Joseph Gordon-Levitt Becomes a Star

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 9:54am

Don't you think?
Joseph Gordon-Levitt becomes a star

[tazber]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 10:17am

I love him to death, but that was the lamest episode I have ever seen. I don't think I laughed once. Well maybe once at Keenan as Reba McIntyre.

But the show itself, dreadful.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 10:21am

He gets props for doing that live. He was a great host, a 180 degree change from January Jones!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 10:48am

Oh, he's just adorable.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 10:57am

Why did they cut his feet of in all the dance shots?

[clever name]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 11:00am

I loved, loved, loved his opening. The Say Anything sketch was funny. I always enjoy the Jack Johnson show.

and sue me..but "What's Up With That" KILLS me!! It makes me laugh so freakin' hard. Its so stupid and so funny! Jason Sudeikis dancing. omg. I loved it the first time and I loved it last night. I want that song to be my ringtone!


(oops I meant What Up- not What About.) Updated On: 11/22/09 at 11:00 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 11:07am

Please. You don't have to apologize for finding a sketch comedy piece funny. Although I wish we could have a 25 cent virtual "Worst SNL I've Seen in a Long Time" Jar so the first 10 people per week have to pay for their rush to cliche. We could give the money to Broadway Cares.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 11:17am

He was trying just a little too hard for some of that NPH charm/$$; he came up short and winded.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 11:20am

But he was a great Klaus Future in "What Up With That?"

[SNAFU]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 11:28am

Jason Sudeikis's dancing had me on the floor! Much more so then Andy Samburg's "Hey look at me" freestyle.

Pal Joey, not sure why they did that. The director seems to always cut the shots just below the knees. Perhaps not to show the spike marks on the floor.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 11:38am

Weekend Update was hit after hit after hit after hit. Including Al Gore. "Or, as perverts call it, 'Brush Hour.'"

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 11:47am

I laughed hard at every sketch. I thought it was the best episode of the season so far. When Joseph Gordon-Levitt flipped himself up the wall I was in love.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 12:07pm

This one and Gerard Butler were both perfect. I am reasonably sure that people who are quick to trash the episodes watch the cold opening, the monologue, and the first sketch and then they go to bed. The next day they say it was the worst episode ever. On a generous night, they stay awake through Weekend Update, begrudgingly admit that "some of it was good" but they need to bring back Tina, or Amy, or Brad Hall, or Chevy Chase, or Colin Quinn or Jane Curtin, or Norm MacDonald, or Melanie Chartoff.

[jasonf]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 12:11pm

Yes, he was winded, but he did that LIVE in one take. That's pretty impressive. I thought there was no way he was going to do those flips.

The episode was much better than the previous couple of weeks for a couple of reasons: one, MUCH less Kristin Wiig; two, JGL was actually a game host and an actual comic actor; and three, MUCH LESS Kristin Wiig!

What Up With That made me laugh though I have no idea why. The lyrics to the Reba song were funny, and JGL's Jason Mraz imitation was spot on. Weekend Update wasn't interrupted by unfunny characters as it usually is (Gore was actually funny!). Not every skit landed (that Thanksgiving one was horrible) but it definitely got more laughs than has been typical this season!

[SNAFU]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 12:12pm

I loved the update report of the turtle who was thought to be a female but just discovered to be male. I was laughing my ass off at the graphic of the reaction of the turtle's husband of 50 years.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 12:12pm

Hey now - no besmirching Jane Curtin!

I didn't realize Joseph Gordon-Levitt talks like Christopher Walken. I thought he was doing an impression in the first part of his monologue.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 12:13pm

I watched it all-I swear and I still found it only so so--Joseph sure seemed to be trying hard--and that sometimes worked... Weekend Update was almost all brilliant I thought. Some other bits (the retro game show) less so... But yea an improvement over last week.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 12:17pm

But Wiig's mid-sixtied Broadway star was fairly ingenious, no? And the family sketch had a funny ending. "That's En Vogue, you ruined it." So many sketches have no ending at all.

[clever name]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 12:20pm

What Up With That made me laugh though I have no idea why.


I KNOW!! SO funny. The celebrity in the middle chair that says nothing (last time James Franco, last night Mindy Kahling) and Lyndsey Buckingham..Lindsey Buckingham!! It's all so perfectly weird!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 12:21pm

Loved it.
Thought he was great.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 12:22pm

I love Wiig and it was nice to see her do something this year that didn't feel tired--I'll give you that. I guess I found Joseph more wasted in that skit... And I'm with re the sketches that just peter out without even a punchline... I dunno--I did enjoy it. I think I just found him a BIT too manic for me--like I said he seemed to be trying a bit too hard. Which I guess is better than not trying at all like poor January Jones (who, just to be clear again--I adore :P )

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 12:23pm

The Woman to Woman sketch made me laff.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 12:29pm

I love "What Up With That," but I've always had a habit of singing back to people what they say to me.

It's the same argument that's had all the time - and one that Namo makes much better than I can - it's not funny, it used to be better, etc. etc. Let me tell you a little story - I cringe when I think about the Tina Fey years, and I'm a fan of hers now, but I generally didn't like the show a lot then. Same with the David Spade/Adam Sandlerish era.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 12:31pm

So instead of arguing that it used to be more funny, should we just accept that it never really was all that consistantly funny?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/22/09 at 12:50pm

This is what I have always maintained. People have NO IDEA (or memory) of how much dead space there was when the beloved golden first year and a half with the original cast aired. The giant talking pile of Muppet trash? Forgotten. Soooooo many painfully unfunny sketches that have always been left off the Best Of collections and the edited one-hour syndicated shows. By the time Chevy Chase quit halfway through year two, I saw the first "Saturday Night Dead" headline. Over 30 years ago.

I've watched the show since I saw the first broadcast of the premiere episode. So I feel like I've got a pretty informed opinion about SNL. It's a sketch comedy show that they manage to throw together a few weeks a month. It's live. Live television comedy. It's a connection to a showbiz tradition that without it, would be completely extinct.

If there's an awful episode with a host like whoever that woman was last week, there will be a new episode soon. And maybe that one will be funny.

I wish people who declare the show unfunny would be honest about how much of the episode they're criticizing they've seen. There is certainly no harm in saying, "I turned it off after three segments because I hated it."

Declaring the show unfunny while watching three sketches every other month or so doesn't cut it.