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Historically, “SNL” doesn’t always come through for its most heavily hyped hosts: students of the show’s 1990s-era antiquity may recall episodes featuring Nancy Kerrigan and Jim Carrey that were highly rated but low on comedy, and a program from March hosted by Zach Galifianakis didn’t quite fulfill its potential. But Saturday’s show was one of the strongest outings of the season. With energy, enthusiasm and plain old laughs, Ms. White and the “SNL” cast and crew (including an ensemble of recent alumnae) more than delivered on this much promoted episode’s promise.
Despite Ms. White’s confession in her opening monologue that she was uneasy with live television, she was right at home with the “SNL” format. She appeared in every sketch of the show and seemed game for just about anything, whether she was playing an inadvertently naughty muffin mogul or a loopy census interviewee. She even turned up on “Weekend Update” as an elderly rival to Molly Shannon’s Sally O’Malley character, and in a digital short performing a punk-rock version of the “Golden Girls” theme song (with a little help from a stunt double, I’m presuming).
The Mother’s Day-themed episode, which brought back Ms. Shannon, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer, was also a rare occasion on which the mostly male “SNL” cast took a backseat to its women: Ms. Shannon and Ms. Gasteyer got to bring back their bone-dry NPR parody, “Delicious Dish”; Ms. Rudolph made a return appearance as Whitney Houston and Ms. Poehler was temporarily re-seated at the “Weekend Update” desk. Just don’t look for series regulars Jenny Slate, Abby Elliott or Nasim Pedrad, who were largely shut out of the show. (When even Ms. Fey, the “30 Rock” star and former “SNL” head writer, can only be featured in a couple of skits, you know you’ve got an overabundance of talent.)
If you watched carefully, you might have noticed that many of Saturday’s skits were simply new variations on recurring “SNL” bits like “MacGruber” or air force ones shoes also has skits that didn’t make it to the broadcast, including “Debbie Downer” and “Bronx Beat.”)
And if you really want to get picayune about it, most of Ms. White’s jokes boiled down to some version of her (a) saying something totally inappropriate for her age, or (b) making some kind of subtle – air force ones shoes – sexual innuendo. But really, who cares, when so many of them worked?
(Perhaps the only thing about the show that didn’t totally work was the first musical performance by Jay-Z, in which he paid a lengthy homage to himself by stitching together his songs “Public Service Announcement,” “99 Problems” and “Empire State of Mind” into a mega-mix. At least he had the good sense to dedicate his second performance to Ms. White.)
The only real disappointment of the night was when the clock struck 1 a.m. and Ms. White and the cast had to step on stage to wave their goodbyes. If Facebook could successfully campaign to make Ms. White an “SNL” host, can it now begin the movement to make her a permanent cast member?
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