Saturday Night Live hosted a bastion of awkwardness this weekend. Just a big cluster of awkward, courtesy of internet moguls, movie stars, and Andy Samberg.
Not that the opening monologue of Saturday Night Live has been anything else than a huddled mass of awkward for the last few years, with the occasional saving grace of Bill Heder and Kristen Wiig – but this weekend the host was Jesse Eisenberg, celebrating the release and the award runs of The Social Network, which most oddsmakers put as a favorite to scoop the best picture. But the monologue consisted of a giant set-up to introduce Mark Zuckerberg, who then crashed the set with his characteristic asexuality and stammering. You’d love to have that much money to make it acceptable to asexually stammer, but none of us do – only Mark Zuckerberg. The monologue ended with Zuck announcing the musical guest, and hugging Jesse Eisenberg. If they got only got one more person with a surname containing berg onstage, they could’ve been a cross-media Jewish barbershop quartet. And it would’ve been tremendous.
So enjoy. Zuck’s appearance was the only moment on a show that could’ve been good, but fell off the cliffs of the tedious. When you don’t even know what to do with Nicki Minaj, seek new help.
Comments
dee
February 7th, 2011 - 12:50:09 AM
Another gratuitous, random reference to Jesse Eisenberg being Jewish? I'm pretty sure that, at this point in the game, every such reference should be accompanied by a mention of the fact that Natalie Portman, Logan Lerman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Paul Rudd and Mila Kunis are also all Jewish. That's for starters.
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