Segments are rated on a scale of 1-5 stars
FOX REPORT W/ SHEPARD SMITH
Shepard Smith (BIH) checks in with Mitt Romney (JAS) & sons
— Feels a bit odd in hindsight seeing Kristen playing Ann Romney (which I forgot she ever did), given the fact that a certain upcoming new female cast member (joining the show two episodes from now) would have a breakout moment doing a well-received take on Ann Romney in a Weekend Update commentary the following season.
— The joke about America indifferently opting to vote for Mitt Romney “…….I guess” was already made on Weekend Update in a previous episode this season.
— Ha, for once in SNL history, there’s a shortage of white guys in the cast, to the degree that they’re forced to cast the Weekend-Update-only Seth Meyers and writer Mike O’Brien as two of Mitt Romney’s five sons in this cold opening.
— Bobby, as one of Romney’s five sons: “I’m the rebel…(*whispers into the camera*) because I eat sugar!”
— The disturbing back-and-forths that Bill’s Shepard Smith occasionally has with his mother’s skeleton are very funny.
— Bill’s Shepard Smith, after his interview with Romney’s five sons: “My thanks to Stephen King for creating those boys!”
STARS: ***
MONOLOGUE
despite JIF’s reassurance of trust in host, Jon Hamm [real] is on standby
— Long before the audience has stopped their opening applause, Lindsay Lohan oddly chooses to begin saying her lines (the lines after the usual “Thank you”s), causing the applause to drown out her lines a little bit at first. Is she that out of practice with SNL? Then again, it HAS been 6 years since she last hosted prior to this.
— Lindsay, regarding Kenan checking her eyes: “You know, I should be checking your eyes.” Kenan: “Oh, I’ll save you the trouble. I’ve been stoned since Good Burger.”
— As Kristen makes her exit, a woman in the audience can be heard maniacally shrieking at the top of her lungs in an excited manner, “KRISTEN WIIIIIIIG!!!!”
— Jimmy Fallon cameo.
— This monologue has been featuring lots of SNL desperately trying to remind us of the positive aspects from the earlier career of the troubled Lindsay Lohan. I mean, I get why SNL’s doing that, but I don’t like how it feels like they’re trying too hard, and something about that feels a little depressing to me. I wonder if the latter is also caused by me knowing in hindsight that, despite SNL’s efforts, this episode doesn’t end up jumpstarting a big comeback in Lindsay’s career that SNL intended.
— Ha, now we get Jon Hamm, a cameo I’m more happy to see (nothing against Jimmy, though). We also get a comical mention of him being on standby as tonight’s backup host, though sadly, that also reminds me of the real-life situation with SNL having Chris Rock on standby as a backup host for the season 23 Chris Farley-hosted episode, due to the horrible state Farley’s health was in at the time.
STARS: **
THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF DISNEY
Belle (ABE) & other Disney princesses misbehave
— A very fun and solid concept.
— A good laugh from the bit with Nasim’s Jasmine disclosing the fact that she unknowingly had sex with Iago, the parrot.
— I absolutely love the bit with the dwarves’ hands being seen high-fiving Vanessa’s Snow White in response to a witty remark she made in her confessional.
STARS: ****
2012 PSYCHIC AWARDS
In Memoriam reel at Psychic Awards honors not-yet-deceased clarivoyants
— Funny bit with the psychic nominees in one award category being shown reacting in disappointment over losing long before the winner is actually announced.
— Some amusing corny awards show-esque quips from Andy throughout this sketch.
— Odd how this is the second awards show sketch this season centered around an In Memoriam montage (the first sketch being the Adult Video Awards sketch from the Charles Barkley episode). However, there’s an original twist to this In Memoriam montage, with it being for the psychics and magicians we’re going to lose in the coming year.
— Some pretty solid gags during the In Memoriam part, such as the bird flu bit with Abby, and the diabetes bit with Bobby. Odd coincidence, though, that that’s the second sugar-eating joke with Bobby in tonight’s episode alone (the first was mentioned in my review of the cold opening).
