Saturday Night Live

I don't know why exactly, but that host list makes me really sad. Like seriously sad.

January Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jake Gyllenhaal, Derek Jeter, Jon Bon Jovi = point is that your first or last name has to start with a J in order to host

u r next

*exchanges knowing glances with Jon Williams*

man how do they waste the jon bovi sketch last week, they should do it when he's hosting imo

Hello this is SNL, they won't be afraid to continue beating that "joke" into the ground. Guarantee it will be on that episode.

January Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jake Gyllenhaal, Derek Jeter, Jon Bon Jovi = point is that your first or last name has to start with a J in order to host

― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 16, 2009 10:25 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

forks?

Jake Gyllenhaal

His first time was classic for the "Law & Order Acting School" sketch alone.

I think JG-L should be pretty decent too. Granted, he was only a kid on 3rd Rock, but he could probably be a funny adult too.

Yeah. There's just no part of me that understands Bon Jovi or Jeter, though.

They are incredibly popular people who are charming and outgoing

If memory serves, this will be an encore performance for Jeter. I don't remember his first time being funny, though. In fact, I barely remember it at all.

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http://www.theodoresworld.net/pics/0508/PalinImage1.jpg

Yeah, this is Jeter's second go-round.

First SNL host of the new year!:

http://therichlife.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/vsbefore.jpg

I love all the SNL fanfic in this thread. Would the masturbating Jimmy Stewart sketch be intended as a part of the official SNL universe or is this a multiverse spin-off?

I don't know about the other guys here but I send all my SNL Skit Remixes to Lorne Michaels when the season is over. Like any good remix they are supposed to make him think "what if?"

This show sucks

lol

Joseph Gordon-Leavitt is awesome and I bet he'll be a great host.

My inner-frat child wants to see a skit about "Angels in the Outfield."

My name begins with J if you spell it wrong.

2nd snl host of next year:

http://www.definitivejux.net/files/u3/jared.jpg

Jeter was decent for an athlete. But really, doing better than the likes of Michael Phelps or Tom Brady is saying much. I kind of wish they were going with A-Rod instead because it would be such a fantastic trainwreck.

D'oh, should be "isn't saying much".

Yeah, I surprised anyone is up in arms over January Jones considering that they'll even let athletes host this show.

the rock was a radical host as i recall

yeah, dude. He did it twice! Once as the Rock and once as Dwayne Whatever The Fuck His Real Name Is

sometimes the non-actors can be good if they just go for it and don't mind looking silly. i don't see jeter going this way though.

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/celebrity_photos/derek_jeter_big_screen_cameo_HAUnrIHKNBtbI829udviXL

peyton manning was pretty funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L42C7wphzVY

peyton manning is funny in commercials too

iirc most of the athletes that host tend to bring in huge ratings no matter how bad they are -- wasn't Nancy Kerrigan one of their highest rated episodes ever? i can at least see the rationale for that more than getting the 3rd or 4th most famous person from an award winning but not massively popular cable drama.

If memory serves, this will be an encore performance for Jeter. I don't remember his first time being funny, though. In fact, I barely remember it at all.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, November 16, 2009 11:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

derek jeter's taco hole was great

<3 peyton manning's comedy.

Part of the allure of athletes on the show is watching highly successful people fail, imo.

Part of the allure of athletes on the show is watching highly successful people fail, imo.

― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:51 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nah, people have low expectations for athletes on snl so then as long as they aren't awful they come across pretty well

I don't remember who it was, but there was an athlete on, a baseball player I think, and Chris Kattan is a kid about to go to sleep, and the athlete shows up like a ghost to offer all these aspirational thoughts and it's really touching, then one by one more show up till it's just annoying and creepy and finally Will Ferrel enters. That was a great skit.

Here it is. Helen Hunt was the guest but real athletes show up.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/97/97ibaseball.phtml

hahaha, remember when Wayne Gretzky hosted in 1989 and he did that sketch where he just said everything he thought outloud.

"Bye guys, if you need me, I'll upstairs masturbating"

actual lols just from reading the transcript of that baseball sketch

That was Joe Montana, not Gretzky.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/86istu.phtml

Ugh, SNL Transcripts...

"This is my master, Hannibal" instead of "mastiff"

come on fuck a guy

thanks, dan... shit that was 86!

I remember being incredulous that my parents were not stopping me from watching the show at that point

ha i totally remember that one!

it was such a weird thing for Joe Montana to say

think that was maybe why it was funny

thanks

I still bust out the line "I've got the rolling papers if you got the weed" from the baseball sketch fairly regularly. I'm rarely taken up on the offer though.

you're welcome, jazzgasms! (/joe montana voice)

loool @ 2012 sketch