As I come back from my hiatus from blogging, and the start of an all-new Shocking Ina, I bring you good news--and some bad too! (eep!) in the premiere of Saturday Night Live's 38th season.
As we all know, last season was the last of a few of awesome SNL faves--Andy Samberg, Abby Elliot and Kristen Wiig (I think there's sand in my eyes... lol). But never fear! Our dear Lorne Michaels shan't let us down that easy. With Samberg, Elliot and Wiig's departure, we get three new more. This season, we meet Aidy Bryant, Cecily Strong and Tim Robinson.
So, a quick rundown on SNL's new episode.
We all know US election's coming soon (read: November), SNL started off with an election skit. This is actually the first time Fred Armisen's NOT doing the Obama impression. Instead, funny man Jay Pharoah debuts his own version of le Prez. The new POTUS in town made a darn good impression, if I may say so myself. Although it was pretty shocking to me that Armisen has already passed the baton to Pharoah, it was not disappointing. Jason Sudeikis makes his impeccable impression of Mitt Romney and (surprise!) Taran Killam makes his of "Abercrombie boy" VP candidate, Paul Ryan.
Also featured was Bill Hader's impression of Clint Eastwood, doing a parody of his "Chair Talk" from the Republican Convention that happened a few weeks back. Hader appears with various chairs, which seems to be Obama, Chris Christie, Christopher Walken, etc. H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S!
Last week's host is Ted's Seth MacFarlane, with musical guest Frank Ocean (with guest on stage, crooner John Mayer). Seth opens with a musical, which features him doing the voices Stewie, Blake and Peter (Family Guy), Roger (American Dad), Kermit the Frog, George Takei, Marty McFly etc. He also starred in a few skits about some guy on a blind date, a man teaching in Puppet 101, an army man, and some guy needing sex pointers due to some erectile disfunction. Weekend Update with Seth Myers features Macfarlane with his impression of Olympic Swimmer-medalist (jeah!!!) Ryan Lochte, to which in reports say Lochte found harsh, considering how much of an imbecile he appeared to be in the skit. The skit features MacFarlane (as Lochte), who turns into a TV critic, stating his less-than-credible ratings of TV shows. Matthew Perry's sitcom Go On was included in it, where a Lochte MacFarlane calls "GOON", his love for shapes, which he realized by watching Elementary, and so on.
Weekend Update also featured a very hyper Honey Boo-boo (Vanessa Bayer) and her mom (Bobby Moynihan), which is soooo hilarious.
Now another thing that really got me crackin was SNL's Gangnam Style skit. At first, it was just a PSY impression done by Moynihan, coming out of a wall that's apparently a "secret door". Moynihan and crew (yes, including some horse heads! lol) comes out dancing and lip syncing. Later on, as Seth MacFarlane presses the red button for "Turbo", PSY comes out with Bobby Moynihan and company, dancing to Gangnam Style.
Now enough with the skits, let's move on to musical guest Frank Ocean (woot!!!). Now on his first performance, he sang "Thinking Bout You" and then later on, "Pyramids" with John Mayer in guitars.
With the coming of 3 new promising acts in SNL, I am pretty much excited with what's in store for them this season.
**Next week's host will be Joseph Gordon-Levitt and musical guest Mumford and Sons.
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