Jon Hamm on SNL

Do we know who is replacing Amy?

My NBC channel died just as this skit started so I missed it. Can anyone tell me hat happened?

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That's too bad. The station went out right after the woman who was supposed to be Joan came in.

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I thought Jon was a great host. His James Mason impression was accurate and very funny!

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Jon Hamm IS the hotness! Just gorgeous.

Yes, even though the material wasn't always the greatest, Hamm was a very good sport.

Good host, mediocre material and show as a whole.

Nothing caught fire in the first 40 minutes. The MAD MEN sketch was just strained and unfunny, and the presence of the real players only pointed up an uncomfortable gap between a send-up and the real deal. Poor Elizabeth Moss seemed unrecognized by the studio audience,no?

I think the Tina Fey stuff that's opened the show this fall is simply a hard act to follow; this start-up wasn't especially clever, and the Biden take-down, clearly offered in the name of fairness and balance, didn't have enough content to sustain the unweildly length. Let's face it, no matter what your affiliation, Biden isn't as funny, and the actor playing him isn't exactly spot-on.

Someone should write a Clooney-esque romantic comedy screen role for Hamm. He's got that Clooney-Cary Grant thing going.

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"Poor Elizabeth Moss seemed unrecognized by the studio audience,no? "

I thought the same thing, Auggie! Shame. They seemed to recognize Slattery off the bat though, which was nice. There were touches only Mad Men viewers would get...like Pete's speech pattern, when Harry ran out of the room crying (like he did during Don's Kodak Carousel presentation during the S1 finale), etc. The guy playing Sal was ridiculous...I don't even know what that was about.

Okay Wildhorn- I'm offically jealous! How did you get tickets to be in the audience? The only time I have been in that audience is when I went on an NBC tour a few years ago while I was visiting- ha! Anyway- I liked the Maya Rudolph/Michelle Obama sketch- "Solid- Solid as Barack" and Bill Clinton's "Don't You Forget About Me". I also thought that the host was extremely handsome! I haven't been able to watch Mad Men so I wasn't sure who he was. I'm glad he has gotten this good exposure though! Overall- a pretty lame show!

The 'Don Draper Guide to Picking Up Women' was really the only skit I enjoyed last night.

Did anyone find it odd that Coldplay did three songs, plus a fourth as the show went off the air?

I didn't find it odd at all, because it's exactly what U2 did the last time they were on. And Colplay is constitutionally incapable of doing anything U2 hasn't done before. Of course U2 got to play most of "I Will Follow" before the end of the credits, as opposed to hapless Coldplay. Not one note of song four! It did make SNL a faster view this morning, zipping through each song. I can't believe they are still wearing those asinine clothes. Did Coldplay's stylists decide the world needed another Dexy's Midnight Runners?

I too loved the variety show sketch and hope NBC has the good sense to pay Maya whatever she asks for to bring her back for the rest of the season. The annual Vincent Price sketch made me giggle, especially James Mason asking "Where are the whores?" and Liberace saying "I'm good." And though Price's "Leave that kind of talk to your bars without windows" line elicited not a single laugh in the audience, I LOLed at home.

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I too adored the Vincent Price sketch and was glad to see they brought it back after it got cut last year after dress. Kristen Wiig was hysterical as Gloria Swanson "Arrrrrr! I am a Pirate!"
I find Bill Hader's Vincent Price spot on. The sad point is, most of the people they impersonate in those sketches go right over the heads of their target audience.

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