DRG

Eva's actually doing a pretty good job here IMO, too bad she's not getting any decent material to work with. The Steve Jobs and R Kelly stuff was funny, and there were a few other chuckles here and there, but otherwise not very good. These days almost everything pretty much falls into one of two categories: good ideas that they failed to execute properly, and ideas that were unfunny to begin with.

Rogue588

It seems like she's been singing in every sketch she's been in. But, yeah, she ranks right up there with Jennifer Garner as far as not having to read cue cards..

astrochimp

Loved the diarrhea sketch lol.

vaporware

Yep, Firmium skit was good.

mikehunt

wow a poop joke
never done that before

mikehunt

did she mention poop types that involved corn? that would have been good

Rogue588

Don'tcha get it...it's an INCREDIBLY HOT, GORGEOUS SEXY CHICK talking about BOWEL MOVEMENTS!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Why, the last time I remember laughing this hard was when they were poking fun at Rita Rudner.

Ah, good times..

Patman

The new chick did a dead-on Karen Walker (even down to the cleavage).

Overall, an average show, not the worst, not the best.

I'm serious, they need to bring back Robert Wagner, he was really good.

Charlie Goose

Not a bad one. Not as good as last week with Jason Lee, but still a Eva Longoria was a pretty good host, I didn’t see her reading cue cards at all.

Bush press conference
Jeez, another Bush press conference bit? This cow stopped giving milk long ago. Anyway, Bush is in China and doesn’t want to answer any more questions about the war.
Not funny for the last ten times it was done.

Monologue
Quick one, maybe three jokes. A shirtless Parnell, pale & pudgy, is trimming a tree near the stage. You see, Longoria was having sex with a gardener on DH. EL then makes a reference about how glad she is that there won’t be any Latino stereotypes tonight, just as Sanz enters in a sombrero and long mustache, holding a rake. Very funny visual as he scrambles off. Finally, Mary Alice’s disembodied voice gets hooked up with Don Pardo’s voice.

Rad 3000
The smoke detector that plays 80s songs. A repeat.

The Spammies
Dratch as Rita Rudner hosting an award show for spam emails. The Nigerian guy and Megan Mullally (Wiig doing an excellent impression) give an award, and then Peter Gallagher and the sick kid who needs his email forwarded give another award. Pretty funny.

Deep House Dish
An MTV4 show about house music. Longoria sings a brief song about going to the club every day. Not much else.

Morgan Stanley
Recorded ad parody about the MS broker getting a little too involved in his clients’ lives. Another repeat.

The Needlers
The couple that should be divorced. Now they’re at their ten year college reunion. They insult each other, and then have sex in the coat room. I still like these characters. EL on as an old classmate.

Vincent Price Thanksgiving Special 1958
Weird special with Clark Gable(Parnell), a drugged out Judy Garland (Wiig), Alfred Hitchcock (Sanz), and Desi (Armisen) & Lucy (EL). Bill Hader is the best part of the skit as an exasperated Vincent Price, although he sounded more like Charles Nelson Reilly than he did like Price. I got some laughs out of it.

Weekend Update
Worst one I’ve seen in a while. Some jokes about Schmidt being booed in Congress. Yet another Monica Lewinsky joke. Steve Jobs comes on with new Ipods that get smaller and smaller.

Vanity Fair photo shoot
Great bit about the famous photo shoot for the cover of VF that had people buzzing about how much the DH cast hated each other. EL is Teri Hatcher, always trying to sneak into the middle of the photo. Poehler as an unbalanced Marcia Cross. Dratch as a timid Longoria, Wiig as an out-of-place Felicity Huffman, and Seth Myers as a masculine Nicolette Sheridan. Ouch. The photographer is trying to get a shot, but the cast and the ABC rep have many many rules about who can go where.

Trapped in a Closet Two
An R. Kelly DVD. South Park also did a closet bit on Kelly this past week, and I still have no idea what the fuck it means. Why is he stuck in a closet at all? Is he literally in a closet? I DUNNO. Then, Thompson shows up as an alien, confusing me even more.