STARS: ***½
SCARED STRAIGHT
Lorenzo McIntosh & host present teens with unpleasant prison scenarios
— This recurring sketch makes its first appearance in a year, and this ends up being its final appearance.
— A funny eventual reveal that Lindsay’s playing herself.
— Geez, Lindsay botched the punchline to that Tweety joke by pausing for an absurdly long time before delivering it.
— The usual laughs from this recurring sketch’s movie references and prison rape mentions, even if it’s old hat by now.
— More sloppiness from Lindsay, as she’s stumbling like crazy over her stretch of dialogue right now.
— Holy hell, I’m a bit surprised that AIDS joke was allowed to get through. Even Jason’s character expresses complete disbelief over hearing that (I know he usually does that in response to the crude prison rape mentions in these sketches, but it seemed especially believable when he did it this time).
— Yeah, the more this sketch is going on, the more Lindsay is killing the momentum of it for me. Her delivery here is so off.
— Ha, the usual bit at the end of this recurring sketch where Jason intentionally cracks the other performers up by hopping up in a sitting position onto the desk is even funnier than usual this time, with the performers laughing particularly hard, even Jason himself. That alone makes up for any shortcomings in tonight’s overall Scared Straight installment, and is actually a good and fitting note to officially end this recurring sketch’s run on.
STARS: ***
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
musical guest performs “Love Interruption”
WEEKEND UPDATE
James Carville (BIH) disparages Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich
Snooki (BOM) may have been impregnated by Jon Hamm [real]
— Good to see Bill’s always-fun James Carville impression back. I recently learned that there was supposed to be a James Carville commentary on Update in the then-recent Zooey Deschanel episode, but due to an eye infection causing Bill to have to drop out from appearing on the show that weekend, the intended James Carville commentary was repurposed as an Arianna Huffington commentary for Nasim.
— I laughed more than I probably should’ve at Bill-as-Carville’s only-mildly-funny explanation for why he refers to his penis as his “Harry Connick Jr.”.
— A huge laugh from Bill’s Carville imitating what his penis looks like.
— I’m a bit surprised this is the first Update commentary Bobby’s Snooki has done in a somewhat long time.
— As I mentioned in previous episode reviews, Bobby’s one of the few people in recent SNL years who can make the hacky “man in drag” trope enjoyable.
— When discussing what the name of Bobby-as-Snooki’s baby might be, I loved Bobby’s Snooki responding to Seth’s “And if it’s a girl?” question by just saying “God help us all” in a deadpan voice.
STARS: ***
DELINQUENT GIRL TEEN GANG
in a movie, delinquent girl (FRA) dances in the street & gets hit by cars
— Those awful “funny” names during the opening title sequence, especially the name Skipper St. Junt (the type of name that’s one of James Anderson’s many horrible trademarks as an SNL writer) are already making me worried about this sketch.
— And here to make me even MORE worried about this sketch is the fact that the main role features Fred in drag. (*groooooaaaaaaan*) I said earlier in this review that Bobby has the ability to overcome the hackiness of the “man in drag” trope. Well, Fred, on the other hand, epitomizes the hackiness of the “man in drag” trope (in his later seasons, at least).
— Not even a mere chuckle from me in response to a dummy of Fred’s body being thrown into the shot after Fred’s character first gets hit by a car off-camera.
— Aaaaaaaaaaand the already-bad Fred-gets-hit-by-a-car-off-camera-followed-by-a-dummy-of-his-body-being-thrown-into-the-shot gag gets repeated over and over as the main joke of this sketch. Not only is this painfully unfunny, but it’s not even the first time SNL used this premise. The premise was previously done in that awful Nascarettes sketch (which was also written by James Anderson, IIRC) from the season 32 Jaime Pressly episode.
— Ugh at that ending with the camera showing a close-up of Fred exaggeratedly saying an angry “Yooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuu!” at Bill, a quintessential annoying Fred Armisen moment in these later seasons of his SNL tenure.
