Saturday Night Live

First song is great. Second song was a bit boring. Dude with white guitar has good tone, but he likes to bend the g while pinkying the b a little too much. Feel like someone should give him a slide guitar.

was surprised by their performance because all the chatter about the band led me to expect something kind of visceral and exciting, seemed pretty sleepy.

I found myself just staring at her weird mouth shapes.

Alabama Shakes is a pretty good band, but would probably be an unbelievable band if they listened to any rock record that came out in the the last 30 years

Or if they decided to finish writing any of their songs.

You can look up the fatality codes on the Internet after all

I can't decide if I dig them or if they're like a Stax-worshipping version of Wolfmother.

She has a killer voice. But the band seems kinda weaksauce

I think the repeating intro to The Californians is better than the sketches.

Also, I recently laughed very very hard at Andy Sandberg singing "This. voice. is. as good. as yours!!" to the Maroon 5 guy in the style of that one song.

moynihan & whoever this girls name is employee diss sketch is back, i welcomed it

Kate's been underused these last few episodes after being all over a bunch. Cecily's getting a ton of roles though.

Someone please make Macklemore stop

i don't even understand what just happened here.

Awesome, it's the male version of Karmin.

Awesome, it's the male version of Karmin.

Omg dying

Someone please make Macklemore stop

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needs to be said often

Can I have a moment for "IS IT AN A-SHIRT??????"

a rare SNL callback. Def one of my favorite skits of the night. Good performance by both. I also liked the Steve Harvey skit.

Z-shirt was great, callback was a pleasant surprise.

Shark Tank could've been a lot better; McKinnon's impression was hilariously spot-on, but no one laughed, probably because no one watches Shark Tank.

u ppl & yr fucking 'callbacks'

eh, sometimes the work. but with a joke like that it felt lazy. the redeeming quality was just that nearly everything else was terrible.

xpost Is that a callback to the last time you complained about callbacks?

I also died at News 360

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callback_(comedy)

ilx people wrote this page btw.

http://tvline.com/2013/03/06/saturday-night-live-cast-melissa-mccarthy/#more-413958

Melissa McCarthy booked again. woo!

?

I thought Chevy had been banned.

http://i.imgur.com/xMCviyA.jpg

three amigos reunion

re-ban chevy

uh is that p simon w/ the scarf?

yes and Tom Hanks in the back I think

yeah, Hanks is playing a NYC tabloid columnist in a play by Nora Ephron, who continues to perpetrate middlebrow crap from the grave.

Simon has seen the Joker's facelift guy?

Jeez, Martin Short does not age.

I <3 Martin Short.

Good ep so far. I nearly lost my shit when I saw them staging Maine Justice during the commercial break (upthread I claimed it was the best sketch the show had offered in years for the Jamie Foxx episode). It wasn't as good tonight, but I still love that entire premise and the lunacy it allows.

cold open was hilarious

Jesus, Justin Timberlake is a badass

Martin and Aykroyd were surprisingly good on It's A Date.

One of the better Omelettville sequels too.

maybe i'll regret thinking this cuz i remember loving the californians the first couple of times they did it but i think they can really beat maine justice to death before i get sick of that premise, stoked to hear they brought it back. maybe it'll be like stefon or what's up w/ that where somehow i'm still not sick of it.

Stefon was on tonight too. Now I'm wishing they'd swung for the fences and done a What's Up With That as well, but maybe I'm being too greedy.

well kenan basically wasnt even in the episode

Were they hiding Jay Pharoah because Jay-Z was on set? Kenan at least had a little bit in that 'She's Got a D!@k' fake trailer.

I thought the suit & tie performance was really super charming but we pretty much need hologram jay-z right now

I kind of can't believe Timberlake is the same person as the annoying Chia Pet from 'NSYNC

i thought jay-z looked cool as shit last night

JT with straight hair freaking me out. Without all the curls his head looks enormous.

loved JT, and I loved getting Stefon back again

with the combed hair JT would make a good live-action Tintin imo

^^
yes

Haha Mary is awesome

I mean MELISSA

Jesus