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SNL + Peyton Manning = Ratings Touchdown
NBC's Saturday Night Live tackled its largest audience in 10 months this past weekend, with Super Bowl MVP Peyton Manning carrying the ball as guest host and American Idol Carrie Underwood crooning. The real highlight, though, as any parent will tell you, was TV Funhouse's Dora the Explorer spoof. Biting, simply biting. (See video here.)
On April 14, Shia LaBeouf (rhymes with LaWhof) hosts, with phone-book-adjacent musical guest Avril Lavigne.
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Mar 27, 2007 10:35 AM
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You are so right! Maraca - was by far the best part of the show! And thank you to NBC for alreaady having it available on YouTube!
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Mar 27, 2007 10:49 AM
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Do you have a YouTube link? I'd love to show that to my sons' nanny.
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Mar 27, 2007 10:54 AM
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I LOVED the skit with Peyton Manning playing football with the little kids and hitting them all with the ball. Too funny.
Amy Poehler's Dr. Pepper joke during Weekend Update also makes me laugh whenever I think about it.
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Mar 27, 2007 11:06 AM
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I'm usually skeptical when sports stars host Saturday Night Live, but I thought this was a decent installment overall, and Peyton Manning was very good in all of his skits.
And I agree about the Maraka short. I loved the animals' bemused reaction shots. Here's a link, by the way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb7eLgaddI4
There were two skits that got on my nerves, however.
The first was the Bronx talk show. SNL really needs to give the local talk show and game show skits a rest until they come up with something new to do with them.
The other was the "sitting on the porch drinking coffee" skit, where the characters say increasingly nonsensical things in between languorous sips of java.
SNL has a bad habit of coming up with these recurring skits where every version is basically the same thing, just with a different guest star. Both of these skits fall under that category.
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Mar 27, 2007 11:19 AM
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I LOVED the skit with Peyton Manning playing football with the little kids and hitting them all with the ball. Too funny. - 1234567
That was hysterical. I loved when he yelled at the kid to close the door on the Port-o-Let.
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Mar 27, 2007 11:29 AM
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I actually thought the coffee porch sketch was hilarious-- it is a great opportunity to spout off a bunch of random one-liners that wouldn't fit in any other sketch.
Surprisingly, this episode was really funny. I suppose my expectations were a little low, though, but Peyton (and everyone else) did a pretty good job! (umm, I also have like 60 cousins that live in outer space and I invented streets too, sooooo...yeah.)
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Mar 27, 2007 11:35 AM
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ITA re: the "Bronx Talk" skit. is it supposed to be funny to people who are actually familiar with the Bronx, or those who aren't? I can never decide, but I must not be in whichever category it is! 
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Mar 27, 2007 11:39 AM
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I actually thought the coffee porch sketch was hilarious-- it is a great opportunity to spout off a bunch of random one-liners that wouldn't fit in any other sketch. - zati1
I agree some of the non sequiturs are funny, but as a premise, after only a couple of installments, it's clear that the "porch coffee" segments are just another in a long line of lazy plug-in-the-guest-star skits (see the Carol skits with Horatio Sanz, Coffee Talk, Mango, so many others).
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Mar 27, 2007 11:50 AM
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The Peyton show was indeed good! Loved Amy's quote of Lost writers after getting word of a fourth season:"Oh, crap!"
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Mar 27, 2007 12:40 PM
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I don't mind the Bronx Beat sketches simply because Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph spit out so many words from beginning to end you know they're relying so much on each other and not following cue cards too closely. That's talent, even if the jokes aren't uproarious. I will agree that the Gyllenhaal and Whitaker installments were better than Manning's though.
Anyone else made truly uncomfortable by 90% of Kristen Wiig's characters? She can be hilarious, but her characters are so awkward.
Oh - and I'm excited about Shia LeBeouf. I'll totally admit to having watched him on Disney's Even Stevens, which I'm hoping will make for some good comedy chops.
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Mar 27, 2007 3:13 PM
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I made two observations watching this week's show: Peyton Manning delivered his lines flawlessly without a stumble, something most hosts (and many regulars cannot do); and as much as I love Amy Poehler, they are risking over-exposure with her! She was in every sketch for the first half of the show!
Still, it was an above-average edition of SNL for the season. Considering I had no idea who Peyton Manning was (settle down, folks, I'm Canadian)  , I was impressed by how well this nobody did! 
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Mar 27, 2007 8:20 PM
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