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Saturday Night Live is coming back to NBC’s airwaves on Sept. 26, and fresh off dropping of one of its least objectionable cast members, the show’s announced its first four host/musical guest pairings. U2 had previously been announced as the season premiere’s musicians-in-residence; the other three announced acts will, it seems, be holding it down for the single ladies.
Sept. 26 – Megan Fox/U2
Oct. 3 – Ryan Reynolds/Lady GaGa
Oct. 10 – Drew Barrymore/Regina Spektor
Oct. 17 – Gerard Butler/Shakira
Given the slate of big-name albums coming out over the next couple of weeks, this list seems a bit odd, no? Among the missing big-name acts with new albums this fall who are notably absent: Jay-Z, Pearl Jam, Weezer, the SNL cast’s NBC colleagues The Roots. Heck, even Flight Of The Conchords would have been a good fit. Also notable is that the only act playing with a new album of new material scheduled for this fall is Shakira; otherwise you have one act that’s flogging an underperforming album and a PDA tie-in, one act that’s continually teetering on the precipice of annoying omnipresence, and one act who is fine enough, but will probably not inspire a lot of people to set their DVRs before heading out into the weekend wilderness. Oh well. If the Oct. 3 pairing results in a Van Wilder homage starring GaGa as Tara Reid, this may have been worth it.
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Tim Meadows was on Conan last night talking about the unfunniest host he ever worked with, Steven Segall. For some reason, I anticipate current cast members telling similar stories about Gerard Butler in the future.
so i guess we’ll have to wait until next spring before they go back to the indie/blog-friendly formula of bands like fleet foxes, TVOTR, phoenix, et al?
@brasstax: Why? (I really don’t know who he is.)
@Maura: He was Leonidas in 300 (a movie which, admittedly, I haven’t seen, but doesn’t appear very comedic from the outside). Plus, he’s going to be in that terrible Gamer movie this fall. Typical action star lah dee dah. The only actor of that type I’ve seen score points on SNL is The Rock (pardon me, Dwayne Johnson), and that’s probably just because he’s generally funny anyway.
@brasstax: And let’s not forget he recently starred in that post-feminist (i.e. setting-feminism-back-40-years) “comedy” – and even with quotation marks I use the term loosely – The Ugly Truth. Clearly, this episode will only be worth watching for Shakira.
@brasstax: Ohhh, Gamer! Meh, they should have booked Ludacris instead.
While we’re on the subject, I don’t expect Megan Fox to really be a barrel of laughs either.
One of the sketches on the night Regina Spektor appears should be Regina singing that track from her new album where she imitates a dolphin. By making seal noises.
I know it wouldn’t happen, but Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn as musical guests with Ryan Reynolds would be cute. Maybe she’ll pull a Jessica Biel and pop up elsewhere.
“…one act that’s continually teetering on the precipice of annoying omnipresence, and one act who is fine enough, but will probably not inspire a lot of people to set their DVRs before heading out into the weekend wilderness.”
I disagree with your second statement. I will definitely set my tivo to check the GaGa performance later. (But also because I like Ryan Reynolds.)
@chachwitablog: The latter was actually in reference to Ms Spektor.
@katles: Off-topic, but I like that record a lot, and would love to see some of the songs performed in a live setting, especially “I Am The Cosmos.” Also, my grandma has the biggest crush on Ryan Reynolds ever, his Entertainment Weekly cover (stolen for the doctor’s office) has been on her coffee table for MONTHS.