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Saturday Night Live: January Johnoes!
Videogum — ... and zero affect. I'm not sure that I've ever seen a Saturday Night Live host who was so blatantly propped up in a corner so that he/she wouldn't be in the way of the cast putting on an actual show. It was so rough that I started to wonder what Henry Francis even sees in her! But the thing about great, beautiful faces is that if the face is good enough, then you can still probably get something decent out of having them around, and that is what happened. Continue reading Saturday Night Live: January Johnoes!... ...

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Stereogum — ... 2 An Open Letter To The Ladies Of The View On The Subject Of Rape thumbnail: The Twilight: New Moon Premiere: Celebrity Red Carpet! 3 The Twilight: New Moon Premiere: Celebrity Red Carpet! thumbnail: Twilight: A Primer For Adults 4 Twilight : A Primer For Adults thumbnail: Oprah Pretends That Sarah Palin Is An Actual Human Being 5 Oprah Pretends That Sarah Palin Is An Actual Human Being thumbnail: Saturday Night Live: January Johnoes! 6 Saturday Night Live : January ...

Saturday Night Live: Relax, TechnoJosephGordonLevitt
Videogum — ... This week's episode of Saturday Night Live might have been the best of the season so far*, and that was due in part to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, I guess, but man, that guy needs to RELAX. He was literally bouncing off the walls to prove to America that he was an "ENTERTAINER." We get it, Joseph Gordon-Levitt! You are hosting Saturday Night Live! You are doing great! On the one hand, it was nice to see someone trying so hard after January Jones last week showed us all just what coasting on your looks actually looks like. But on the other hand, there is ...

Saturday Night Live: Shy Ronnie, My Ninjas!
Videogum — ... , and that dude can do a backflip without even slipping in his own panic sweat. Well, actually, there are two ways in which Blake Lively managed to deliver: the first is that she was surprisingly good! She seemed game for just about anything! And once we got past the opening monologue (which could just as easily have been called the opening YIKESohWHAT?) she was capable of holding her own in the sketches. Of course, the second trick is that they pulled the old January Jones on her and kept her performance time limited. She wasn't even in two of the best sketches. But whatever. ...

Saturday Night Live: We're Gonna Need A Bigger Shark Bag!
Videogum — ... ." And since the audience has no real expectations from Charles Barkley as a performer, it allowed the rest of the cast to carry the show. Not in the way they had to carry it with January Jones, where everyone struggled to drag her (beautiful) dead weight to the finish line. They carried it in the way that a group of professional comedians who are having fun doing their jobs carry something: on their shoulders! Like champions! And it's not as if a bulldozing borderline-illiterate Shrek with no affect and nothing left to lose isn't funny in his own way. ...

Saturday Night Live: Hamming It Up! (Get It?)
Videogum — ... would January Johnoes it up all over the place, but he didn't. (No one was actually worried about that.) In fact, I am completely confident in declaring this to be The Second Best Episode of the Season. Is this our nation's highest honor? Maybe. There is no way to know. But let's go to the highlight reel: ...