Saturday Night Live

Looking forward to Paul Simon on the season finale.

this was a musical version of elton john on a 2011 rolling stone cover

tbh I am a little impressed that this bland an episode came in April! Usually they start losing it in January.

I just don't get these shows where Elton John is the host but Tom Hanks is hanging around, killing it.

Like dan aykroyd playing bob dole and 1990s Tom Snyder even though he wasn't the real host.

Why did Carmelo even bother to show up.

iirc Aykroyd had a weird superstition about not hosting SNL for years and years and would only do little cameo appearances until finally hosting in like 2003

OK finally watching the episode -- you guys were way too rough on Elton imo, the monologue and the Knights of the Realm sketch were lol

when Will Forte showed up for the ESPN sketch, I wonder what percentage of the audience thought "hey it's former cast member Will Forte returning to reprise one of his running characters" and what percentage never even registered that he hasn't been on the show this season. when I watch the show on demand, NBC's parent company Xfinity still lists "Will Forte, (host name)" as the 2 stars of the show on the menu anytime I pull up a new episode.

NBC's parent company Xfinity

what

I caught it from Knights of the Realm onward and thought Elton was hilarious

Hanks on SNL reminds me of why I used to like him

NBC's parent company Xfinity

what

― jaymc, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 10:10 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

i guess i phrased that poorly; Comcast is the parent company and Xfinity is Comcast's rebranded name for their cable service

OK.

Re Forte, I definitely thought, "Man, I wonder how guys like Paul Brittain feel when the show puts on sketches where more than half the performers are neither cast members nor the host." (Had to do a Twitter search to figure out that was Carmelo Anthony.)

Hanks on SNL reminds me of why I used to like him

He seems like such a decent dude w/a good sense of humor. But his movies suck. It's all been downhill since Bachelor Party.

I wish he'd do more comedy that showed his natural style, the way he is on SNL or the way he is with Conan

yeah it's such a waste that Hanks has made like 2 non-animated comedies in the last decade and one of them was The Ladykillers. he's so ready to be hilarious at any given moment but so rarely takes the opportunity. almost a shame he's too big a star to ever star in a TV series.

wow helen mirren looks slammin in this week's promos. i'm always blown away by how well she's aged!

just came here to say the hugh jackman sketch was really awful

but then the juggalo thing had me in tears

Watching Dave Grohl ham it up at the end was more entertaining than those 2 Foo Fighters songs his band did

funniest ep in as long as I can remember

woulda loved seening dave get the old band together again

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljfl4uHvwE1qcrzkko1_500.gif

I started watching last night and got bored & switched off....guess I should see it through, huh? <3 Dave!!!

i mean really i was excited for another crisis of conformity reunion but the foo fighters are ok i guess

really can't believe they're STILL running out the james carville impersonation

also how did no one post about new jean k jean

BON TO THE JOUR

also seth's "bitch better have my merchant copy" joke was the hardest i've laughed at update in forever

ZUT ALORS!

the juggalo thing is always great -- i esp loved "mrs. potato dick" for some reason

also died @ kenan as teddy roosevelt

also how did no one post about new jean k jean

Made me pretty happy that he worked "arrondissement" into it.

Kenan as Teddy Roosevelt was pretty awesome

Maybe I'm too close to the theater world (or too easily amused) but I thought the Hugh Jackman sketch was hilarious, especially Kenan as Ice Cube.

actual lols at "puppet legs"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2119SBfE_II

oh yeah that had me loln too

Kenan had Cube's inflection down...and jumping up with Julie Andrews and putting two in the dude was LOL

I loved that sketch, and the Roosevelts the most

"come let us SING!" "HELL NO"

still loling at that...and I dunno, I'm a dork but when Gerard Butler comes out and does the shouty SPARTA thing and then immediately segues into Phantom, lololol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yha-NQs5Jkc&feature=player_embedded

"Yo, what's crackin'? I already hate this."

taran killam is a pretty good singer!

"Don't be a coy dingo"

omg "Po-Po" LOLOLOL

that sketch is really great

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/05/kristen_wiig_has_retired_two_s.html

As long as Target Lady lives on, I'm happy.

I miss Gilly already ;_;

Yeah, I'd only recently come around on Gilly, so now I'm a little sad there will be no more sketches.

Penelope, good riddance.

I'm prob in the minority, but Penelope and Gilly were actually two of my fave Wiig characters. Target Lady not so much.

maybe we should just have this convo on this thread to avoid everyone repeating their preferences: worst recurring Kristen Wiig character on SNL

work on the tweet is that Madonna and Gaga were filming some video together, possibly for SNL.

This is the list of the last 3 eps this year, with Gaga being the musical performer on the finale. SNL usually goes big to end a season, so a Madonna cameo thing wouldn't surprise me (especially with Justin being there too).

May 7, 2011 Tina Fey/Ellie Goulding (36.20, live) [13][14]
May 14, 2011 Ed Helms/Paul Simon (36.21, live)[14]
May 21, 2011 Justin Timberlake/Lady Gaga (36.22, live) [15]

(Ellie Goulding seems like a stretch for a US audience, amirite?)