LBJ + SNL = Error 404 October 1, 2007
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Hey, it’s ya boy H from M-town and I have been an el terrible blogger. But, the truth is I’m alive! I swear. But somehow I got involved in back to back events that took up more than 26 hours of my time of a day (doesn’t sound right? because it isn’t) which, apologies to my faithful Page View Clickers— er, “readers”, I hadn’t had time to post for a record of 4 days in a row (shocking!)
ANYHOW: all that to say, since it’s October, and nearing our dream league’s return, it’s in my blood to return to good form—barring porn, obviously. So first, a return to the snark:
The definitive review of LeBron James’ SNL hosting duties:
Let me first say that I’m still a fan of the show. For the past couple of years I think SNL really tried to make a change (Tina Fey no longer the head writer–Seth Myers took over) so that the sketches don’t drag as much. The Digital Shorts are that new thing, but that’s not all, the sketches seem tighter and crisper.
So what of last Saturday’s show? Basically, it was a bad combo of bad creativity in terms of what to do with Bron and when he’s not there, they totally lost track of what’s funny. I mean, seriously, did the cold open even have a joke? There were fun times though, specifically Andy Samberg’s “I Ran” love song to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kanye’s faux rants. Speaking of Ye, I’m totally calling fake-stutter on his 2nd performance leading to that freestyle (a little too obvious…)
Frankly, it was just a bad overall ep, with or without LeBron.
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I missed it, but luckily NBC put the all good parts on YouTube. And by all, I mean, of course, the two you mention. So, yeah, kind of glad I missed it.
They had waaay too many misses for my liking, so in quoting Ana Gasteyer channeling Martha Stewart, “It’s a good thing…” … that you missed it
Don’t forget the Solid Gold skit! And the Read to Achieve commercial - “What’s this? IT’S A BOOK!” I wonder what kind of reaction LeBron will get from his NBA peers on that appearance. Spot on review though, LeBron was pretty much under-utilized. I would have rather watched the Peyton Manning episode again.
Bron-Bron was okay in the parts I wanted to see (which were posted on YouTube anyway). SNL, though, has sucked for years.