"....The episode's Thanksgiving theme served it well..."
!!! Saturday Night Live Recap:
Anne Hathaway's Katie Holmes,
Abby Elliott's Rachel Maddow
11/21/10 at 12:55 PM Last night, for perhaps the first time this season,
Saturday Night Live was consistently funny! Host
Anne Hathaway showed commitment, playing Black Friday-shopping hillbillies and mocking
Katie Holmes without holding back.
The episode's Thanksgiving theme served it well:
The opening monologue's driving joke was that the crux of the holiday's family-time is spent lying to make people happy, and other skits took place at funny places likes American shopping malls and soup kitchens. There was still some post-"Update" filler - like the "Wizard of Oz" sketch - but less than usual. Early online reactions have been positive:
Entertainment Weekly called the episode, "extremely amusing," noting that Hathaway was "brightly-lit, bold, and adventurous." The normally critical
Jezebel commenterati exclaimed, "Can Anne host every week? They pulled out all the best skits for her, and she gives it everything."
HitFix said: "A good overall show? Sure. Better than most this season? Yes. But that’s fairly faint praise." People on
Twitter, well, they generally still hated it: "OK, #SNL really needs to clean house. Writing staff and on-air "talent" is sorely lacking in every regard," was one rallying cry. Anyway, awards:
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Best Anne Hathaway MomentThe Black Friday skit turned the country's unofficial national shopping day into the horror movie it already actually is. It wasn't the most original take on the makeshift consumer holiday, but Anne Hathaway's few moments as a determined mall-shopper were memorably funny.
Click for the monologue:http://www.hulu.com/watch/194732/saturday-night-live-anne-hathaway-monologueand for seven SNL Hulu video segments posted on New York Magazine, click:http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/11/snl_recap_2.htmlALSO:
'Saturday Night Live' recap: No turkey whenever host Anne Hathaway was onscreen
by Ken Tucker
Nov 21 2010 08:22 AM ETIn a shocking move,
Saturday Night Live began its
Anne Hathaway-hosted show this week with an opening political sketch that was actually pretty funny.
(with videos)
http://watching-tv.ew.com/2010/11/21/saturday-night-live-anne-hathaway-florence-machine/And:
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