Source: nymag.com - Sunday, March 29, 2015
After a restful three-week absence, the cast and crew of SNL returned with plenty of new ground to cover — #racetogether, The Jinx — and a dependable fourth-time host at the helm. Over the past 14 years, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has proven himself to be a comedic performer all along. The resulting episode was a supercharged mixed bag of bangers and curios, notable for its weirdly overt and overtly weird sexuality. In one night, Kenan Thompson played both a dinner date constantly asked by multiple people whether he has a boner, and a TV chef who's also a convicted sex offender. Meanwhile, another sketch ended with The Rock and Pete Davidson in a vertical 69 and Kate McKinnon being carried away by jungle natives. Yowza. Through it all, the host delivered every line with gusto, turning even so-so sketches into gems. During the monologue, Johnson notes that he is sometimes referred to as Franchise Viagra for what he brings to established series like GI Joe , The Fast and The Furious , and The Mummy . That title applies to SNL too. The Rock Obama Cold Open Key & Peele's excellent series of sketches involving Luther, President Obama's "anger translator," may be better at expressing what Obama seems to be suppressing, but in terms of a pure sight gag, The Rock Obama rules. The return of this character provides a flipbook's worth of great reaction shots from Jay Pharoah's Barack before his Hulk-like transition. After he gets fed up with
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After a restful three-week absence, the cast and crew of SNL returned with plenty of new ground to cover — #racetogether, The Jinx — and a dependable fourth-time host at the helm. Over the past 14 years, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has proven himself to be a comedic performer all along. The resulting episode was a supercharged mixed bag of bangers and curios, notable for its weirdly overt and overtly weird sexuality. In one night, Kenan Thompson played both a dinner date constantly asked by multiple people whether he has a boner, and a TV chef who's also a convicted sex offender. Meanwhile, another sketch ended with The Rock and Pete Davidson in a vertical 69 and Kate McKinnon being carried away by jungle natives. Yowza. Through it all, the host delivered every line with gusto, turning even so-so sketches into gems. During the monologue, Johnson notes that he is sometimes referred to as Franchise Viagra for what he brings to established series like GI Joe , The Fast and The Furious , and The Mummy . That title applies to SNL too. The Rock Obama Cold Open Key & Peele's excellent series of sketches involving Luther, President Obama's "anger translator," may be better at expressing what Obama seems to be suppressing, but in terms of a pure sight gag, The Rock Obama rules. The return of this character provides a flipbook's worth of great reaction shots from Jay Pharoah's Barack before his Hulk-like transition. After he gets fed up withfrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/19hUcdN
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