Saturday Night Live

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?)

they made us watch Fleet Foxes, I wouldn't put anything past them at this point

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

so was that leggy "price tag" woman with the huge mouth. the music industry is cRaZy!!

After watching that performance, I was convinced Jessie J was going to be HUGE in the U.S.! Oh well.

Jessie J at least has some radio presence here, though. Ellie Goulding is a blog star, and a UK blog star at that.

Lykke Li might've been a good idea. "I Follow Rivers" was even briefly on Glee.

I would've signed on for that 100%. She's awesome in performance.

Also -- does this thread load mega-slowly for everyone, or just me?

SNL did kind of break Adele in the US, though, so who knows what will happen. Tina Fey's a good lure to get people watching a particular episode.

Phoenix were also on a good 3 months before Wolfgang came out.

Huh, I didn't realize that the performance antedated the album release, though it looks like it was only about six weeks (early April to late May), so the singles were already in circulation. Also, the reason I didn't realize that is b/c the album leaked in March, IIRC.

Ah, you're right. I just remember the album actually being released happening a dog's age after it leaked.

Ellie Goulding was every bit the dud I expected.

Bring back out Kristen Wiig as Tina Fey's singing fetus!

Stefon, still hilarious. Now it's obvious the point is to make him break, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N24fVEJyQKM

this had me lol'ing & i dont want to start a separate thread for it atm