The Englehart 5
An album commercial for a Bavarian family singing group. Most of the songs are about the accidental shooting death of one of the brothers by another. At least it tried to be different.

Firmium
As the show is coming to an end, EL plugs her diarrhea medicine. Infantile, but diarrhea is always funny. Lots of phrases here:
Brown drizzlies
Butt submarine
Human espresso machine
Bowls of chocolate soft serve
Releasing the fudgy hostages
Taking the Browns to the Super Bowl

Next host is Dane Cook. I don't mind because he's a great standup and should do a good job, but I would bet that the vast majority has never heard of him. Interesting choice.

coladar

I thought this was yet another awful episode, and if not the worst of the season, just about there. The closing sketch... Well, it was a perfect end to the episode. Ridiculous, infantile skit compiled from a bunch of disgusting toilet humor. Weekend Update, absolutely awful. The Vincent Price thing, what an awful impression of Vincent Price. The only thing that was even tolerable was the Vanity Fair skit, which was only a half a year late.

And like others, I have absolutely no clue who the hell this guy hosting the next new episode is. I think that might just be the episode where I start watching the full hour of MadTV and then turning the TV off after it's over.

THX7966

Ya think?

Tommy Ceez

Wow, charlie Goose is dilusional.

The two best cast members on this show are the new guy and girl

Tommy Ceez

Dane Cook is an awesome comedian who might kickstart the dreadful writing on this show

Howiefan

I just realized the new female cast member is Dr Pat from Joe Schmo LOL

HistoryProf

yeah, that sucked. But i must say i'm rather heartened by the Wiig chick and Hader. both have got the chops to bring the funny. never underestimate the power of a good impression. i've been impressed with them. they need to be featured along with Myers and Poehler.

and what the fuck is up with showing the same two commerical parodies every week. That's worse than showing new shitty ones. it's like they aren't even trying.

and I have no idea who Dane cook is either.

HistoryProf

http://www.danecook.com/

lots of video worth checking out...seems pretty funny

IMRICKJAMES

Korn...Freak on a Leash???

If Eva Longoria wasn't hosting I could swear this is a 1998 repeat

HistoryProf

okay..really fucking funny. check out the Insomniac tour videos...they get progressively more hilarious - the first time i got head story is great.

and he seems pretty damned popular with the young folks - i bet that's why he's hosting....going after that younger demographic. fairly shrewd, and i'm actually excited to see it.

TheBang

Yeah, when it started, i was like, are they really playing a 5 year old song? Then i looked it up and realized it was 7 years!

Goldberg74

Gotta side with the Goose on this one. I laughed quite a few times and was never really down on a skit ('cept for the MTV4 one and the opening sketch... getting really tired of the political openings).

Wiig's Megan Mullaly and Judy Garland impersonations were dead on.

Crud, I even liked Sanz' Hitchcock.

Armesen's Job's was good too (especially the hands and the dramatic pause).

Derrich

I liked this ep. Not only did it have Dratch showing off the twins in every other sketch, but most of the sketches actually made me laugh. The Vincent Price one was good, Judy Garland and Hitchcock stole it. Update was okay, seemed a little short though. Poehler has nice legs. The biggest downside was that they keep reusing commercials. If they're going to repeat, then why not reach back to some of the classics from the earlier seasons.

I expected more from Korn. Was the guy with the bass even playing the instrument?

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Tommy Ceez

Its not just imitations...I think Hader brings a sort of manic energy to his regular characters...His THERE SCUM! as the french official last week had an almost Monty Pythonish silliness to it

NitroJMS

I've noticed recent musical guests have been playing one new song and one older song lately. I'm wondering why they switched from the usual format of having current single/next single as the songs, perhaps too many people were switching off since they didn't know the second song?

Tommy Ceez

Franz Ferdinand AND Foo Fighters did it too

Rogue588

Not sure about Franz, but both Foo songs were off their latest album. Not "In Your Honour" and "the Colour And the Shape".