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Due to infuriating copyright issues, the best sketch from last night’s surprisingly not-awful Josh Hutcherson-hosted SNL isn’t available on Hulu, but you can watch it below, especially if you love a) the 1980s, b) the Outfield’s “Your Love,” or c) all of the above. Full recap soon, once I finish downloading The Best of the Outfield.
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I know it’s tough to write a 90 minute comedy show every week, but the writers were on serious auto-pilot last night.They saved all the meaty parts for the December shows. This episode was the fat & grizzle.
This one was decent, but the guy with the baby body was the best thing they’ve done in years.
There HAS to be something in Beck Bennett’s AT&T contract preventing him from satirizing those once-memorable but frustratingly-ubiquitous commercials. Even being lazy I can think of dozens of ways to pan that comedy gold.
As “Office Boss” started, I told my wife, this is the dumbest fucking sketch for just about every reason I can think of, yet here I am enjoying every second of it.
That “Just text us line” cracks me the hell up.
probably at the moment this aired, i was badgering a house band to just sack up and play some outfield.
Nice.
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If you look closely, the girl painting is the chick from the A-Ha video “Take On Me.” She basically hopped around from one-hit wonder to one-hit wonder.
This was definitely my favorite skit of the night with baby body and best buy right behind it
I want to move into this sketch
Hutcherson looks like a younger version of Will Forte
This.
Really? I thought this was the weakest sketch of them all…huh. Diff’rent strokes, I suppose.
I’m with you. I just don’t find 80s nostalgia stuff entertaining. I remember the 80s, barely, and I thought this stuff sucked then too.
Obviously you never had friends with those haircuts. I miss the real 80’s.
I just couldn’t get into the song/gag.
This episode was really good. best one this season
I have a doctor’s appointment.
THE 80s!!!!!!!!!!
“It’s a whole sketch base on lip syncing, but don’t worry – you don’t even have to know the words to the song you’re lip syncing to because you’re on SNL.”
Exactly. Hutcherson’s inability to make it look like he was even close to mouthing the correct words really sunk this one.
Um, the embedded video has an audio sync issue, so the lip-syncing looks wrong. In the actual episode though, it was spot-on.
Don’t know if you people are high or what, but this episode was god-awful, this sketch was absolutely god-awful as well. Even Weekend Update sucked this week.
This sketch and the Best Buy sketch made the episode for me.
One thing I’ll say about SNL: It is at its best when it’s random, irreverent, and downright silly. When it tries to latch itself to pop culture or a story in the news, it swings and misses a lot. While SNL still fails to make me laugh a lot of the time, it encourages me to see more completely random sketches (This one, the baby CEO) instead of them trying to comment on a bigger issue.
Really? The best of the season? This episode? This sketch? Really?
It’s really strange, but people’s opinions on this ep have been all over the place. Can’t remember the last time no one agreed on anything at all, like this. It felt like most of the skits (and the musical guest) were loved or hated. From people saying SNL has sank to a new low, to others saying this was the best of the season, and some of the best laughs in years.
I enjoyed the episode overall, I gotta admit – I had no idea who the hell Josh Hutcherson is, but he impressed me.
Can’t say I can stand the Girlfriends recurring sketch, though…
Taran and Keenan slayed me.
Can I have that 3 minutes back.