From Laugh Out Loud To Reaching For The Remote

Last week's Saturday Night Live featured James Franco and to my grand surprise it was quite a show! Honestly, when you think James Franco these days, you can't ever seem to let go of the horrendous job he did while hosting the 2011 Academy Awards. You gotta have some balls to host the most prestigious entertainment industry award show while high out of your tuches. I guess now with last week's SNL and his performance in "This Is The end", I may just finally be able to move on and give Franco a clean slate.

His monologue was well executed. Of course his bff Seth Rogen showed up, you know to help promote the reason why Franco probably got to host in the first place: promoting their new film "The Interview". I found myself laughing out loud through most of the skits, something I can only find myself doing every once in a while these days when watching the show. The Star Wars parody featuring old-farts-characters was a must. How come no one had thought of this before? Just brilliant. I enjoyed the VH1 (or was it MTV?) skit; it's hard to miss when the cast does impressions, but I always love those. Even though, I have not yet (and probably never will) seen NBC's "Peter Pan Live", the Christopher Walken Hook that Franco portrayed was so awesome, that I decided I needed to master my own Christopher Walken impression. Hell, I even enjoyed the pervy troll skit! But my favorite remains "Jeremy's Brain". Yet, another skit with impressions, but like I said, they are always bound to work! How can you say no to Jay Pharoh's Fresh Prince rendition? I think I even enjoyed the ever-annoying Nicki Minaj, even when she was Kim Kardashian in Weekend Update!

@jamesfrancotv's Christopher Walken is terrifyingly good. #boo #SNL #PeterPanLive #CaptainHook

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Twas definitely a good episode....So what the hell happened this week? You'd think there would be obligatory witty writing with a British host like Martin Freeman hosting. Alas, no. Oh, if you don't know who Martin Freeman is, he is the hobbit, in....The [recent] Hobbit movies. And if you are like me, who thought that Elijah Woods was still playing the main character (woops) in the prequel (?) franchise...well please let me know and make me feel less uncool about my lack of JRR Tolkien knowledge. I actually fast-forwarded several times throughout the episode. The only 2 redeeming skits of the night for me were the cold open with the #TortureReport psychologists (the comcast & self-check-out jokes were amazing) & The Office: Middle Earth. It was well made and quite enjoyable, even though I'm not a fan of either.

Saturday Night Live seems to be having trouble keeping up great content on a regular basis. I think they struggle recovering when they have back to back episode. Hopefully the Amy Adams episode will be good. Go to sleep SNL writers, get some rest and give us some of that je-ne-sais-quoi for Amy....she deserves a good show!