"Saturday Night Live" 33x1

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 33x1 "Lebron James/Kanye West"

No, there's only one Lorne Michaels.

Don Pardo is like 107 now right? I love that this show has glitches from being live. The season premiere had no announcer til halfway through the credits. It was either an audio problem or Don Pardo had to take a leak and missed the beginning. I like the image of him sprinting down the halls to his mic so that's what I'm gonna believe happened.

With SNL, I think I'm just going to break it down by sketch as I watch.

Cold Open: This show captures what we like to think about Bill and Hillary so well. plus I love that HD allows us to see the grains of makeup on Amy Poehler's fake nose.

Monologue: I'm a bit perturbed that they wouldn't just have a slam dunk type person to do the season premiere. I'm not any sort of sports fan, so for me this is like "who??" But he seems really comfortable up there for a non actor athlete. I suspect there's some in joke with the family stuff, but I don't get it. Maybe I need to check out BET sometime.

Angry Dog Commercial: Classic. The good thing about coming back from the summer is they have 4 months worth of news to play with. What a great take on the Michael Vick thing.

Charity Auction (Penelope): I love Kristin Wiig, but this character of hers isn't a favorite. Her performance is good but the joke of it (she's always shyly and falsely 'topping' anything said by anyone) is very one note, and personally even the best performance can't sustain something like this. I'm surprised this sketch would be so far up front in the show.

High School Musical 3: Eh. This would probably be funnier if I saw HSM or liked basketball. I wonder how many basketball sketches they're gonna wedge in for the host. Best part was Maya Rudolph's take on Vanessa Hudgen's nauty pics. I'm so glad she decided to stay with the show. It looked like she was leaving just days ago.

SNL Digital Short: Love it. A musical love ode to the president of Iran. Instant classic. Armisen is so perfect. And that certain celebrity surprise cameo just made it that much perfecter.

TV PSA Shoot: I see they're making Mike Underballs and Jeff, the uncooperative crew man recurring characters now. The sketch last season with Julia Louis Dreyfuss was ok, but I'm surprised they'd repeat this bit. I did like when he threw the book though. It got better as it went.

The Lyle Kane Show: Hmmm. this is weird. I think this is like where being stoned would help.

Kanye West Song 1: I don't watch the music. thats what fast-forward is for. I don't even care enough to find out what song it was.

Weekend Update: I have to admit this was the first time I've missed Finesse Mitchell. Keenan Thompson is great and all, but OJ is out of his range I'd say. Some very good stuff though. It's still great to see them try to recover when the jokes bomb, I think that's what I like best. Armisen's back as Ahmadinejad, he looks like Steve Martin playing Ruprecht when he had to pee at the table. great.

Solid Gold: C. Micah Kring - get it? This is almost like a sketch version of "Body Fuzion" from last season. This one was pretty cute though. Anyone dancing to "We Built This City" is going to be funny.

Saturday TV Funhouse: Been a while since we had an 'Ambiguously Gay Duo'. ROFL Minneapolis Bathroom Gay Sex Stings and the AGD! Brilliant!

106 & Park: Two BET sketches in one episode. They got good mileage out of that graphics bug eh. Nice that Kanye West can mock himself. It's really something how the show can read my mind sometimes. I thought to myself, this episode really could use a Lorne cameo to perk things up. Thank you Lorne Michaels. You're my favorite SNL character.

Kanye West Song 2: See above.

Great Moments In Guidance Counselling: This sketch was too good to ge stuck at the 5 to 1 slot. This should have been up front.

This episode wasn't that great overall, I think I didn't connect with a lot of it due to the need to build it around the host. Next week we got Seth Rogan, so that's a better chance to connect. But there were some really great moments. Even the worst SNL has something to love. And this wasn't the worst, just not close to the best.

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