SNL: S35E19... HOST: RYAN PHILLIPPE... DATE: APRIL 17, 2010
/The Wicker Breakdown:
This week's show started with a parody of Larry King Live with Fred Armisen as a newly divorced Larry King who discussed the Icelandic volcano eruption with Kristen Wiig as Bjork, who kept acting like her weird self with the volcano going off right behind her. Bill Hader as Richard Branson also joined the interview talk about how this natural disaster affected his airline, but he too was too wacky to make any sense as he talked to Larry King from a spaceship. As always, with this being an opening sketch, it eventually led to the announcement of, “Live from New York…”
Ryan Phillippe then officially opened the show with a monolog about how he actually has a connection with the show since he was there to promote the MacGruber movie where he was Will Forte’s costar. This then led a cavalcade of cast members dressed as their reoccurring characters in hopes that our host will take an interest in turning them and their characters into massive stars.
We then got a repeat of the Broadview Security commercial from earlier in the season where Nasim Pedrad was a homeowner who needed a security system because a variety of male predators kept burst through any door to any room that she’s move to.
Today Sponge Women's Weightlifting Championship 1986 was another installment of another favorite series of sketches where Will Forte and Jason Sudeikis played two ESPN anchor from the ‘80s who were too hung up on their female product sponsor to pay attention to this week’s sport. This week’s sport in question was powerlifting where Kristen Wiig took on Ryan Phillippe as a steroid filled beast of a woman.
Hip Hop Kids had Ryan Phillippe and Kenan Thompson as to teenage hip-hop artists who ignorantly try to dance their way out of a cave during a bear attack, for round two of a very similar debut from last season, or maybe the season before.
This was followed by another SNL Digital Short where Andy Samberg played a guy with long blonde hair and some sort of accent who kept showing up where ever Ryan Phillippe as a character named Kyle would go, with the suggestion that he kept sleeping with every single person in Kyle’s life. By the end of the sketch when Andy showed up to apologize to our host with flowers, there was another Andy in the house who seemed to have just had sex with Mr. Phillippe which then got the two Andys to argue it out, while Kyle snuck off with the girl.
Mort Mort Feingold: Accountant To The Stars had Andy Samberg as a celebrity accountant who examines his celebrity clients’ taxes.
We then got The Shake Weight Commercial DVD which had Bill Hader as the Shake Weight inventor and Kristen Wiig as the model who shares how this work out device that required her to use masturbation motions was supposed to work.
Ke$ha then took to the stage to perform Tick Tock.
Once again, Seth Meyers gave us the news. This week, Bill Hader returned as James Carville to discuss a recent criticism of Barack Obama that was being made by members of the Tea Party who were offended by one of the President’s jokes. Will Forte also dropped by as a character named Father Swim Coat Scoutmaster who was a creepy scoutmaster in a speedo who attempted to defend himself following a news story about a fondling instance within the Boy Scouts organization. Bobby Moynihan was the last guest who shared some secondhand news as his character with a bushy mustache, whose voice gets more and more high pitched when defending himself whenever Seth called out one of his inaccurate information. (Clip 2) (Clip 3) (Clip 4)
Song Memories brought back the guys from the bar who share crazy stories about themselves in between singing the chorus as a group. This time, they were at a bar-b-que and told their stories to the tune of Breakfast At Tiffany’s.
Teen Talk was a follow up to Women’s Talk where once again the host fell sick, and her last-minute replacement for this sensitive talk show was Fred Armisen as an aggressive producer who had no business talking to kids.
Ke$ha then returned to the stage to perform Your Love Is My Drug.
I've Got It was a game show sketch that took place on a set that looked like a fancy dinner where Ryan Phillippe, Jason Sudeikis, and Will Forte played a son, a father, and a grandfather who all fought over who would be the big shot and pay the dinner bill in an effort to win the grand prize.
Underground Rock Minute was a parody of the Insane Clown Posse video where they famously claimed that they didn’t know how magnets worked and credited their power to magic.
Finally, Ryan Phillippe closed the show by thanking the audience and saying his goodnights.