SNL Funny Again!

For the first time in I don't know when, I watched most of an episode of Saturday Night Live last weekend. And I actually laughed! Since Will Ferrell left a few years ago, the show had been left with the feeling of a high school skit. The cast members didn't sell their performances, they looked as if they didn't rehearse at all, they were so focused on the cue cards that they didn't bother making eye contact with the other actors in the sketches and the writing was terrible. Still there are lingering bits of all those symptoms, but the show was very funny.

Jack Black hosted, which made a difference. There was a great music video featuring two of the cast members doing a hard core rap about going to see "The Chronicles of Narnia." There were a handful of brilliant moments in the Christmas edition of what is a new regular sketch, "Appalachian Emergency Room." In true SNL fashion, one of the real gems of the show was buried right at the end. Suffice it to say this is the funniest Spelling Bee you'll ever see.

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• Fun