JON HAMM KILLED IT
02.01.10
Jon Hamm hosted “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, and it was a pleasant reminder that the show can actually be really funny if the host is good and the writers don’t take the week off. By my count, there were only two sketches I could have done without (1920s party and court stenographer), but what really stuck out was quality writing throughout the episode — even bits that typically bore me (like the cold open and the monologue) I found entertaining. So here’s my polite applause, “SNL.” Do more episodes like that.
Anyway, pictured here is Hamm as FilmDrunk’s beloved Greasy Sax Man in the excellent digital short (video below), and as usual I’ve embedded video of a couple other sketches for the people who were out doing things with their lives on Saturday night. Thanks for not inviting me, jerks.
“Sergio” digital short:
The monologue, in which Don Draper kills it at the Apollo:
“Hamm & Bublé,” in which musical guest Michael Bublé earns some laughs. A nice mutation of last year’s “Jon Hamm’s john ham” sketch:
Closet organizer:
And this was a great, unexpected callback:
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Pfff nevermind way ahead of me.
Sergio has got to be stolen from “The Lost Boys”.
Alec Baldwin is the only person who’s ever done a good Barney Frank impression on SNL, but the look on Fred Armisen’s face in the Scott Brown skit when he says he’s up for anything was fucking priceless.
“I’d like to introduce something to the floor. It’s called your panties.”
Hamm nailed it.
John Hamm ain’t shit if he ain’t drinking, smoking, and entertaining white male soap opera watchers.
Needs more Phil Hartman
I thought last night’s SNL Sports Superstars show was pretty solid.
@Punch: It’s Jason Sedakis but I think he’s channeling Day’s Kitten Mittens VO
sorry for the super long comment- but I’d also like to note that it’s no accident that the best show of the season had the least amount of airtime for Keenan Thompson.
Is it me or was the VO for Closet Organizer Charlie Day?
Easily best of the season so far- which is impressive considering the sketches with the court stenographer and the dinner party were examples of the show at its worst. They take a mildly amusing premise established in the first 30 seconds, then beat it dead into the ground over the next five unfunny minutes.
That said- the closet organizer and the call-back reminded me of the type of writing from the height of the Will Ferrell era more than anything else they’ve done in the last few years. If I knew anyone who still watched SNL I don’t doubt that we’d be quoting Hamm’s random testimonial ad nauseum, “..and she had like a full on man’s mustache, and I was like, let’s do this thing.”
I just wish they could get more proven superstars like Taylor Lautner to show off their comedic edges.
I’m looking forward to the Freddie Rumsen-hosted episode of SNL.
If only Ashton Kutcher wasn’t hosting next week. What is he promoting, exactly? His Twitter?
I love that the guy who plays Don Draper is willing to be so damn goofy. Can SNL just let him host every episode?
Marbles!
The Scott Brown sketch was a homerun. And court stenographer showed why Kenan Thompson should take a nap on train tracks.
You mean we could have done nothing together? I’m crushed.