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I’ve kept my mouth shut about it for awhile (after not keeping it shut at all, obviously) because I know it’s an unpopular opinion and I feel that I made my point, but I’m privately still annoyed by the whole Betty White thing. Like, OK, you did it, Internet, she hosted Saturday Night Live and she even did a good job, but I feel like she is just in everything at this point and frankly it is weird. It’s like she’s winning a year-long lifetime achievement award except that instead of a statuette, she gets to be in a movie with Rachel McAdams or something, and instead of an award for her contribution to entertainment, she’s just being rewarded for still being alive. Fair enough. Would that we could all enjoy the same.

But perhaps we have finally found someone who can end Betty White’s strangle-hold on popular entertainment. An elderly comedy powerhouse for OUR GENERATION. I am talking, of course, about Cookie Monster.

C is for Cahhahahahha. Sesame Street, you guys! Still killing it after all these years. Follow them on Twitter! (Via Whatevs.net.)

Comments (74)
  1. Good Luck Huck

  2. From one monster to another, best of luck, Big Blue.

  3. I have a feeling Huck will be hosting right about the time the new muppet movie comes out in theaters.

  4. C is also for Cake. Cake, who hearts Huckabeast.

  5. Come on, Bing. The whole point is that we shouldn’t have to choose.

  6. Can the entire Muppet cast host? Please?

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  8. I’m only on board for this if facetaco is the musical guest.

  9. I think we all know what’s gonna happen to him once he gets “in” with the SNL crowd:

  10. That’s the best SNL episode I’ve seen in years. None of the skits went too long, and no one cracked up at their own jokes.

    Also, re: the cookie joke monologue: great thing, or greatest thing?

  11. I would like to think that you are all my “friends.”

    Seriously, though, this is like the best video. Anyway, he couldn’t do any worse than Adrien Brody.

  12. I get that Gaga is relevant, but wouldn’t (O)REO Speedwagon been more apropos as a musical guest.

  13. ALF / Franklin in 2012

  14. And just like that, I have something to be thankful for this thursday.

  15. Man, Cookie, you really did a great job.. Thats why it’s so hard for me to tell you that you didn’t make the cut… While i thought your audition tape was great, it was unfortunately severely lacking in the Denzel Washington impression department. – Lorne Michaels

  16. i was sure this would be him running through a shooting range…

  17. If I had to choose a sesame street character…..

    It would be the Count von Count.

    I know counting jokes are probably not cool now but man did I love that guy as a kid.

  18. Bettie White’s revenge, this or diabetes.

  19. I think that would actually be really great if they brought on cookie monster and did an entire episode like he was just your normal host… you know, introducing the band, being in terrible Gilly sketches… and playing it totally straight the whole time. It would take some creativity however to keep the Dunham wannabe with his hand up Cookie’s rear out of the shot.

  20. At this point I think SNL would be a better show if the writers of Sesame Street just took over.

  21. SNL did googly eyes before, and they did it well.

  22. It’s been awhile since I’ve watched Sesame Street, but am I detecting a slight Russian accent? Did Cookie Monster always sound like that?

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