This episode is a HOME RUN! EVERY SINGLE sketch is hilarious, the musical guest is GREAT, and the host is AMAZING. KUDOS, Lorne & SNL team!
Also -- I think this may be the first time that the F-bomb has been audibly spoken on network television in, what, a decade? If anyone can get away with it, it's Samuel L. Jackson.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle