SNL - Saturday Night Live April 9th (s36e20)

Host: Helen Mirren
Musical Guest:  Foo Fighters

Opening: [5/10]  We've seen too many Barack Obama openings lately.  I gave it a 5 because at least they kept it short and sweet.

Helen Mirren's Monologue: [6/10] Monologue was pretty weak.  A few jokes that were obviously written for her.  They did a bit of musical number with other cast members which wasn't too bad.  Again, they were wise to keep this one short and sweet which is why I gave it a 6.

Usually it would be a bad sign to get the show off to such a weak start, but they recovered nicely with the next five skits...

Mort Mort Feingold - Accountant for the Stars: [9/10]  Very solid and nice and tight.  It gave a lot of the cast members a chance to showcase their celebrity impersonations which I always enjoy.  This one even had a few laugh out loud moments for me which is why I gave it a 9..

Digital Short - Touching Helen Miren's Breasts: [8/10]  This one started off lower than an 8, but it got better as it went on.  Kristen Wiig came in at the end and raised it from a 7.5 to an 8.

Fox & Friends: [7/10]  It was funny and pretty solid to start with.  They probably should have wrapped this one right before they did the telecast with Helen Mirren.  This is when the skit started feeling like it was dragging on.

Frankenstein: [7.5/10] This skit was clever.  It had me smiling, but not laughing out loud.


Foo Fighters Performance #1

Weekend Update: [9/10] You can always count on Weekend Update for some good laughs, and as always this one delivered.  Bill Hader's James Carville impersonation was really funny.

Hugh Jackman - The Best of Both Worlds:  [7/10] Helen Mirren does a great job playing a murderous Julie Andrews.

Underground Records: [5.5/10] - Not a huge fan of this skit, but it is so rapid fire at least it doesn't get boring.

The Reelz Channel: [7.5/10]  Helen Mirren seemed up for just about anything.  In this skit she played a lesbian Eleanor Roosevelt making out with Marilyn Monroe.

Perspective Photo Studios: [8.5/10]

Foo Fighters Performance #2


Bongo's Clown Room: [6.5/10]

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Experiment #4 - Another Try For A Popular Post

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Even though my Glenn Beck post from Experiment #1 didn't generate much in the way of traffic, I'm going to try once more to create a popular post by anticipating what people might be searching for.

This time I'm hoping that a Saturday Night Live post will bring in some traffic.  I know that I often spend some time on Sundays searching Google and YouTube for SNL skits that I may have missed, or wanted to see again.

It doesn't take long for the SNL skits to be taken down from YouTube due to copyright violations.  I'm sure a lot of people will be searching tomorrow and I hope they stumble across my SNL Review post.

Tonight's host is Helen Mirren and the musical guest are the Foo Fighters.  It will be Season 36, Episode 20.  Often referred to as s36e20.  I'll be sure to include that in the post.

A few minutes after the show finished airing I published this SNL Post.

I then posted a couple of comments on some of the review sites in the hopes that they will count as linkbacks.

When I search in Google, my post doesn't seem to be registering.  Once again, I'm afraid that there may be too much competition.  I realize that I'm going to have to learn a bit more about the latest Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques to try to get my pages to register on Google.