIL NOW! After the jump, Pageant Talk:
So now it goes: 2010
1. Zach Galifianakis
2. Charles Barkley
3. Jon Hamm
You guys, wouldn’t it be great if TV was funny and exciting to watch every week? Well, wake up. This is America.
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That was so Raven.
That is not very Raven.
That’s my name on Twitter and Tumblr and when he said “not very Raven” I got a text and three @replies, one of which was from LINDSAY! WE MISS YOU LINDSAY!
I hear she’s a milkaholic these days.
And also a baby.
Zach’s acting in Pageant Talk reminds me of when he went on Jimmy Kimmel as his brother, Seth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5K01J7fkAs
it’s a reoccurring character in some of his standup specials as well
That’s exactly what I thought of. It it were at all physically possible to love something more than I love Zach Galifianakis, I would love Seth Galifianakis that much.
Very funny, but can someone explain: how calling someone gay as an insult is lame and stupid (which it is) but calling someone a Gay-Lord is hilarious (which it is).
I loved Pageant Talk and am very glad it is reposted here (what the hell hulu?) because when it aired my friends and I talked over the whole first part of it because of The Case of the Suddenly Missing Beard.
I admit I saw the video of Zach shaving backstage before I saw the episode – apparently he shaved it just for that sketch. Then they spirit-gummed a new beard on for the close.
But that’s so Zach.
Anyone else think that without the beard he looks like the bastard spawn of Horatio Sanz and Rip Taylor?
Thank you for posting Pageant Talk, I missed it. I cannot believe he shaved his beard. Well, I can because it’s him but I will miss it. RIP Zach’s beard.
I don’t want to get all Teen Korner on you guys but I didn’t know who Frank Rich was (very sad indeed, I know) and I kept hearing Frank Wrench and thinking of Arrested Development and becoming very confused.
Can we talk about this? It looks like there is something over his face (like a bald cap). Did he really shave his beard or just cover it? In the closing credits, the beard is back but also, it looks fake. I got an extra laugh just at the thought of the beard being a character of the show too. HA!
He did shave it! There’s a video of it floating around somewhere and that beard in the end is fake.
The mystery of Zach’s beard revealed. http://bit.ly/bfNgsT (via @sethmeyers21)
Zach’s fake beard he wore for the closing of the show was my FAVORITE part of the episode.
he’s greek. he shaves every day, it just grows back.
i didnt watch the episode, but i did just watch pagent talk. it was excellent. so excellent, in fact, it made it crystal clear how boring snl usually is.
the sketch should have been much longer with much more Zach and Jenny Slate and WAY less Kristen Wiig! I enjoy you Miss Wiig, but you could have left and Zach and Jenny could have Sparkled! Kristen could have just been off camera coughing so you could have his ever gayer guests snark about how surprised they were that he married that.
Long story short: I would make Pagent Talk part of my weekly Television watching routine. Best.
I thought it was Richard Dunn’s beard that got shaved…
No bear shaving video?????????????????????????
BEARD SHAVING. Actually, though, my comment is funnier as-is.
Well that’s certainly a unique fetish.
No beard?
Barkley still? That’s still the second best? Really?? REALLY?? About three/four were better than that one. Zach rules. Should be an annual host, however.
HERE COMES THE CHOO-CHOO!
Haven’t they already done a kissing family sketch? Like a couple years ago? Seemed like a retread.
The rest was good, though. I hope Vampire Weekend actually sounds that good in a few weeks.
They are usually very impressive live.
I think Zach G was a bit of a let down (Heaven Forbid!), the show was better than average, but for the most part I wasn’t entertained.
I would agree. A huge letdown, overall. I thought most of the sketches were very drawn out and painfully one-note. (Bidets, kisses, unpopular health care, What’s Up With That, etc.)
The opening monologue and the last sketch were it for me. Plus, Zach Drops By The Set.
seriously guys! the only skit where Zach was allowed to flourish was Pageant Talk. Everything else was boooorrrinnnngggg (except maybe the bidet thing)
I feel like it was just a show with like him as a guest appearance, idk. I don’t enjoy SNL not nearly as much as I used to (probably because I was younger as well.)
I knew hulu was holding out on me, Thaaaaanks videoguuuuuum.
“I like dark comedy. That’s why I like the Wayans Brothers” – CLASSIC.
It was the best episode I’ve seen this season, even with a lame retread like the kissing family, and the bidet sketch was one of those that ran a little too long and almost lost me. But then it was followed by “Zach Drops in on the Set” and I was back.
Pageant Talk killed, and “You smell like Bojangle’s sausage biscuits!” is my new favorite insult.
A Bojangles’ reference! Glad Zach is staying true to his NC roots. MmmmMm
I’m eating a Bojangles’ Cheddar Bo Biscuit now! In honor of Pageant Talk, of course…not because I want to die of heart disease
But heart disease tastes so great!
and so is North Carolina!
But not very Raven
Scott Baio’s nephew is the bassist for Vampire Weekend.
Hahaha, I know Chris’ last name is Baio but I honestly had no clue they were related. Shame…
Does he have a picture of a black person in his wallet?
I was psyched that the five year old with a beard made an appearance.
I was really hoping Zach would pop out from behind Vampire Weekend during their performance. Would’ve been the best.
Zach is our Andy Kaufman.
“He died from high-fiving” and “Hoobastank is here…no?” really sealed the deal for me – that said, opening monologue was by far the best!
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You must not have seen what he did there.
No, I got it — his song is dumb and he wants a gazillion dollars for it! It just went on way too long — and It was the worst thing ever in comparison to an episode with such genius moments as the bidet skit. the opening monologue and pageant family.
I don’ t know. I accidentally laughed pretty hard when he said “Emily Dickinson, books.”
Likewise for “Miss Piggy, talking pig. Betty Crocker, ca-aa-ake.”
Or
Helen Keller says “waaa”
Beside the monologue, I was not impressed. It’s almost like they didn’t want to feature him in that many sketches, so they forced him into the background randomly a bunch of times. Although I only watched the online one, which didn’t have Pageant Talk!
Was Kristen Wiig repeatedly throwing the ashtrays in Pageant Talk a reference to Biker Chick Chat, or were both of those referencing something else?
He is such a delight.
I agree with videogum, Pageant Talk was the funniest part and the show was good for the most part, and that stupid kissing family scene was lame. Overall this Zack Grilofonokogus fella did a stellar job. A+. Five stars.
I remember when SNL used to put their best sketches near the beginning of the show and save the lame ones that go on too long for the end. Now they’re doing the opposite. But at least there were a couple great sketches, even though Zach was totally underused. It’s like he didn’t have time to do spoofs!
By the way, for the longest time when I was younger, even into my 20s, I thought bidet was actually spelled b’day.
I was really hoping for a SNL Digital Short.
Zach dropping by the NBC shows was close, but I was hoping for something out there in the Digital Short dept., like Franco’s Jammies sketch.
You are all mostly wrong. The bidet sketch is an instant classic.
Best episode of the season, probably, but I don’t think they played to his strengths all that well. But there isn’t much out there funnier than him trying to keep his composure.