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For some reason, I woke up at 5:20 AM this morning. I wasn't tired enough to go back to sleep so I tried to find something to watch to keep me entertained. I browsed on Netflix but the one movie that I was thinking might be on there now, wasn't. I considered watching the West Wing, but I was more in the mood for something more non-committal at 5:20 AM. I remembered that a number of years ago (11, to be exact), Peter Sarsgaard (who else?) had hosted SNL so I decided to give that a shot even though I'm not really a huge fan of the show (although in the last few months they've been doing pretty well).
This happened to be the episode where Seth Meyers does his Anderson Cooper impression and says "You can see the news reflected in the shimmering blue pools that are my eyes," of which there is a short clip on youtube but this time I got to watch the entire segment. Upon googling that quote, apparently Anderson was unhappy with a more recent parody SNL did of him with someone else, but thought that Seth Meyers' was good.
Among other people, at the time, the SNL cast included names like Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers, and Tina Fey. It was sort of interesting as by now those people are fairly well known for their work aside from SNL but I guess that's where they got their start. Currently, Seth Meyers is channeling Jon Stewart a bit in his Late Night with Seth Meyers show when he comments on all the recent political hoopla. In this episode, Amy Poehler played Hillary Clinton in one skit, which was kind of interesting in light of the more recent SNL portrayals of Hillary.
Anyways, as for Peter, I think he gave a simpering performance (or maybe I was the one doing the simpering) and it was nice, as always, to hear him say things. I would watch a cereal infomercial for him, actually. Imagine that! If I ran SNL, I'd have him on again and have him do a cereal infomercial skit. He was a little chunky and lumpy (a synonym for "kinda fat") but not supremely so. Probably a lot of average everyday men out there have that type of figure. Pleasingly, he was also clean shaven. Anderson, for one, is pretty much always clean shaven (as he is a news anchor) and, to my knowledge, has never been chunky and lumpy. He works out and has pretty impressive arm muscles. (if you really want a picture, you can go look it up yourself since I'm too lazy to link one)
Surprisingly enough, this episode actually had a minimum of WTF-ery, which is mostly what I thought when I tried to watch SNL once a few years ago. I can't make this conclusion just off of seeing one episode, especially one with one of my favorite actors as host, which certainly sweetened the deal, but maybe SNL was better ~10 years ago (notwithstanding its recent resurgence).
Some of the jokes/topics seemed interestingly prescient: Bill O'Reilly was mocked for sexually harassing women, there was a skit about the NSA listening to people's phone conversations, a part where "Al Gore" says that he should have been president, and so on.
I wonder if Anderson will ever host SNL. That could be interesting. I'm not sure why he hasn't yet. Maybe he's just too busy or something.
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