A couple of great sports-related bits on Saturday Night Live this past weekend. Although I've gotta say, why is Jon Bon Jovi hosting? You've already got Foo Fighters booked as the musical guest. Do we really need Jon Bon Jovi trying to be funny.
One priceless moment was Richie Samborra trying to spit out 2 lines from the audience during Bon Jovi's monologue. It's fair to say "a mind is a terrible thing to waste." (You don't have to watch the whole kinda generic Bon Jovi song.)
Bill Simmons from Page 2 on ESPN.com recently wrote this.
“We’ve all seen these baseball playoff commercials where Dane Cook pretends to be such a big baseball fan, even though we’re not sure if he could pick Albert Pujols out of a police lineup … so this week’s host is shooting one of those the baseball commercials, except he keeps screwing up the names really badly (absolutely butchers Rivera, Papelbon, Pujols, Sabathia, etc). And the director has to keep interrupting him. And then it goes on for three minutes.”
Apparently, Bill actually spoke to Seth Myers recently pitching the sketch idea, and then Jason Sudeikis delivered the idea with a pretty dead-on impression of Cook on Saturday.
I can't make up my mind about whether or not I like Dane Cook. We met him at the ESPYs and seems like a really nice guy. I'm just not sure if he's funny.
The other great sports bit from Saturday's SNL was this fake promo ragging on Notre Dame. Unfortunately, the quality is bad because it's just a guy pointing his camera at his TV screen, but if you pay close attention, you can catch every last mean little dig on the Irish.
Saturday Night Live is wildly inconsistent, but there re still some really funny moments, and it's worth a spot on my TIVO.
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