Saturday Night Live

That too.

I don't know if I've ever seen a host used less than Ed Helms. granted, I watched the show on demand, where they cut out the monologue and a few sketches, but that small role in the Ambiguously Gay Duo sketch was literally the only time I saw him until after Weekend Update, well into the 2nd half of the show.

Yeah. I was looking forward to it, since I went to college with him, but couldn't believe how little he was in it. Maybe they spent all week filming Ambiguously Gay Duo. I have a theory that whenever they cut to a commercial they've already shown, it's going to be a thin episode.

Helms played the banjo in "What Up with That."

GAGA.

and timberlake

but GAGA!!

they're gonna give her a big ten minute block like they did jay-z right?

gaga's on? i guess i have to go figure out how to get this to appear on my tv

shit, that's one of the best lonely island songs ever

the melody in the hook is just the shit

eh I didn't find it that funny tbh... I chuckled, that's it

interesting tho that gaga will have a gay rights anthem on the charts at the same time as she's singing on a song that expresses a sentiment (jokingly or not) that is at least mildly homophobic

yeah it wasn't even really that funny, i kind of wish it was a real, normal song tho -- from a pure musical standpoint i loved it

i would go see a "the pianos of lady gaga" exhibit at the smithsonian in 20 years

yeah, the actually song was pretty cool melodically, I agree.

anyway great performance by GaGa, love the piano-version of "Edge of Glory"

"edge of glory" & "judas" are roughly 50,000x better than "born this way"

lol @ Gaga

I missed everything that happened after the What's That Name? sketch (left the house I was watching it at). Anything else funny after that?

I thought the whole episode was pretty decent. I think there wasn't a single skit that wasn't a recurring skit, but they were all pretty funny takes on them. Normally I'm like "uh, this skit again" but they were good. Especially What's That Name.

xpost Johnny you missed Barry Gibb Talk Show!

Shockingly, Fallon didn't break. May have been the best BGTS ever.

I would kind of love it if Justin Timberlake joined SNL

Did Gaga don some weird pregnant suit? And then at the end, were they trying to make it look like they were pulling something out of her vag?
Found it all a little confusing. Love the Barry Gibb talk show.

JT & Gaga could totally slot into regular cast

Weird pregnant suit: check
Giving birth to glitter goop: check

She did don a weird pregnant suit, and then they put her in stirrups, but then they completely punted on having her give birth despite a conveniently-placed pull tab on the front of her outfit. I felt robbed.

oh wait was she supposed to be birthing GLITTER

what am I saying, of course she was

lol forever

Yeah, I was really expecting them to pull that ring on the front of belly.
I also felt a little robbed.

I was convinced there was a puppy in there

Thought this would've been a decent midseason episode; as the season finale, it felt a little short on fireworks.

Would have been awesome had they pulled the tab and JT popped out.

If they'd have pulled the What Up With That? and the live-action Ambigously Gay Duo from last week's episode and slotted them in the best of this weekend's, you'd have had the perfect season finale.

Yeah, but then no one would've tuned in because last weeks was so bad.

True, but, y'know, sacrifice.

Bill Hader is the official "cast member who breaks" now, right? (I get why, esp. in the Stefon sketch, but still)

For some reason it's funny when Hader does it but was always lazy when Fallon did it. (Hader obvs funnier, but still.)

God, remember the "Leathuhh" sketch w/ Fallon/Sanz? Did they ever NOT break? Like, even once?

Watching the rerun; I had no idea Jessie J sang like that! Too bad her songs are horrible because wau

You mean the second song, right? I was pretty impressed iirc

this was def my favorite sketch of the season http://www.hulu.com/watch/206141/saturday-night-live-worst-of-soul-train

yeah that was pretty great

what's the time frame on when cast changes happen? interested to see what happens this year, i feel like it was a really successful year for them in terms of buzz but i wouldn't be surprised to see sudeikis or wiig or even hader leave. also not sure the supporting cast was that strong this year but i think it's stupid when they dump ppl after a year

last couple seasons the big news about who's leaving/getting fired hasn't come out until late august/early september, seems like they wait til rehearsals are starting for the season premiere to finalize or announce those kinds of decisions.

i would be pretty bummed if sudeikis or hader or wiig left -- so sick of armisen but i guess they're going to keep his shitty obama on for at least 2 more seasons, and god willing hire a black man who can do a decent obama if the guy gets a 2nd term

fun fact: fred armisen is now the voice of speedy gonzalez. there really is no ethnicity that guy isn't that he won't play!

seems like armisen is on the darrell hammond track of hanging around for five years too long just so he can do two characters an episode

You've gotta admit, Armisen's David Patterson had layers. Layers like, "Did you know that blind people can't see?" and...yeah, that's pretty much it.

i don't really think armisen is terrible as obama, i just think the writing for those sketches has been really poor

the same episode w/ the soul train sketch had a cold open w/ armisen as bloomberg addressing nyc after the epic snowstorms & it was really, really hilarious

lol tarfumes

his david patterson IS hilarious

i just don't think this writing staff has ever found a way to write funnily for obama -- sudeikis' biden has always been hilarious, but it's not even a 'good' impression really, he's just an easier person to write jokes about

no, he's totally a lame obama. like, if you watch will ferrell's early bush impressions from fall 2000, he didn't quite have it down yet and was just kind of riffing on a vague idea of the guy that got more focused later on -- armisen is still like that after playing obama for 4 years