Saturday Night Live

What happened to Noodles?!

Hate Jessie J's music if you must, but you can't deny she has amazing legs.

I liked the Galifiniakis digital short with the kids

Your legs would look amazing in skyscraper wedges and glitter brocade leggings too, Johnny.

theres gonna be hella boning in yr farter

scared str8 with Lorenzo Macintosh is reliably one of the best sketches

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/comedy-tour/1313758

I just watched this again four times in a row.

So funny, loved that one

This has got to be one of the best opening monologues I've ever seen.

His last one was hilarious too. I have to admit to thinking last week's Miley episode was generally funnier though, despite the less funny host.

The On Demand version fades out early. Did he play the piano again?

No. Oh man, I'm assuming you didn't see the Annie tribute because of copyright issues with the song? Did it fade out before the dress?

Yes. Definitely before the dress.

Not sure why he had a mohawk at the end either.

He took off his clothes and was wearing a Little Orphan Annie dress and he sang Tomorrow while showing funny comments on a giant pad.

The mohawk thing was a total joke. Last time he was on, he shaved his beard 3/4 of the way through. This time he just came on at the end with the mohawk and made a joke about the Mr. T skit being cut.

yeah the monologue was excellent - loved that moment when he's in the Annie dress where he stops and flashes his underpants

was wondering where the Annie part was on hulu, thought I had dreamt it

elton john looks terrifying

That's why Leon Russell is on stage near him. Knock down the Chuckie-as-an-old-man thing.

BTW did anyone else not hear Leon at all during the first song and most of the second?

This was the SNL version of Eric Clapton on a 2010s Rolling Stone cover.

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"