If you were anything like half of the folks on the internet then you were looking forward to Betty White hosting the Mother’s Day episode of ‘Saturday Night Live‘. The sexy senior, who has FINALLY been getting the respect she so surely deserves, brought it this Saturday. Originally when Lorne Michaels and Co. caved into the interweb demands from the public and gave White a chance to host ‘SNL’, it turned out she wouldn’t be alone. Perhaps to avoid tiring the 88-year-old comedian with a hosting responsibility, a slew of former SNLers came back with a fully focused ladies night over at 30 Rock. Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph and Molly Shannon came back to the place they once called home to participate in the special SNL, alongside comedy legend White. But if you were paying attention Saturday, and it seemed that everyone tuned in, it was proven that age ain’t nuthin but a number and White could hold her own until 1AM. White was the focus of almost all the skits this weekend and I can’t think of one that didn’t score big in the laughter category. Personally, I can’t remember laughing that hard for an hour and half straight in a very long time. And apparently I wasn’t the only one since the May 8th episode of SNL scored its highest ratings in a year and a half, making it fall just short of the historic pre-’08 election episode.
See SNL – all you need is Betty White and a few of your former cast members to bring the funny and the ratings. While there wasn’t a bum skit in the bunch, I can’t possibly post every video from that night. So here are my top 5, in no particular order, as well as the funny skits that were actually cut in dress rehearsal. More on Betty White Brings the Funny and Ratings to SNL after the JUMP
The Digital Shorts on Saturday Night Live are some of the best comedy the show has produced in the past ten years. This past Saturday, they finally got around to producing a short for the hilarious and catchy song, “Boombox” from their album Incredibad. The tune, which features Julian Casablancas singing about fingerless gloves and the [...]
Woohoo! It only took 500k fans on Facebook and massive media coverage to make Lorne Michaels and the folks at SNL approach Betty White to host the show in April. According to Michael Ausiello at EW that there is a deal in the works to get Betty White to host the late night program. But, she [...]
When Saturday Night Live is on, its on and the past two weeks have been pretty darn near classic episodes. Last week Jon Hamm visited and helped make one of the funniest episodes in years, with his skit as newly inaugurated Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown and in a perfect Digital Short with him as a sexy [...]
Ever since I received Dear Andy Kaufman, I Hate Your Guts! its been difficult to put the coffee table-style book down. The book is a collection of passionate hate mail, counter offers and hysterical polaroids Kaufman received in response to his “misogynistic” request to the women of America to wrestle. Kaufman, best known for his near [...]
Last night the funny returned to NBC and as expected, Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers gave a little special “Really?!?” treatment to the likes of Joe Wilson, Kanye West and some more deserving fellas. Not sure I’m in love with the idea of weekly half hour versions of Weekend Update, but last night’s definitely had its [...]
There are days where I wish I had a following. And by this I mean, I wish I was much more well known, like I would easily get movie deals, have my own TV show (who knows what it would be about) and late night night hosts would jump at the chance to get me as [...]
So yesterday was Mother’s Day and this year there are two songs that really celebrate the love we all have for our mothers.
Here is Justin Timberlake and Adam Samberg giving some love to their mothers, beautifully played by Patricia Clarkson and Susan Sarandon.
And here is my good friend and ridiculously funny Adira Amram, thanking [...]
