Unfortunately the Boston accent doesn’t come easily to him, and he has to repeat “park the car in Harvard Yard” before each line. It was inevitable that Argo would get the sketch treatment, and “Iranian Film” put a pretty good spin on it: President Ahmadinejad had “no choice” but to create his own response to the movie, “Bengo Fuck Yourself,” starring Ahmadinejad as Affleck. By the way, what were the mumbles and whispers between them before Garner left the stage? I want to #realtalk this relationship so badly that I was disappointed that Affleck’s monologue wasn’t part of a very serious documentary. Both halves of the couple seemed a little nervous about throwing their personal lives into the spotlight, but since Affleck wasn’t promoting an upcoming project, it was probably the best route to take. Enter Garner, who almost falls off her shoe before issuing a backhanded defense (“I would have said ‘Thank-you to my wife, our marriage is a gift'”) and then catches Affleck reading a sentimental thank-you from a cue card (this was not the only time he was too conspicuous with the cards, by the way). He addressed conspiracy theories, confused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for Matthew McConaughey (“Senator McConnell seems like a real laid-back fella”), and finally presented a bar graph (“bar grap-pah”) to a frowny, antiquely dressed member of the Western Slope Conservative Alliance (Hader) contrasting the IRS’s level of harassment of white people over the past 20 years with how much it annoyed black people “yesterday.” So quit grousing, tea partiers.Īffleck’s monologue touched on the lack of fanfare afforded him for achieving Five-Timers status - Bobby Moynihan’s halfhearted attempts at celebrating with a shirt bearing the number 5 and a couple of pitiful bars of a song pale in comparison to Justin Timberlake’s welcoming - and his ominous thanks to Jennifer Garner in his Oscars acceptance speech, which “people on the Internet” took the wrong way. Thompson, who is poised to become the show’s veteran performer, brought his phonetically confused Al Sharpton impression to Politics Nation. The cold open was a huge improvement over last week’s. Did he succeed? Of course not, but he wasn’t meant to. Ben Affleck was tasked with competing for attention not only with musical guest Kanye West, whose head was basically spinning on his neck in a self-consuming Yeezus rapture-state (love you, ’Ye), but the departing cast members’ curtain calls. Being the host of this kind of show isn’t exactly a thankless exercise, but the host was not the point. You have to know when to leave the party, and this mass exodus seems to indicate that it’s time to flip on the lights and survey the room. It might be auspicious: Kate McKinnon and Cecily Strong have proven to be formidable additions to the roster, and Taran Killam and Bobby Moynihan have each hit their stride there’s also the opportunity to bring in more people of color, wackier writers, and to mess with the format in a way that might shake the stale cooties out of the sheets a little bit. Sudeikis is probably out as well, and head writer and “Weekend Update” anchor Seth Meyers will only be able to stay with the show through the fall until he takes over Late Night, which means that next season has no choice but to attempt an evolutionary leap. And whereas Wiig’s exit was somehow gut-wrenching (which “Ruby Tuesday” “She’s a Rainbow” can be), when Bill Hader and Armisen bid good-bye to Lorne Michaels & Co., it felt like the right time for them to go. The writing was not universally bad, but it was uneven, perhaps even more so than in previous seasons. The veterans - Fred Armisen has been kicking around for 10 seasons, while Jason Sudeikis became a featured player in 2005 - have appeared understandably tired the death of the Digital Short haunted bad episodes, whispering, “Remember me fondly?” from a corner of the ceiling. This season’s 21 episodes were occasionally brilliant, but more often they seemed to belong to a kind of blameless nowheresville in need of some substantial bulldozing. After Mick Jagger sang Kristen Wiig off the show last year in an emotional farewell (Andy Samberg and Abby Elliott departed with her), this season’s exits - both rumored and confirmed - were given a subtler treatment.
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