STARS: *
AFROS
a couple (ANS) & (KRW) shares large hair & wedding announcement
— First Digital Short we’ve gotten in two whole months, which is a shockingly long gap compared to the frequency these Lonely Island shorts typically appear. Yet another sign that the glory days of the Digital Shorts are sadly far behind us this season.
— WHAT IN THE…??? What am I watching?!? I feel like I should at least give credit for creativity, but the alleged creativity of this short ain’t exactly entertaining me.
— Kenan’s hammily-delivered interjections are providing the only thing close to amusement that I’m getting from this short so far.
— WTF at that “Save the date” reveal?
— A poor excuse for an ending.
— Overall, aside from Kenan, this short was wretched. The Digital Shorts continue to have a depressingly rough season. And, man, this short made for a terrible one-two punch with that Delinquent Girl Teen Gang sketch that preceded this.
STARS: *½
B108 FM
morning deejays Richard (TAK) & Buffalo (BOM) mask pathos with enthusiasm
— Bobby and Taran are fun in these roles.
— So far, the sketch’s humor is nothing particularly great, but it’s passable (especially compared to the two unwatchable segments that preceded this), and is helped by the non-Lindsay performers. (Lindsay’s not awful here, but she’s not adding anything for me.)
STARS: ***
CHANTIX
Rerun from 1/7/12
HOUSE SITTING
the mysterious phone calls terrorizing (KRW) are coming from her own butt
— When a neckbrace-wearing Kristen explains to Lindsay what happened to her neck, I kinda like the fake-out with her initially asking “You know what Wesson Oil is?”, and then saying “Yeah, I was on my way to buy some and I got hit by a car.”
— OH, NO. After an upswing (as mild as it was) that the dire quality of this episode’s post-Weekend Update half took with the B108 FM sketch and even the Chantix rerun, it looks like we’re back to awfulness, as Kristen’s tense, suspenseful phone calls throughout this sketch aren’t remotely funny, and are annoyingly repetitive, not helped by how irritating Kristen’s intentional mock-dramatic overacting is.
— A lame butt-dialing reveal.
— Ugh, terrible ending, and something about the execution of it seemed off.
STARS: *
VERIZON
Another repeated commercial (this time from 2/11/12), and so soon after the first repeated commercial tonight? Man, between how horrible most of the last few sketches/shorts have been, and now all of these repeated commercials, this episode has fallen off a cliff HARD in the post-Weekend Update half.
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
musical guest performs “Sixteen Saltines”
RUDE BUDDHA!
Rude Buddha (ANS) insults & harasses his disciples behind their backs
— Ah, good ol’ Andy, here to hopefully save the dire back half of this episode with his reliable goofiness. (Then again, he was responsible for that dreadful Digital Short earlier tonight, so…)
— Okay, even though I’m still enjoying Andy’s performance here, it turns out that the material of this sketch itself is kind of a wash. Just generic, cliched, ho-hum, “guy acts like an immature jackass” humor, but luckily for SNL, Andy is good at pulling that kind of humor off. In hindsight, knowing this ends up being Andy’s final season, I kinda see certain things about this sketch as a sign that Andy’s on his way out at SNL.
— The “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” ending had me howling.
STARS: ***
70’S ALBUM
Weird Guy By A Fire (JAS) yearns for a collection of music from the ’70s
— Hilarious fake-out with Jason, in the setting of a typical “person advertises an album of musical hits from a past decade” commercial, asking us “Wouldn’t it be great to get songs from the 70s on one 8-disc set?”, and then he just turns away from the camera and casually tends to the fire in his fireplace for a long time, before turning back to the camera and simply asking us, “That’d be great, right?”
— A funny “This has been a weird guy by a fire” ending title reveal. Rather Jack Handey-ish, which I love.
