SNL: Equal Opportunity Objectifiers
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Mad Men star and universally acknowledged dreamboat Jon Hamm hosted Saturday Night Live last night for the second time in two years. No wonder they brought him back so soon: It was one of the best episodes all season. And the writers made ample use of his strapping bod—Hamm appeared shirtless in more than one sketch. When fellow Mad Men star January Jones tanked spectacularly on SNL in November, some blamed the SNL scribes who couldn't figure out how to use Jones in a way that didn't objectify her. The perpetually naked and gyrating Jon Hamm shows that the fault for Jones' SNL performance remains with January, as Hamm was hilarious perfection.
In the better of the two Don Draper-in-skivvies sketches, Hamm plays newly elected Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (who is also known for his public semi-nudity). Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and Robert Byrd can't help but fantasize about the comely new kid. Clip is below.
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Comments
I liked this weeks episode
By: corinne | Wed, 02/03/2010 - 21:56
I would agree that the writers do seem to cater to the younger generation. I think a majority of the sketches from this season are immature (for example the one where they repeated the word "vagisil") and that the show caters to younger viewer. The "hip" musical guests and all the younger actors on the show...and when they do have an older guest they still tend to write sketches with the same type of comedy that the younger generation enjoys. I liked that they used what seems to work well for Jon Hamm- I noticed he was in a suit for a majority of his sketches, and that they didn't get into more low brow humor. I also thought Michael Buble was a great musical guest because he really cuts across so many types of music. So overall, I thought the best of the season.
I can only hope
By: Lauren Bans | Tue, 02/02/2010 - 12:11
that Sergio is the musical guest on next week's SNL.
Agree with XYandFine
By: HopefulCynic | Mon, 02/01/2010 - 14:52
And I don't know if it's a generational thing. The Hamm sketch above, supposedly the better of the two with Hamm semi-nude, was... well, like XYandFine said, not awful perhaps, but not good. I didn't experience more than the faint echo of an impulse to think about chuckling myself. And the winking thing... ugh, I cringed.
I'm no longer a twenty-something by a couple years, but I long since stopped watching SNL, and my occasional forays into trying it again have never encouraged me to make a habit of it. The songs by Samberg of a couple years ago and a couple other skits have been laugh-out-loud funny, but by and large, the writing is incredibly "meh."
Funny? No.
By: XYandFine | Mon, 02/01/2010 - 12:04
This episode of SNL was, like most this season, extremely un-funny. The sketch above was probably not awful, but it certainly wasn't good. Could this be a generational thing? I've been watching SNL since it started. Maybe twenty-somethings think it's present incarnation is funny?
The problem is the writing, not the cast. There is quite a bit of comedic talent there, but too much of the time it's Kristen Wiig or Fred Armisen doing a lackluster impression of someone famous in a poorly written sketch. If it weren't for Weekend Update, there would be no point in even turning it on.
Hamm hamming it up again!
By: ChrisSnooper | Mon, 02/01/2010 - 08:20
Hamm hamming it up again!
Been that way for a while.
By: Sihaya | Sun, 01/31/2010 - 19:26
This looks like a Mango routine! Funny stuff.