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Cold Opening – Fox Report
After buttering us up for months with all this talk about Mitt Romney’s “human sons,” they finally get their day on screen!  In this season’s batch of cookie-cutter Mitt Romney cold opens, the references to his sons have consistently been one of the best moments, so they all shined brightly, whereas Mitt didn’t have much else to talk about otherwise.  There was some sort of joke waiting to happen with Kid Rock, but it never did.  I must have been too generous to those other Romney cold opens, because this one was better, and I’m giving it about the same grade. B-

Lindsay Lohan’s Monologue
It was quite alarming (pun not initially intended, but accepted) when Lindsay stepped off the stage, and the sirens went off.  I really did not know what that was at first.  I thought it might have been a fire or a security alarm.  Anyway, the references to Lindsay’s past were expected, but the ways in which they went down were surprising and witty.  Jimmy’s cameo was expected, Jon Hamm’s was not – thanks for the surprises, and for making them meaningful. A-

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