STARS: ****
70’S ALBUM
Weird Guy By A Fire burns his hand when the fireplace flares up
— Ooooookay, so a follow-up to the first 70s Album ad is airing IMMEDIATELY after it, with nothing separating them (not even a real-life commercial break, like what separated Kristen’s first two Glenda Okones For Mayor ads from this season’s Daniel Radcliffe episode)??? Apparently, that wasn’t originally planned, judging by the fact that a simple black screen with the words “70s Album #2” (which was apparently some kind of cue screen for the crew in SNL’s control room) accidentally flashes onscreen for a nanosecond right before this second 70s Album ad plays. Judging from this sloppiness, SNL must be scrambling to fill extra airtime at this point of the show. (I think I recall hearing that these two 70s Album ads originally got cut after dress rehearsal from a then-recent episode.)
— Jason, to us: “Remember that thing I was saying about the 70s music?” Uh, of course we remember, because we literally saw the first 70s Album ad just a few seconds ago. Yeah, more and more, it’s becoming clear that SNL intended these two ads to be separated farther apart in the show. A shame they had to bunch these two ads together in a last-minute mad rush to fill in extra airtime.
— Another funny ending title reveal (“This has been that same guy burning his hand”) after Jason’s reaction to burning his hand (which was funny in itself).
— This overall second 70s Album ad was somewhat marred by it being aired right after the first one, but it still worked well enough for me. I’ve never seen the rerun version of this episode, and I’m a little curious if SNL altered the lineup in it by placing the two 70s Album ads farther apart than they aired in the live show. Thanks in advance if anyone answers.
STARS: ***½
GOODNIGHTS
IMMEDIATE POST-SHOW THOUGHTS
— The first half of this episode was fine, aside from the monologue, but man, did that post-Weekend Update half have a lot of big problems. Even the sloppiness of SNL airing those two funny 70s Album ads back-to-back instead of spread apart like they were intended to added to the very “off” feel of the post-Update half. (That, combined with SNL airing two repeated commercials fairly close together in the back half, makes me wonder if something went wrong at the show that threw the episode’s scheduled timing off.) Thinking back, the post-Update half actually had as many (if not more than) good segments as it had bad segments, but 1) most of the good segments were nothing special at all and didn’t rise above an average level, and 2) all of the bad segments were so bad that they overshadow the good in that half of the show. Some of the worst segments of this entire season aired in the back half of this episode. As a host, Lindsay Lohan had a really rough go in the Scared Straight sketch, but otherwise, she didn’t hurt this episode. However, she didn’t help it either, and I didn’t get a single laugh from her all night, aside from her “And I’m Lindsay Lohan” reveal in the aforementioned Scared Straight sketch. (Then again, it’s not like she was known to be a laugh riot in her previous hosting stints either.)
MY PERSONAL CHOICE OF “BEST OF” MOMENTS FOR THIS EPISODE, REPRESENTED WITH SCREENCAPS
RATED SEGMENTS RANKED FROM BEST TO WORST
70’s Album (Part 1)
The Real Housewives Of Disney
2012 Psychic Awards
70’s Album (Part 2)
Weekend Update
Fox Report w/ Shepard Smith
B108 FM
Scared Straight
Rude Buddha!
Monologue
Afros
House Sitting
Delinquent Girl Teen Gang
HOW THIS EPISODE STACKS UP AGAINST THE PRECEDING ONE (Maya Rudolph)
a big step down
My full set of screencaps for this episode is here
TOMORROW
Jonah Hill
This may have been addressed earlier, but is the dog in the psychic sketch the same dog from Rocket Dog and is it the same dog that keeps popping up in many recent sketches? It looks a lot like the dog from the “Dog Head on Human Body” sketch that featured Sam Rockwell. If so, the dog gets more screen time than many actual cast members (particularly in recent years, where “let’s put in a cute, live dog in a sketch” has become kind of a trope). The dog has excellent comedic timing though.
I was living in Minnesota at the time of the Richard and the Buffalo sketches from Shakopee, Minnesota. Man, Shakopee was very excited to be mentioned on the show.
