SNL Scorecard: Did Jeff Bridges Host the Best Show of the Year, Son?
The Bad
"It's a Wonderful Life" (Sudeikis, Hader, Ensemble): Turner Classics shows the original, unseen Hanukkah version of It's a Wonderful Life titled This You Call a Wonderful Life?. Unfortunately, the title of the original film is funnier than the sketch itself. This isn't necessarily a bad sketch -- it actually came off well-executed -- it just missed the big laugh that previous It's a Wonderful Life sketches in the past (Dana Carvey era) have provided.
Score: 5.5
"Larry King Live" (Armisen, Thompson, Bridges, Wiig, Elliott): I enjoyed Jeff Bridges playing Dog the Bounty Hunter, but, anytime I see a contemporary Larry King sketch it reminds me of how great the old Norm MacDonald King impression was. "Has anybody ever died of a heart attack? I mean, really?" "My wish for the new millennium is that we see a lot more of John Larroquette."
Score: 5.0
"The Miley Cyrus Show" (Bayer, Sudeikis, Bridges): With Cyrus's bong pictures as the theme, this feels like a sketch that aired one week too late. Actually, with Bridges playing Nick Nolte, this feels like a sketch that aired eight years too late.
Score: 4.0
The Ugly
"Happy Holidays From The Kardashians" (Pedrad, Elliott, Bayer): So, in 2010, this is what we've become? We used to live in a world where we received SNL season's greetings from Tonto, Frankenstein and Tarzan. Now, we get this. Seriously, I don't care about these three people in the least, I care even less about an impression of them. Whatever, Pedrad, Elliott and Bayer, I know it gets you airtime, but a parody of a parody is a low form of humor. (Note: Apparently the holiday cheer from last night has worn off and now I just have a hangover. Perhaps I'm being harsh.)
Score: 2.0
Average Score For This Show: 6.21
Weekly Host Scorecard:
· Jeff Bridges 6.21
· Amy Poehler 6.04
· Anne Hathaway 6.00
· Emma Stone 5.88
· Jon Hamm 5.86
· Paul Rudd 5.83
· Robert De Niro 5.83
· Bryan Cranston 5.79
· Jane Lynch 5.31
· Scarlett Johansson 4.69
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Don't worry Mike, we all have our own "Sweat Pants Boner" which haunts us from the past....
That is the funniest sentence that I've read today. Thank you.
Yes, if someone is critical of your writing and of your opinion they must have an axe to grind! Or, as stated, I think your writing is lacking. It's amusing to me that someone writing as a critic is so thin-skinned that they can't take a little criticism themselves.
Also, I don't know you and I've never heard of you until you started cluttering up Movieline with your nonsense.
Well, Kristen (or should I call you Mike?), I guess you're not clear on how comment sections work, but it's actually fine to critique someone's writing. You may be new to the internet but if you look into pretty much any comment section you'll find dissent. Even with posts written by far more talented writers than Mr Ryan.
If Mike can't handle it then he might ought to look into a new 'career'. Or, he could email me directly and discuss it offline so no one else has to get 'caught up in this'. That's what Gene Shalit would do.
It is going to take 2 years because we are shooting the whole thing in 3D, duh. Besides, Aaron Sorkin's first draft of the script isn't due until March.
Your comments sound a lot more like hating than criticism. Get a life. Or get a blog if you think you can do better.
Oh, Garry, mind your own business. And if you're making time to watch this episode of SNL a second time it would appear you're the one in need of a life.
Clearly, you are the one who needs to get a life, you commented on this post like 20 times. It sounds to me like you have a sweatpants (it's 1 word dude) boner for Mike. Why else would you spend soooo much time here? Its really quite pathetic. You sound like a 12 yr old girl complaining about her first period. Good luck with your life of negativity and unhappiness, you are definitely going to need it.
"Or, he could email me directly and discuss it offline so no one else has to get 'caught up in this'"
Ha, this really made me laugh! What a complete idiot! It's like the phrase 'let's take this outside' for pathetic, spineless, online haters. If only I had a picture of this douche, I would make a meme out of it.
If you're going to play usage police you might want to figure out the difference between "its" and "it's". And your analogy makes no sense at all. Go feed your cat.
Don't you have emails from Gene Shalit that you should be answering??
And now that is the funniest sentence that I've read today. See? Karma... Thank you, Kristen.
i didn't like the show much, buy jeff bridges as the orthodox rabbi was priceless
>Honestly, I can’t tell is this is an accurate Brad Pitt impression or not, but, for some reason, I couldn’t stop laughing.
Worst impression I have ever seen on SNL; have no idea how this skit was greenlighted. If your review is merely to bring across your own peculiar quirks when it comes to laughing at braindead humor, I'm not sure why it would be for public consumption. By any standard, this was an idiotic, failed attempt at humor.
>Honestly, I can’t tell is this is an accurate Brad Pitt impression or not, but, for some reason, I couldn’t stop laughing.
Worst impression I have ever seen on SNL; have no idea how this skit was greenlighted. If your review is merely to bring across your own peculiar quirks when it comes to laughing at braindead humor, I'm not sure why it would be for public consumption. By any standard, this was an idiotic, failed attempt at humor.
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