… as was Bobby Moynihan as Chris Christie (he put himself through kindergarten by working as a mall Santa), the “colonoscopy for chill bros” camera GoProbe, Jay Pharoah and Kenan Thompson crushing it as Katt Williams and Suge Knight, and OUR DUDE Pete Davidson on STDs: “I sent it in a nice way. The “black intellectual who’d never not support Obama, even if Sasha and Malia told him to ‘shut up, bitch’ in public” was pretty fun … “‘Imma put one in your head’ … ‘I’ll slit your throat’ … ‘Don’t you dare come between me and my weapon!’ And I realize: Oh my God, I need a gun!” And then he explained how he’d come to a conclusion: “I will never get involved in any charity, or cause, for the rest of my life … if you see me talking about a disease, I got it!” ‘Cause I’m never going in there! Are you kidding me? My God! … does this building duck?!” He mentioned an anti-gun event he’d done in D.C., and how his participation got him all kinds of kooky death threats online. “They should change the name from the Freedom Tower to the Never Going In There Tower. Winding his way through the Boston Marathon bombings to the perma-fears of post-9/11 New York, Rock got to the Freedom Tower and a devastatingly simple bit. And while it was a little shaky at first, it slow-burned its way to magic.ĭressed in all black, Rock paced around, working himself into a hell of a groove. (who busted out a hand mic), Rock basically just did a mini-set. Like Zach Galifianakis (who went absurd) and Louis C.K. This weekend, though, was a little sleepy - with the primary exception, sensibly, of the monologue. Last week Jim Carrey hammed it up like the crazy person that he is, and turned in the exact kind of sloppy hit-or-miss mania that the show does at its best. And so, with all due respect to “One Headlight” - truly, I am currently in the midst of conceiving a karaoke arrangement for it as we speak - this had the potential to be a touch more classic.īut here’s the thing: Some people’s skill sets are more particularly attuned to the strange demands of SNL.
Bush, who tells Norm MacDonald’s Bob Dole to give up hope on the … election.” F YEAH, 1996!). ( Says Wikipedia, of that long-ago November night: “Dana Carvey makes a cameo appearance, most notably as George H.
For the record, during Rock’s ’96 hosting gig, the band was the Wallflowers.
On host duties was Chris Rock, returning for just the first time since 1996 on musical-guest duties was the forever icon Prince. Wiping out the ghosts of Bastille and Imagine Dragons past, this weekend’s SNL didn’t mess around with any flavor-of-the-week B.S.
0 kommentar(er)
