SNL: John Malkovich

Serena Mercay
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Saturday Night Live, John Malkovich

First off, it was great to see Amy Poehler, back from giving birth, doing her Hillary Clinton. True, it sounds nothing like Hill but that’s totally unimportant if it brings the funny. And it did. Her representation of Madame Secretary has her highly competitive and enthusiastically mocking others. Love it. Poehler’s Hillary took some swipes at Obama, saying it’s the “worse time in our nation’s history to step into the presidency…boo-hoo.” She said he can try to heal the economy by using his “amazing charisma, or whatever.” Point Hillary, indeed.

I also really enjoyed John Malkovich’s interpretation of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. In order to spread some Christmas cheer, he read the story to a group of kiddies while interjecting wildly inappropriate facts; with topics like suicide, why Santa and his reindeer would burst into flames if real, and the artificial comfort that is hope. He seemed particularly pleased about the gun invasion law in California where it’s totally cool to shoot someone for entering your house. My personal fave was this: In Portugal they call Saint Nick Pai Natal…and if you don’t leave him a stick of butter her steals one of your toes. Halls mentho-lyptus, anyone?

Kristen Wiig was hilarious as the Jessica Rabbit-type sexpot. She went through the catalog of stuff that guys find sexy and made them entirely unsexy. Eating a banana? She gnawed like a hungry gorilla. Bending over to pick up a pen? She held her back like an old lady and clumsily plopped to the ground. She also talked in graphic detail about how cake gives her diarrhea. But my favorite part was when she sang Happy Birthday.

The star sketch of the show was probably Andy Samberg’s Jizz in My Pantsdigital short, with special guests Molly Simms, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, and a certain ex-boybander who has an uncanny knack for SNL skits (okay, it’s Justin Timberlake, in wig and janitor outfit, dancing with his mop). Here’s the video:

You may think we’re down but like the South, vampires, and Britney Spears…we will rise again.” Hillary Clinton (Amy Poehler)

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