11.09.09 SNL’S TWILIGHT SPOOF: ‘FIRELIGHT’

Here’s the best part of this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” hosted by Taylor Swift: a digital short that sharply spoofs the Twilight trailers that make fat teenage goth girls all wet. And look! Taylor’s got the Kristen Stewart lip-biting thing down pat! There’s a lot to like here, from everything Bill Hader does to mummies not liking the Franks to the  wrinkle of drama we get from the rumor that the SNL host is dating New Moon star Taylor Lautner.

Other than that, “SNL” was the same as ever: kinda crappy with some highlights. I’m inclined to say it was worse than usual because I fast-forwarded through a couple sketches, but I actually liked the monologue (video below), and Weekend Update was really strong, and the cold open (Kristen Wiig as Greta van Susteren with Jason Sudeikis’s awesome Glenn Beck) was pretty good. Plus I’d like to credit the “SNL” writers for NOT basing a skit around the Kanye gag. It can’t be easy to avoid low-hanging fruit like that (funny, I often say the same thing to women while pointing at my crotch).