There are only three episodes left of
season 40! It’s hard to believe this landmark season will be coming to a close
in a few weeks! Even though there was no new episode of SNL last week, Cecily Strong traveled to D.C. to host the White
House Correspondents’ Dinner. She did such a fantastic job! If you haven’t seen
it, find it on YouTube or go to my post about her performance at the dinner (I
included a link to the YouTube video of her performance). Some highlights from
the White House Correspondents’ Dinner include:
-jokes
about President Obama.
-jokes
about Hillary Clinton.
-jokes
about 2016 Presidential Candidates.
-a
repeat-after-me saying that reporting on Hillary Clinton’s appearance isn’t
journalism.
-jokes
about news outlets like NBC, C-SPAN, Fox News, CNN, The Huffington Post, NPR,
and Buzzfeed.
This week, Scarlett Johansson, who has
hosted and cameoed multiple times since 2006, returns to host for the first
time since 2010, her most recent time hosting. I like that I haven’t seen any
of her previous times on the show because I like not knowing what to expect
from a host. I thought she did a great job hosting and I would love to see her
host again. Wiz Khalifa was the musical guest and brought two pretty good
performances. Here’s my take on the episode.
Sketch
Rundown:
Mayweather-Pacquiao
Cold Open:
With the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight going
on the same time SNL was on, I had a
feeling they would do this for a cold open. I loved the beginning with the
voice-over before the sketch began and thought it was hilarious. I loved the
lines “In fact, right now, many of you are frantically calling your cable
company to order it on Pay-Per-View, for the very reasonable cost of ‘one month’s
food,’” “Not even regular golf- we showed golf played at night,” “Without a doubt, it was the whitest day in the history of
professional sports,” “The 9th place finisher in 2007’s Dancing with the Stars,” and “They’re
calling this the fight of the century but only because your combined ages are
100.” I loved Aidy as Pacquiao and seeing Kate’s Bieber again. I also loved how
Jay and Kenan left at the end of the sketch. This had to be my favorite sports
cold opens in a while.
Scarlett
Johansson Monologue:
I thought Scarlett’s monologue was good.
It was funny but it was weird. Even though I know she has a bit of a musical
background, I didn’t expect a musical monologue from her. I loved the picture
of her baby and thought it was funny. Taran and Kenan coming out for the
monologue made sense because they’re the only cast members with children. This
monologue also confirms that Taran and Cobie Smulders’ second child is a girl.
I loved how Kenan said “And I have one that I know of: Kitten,” and “At 8
months, mine was screaming all night long or so I was told.” I also loved the
other lines “Your baby is a lucky man,” “I’ll never sleep again,” and “Absolutely
not. I’m awake from head to toe.” I thought the monologue was funny but the
lullaby was very weird.
Right
Side of the Bed:
I honestly didn’t think they would bring
this sketch back. However, I did enjoy this sketch more than the first time.
The chemistry between Cecily and Taran is amazing and I love them in sketches
together. Scarlett’s character’s accent reminded me a little bit of Janice from
Friends. I loved how Cecily’s
character said “I love that accent. She sounds like a talkin’ pizza.” I loved
Cecily and Taran’s reaction to Scarlett’s line “That show on TV, you know, the
one with the gay guy and his mom.” That reaction was my favorite part of the
sketch. I also loved in this sketch how Cecily was close to breaking, which is
very rare for her since she’s good at keeping it together in a sketch. I loved
Kate as Hozier and how she changed up the lyrics to “Take Me to Church” to go
along with the Kentucky Derby. Overall, I loved this sketch and thought it was
a great way to start the show.
Orioles:
I thought this was a funny sketch and
reminded me of the “Morning News” sketch from the James Franco episode which
was cut for time. I loved the Kiss Cam bit and the “Guess the Attendance” and
how it was “31 including the players”. There were so many great lines in this
sketch, including “Baltimore has just been on fire this week,” “Here it is
provided by the good people at Nerf,” “So after the game, Flee,” “That knee
grows stronger every day,” “And the ball is shot down by a military drone,” and
“I’m going to Newark where I’ll be safer.” I loved this sketch and I’m glad a sketch like this aired and wasn’t
cut after dress.
Black
Widow Trailer:
I thought this sketch was very funny and I
would definitely go see this movie. I loved Taran as Thor and thought he was
funny I loved “I’m sorry” written in fire on the side of a building. Some of my
favorite lines from this include “Chill. Marvel gets women,” “From Marvel
Studios and the writers of 27 Dresses,”
and “I’d hate to be that guy’s girlfriend.” Overall, I loved this sketch and
thought it was funny.
Girlfriends
Talk Show:
I love this sketch so much, even though
this particular sketch wasn’t my favorite. I can always sympathize with Morgan
in these sketches. I think it’s safe to say that every single one of us is
Morgan. This sketch always has some great lines, including “You’re singing just
gave me years of pain,” “Yes you basic B,” “She may be prom queen but I’ll be
at the prom long after her stacking up the chairs. So suck on that reality pop.”
I thought this sketch was very funny and I enjoyed it a lot.
