Jennifer Lawrence Hosts a Saturday Night Live Episode That’s For the Dogs

Cold Open: Lance Armstrong, Manti Te'o, and Jodie Foster on Piers Morgan

What a wild, wacky start to 2013, huh? In the past week alone, Lance Armstrong, Manti Te'o, and Jodie Foster have given SNL's writing staff a lot to skewer. Jason Sudeikis does a “meh” job as Lance Armstrong and Kate McKinnon nails a borderline insane Jodie Foster. I laughed hard at Bobby Moynihan's dumb jock, mouth-breathing impression of Manti Te'o.

Jennifer Lawerence's Monolouge

Ahhhh, this wasn't all that great, unless you happen to be really into Hollywood award show season smack talk. As charismatic as she is, Lawerence's joke delivery sorta sucks. Even with the Golden Globes only being a week ago, these jokes already feel dusty. 

Girlfriend Talk Show

I sorta hate this sketch, but whatever. Jennifer Lawerence makes a good guest-spot antagonist this week. Am I the only person who thinks Lawrence might be a bridge-and-tunnel punk-rock version of Melissa Joan Heart? Somewhere MLH is stewing that she never went into movies. Anyway, about the sketch: Fat, ugly weird-girl jokes. “I might dump my boyfriend because I'm thinking about being bi. Everyone in New York is bi because they're in such a rush. They're like 'I'm a hurry, let's do this. Whatever. I actually heard someone say that in New York once. I've been there two or three times.”

Post-Hunger Games Press Conference

Since I'm not at 15-year old girl, I didn't understand this sketch at all. Bill Hader's beard, however, is bitchin'.

Hobbit Jokes

At this point, I can count the number of times I've laughed on one hand. Seriously, SNL, you're killing me. This episode is dreadful. When the writers joke “I fell asleep for 45 minutes and when I woke up, the dwarves were assembling an Ikea dresser,” I'm pretty sure they're refering to the SNL episode at hand.

Jennifer Lawerence, Rude Diner Waitress

Jennifer Lawrence, maximum sass. One of the better sketches of the night, but only because Lawerence is good at being mean. At this point, all I can think about is how much JL is like Melissa Joan Heart, except she skipped a few steps by not having to do TV shows like “Clarissa Explains It All” and “Sabrina the Teenage Witch.”

Weekend Update

Anthony Crispino with the low-hanging fruit of the night. You hear this thing?

Top Dog Chef

SNL has done parodies of Top Chef before. When Christopher Walken did it a few years ago, it was brilliant and hilarious. Trying to imagine “Top Chef” for dogs, however, just played sucked. In terms of production value, it was the best sketch of the night (dog costumes!) But the jokes…. Well, they were butt-sniffing awful. 

The Morning Show

I miss Andy Samberg.

 

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