Norm! Skiing/Snowboarding!

I think Norm is funny and a great talk show guest. But I love Conan's reaction to him best of all. By the by, has America decided whether we like Conan as the host of The Tonight Show? It still feels like the jury's out on that one, right? I'd say that most of the U.S. generally likes him, a smaller segment misses whatever Leno brought to the table, but many people suddenly realized that they no longer care about The Tonight Show and simply watched Leno out of fossilizing habit. So they have no opinion.

SNL--It's been a bad year, but even a stopped clock...

SNL has been garbage this year. It really was a good season last year, grinding out the last of the comedic juices from Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, while catapulting supporting cast members to moderate heights.
But this year, the show just feels like its running on fumes (Kenan Thompson, interestingly enough, has emerged as the best player on this 35th SNL season). NBC's inflated expectations, after the success of last year's prime time specials and Tina Fey's brilliant Sarah Palin, led the network to air repeated back-to-back-to-back live shows as well as several live primetime specials....all of which have drained the talents of the writers and players. Furthermore, the hosts have been unimpressive. The January Jones-hosted episode last weekend has become a universally mocked episode: lots of squinty line reading, uninspired monologue, loads of fart jokes, and because the comedic content was missing, 3 songs by the Black Eyed Peas to fill up the episode's 90 minutes.
Which is why I enjoyed the absurdity of last night's Andy Samberg/Kenan Thompson sketch. original, absurd, and funny, it is what SNL can do best and why it can fill a very different spot in the late night hierarchy than The Daily Show or Conan O'Brien. Here's to more of that in 2010.

Generic Good Morning Video

If you watch a single Youtube video this morning, watch this...try and not have it be the coolest thing you do at a computer today...


Hat Tip: Warming Glow