Wiz
Khalifa “See You Again” ft. Charlie Ruth Performance:
I’m not a Wiz Khalifa fan at all but I
really liked this song. I think it had to do with the fact that another artist
was featured in the song. I also like that the song wasn’t very rap heavy. It
was a good performance and I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. It was
the perfect balance of music and rap.
Weekend
Update:
I thought this weekend’s Weekend Update had a good start. I loved
the “Cal Ripken Molitoff Cocktail Day” joke. I loved seeing Kate’s Ruth Bader
Ginsburg returning. I loved how she danced up against Colin after a “Gins-burn”.
I also loved her Grimm Reaper joke at the end of her bit. I also loved the
lines “I’m like a weird mole: I’m tiny but I could be dangerous,” “I gotta push
same-sex marriage through before God remembers I’m still alive,” and “I just
got Gins-burned!” I’m glad that they didn’t do a Bruce Jenner joke after
talking about his interview with Diane Sawyer about how he’s transitioning into
a woman (Bruce Jenner is now known as Caitlyn Jenner). I like the way this
story was played out on Update,
especially with Che’s off camera comments, because even though it is a touchy
subject and doesn’t need to be joked about. Moving on, the couple from Game of Thrones played by Bobby and
Vanessa was okay but I didn’t get a lot of the jokes since I don’t watch the
show. I loved the 6-year-old meat joke with Che’s response, “Tyler’s not real!”
I also thought the Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal impressions were funny,
as always. Overall, I thought this was a very good Update this week.
Dino
Bones:
This was the typical sketch saved for
after Update. One thing that I
thought was funny, and didn’t realize at first, was that Kenan was referencing
the song “FourFive Seconds”. I also thought it was funny how they played a clip
of the song after the sketch. One other thing I thought was funny was Taran’s
wig. Other than these, I felt like they were just running the same joke into
the ground. Cecily and Scarlett’s characters came off as more annoying than
funny, which I guess was supposed to be the joke. Two of my favorite lines from
this sketch include “You’ve got a little bitch in you,” and “OMG, you are a
bitch in the best way.” This sketch was probably my least favorite sketch of
the night.
Blazer:
I liked this short and I loved how this
sketch poked fun a little bit to police brutality. I didn’t expect Wiz Khalifa
to be in a sketch. Another thing I liked about this sketch that it was a video
within a video. Some of my favorite lines from this sketch include, “’Cause my
partner filmes everything with his body cam?” “Also ‘cause I edited it all
together and added music and put it up on YouTube?” and “Because I made light
of race-based police brutality?” I liked this short a lot and thought it was
funny.
Virgin
Flight:
I thought this was a good sketch. I loved
the robot flight attendants joke throughout the sketch. I loved how they kept
saying “Happy Halloween” when it was May. I also loved the towel bit and
thought it was hilarious. This sketch had so many great lines, such as “My
microphone is in my face,” “You ordered 38 boxes of animal crackers,” and “It
also looks like the other one has made her way into the cockpit.” I thought
Vanessa and Scarlett were hilarious as the robots. Overall, I thought this was
a good sketch and liked this sketch a lot more than I thought I would.
Wiz
Khalifa “We Dem Boyz” Performance:
I thought this was an okay performance. I
really liked the first performance better than this one. Like I said before,
I’m not a huge Wiz Khalifa fan. In general, I’m not a huge fan of rap at all.
The performance and the song were okay but I still liked the first performance
a lot more.
Jingle
Writers:
I thought this was a decent sketch, it was
a weird kind of funny. I was so glad to finally see Kyle in a sketch. This
sketch, however, did have a lot of great lines, including “You know the jingle
scene. It’s coke for breakfast and ass for dinner,” “We accept personal checks
and Sacajewa coins only,” and “If you change your mind, just whisper our name
to an owl.” I loved how they included Papa John’s in the McDonald’s jingle. One
thing I noticed in the sketch was that the bird noise at the end of the jingles
sounded like the bird noises from the old “The Falconer” sketches. Overall, I
thought this was a good sketch and a weird, yet funny, way to end the show.
Overall, I thought this was an awesome
show and Scarlett did a great job hosting. I can definitely see her hosting
again in the future. Although I liked this episode a lot, I kept asking myself
this one question: Where the hell was Sasheer? I swear, I don’t think I saw her
in a single sketch. Not even a pre-taped bit! I know she’s underused but still,
I thought she would be in at least one sketch. She probably was in a few things
that got cut before the live show. Other than the lack of Sasheer, I thought
this was a great episode.
Some SNL
news is that Cecily Strong has been cast in the new Melissa McCarthy movie The Boss, formerly titled Michelle Darnell, which will be released
on April 8, 2016. Strong has also been cast in the new Susan Sarrandon and J.K.
Simmons movie, The Meddler. Safe to
say Cecily’s going to be very busy between these two movies and Ghostbusters. I definitely can’t wait to
see these movies. Something tells me that 2016 will be a great year for film.
This has been my take on the SNL episode hosted by Scarlett Johansson
with musical guest Wiz Khalifa. I’ll be back soon with a review of SNL hosted by Reese Witherspoon with
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Lauren
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