![]() This is made even better by the great little touch with soft music playing in the background during this deep contemplation of Christopher’s. Great ending with Christopher deeply contemplating whether he should let Jason go or chase him into a park, choke him to death, and make love to his corpse for the rest his (Christopher’s) life. Christopher is slaying me with his increasingly unsettling devotions to Jason. I love the loud and infectious laugh (“hahh- HAAAAHH!”) I’m hearing from one guy in the audience all throughout this sketch. More and more, I’m seeing that Christopher’s timing is definitely slower tonight. Such a great Walken-y line, with him lovingly describing Jason as “a moist towelette at the end of a delicious plate of ribs.” Looks like we’re in for a typical great “Walken plays a creepy lunatic” sketch. On his last day, (JAS) learns workplace acquaintance (host) is a stalker Charming to see Christopher joining the guys in their song-and-dance at the end of this sketch, especially since we never got to see him do a song-and-dance in tonight’s monologue. Funny and memorable how Christopher picks Gene Rayburn as a dirty lyric substitution. However, in true Walken fashion, he still makes his particularly slower, more delayed timing work. I wonder if it’s because of how much older he is in this episode. I’m noticing Christopher’s timing is very slow and delayed during certain portions of this sketch, even moreso than it usually is. Christopher’s ways of saying “That’s dirty” are increasingly hilarious. Very funny how Christopher keeps saying “No, shut up” whenever a student suggests an alternate lyric. I love Christopher’s reaction to the dirty “chicks will cream” lyric in “Greased Lightning”. Teacher (host) nonsensically bowdlerizes high school production of Grease ![]() Even Casey’s intentionally cheesy little “That’s all I have time for” line got a huge laugh from tonight’s audience. Tonight’s audience is even more lively during this repeated commercial than the audience was during the original airing of this commercial. ![]() A bit odd how they’re repeating this tonight, given the fact that it co-stars the host from the episode it originally aired in – Tina Fey. Christopher claiming how easy it is to read off of cards during his complaints about John Lutz’s perceived difficulty in reading off of his index card is a great subtle self-deprecating dig at Christopher’s own penchant for always staring at the cue cards on SNL. A hilarious answer from Christopher on what his favorite color is: burnt umber. I love how Christopher is starting to admonish the audience members for their “bad” questions, despite the fact that he’s the one who wrote them. I can just picture some of the more casual SNL fans saying “Hey, it’s Andy’s dad!” when they saw Downey in this monologue. It feels pretty funny seeing an onscreen Jim Downey appearance so soon after that somewhat-raunchy Digital Short he co-starred in with Jonah Hill in the preceding episode. A perfect twist to the usual questions-from-the-audience format. Such a great Walken-y concept with him having written the questions he takes from the audience. I wonder if there’s ever been a time in SNL history where they’ve had three or more consecutive episodes with a song-and-dance monologue. As much as I always enjoy that type of monologue whenever he does it (which is more than I can say for most of the other hosts who have done it), it’s refreshing to have a change tonight, especially since the two preceding monologues (Amy Adams, Jonah Hill) were both song-and-dance monologues. This is the one and only time out of all of his hosting stints that he refrains from doing a song-and-dance number for his monologue. Interesting how Christopher announces he wants to do something different for his monologue. Already a good Walken-y oddball comment early on from Christopher claiming this is his 100th time hosting, because he counts reruns. Sadly, this ends up being the FINAL Christopher Walken-hosted episode I’ll ever get to review, unless he comes back to host sometime in the current SNL era before I complete this SNL project of mine. Feels like it’s been too long since I’ve last reviewed a Christopher Walken-hosted episode. Host has audience members ask him questions that he wrote A very good laugh from Amy’s Hillary Clinton saying, immediately after her announcement that she’s stepping aside for the Obama campaign, “Psych! That’s never gonna happen”, then going on to brag about exactly how long she intends to drag out her campaign. Some pretty funny lines from the Clintons regarding their taxes. ![]() Media disclosure of their wealth bugs Bill (DAH) & Hillary (AMP) Clinton Segments are rated on a scale of 1-5 stars
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