The Real Housewives sketch is very funny–I’m generally a sucker for when SNL smashes two different genres together. All of the leads are good (Lohan is the iffiest but she does have a nothing role), but the sketch is practically stolen by Taran’s super gay Prince Charming. Nobody really talks about the female cast of this season, mainly because Wiig dominated so much, but when they did work together, they had a solid chemistry. It’s a shame they never had a season to work together post-Wiig.
There’s an even more specific subgenre of that trope which is just “lets put a dog in a sketch with Cecily ‘cus it’s the only way to get her to break.” I actually don’t mind those, but I get the feeling I like Cecily a lot more than most of you guys.
Cecily is one of my favorite cast members of probably all 46 seasons, even though the last two seasons have felt very disconnected on her part, which sort of trips up her tenure a tad (although not fatally). The dog stuff mostly became annoying around that point last season because they just kept doing it every week. At least they finally stopped.
I did watch I Think You Should Leave. I had a hard time with the first few episodes, but everything after that is solid gold.
Agreed. I would put Cecily in the top 5 for female cast members, up there with Jan, Gilda & Amy. Kate’s the other one on the main cast I’d throw in, though I agree both seem to be a little over SNL by this point in their run. Bring on the Bowen/Chloe era!
You should rewatch those first few episodes. It takes a second to click in to Robinson’s humor, but I think he’s far better at weirder, more abstract comedy than guys who get more credit like Tim & Eric and (sorry everyone) Kyle Mooney (we’ll get to it when we get to it, but his and Beck’s shorts were awesome for a while, but have almost completely lost their charm in the last few seasons).
I enjoy most of Kyle’s anti-comedy, and I love a lot of his shorts with Beck [which have become very rare, I guess due in part to Dave McCrary leaving SNL] along with his old pieces with Vanessa and Leslie; I also respect his ability to maintain his natural comic style while still being able to weave into SNL as a sketch performer (something others, like Melissa, have never managed to do). I think he’s one of many cast members who have stayed too long and as a result are just repeating themselves, although I have a feeling he and Beck are only there this season because of the pandemic, and would have left otherwise.
I agree Tim’s a very talented writer and performer. My main problems with the first few episodes were just the waste of some talented guest performers (Cecily, Vanessa Bayer, Steven Yeun, etc.) and relying on toilet jokes and saying “fuck” and “shit” and “pig dicks” over and over. That and the whole “he can never do this on SNL, that’s why he is much better than SNL” hot takes from some people, when he actually did this type of material a fair amount on SNL in his years as a writer. With that said, there are some gems in the first few episodes (like Will Forte’s cameo) and I did genuinely get into the material more in the back half. I will try the first few episodes again someday.
The characterization that Robinson was misused on SNL is incorrect. What made me so upset about his departure was the fact that he was actually used quite well, but then wasn’t given a second season. Sketches like Z-Shirt and Roundball Rock are 100% Tim Robinson sketches and make up the highlights of a generally quite strong 2012-13 season. His departure maddened me because we DID see what he was capable of.
I’m also a big fan of Kyle, but Kyle is more specific and niche. Robinson wrote weird, but he fit into a pretty classic sketch mode – much like Will Forte before him. Mooney and Beck’s best pieces are very singularly theirs and seem to fit outside of the SNL mode. They’re like a more divisive Lonely Island. Both Beck and Kyle have found roles within the rest of the show – especially Beck – that can generally work, but they’re at their best when working together on their narrow brand.
Cecily Strong has had one of the more interesting SNL trajectories. From red hot newbie to misplaced (though proficient) Update anchor to a bit of a critical pariah (the old Voy board HATED her) to far and away the best actress on the show. I’d say she’s arguably the MVP of the cast over the last couple of seasons, though I probably enjoy other personalities more. She’s a modern Nora Dunn which, I would say, is a massive compliment. I don’t think her I Think You Should Leave appearance was a waste of her talents at all. I think she does a great job of playing “withering” and “contempt.” She was perfect for the scene.
