11/15/2023 0 Comments Andy samberg mark wahlbergLooks like it was influenced by No Country for Old Men. Just great in these shorts, and Kristen Wiig plays it straight for aĬhange as his sidekick, with Brolin playing third wheel in a wig that This week’s MacGruber trilogy centered on the global economicĬrisis, and how it has impacted MacGruber’s stock portfolio. How he put together his impersonation, and director Oliver Stone made aĬameo from the audience to ask Brolin to plug their movie. In W., and how much they actually have in common, including theįact that "neither one of us should be president." He got to show off Remember when, talking about his new movie role playing President Bush Host Josh Brolin delivered the first decent monologue since I cannot The rest of the show and videos after the jump… Now we’re ready for the rest of the SNL recap! Which also makes me thank Will Forte for this weekend’s performance. We even got two MacGrubers in before the break! Really. You know you’ve blown your proverbial wad, so to speak, when after that initial cold open with Tina Fey playing Palin’s first press conference, then deferring to Palin herself for the "live from New York" line, that you’ve got to keep viewers from immediately changing the channel, so Lorne Michaels and company made the rare decision to keep the show going for 18 minutes before the first ad break. You throw in Alec Baldwin getting confused by calling Palin "Tina" and insulting her to her face, only to turn around and tell her "you are way hotter in person." Really?!? Although I will acknowledge that having two showgirls and a llama’s ass facing the camera behind Palin was a really nice touch. You have all of this anticipation building up for the live episode, and what do you do with all of this anticipation? You put them all in the cold open?! As Seth and Amy would say, Really?!? You don’t want any element of surprise whatsoever. Sarah Palin would appear on the program, and you also saw and heard Mark Wahlberg vow on TV to show up at NBC to face Andy Samberg’s impersonation head-on. If you paid any attention whatsoever to the news, and even if you never left your apartment, you knew that Alaska Gov. Remember that sitcom about the woman who shared a NYC apartment with a gay guy, and first everyone was all, ooh, look a show with gay people in it, and then they went, ah, this show is kinda funnies, and then they went, oh, are they going to have a superstar celebrity cameo in every episode? Yeah, Saturday Night Live kinda became a clusterfark just like that this weekend. Sometimes a TV show becomes too tapped into the popular culture zeitgeist and gets caught up in it, and loses the sense of wonder that got everyone talking about it in the first place.
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