Saturday Night Live 2012-13 - Page 8

2013 bump. New episode tonight.

I can't drink. Well, I can, and I have high end beer in the fridge but I shouldn't drink. Less than a month to go to hit my goal! lol

Lead-off hitter gets a triple, Starbucks spot was classic.

So far....Good show.

I wish they would have done a "Scared Straight" though. She would have been perfect!

It's difficult to overpraise Jennifer Lawrence, and she did justice to her reputation this evening. A natural sense of what was required in all her roles on the show, with impeccable comic timing. It looked as if she raised everyone's game, particularly Bobby Moynihan, who I generally don't care for. Every skit was funny. The Lumineers were good. To me, a virtually perfect show.

She is one of the finest actors of her generation. She makes it look easy.

Agreed. She is a true master of her craft.

With Tim Robinson replacing Andy Samberg as the sarcastic kid in the middle?

Loved the episode except for the Girlfriends skit. Just wasnt funny to me. Jennifer was great, although a bit stiff at times. Loved when she yelled at Sudeikis. I think that was during the Hobbit trailers. Music was wonderful too.

*edit* I forgot about Top Dog Chef. Quite literally the worst skit I can remember SNL ever doing. I kept waiting for the real skit to start.
Edited by skyehill - 1/20/13 at 1:25pm

I didn't think the episode was all that terrific, although she's clearly talented.

The Hobbits trailers were no question the sketch of the night, and whenever they take the time to prepare something like this (non-live) it usually turns out great. Generally the whole ensemble gets to throw in their best celebrity impressions, great makeup and costumes, really funny lines and satire/spoof/exaggeration, and this was no exception. I was glad to see Fred Armisen here, at least with SOME air time.

I thought Kate McKinnon doing her Jodie Foster was very funny in the one sketch she was in (Piers Morgan, I think??). I thought Bill Hader's Tommy Lee Jones at the Globes was PERFECT!

NOTE TO WRITERS: you have performers who do fabulous impressions! USE THEM MORE IN THE SKETCHES!!

But on the whole it was very very uneven... to poor and unfunny. They had to drag out yet another repeat of "Girlfriends" which is not funny. I'd much rather Cecily Strong get time on WU with "the girl you wish you hadn't started a conversation with at a party", which I love.

I actually agree with this scorecard/blog of the show which puts it at one of the lesser funny shows of the season.

Any time they fail to make use of their really talented excellent current females (Kate, Nasim, Vanessa, Cecily) they are hurting themselves. They continue to do this, while strangely forcing Taran and Bobby to do mostly unfunny physical comedy, instead of cerebral comedy. I actually liked the Starbucks coffee machine + Vanessa idea, and would have liked it even more if they'd really gotten crazy with the premise...even beyond the companion device and the second voice, which I thought was also a great idea.

On a related matter, the sadly dumped (and much-missed, along with Abby Elliott and the recurring Khardashians skit) Jenny Slate can currently be seen on The Kroll Show (Comedy Central). There also was a sighting of her last season on HBO's "Girls".

Not missed: Casey Wilson, who never said a funny thing in her short tenure. I predict Aidy Bryant will also not be back, and I'm very nervous about Nasim. Something's definitely wrong in the writer's room on that one that we must not know about.

I don't recall Jenny Slate doing anything funny on SNL. Cassie did a few things, but is definitely better on Happy Endings.

I feel as if I saw a different show from what everyone else watched. Oh well. At least the Huff Post link revealed the author praising Bobby Moynihan, so I safely was able to ignore his opinion on the nature of humor.

I though the dog sketch was imaginative if not incredibly funny, but lots of Community was that way too.

Jenny Slate had the doorbell sketches that I thought were funny. Plus she was attractive. I don't get ditching her and then ending up with someone less funny and morbidly obese. I didn't think Abby Elliott was that funny (still funnier than all the new chicks) but at least she was good to look at.

