SNL: Just The Funny Parts, And Also Mark Wahlberg
I don't know how Lindsay does this every week. Have you actually sat down and watched an entire episode of Saturday Night Live? Yikes. All these years of making fun of MadTV for being the inferior late night sketch program might be at an end. (Just K, MadTV is the worst.) Not that there aren't some laughs in there, but it just feels like a lot to sift through. Which, actually, if anything, only makes the work that Lindsay does all the more important.
So, as you already know, Sarah Palin was on this weekend. She didn't really do much. She kind of just smiled and allowed Alec Baldwin to rip her a new one so hard. Man, that was incredible. If you haven't seen it, though, it's after the jump, along with Mark Wahlberg's mostly unfunny, still-can't-take-a-joke cameo, and a couple of things that were not on Hulu.
Sarah Palin's opening sketch in which Alec Baldwin pretends that she's already president and he's the keynote speaker at her White House Correspondents' Dinner.
The Saddest Episode of MacGruber
The Weekend Update Sarah Palin Rap (sign here)
Mark Wahlberg Is Boring And Still Stuck On The Nose Thing
Narc School
I'm not sure that Narc School was actually that funny, but the idea is so smart it should go to college. I also recognize that Fred Armisen's underground musician Joshua Rainhorn sketch kind of fell flat and had a little too much going on, but if you ever have the chance to see him perform that character live, you should, because I saw him play that "Wine and Cigarettes" song in its entirety at Big Terrific, a comedy show in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and it was cramazing.
Oh, you know what else was funny? This:
You can't see him in this image, but Alec Baldwin is all the way on the other side of the screen, being the man now dawg.
Posted by Gabe at 10:30 AM in Sketch Comedy
Tags: Mark Wahlberg | Sarah Palin | Saturday Night Live
Even though it was pretty funny and ripped on Palin hard, I thought Videogum was against fake rap, no matter its forum?????
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Mark Wahlberg looked like a douche-bag on the Jimmy Kimmel boring hour, but I have to say he actually seemed like a great sport on SNL and may have redeemed himself.
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I'm suspicious. What made the original Wahlerg sketch so funny was its randomness. But the next new episode providing a forum for Marky Mark to make a cameo on the very weekend that his new movie came out (which he did not neglect to plug)...seems like maybe "talks to animals" and the resulting douchebaggery from Mr. Cool Vibrations was all an arch to get him a walk-on.
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you really think SNL is that smart?
anyway, you're right gabe, that narc school sketch was based on a great great idea. didnt really work toward the end though for me.
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The sad part about this is that you posted all the funny parts and only 2 (mayybe 2 and a half) are really funny. It was such a dud.
Weekend Update was hilarious as always. I think if all fake rap was like that, I wouldn't mind so much. Oops - is that blasphemous to say around here?
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Standing next to Tina Fey, Real Life Palin looks extra mean and evolutionarily incorrect. I think her appearance on the show was Bad Idea Skirt Suit.
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All I want to know is what the hell is up with the llama?
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1.Narc School was cute.
2.I didn't know Josh Brolin was in Goonies. Was he the main "hot" guy?
3.Andy Sandburg is hot.
4.TheFaintingCycle, that is quite the conspiracy theory. But I like it & I'm going to believe it.
5.Palin is oblivious.
6.Pohler is awesome.
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I liked Narc school. I liked the wippits line the best.
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I laughed my balls off at the Greg Allman cologne sketch. Maybe you have to have grown up in my part of the country to get it.
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I think Amby Sanders is that smart, yeah. And he knows how to take it outside of the confines of the 1.5 hours--see "Daiquiri Girl."
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"narc school" was the funniest concept i've seen on SNL in a long time, so man was I irritated when they managed to make it SO unfunny when it really could have written itself. can we get someone with writing talent to turn it into a movie please?
also, I cannot figure out whether Sarah Palin is so beauty-pageant-confident that she just couldn't give a fuck during the fake rap bit or if it's just that any words put to rap music instantly become unintelligible
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Kenan's guest character on Weekend Update was a bit of a something to his All That past. I don't know if anyone else caught it (I'm twenty, so I watched All That), but the first clue was the character itself, a French blah blah blah. He often portrayed "Pierre Escargot" on All That, who said something in French and then translated it (phrases like "My pickles don't fit in my banana peels"). I thought this was just a coincidence, but he at some point said something like "I can bag THAT in my pants." And, again on All That, he had what was probably the best character ever, Baggin' Saggin' Barry. BSB had large, baggy pants, and he could pull anything out of them (I believe he once managed an airplane to transport his tennis team). Then, right after, he said something "all that and a bag of chips."
I suppose it could all be one big coincidence, but I like to think it is actually the best. Especially because All That was always good and always better than SNL (and MadTV!)
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All That FTW
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Someone else noticed the llama behind Lorne, Palin, and the rest. I swear, it just randomly appears, with, like, Abe Lincoln, when Marky Mark shows up. Srsly.
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Did Ari Gold tell Mark Wahlberg he had to go do SNL for damaged control for making himself look like an ass on Kimmel?
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marky was dry.
he didn't even commit to the fake punch.
i'd rather watch samberg as wahlberg talking to a goat anyday.
and does ANYONE think macgruber is funnY???? no? that's what i thought.
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