Cold Opening – A Message from Mitt Romney
SNL seems to have decided that the main idea of Sudeikis’s Romney is that he is emotionless and doesn’t know how to talk like a normal person, which isn’t much, but when it leads to lines like “slinging the pigskin around” and “my five human sons,” then it is something, at least. B
Daniel Radcliffe’s Monologue
This wasn’t so much comedy (i.e., joke-telling) as much as it was an expression of a philosophy. Dan brought up some reasonable points, even though we all knew he was just jerking us around a little bit. Still, it was a good idea to temper expectations. B
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais makes fun of celebrities because they are a group of people who perhaps ought to be taken down a notch. It’s not like dogs and flowers have that in common with celebrities. Hiring Ricky to make fun of those groups would just be pointless, and this sketch had a corresponding lack of spirit. C
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