Same thing with ditching Paul Brittain (Lord Windermere and Sex Ed) for the new hideous guy that is horribly unfunny (Tim Robinson). I don't get it.
Edited by squeakybirnbaum - 1/22/13 at 6:56am

Jenny Slate did a better second go-go girl in "What's Up With That" than anybody else. But I too marvel at who stays and who goes.

I thought the doorbell sketches were weak versions of the skit Scarlett Johansson does every time she's on. I forget the name of her skits, but her voice and inflection is hilarious. I agree with you about some of the people they added. The fat woman hasn't been funny yet, but what's worse is that she looks uncomfortable being on stage. The ugly guy they added hasn't impressed me once either. I do like the other two new girls though. The one that portrayed Jodie Foster is great.

One thing older SNL would do is repeat a sketch during a season with small changes which built up to an unexpectedly funny sketch at the end of the season. I'm hoping that's what they're doing with "Girlfriends" but it's more likely it's just a sketch that's easy to incorporate the host.

I just liked seeing a Goth Jennifer Lawrence.

i didn't think much of this show. kind of a waste of ms. lawrence's talents.

the writing is usually much better after a long layoff like they just had.

Yes, that was definitely a good look for her.

weekend update was strong again last week

was it just me or was the a dog of a show last saturday.

and bieber is next?????

Yeah, it was a real barker. Levine was fine, but they gave him nothing to work with. The musical "act" was some hack rapper. They even managed to waste Jerry Sienfeld (in the opening monologue). Weekend Update was, as usual, the highlight of the show. For the life of me, I can't understand why a show with this kind of "Q" rating, in one of the world's most creative cities, can't seem to find a decent stable of comedy writers. It should be clear to these people that some of these sketches just aren't remotely funny in rehearsals, yet they go on anyway.

This ep is tied with the Daniel Craig episode at the bottom of my SNL best list. Just awful all around. SNL tends to have a few bad weeks like this each year Fortunately they make up for it with many good ones and a few great.

yeah weekend update is usually reliably hilarious, but even seth whiffed this week.

i wonder if fred armnisen's writing for portlandia is robbing snl of some needed contributions

Justin Bieber as host is the best they can do? Meh.
This has to be the worst episode of the season.
Edited by icemannyr - 2/9/13 at 9:50pm

Not just host, host and freaking musical guest. I haven't watched it yet but I saw him on Jimmy Fallon and I got douche chills. He really thinks everything he says is hilarious when it's nothing close to that. I know Fallon is good at fake laughing at everything his boring guests say but this was a whole 'nutha level. I'm sure it's all Bieber's fake yes-men friends that have given him the mistaken belief that he's actually interesting and funny. Is SNL's fan base 12 year old girls because I'm pretty sure that's the only people on the planet that don't find him hugely irritating.
Edited by squeakybirnbaum - 2/9/13 at 11:24pm

The opening Super Bowl sketch was pretty good, particularly the Ray Lewis comment.

The rest was dreadful. I wanted to punch my TV anytime I heard Bieber singing during a sketch or when the girls were screaming in adoration of their annoying jerk of an idol.

Show was a turd. Thank goodness for dvr. Even weekend update was weak.

There were a few funny one liners making fun of beiber during the body double skit, and the ray lewis line. That's about it.

On the positive side, Nassim was in evidence throughout, and she even danced a little.

If it were a matter of bankability and profit, at least there would be an explanation; but how much purchsing of the beer and cars advertised during SNL's commercial breaks is done by Bieber's fans?

One observation about the body double sketch: Bobby Moynihan should not have demurred from raising his shirt and showing his keg.  Chris Farley would have done it.

Couldn't even make it through - deleted it about 2/3 of the way through. As was said, even Weekend Update was weak. Why do I still watch this show? How can it possibly be this bad? This produce it in New York City fercryinoutloud, one of the most vibrant, creative cities in the world. The Colbert Report is funnier than this every night.

Time to euthanize SNL. Seriously, it is.