I Thought Except For Cecily Being An Anchor On Week End Update That Every Body Loved Cecily !
Why Did The People On The Voy Board Hate Cecily ? I KNOW People Did Not Like Cecily As Anchor on Week End Update, But Why Did The People on Voy Hate Her So Much ? Cecily Could Be MVP, But I Thought Kate Would Be MVP ! ! Who Do You Like Better Than Cecily ? I Was Just Wondering About That !
Was this the only example of a “pity booking” on SNL?
For a host, possibly – for MG I guess we can also count Ashlee Simpson’s second stint, although both were also for gawking purposes (this episode got good ratings).
https://deadline.com/2012/03/saturday-night-live-with-lindsay-lohan-delivers-strong-ratings-239313/
Well not wanting to be too dark but Brandon Tartikoff
Thoughts:
-Lindsay is still a game host, but seeing how much she aged and how much greener she got as a performer in 6 years was a big bummer.
-Nasim as Jasmine is obviously casting, but its not like she didn’t look great in the outfit.
-One of my favorite Vanessa performances in the Disney sketch.
-Psychic Awards was solid, but I Think You Should Leave’s “Baby of the Year” sketch has kind of spoiled me on In Memoriam sketches. By the way, if anyone hasn’t seen that show, in six episodes it managed to produce as many classic sketches the last 3 seasons of SNL.
-How did “What are these kids in for? Darfur?” “What? No, that’s a terrible guess!” not get a laugh?
-When Sudeikis does his normal hop bit in Scared Straight, you can clearly hear something get knocked over (it sounds like a mug), which is probably why the performers broke so hard.
-“Look don’t matter, but I love it when a guy is a big blob of grey.”
-I would feel weird about them dressing up the struggling Lohan all sexy in the Delinquent Teen Girl Gang sketch, but at least she’s not 17 this time (low bar, SNL).
-Too bad the Digital Shorts as bad as I remembered this season.
-“The dog food is in the bag. It has a picture with a dog with human teeth on it. Ugh, I can’t wait to get a dog.”
-The Peacock version of this episode fixed it so the first 70s Guy sketch comes before Rude Buddah.
The Real Housewives pre-tape is one of those pieces I’ve seen a few too many times to have the same reaction to now, but other than the problem of Kristen doing this stuff for so many years that it’s difficult to laugh here, the rest is good – my favorite part is Princess Jasmine having to cook the monkey because Aladdin used up his last wish on a lap dance. Lindsay also gets her best moment with this bit (the “it’s midnight, bitch!” line and punch). You can tell the writers were fans (Mulaney loves the Real Housewives shows) because of moments like Abby singing a tacky song as the other women pan her.
Tina Fey was meant to be in the monologue, but her kids got sick. That may explain Jimmy’s presence.
https://www.tvguide.com/news/tina-fey-lindsay-lohan-snl-1044535/
It’s funny that Jon Hamm has already made his way into the beloved cameo artist space that he has since occupied for nearly a full decade. I guess no one at this time had any idea he would never be hosting again. I almost felt bad for Lindsay at such a big audience response to Hamm taking over for her – I would hope they did not expect that, as it really undercut her.
All of Lindsay’s episodes have an air of sadness and exploitation, but this is the one I find to be hardest to watch. To be fair to Lindsay, other than the Scared Straight sketch, she’s perfectly adequate in all they give her – it’s much of the material (especially in the back half). Her 2005 episode is probably worse as a whole, if I want to choose, but the bad stuff in this one pushes my buttons in a way the bad stuff in her 2005 episode doesn’t.
The Fred and Kristen Anderlette pieces (assuming they wrote them) are just awful. AWFUL. Kristen’s is especially annoying to me because it combines several of my least favorite tropes of her showcases – the screaming, the mugging, the “lol lesbianism” gags thrown in, the attempts at fast-talking absurdity. Initially Fred’s isn’t as bad, if you can ignore the self-indulgence of his drag routine, but the sheer teeth-grinding repetition and the horrible ending knock it way down.
