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This Cold Open was wonderfully timed as Obama’s recent trip to China certainly seemed like a “Hey, we’re good for the money. We swear.” assurance. The heavy sarcasm helped sell the entire sketch and you could just picture a couple of writers coming up with the dialogue while watching the actual press conference. Add the sarcasm with Will Forte’s continually turning his ass toward Fred Armisen’s Obama and you have the makings of a classic SNL political sketch. The icing on the cake was Nasim Pedrad screaming “Do sex to me” after each of Forte’s angry blow ups. Normally, I would be bummed they didn’t just curse and bleep it out (this usually comes across better) but I imagine that’s what Hu Jintao really wanted to say during the real press conference anyway.

I tried to find the best skit from the January Jones episode of SNL. I really did. I like her on Mad Men and thought for sure it would be easy to “pick out the funny” from the rest of the episode but I just couldn’t do it. Not that it was an awful episode, just that it didn’t have anything memorable that would stir up a chuckle on repeat viewings (see “Greg is not an alien“)

So here’s the only thing I could come up with. The Monologue. Overall it’s fairly “meh” but toward the end, listen for a cute inside joke that made me laugh as a Mad Men fan. Fred Armisen just married Elizabeth Moss on Mad Men, hence his favoring “Peggy” over “Betty”. Hilarious I tell ya.

I know it’s a bit in violation of the rules of this site (“Only the Funny SNL skits!”) but I had to comment on this mildly funny Norwegian playhouse skit simply because it reminded me of one of my favorite “it’s funny because they speak another language” skits. While the Norwegian Cop Show skit has it’s moments, thanks mostly to Fred Armisen’s hilarious accent (“I’m getting very cross with youuuuu”), the “La Policia” skit hits a homerun with the grade level Spanish that most kids learn in elementary school and then run home to use in hopes of sounding impressive.

“La Bomba esta en la Biblioteca” indeed

La Policia