But a special, 100th anniversary Digital Short was what really catapulted the show into the cameo-choked stratosphere.
This nostalgia-palooza also injected excitement into an episode that was pretty by the numbers.
(The only real shock: No CelebrityJeopardy sketch.
Damn you, Trebek!)
Will Ferrells next big project isThe Campaign, a political comedy that opens in August.
Thats not bad, right?
), Ferrell did some advanced yelling in a cold-medicine commercial parody.
And then came a classic sketch from the hosts impressive repertoire but not the one you were probably expecting.
Both times Ferrell previously hostedSNLhe trotted out his Trebek for another installment of CelebrityJeopardy.
Ive never been a big fan of SNLs ESPN Classic sketches.
The central gag (The recent past is inherently hilarious!
Also, women playing SPORTS?!
As of last night, Samberg and his Lonely Island crew have created 100 of these clips.
Alas, last night we had to make due with an installment of Really??
Bonus: And that is why we leave one chair empty at Passover.)
The first two proved that singing a line doesnt automatically make it funny.
The last showed that characters have to be more than folks in goofy outfits who spout non sequiturs.
Do you agree with my assessment?
Or do you think that the dead weight after Update dragged last nights show down?
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