Andy’s main pieces are pretty disappointing and beneath what he can do. The Digital Short is very much mad libs, and not in a particularly fun way – the end gives the “we don’t know what to do here” whiff more than just about anything from his SNL run. Yet the Rude Buddha sketch annoys me more, as it’s just so cheap and lazy. It comes off like something you would have seen in Kentucky Fried Movie parodying bad comedy.
This is a pretty underwhelming end to the Scared Straight series. Lindsay’s performance is poor, but the jokes are even worse – the Forrest Gump stuff, the “schlong” stuff, the Herbie jokes…just bad all around. Only Jason and the desk and everyone breaking up at the end gives some enjoyment.
The radio DJ sketch doesn’t click into place for me either – it’s sort of a cross of the Dan Aykrod DJ pieces and the formless, half-hearted Fallon and Sanz routines. I mostly just enjoy Vanessa’s performance, what lines she has.
I do like the psychic awards show sketch – it’s just easy to forget among the dross. Some funny returns to the old psychics joke last used a few times in the ’70s and ’80s – each nominee knowing whether or not they’d win before the category was announced was amusing, and the sequences of their deaths, followed by the psychics reacting (Bobby was hilarious) is even better. Also Andy’s best work of the night.
Bobby manages to wring just about every possible laugh out of Snooki – I got a big laugh out of Snooki going out about boys’ names, then when asked what if it’s a girl, basically just saying “God help her.”
Good as Bill’s performances as Carville are (this one may be his best work in the role), I just never get a lot of entertainment out of them. On the other hand, his Shepherd Smith is a delight (even though it’s a world away from the real Smith). Deciding to add the Psycho material this time would have been a misfire with just about anyone else, but Bill’s sheer mix of mischievous imp and Southern matron make it all a great watch. Jason’s work as Mitt is also wonderful – much as his Biden work is celebrated, I think his Mitt impression is my favorite of the two, as he has to bring much more nuance to the part and the writing has to rely on more than “Diamond Joe” self-parody. (the Romney sons stuff almost seems quaint compared to recent years…it’s great to see Seth back in a sketch, but seeing Mike is a bit sad when you remember his tenure in the cast never worked out as it should have)
I’m not sure how I’d feel about the album runner without Jason, but he plays this type of thing just expertly – tailored to him to an absolute tee. One of the few who could make this flow so naturally.
Promos (these are better than most of what Lindsay did in the episode):
Every episode Lindsay Lohan has hosted highlights the worst parts of SNL in multiple different ways. Except for her S31 episode, which is decent, but only because it coasts off of the strength of that season as a whole.
I’m really curious to know what happened in the back half. I imagine a big sketch got cut, but I wish I knew what it was.
Supposedly Lindsay was originally going to have a musical number for her monologue. If it was scrapped, clearly someone had taken their brain pills that day.
This also mentions that she asked Lorne to let her host and also asked Jimmy to cameo. So maybe Kristen took over Tina’s part…or Kenan…
https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a369163/lindsay-lohan-to-sing-in-snl-opening/
Sorry for spamming (I should have combined these into one post…), but this old backstage video has a few deleted scenes from the Disney pre-tape.
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/disney-housewives/n13429
I remember one of the posts on the old message boards mentioned on how Mike was playing a role Paul could have played in the cold open.
As for Lindsay, they should have dumped her and let Jon host.
Hello Stooge. I Think Save The Date is When Andy and Kristen’s Wedding Will Take Place ! Stooge, I Thought There Were Digital Shorts Every Episode That You Reviewed ! They Were Bad Shorts, But They Were Still Shorts ! This Was Too Far Back, But Like There Was Andy Wishing IT Would Rain ! Actually, I Thought That Was Clever Like There Was A Drought When They Had A Wind Mill And Then IT Was Like Andy Wanting To Dance In The Rain Like Gene Kelly Danced In The Rain !