Goldberg74

Melissa is back... and let's see if they bring back some of her characters from the first time.

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<fieldset style="width: 500px; margin: 0px auto; font-size: smaller;"><legend>SNL Season 37</legend>
SNL - 09/15/12 - H: Seth MacFarlane - MG: Frank Ocean (38th Season Premiere!)
SNL - 09/22/12 - H: Joseph Gordon-Levitt - MG: Mumford & Sons
SNL - 10/06/12 - H: Daniel Craig - MG: Muse
SNL - 10/13/12 - H: Christina Applegate - MG: Passion Pit
SNL - 10/20/12 - H: Bruno Mars - MG: Bruno Mars
SNL - 11/03/12 - H: Louis C.K. - MG: fun.
SNL - 11/10/12 - H: Anne Hathaway - MG: Rihanna
SNL - 11/17/12 - H: Jeremy Renner - MG: Maroon 5
SNL - 12/08/12 - H: Jamie Foxx - MG: Ne-Yo
SNL - 12/15/12 - H: Martin Short - MG: Sir Paul McCartney
SNL - 01/19/13 - H: Jennifer Lawrence - MG: The Lumineers
SNL - 01/26/13 - H: Adam Levine - MG: Kendrick Lamar
SNL - 02/09/13 - H: Justin Bieber - MG: Justin Bieber
SNL - 02/16/13 - H: Christoph Waltz - MG: Alabama Shakes
SNL - 03/02/13 - H: Kevin Hart - MG: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
SNL - 03/09/13 - H: Justin Timberlake - MG: Justin Timberlake
SNL - 04/06/13 - H: Melissa McCarthy - MG: Phoenix
SNL - 04/13/13 - H: Vince Vaughn - MG: Miguel</fieldset>

PenguinJoe

Miguel is pretty good live. Does anyone know the second song Phoenix played?

JeffTheAlpaca

What is the name of the first song they did?


Bathroom Business Man was funny and getting a loan for a pizza business was good.

PenguinJoe

This first song is called "Entertainment". But their remixed version of it is much better than the original.

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cleaver

The guy who played the AD in the Rutgers sketch pounded my beer during a sketch at Second City

Daytripper

So stoked to get the new Phoenix album. Their first was an instant classic. And they were fantastic last night on "SNL".

dex14

Do you mean United...or Wolfang? Wolfgang was their 4th.

Daytripper

D'oh! Typo, meant their LAST album.

Double_Oh_7

Did everyone finally give up on this show? Only 7 posts and 6 of them are about the band.

Supermallet

I'm trying to think of a combination that would be less funny than modern SNL and Melissa McCarthy...but no, nothing's coming to mind.

Bill Needle

The Peter Dinklage cameo on WU was funny. Everything else not so much.

bluesix

Sad to see SNL's new fat white girl cast member essentially invisible during this episode.

I think she's actually been good in the skits she's been in and its ironic since she probably owes Melissa's McCarthy's recent success for her own getting cast on SNL.

I guess the writers had their hands full trying to come up something funny for Melissa McCarthy to do having already shot their wad with the sidesplitting monologue and making her waddle around the stage in clown shoes.

Awful episode. Hopefully this means they won't be so quick to bring her back again so soon.

Charlie Goose

That monologue with McCarthy falling over trying to walk wasn't just unfunny, it was uncomfortable to watch. Ham.

The best skit was her playing the abusive basketball coach. Ham

As for WU, Peter Drunklage, Drunk Uncle, and the bar mitzvah kid were funny. Ham.

I'm still not too sure about any of the recent cast members. None have stood out. Ham.

bootsy

People praise that recycled Justin Timberlake unfunny episode but trash this one and talk about the musical group Phoenix like they are the 2nd coming of the Beatles. This was a very funny episode. Maybe not the funniest of the season but it was very good.

EEz28

“Trying To Be Cool/Drakkar Noir (outro)”

Daytripper

No one has even come close comparing Phoenix to the Beatles here. But I like McCarthy a great deal and thought some of the skits worked. Some didn't. I do think her second appearance as host was too soon. She's becoming a little too overexposed at this point. Also, I couldn't stand the last Timberlake episode.

Ayre

I thought it was a good episode, which is rare.
Mcarthy brought out the best of weak writing (Ham). She is a natural.
I like Phoenix, but not as a live act. WAP is a modern classic.

Mordred

I really liked the basketball coach skit. I thought as a whole this was the second best episode of the season behind the Timberlake episode. Only one that really fell flat for me was the Ham sketch.

Jacoby Ellsbury

Found Phoenix to be pretty entertaining. It's like their songs get better as they go along. That drummer kicks ass. Also don't really know any phoenix songs or knew anything about them prior to SNL

JeffTheAlpaca

Is their drummer Indian or from the Middle East?

Surprisingly he was not in or left out of the SNL promo photos before they performed both songs.