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From a performance standpoint, this was a standout episode. Timberlake and Gaga both gave it their all, and their enthusiasm was infectious. From a writing standpoint, this had to be the most recycled show ever. They seriously had done every single sketch in some form somewhere before...

Looking forward to this one, too. All of Timberlake's previous hosting stints were gold, IIRC.

It also seemed they forgot Ed Helms was hosting until the last half-hour of the show, as he barely appeared in any of them. That said, of course, Live-Action AGD was all kinds of amazing. I didn't catch all the cameos. So the Gay Duo were Jon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon, and the bad guys were Ed...

Yeah, I'd read another Hader interview awhile back where he mentioned that the first time he ever sees the "Stefon" material after writing it is actually during the live broadcast, up on the teleprompter. Apparently, he refuses to run it through even during the rehearsals, in order to...

Was it me, or did the Strokes have their sound basically hosed on Saturday night? Guitars were up front and in-your-face, but the vocals were buried deep. I liked Miley as a host.** Actually liked most of the show, actually. Particularly the skit about the other two guys in the Black Eyed...

Are we taking bets on which celebrity Cyrus will portray on The Miley Cyrus Show? Maybe they'll go extra-meta, and cast Cyrus as a "professional Miley Cyrus impersonator."

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Russell Brand definitely brought an energy that's too often missing. I'm really starting to like the new guy who played Eminem and the DJ in the "Living Single" sketch. I'll also admit that "A Spot of Tea" made me chuckle hard, for such a bludgeoningly-stupid premise. Stefon is always...

After searching on Twitter, and finding hundreds of people remarking about it, glad to see I wasn't the only one who noticed there was a braying hyena in the audience Saturday night, whose distracting cackle and over-emphatic clapping was making the show hard to watch, and was throwing off whole...

Cee-Lo Green's red-headed bassist needs to sit in with every band that plays SNL. A competent show, one of the season's best. The energy level was still there. I laughed a good bit, and the Pee-Wee digital sketch killed me. Only outright bomb: the "Fresh Prince" sketch. Jay Pharoah needs to...

I remember the best part of that sketch was watching first-season-rookie Will Ferrell utterly blow his screaming, methed-out dialogue live on camera, yet still pulling it out in the end.

I think it's become clear now that they're just doing a show, versus putting on a show. Hoping for laughs, when they should be doing whatever it takes to get them. I dunno, maybe improv is frowned upon, but you would think they'd prefer a show go off the rails every once in a while, rather than...

Blizzard Man more than made up for much of last night's episode otherwise. Loved DeNiro in drag, popping his booty.

Yeah, the "Black Friday" sketch/commercial was pretty damn great -- and I can never flip past Miley Cyrus on television again without forever associating her with the SNL sketch, now.

De Niro's got a TV spot up for his episode this week, and he looks like he's about ready to punch Wiig in the face. I got my fingers crossed that he follows through on Saturday. Speaking of SNL, I freaking LOVED the "Black Friday" ad from two weeks or so back -- similar to the...

I mean, really? They went with that "Obama/Jintao" thing again? Was it not enough to be terribly unfunny the first time they did it? There are a couple of Manic Pixie Dream Girl cuties in Arcade Fire. Had no idea. ScarJo always commits like hell, even when the material is lame. Got to...

I'm sure someone (if not all of you) will disagree with me, but Hamm hosting is the only sure highlight of every season now, and last night was no exception. The Back to the Future auditions, Shy Ronnie (can Rihanna be any hotter? I think not), another "Vincent Price Halloween Special," the...

"Sex Ed Vincent's Sex Symposium" might be the best sketch I've seen in the last two or three years. I almost find it hard to believe it was an SNL sketch -- it seemed like something straight out of Tim & Eric. The new featured actors are really bringing some new life into the show. That one...

The one thing about the Denzel-sketch that's troubling is that the last three minutes of the sketch repeated the first three minutes of the sketch. The first half excited me because, hey, here's a distinct new voice! But then, it was really something he could have done in about five minutes of...

Yeah, "The Boyfriend Show" was solid; the Denzel sketch was a good impression without much of a hook behind the writing; the "Witch" commercial-thing at least developed all the way through to the end. But my god! Will they please drop all the annoying Wiig characters? Hell, if they'd just...

Quote: ...Called it. (Not that I liked being right, in this case.) Yeah, that entire Glee sketch was one obvious joke after another. The only thing that saved it was the half-hearted response to Gilly when she came out. Jesus, I shudder to think what they thought wasn't good enough...

Also, note that Morgan was absolutely nowhere to be seen during the end-credits "cast bow." Usually, you'll see even someone who cameos briefly at the very beginning of the episode there, but nope. Makes you wonder...

Good stuff. Why do I get the feeling that Freeman wasn't pretending to be perplexed by the whole thing? If I were Kenan, I'd be embarrassed to be doing the sketch in front of him entirely. I switched away during that god-awful "Shanna" sketch; came back what seemed like five minutes later...

While it was nice to see Morgan Freeman and freakin' Ernest Borgnine on last night's show, I would like to vote that we table the fucking "What Up With That?" sketch for a month, or nine. The new guys nailed Miley and Depp. Hope they have actual character, because SNL isn't MADtv or Studio 60.

I don't know whether to give the guy whose idea it was to put Katy Perry in that Elmo shirt the "Mr. Obvious Award," or my everloving thanks.   Not bad, last night. Sad to see Slate go so soon, but at least I won't confuse her with Pedrad anymore. And whoa -- we have TWO black guys now...