Apparently you can tell how good of a host is on SNL by the number of sketches that feature them. She's been in like 20% of them.
Maybe he means she's in only 20% of the sketch. That phone sex hotline for geeks was one of the funniest sketches they've done this year though. I feel bad for you dudes back in Houston where the NBC program director is a f*cking moron. In normal cities, they show classic SNLs after the show. Right now it's a 78 episode with Steve Martin hosting. The Blues Brothers opened the show up, just awesome.
I though the funniest skit of the night was Merv The Perv. It's been the best running skit overall of the year, imo. If I want to watch the classics I just watch them on the Comedy Channel, VH1 or wherever it runs now. I happen to like Showtime at the Apollo. Seriously.
I mean the original cast classics from the first 5 years. They don't show those on E! very often and never when SNL was on Comedy Central. I guess I enjoy them because I wasn't even born then, and I'm glad I get a chance to see them. These past few weeks, they've been running only shows that won emmys. I'm guessing that has to do with the 30th anniversary because there was a commercial for a special about the first 5 years with never before seen stuff like auditions.
I'd like to be the first to point out that she wasn't wearing a bra in the computer technical school skit.
I've been watching SNL since those early days. I thought they were hilarious back then. I remember how me and my friends would talk about the great skits at schoool on Monday's. Now when I see those old clips I don't think they were that funny. Yes, there are special moments, but watching them today doesn't do anything for me. Back in the day the humor seemed a lot edgier than it does watching now. I'd take Will Ferrell over any of the SNL originals (pre-Bill Murray).
Show was kind of meh, although I did laugh at the phone sex skit (best line of the night - phone sex caller Horatio Saenz making the live long and prosper hand sign and then, as he reached down below the camera range, saying that he was giving himself a "Vulcan nerve pinch"). Merv the Perv didn't have any classic lines this time (like one predecessor - "Hey do any of you ladies want to sit on Santa's lap? No? Then how about sitting on my face?) so it didn't quite work. Nothing beats the cat sketch from two weeks ago.
