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Last night's Saturday Night Live had its work cut out for it after the last few weeks. Weaving in actual Mad Men stars Elisabeth Moss and John Slattery alongside host Jon Hamm was a nice touch, but this is a week after the show featured cameos from Sarah Palin, Mark Wahlberg and Alec Baldwin. And it was a welcome return for Maya Rudolph, stopping in as expected to play Michelle Obama and sing a duet with Kenan Thompson dedicated to Amy Poehler's new baby. But that came on the heels of former cast members Bill Murray, Will Ferrell and of course Tina Fey all making high profile returns in recent weeks.
Yet with all those handicaps, the show still managed to keep its head above water with a strong showing from Hamm. It may have even bought itself some time in lieu of Poehler's absence by rolling out Coldplay for a rare third performance by the musical guest, doing their first big hit, "Yellow." Poehler did appear in one of the show's pre-taped segments and probably the highlight of Hamm's night, effectively taking his dark persona into the realm of comedy with "Don Draper's Guide to Picking Up Women":
After the jump is the pun-driven sketch we were surprised to see pulled out successfully titled "Jon Hamm's John Ham" and the Mad Men sketch sure to delight fans of the drama with Will Forte's take on the syllable-emphasizing junior ad exec Pete Campbell. And since the Poehler-Rudolph reunion doing "Bronx Beat" didn't get to take place as planned, here's the first time they did the sketch a little under two years ago.
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The two-aholes sketch isn't funny at all.
Could somebody please explain to me what's so great about Mad Men? I understand the costumes and props are authentic, and that people were once allowed to smoke in the workplace, but am I missing something? It's pretty z-z-z-z-inducing from where I'm sitting.
I tried watching mad men, didn't like it but hey to each their own. whatevs. wasn't the John slattery guy on Girlfriend's?
same with The Shield. no like.
I enjoyed Breaking Bad and It's always sunny in Philly.
what I really like are the serious actors doing something crazy like chris meloni in The Gym Teacher. (he was also in wet hot american summer)
well one man's meat is another man's poison, so there's particular no reason why you should like it, but I'll tell you why I do; I do like the period recreation, but the reason I watch the episodes a second time (which I don't do with any other drama) is the way the show allows you to try to figure out people's motivation instead of spelling it out. The same line could mean two or more very different things, and you just have to be patient and see what happens.
Of course, that ambiguity wouldn't be interesting to me without a really good set of writers, actors and directors. I feel like it's a really rich and subtle psychological portrait of a particular section of society during a particular period of time.
Also, I love the two A-holes sketch, and was just wondering why they hadn't done one in a while when the sketch appeared. That guy on the subway was right: Jesus realy does love me.
I love mad men. Each episode is its own miniseries.
That said I think its biggest fault is a really slow plot line and no conflict/resolution that you might find more of in biggers shows.
And yes I have a man-crush on don draper.
Mad Men will be Cancelled by next season
that is ridiculously stupid
Hmm...Maybe I'll give it a second or even full-assed look. The motivation comment was interesting.
Love The Shield even though it's probably a good thing that (I think) this is last season. Vic Mackie is a guy I love to hate. The other characters are good too.
the only good tv show i've seen in the last 3 years is Chuck.
Mad Men is amazing...guess it's not everyone's cup of tea.
SNL, however? Really lame this week. I thought John Hamm looked EMBARRASSED to be a part of it.
I liked the fact that they wove the "Two A-Holes" sketch into the "Mad Men" sketch like that. I wasn't impressed with the amount of time Jon Hamm spent playing either himself or his "Mad Men" character - playing yourself in a lot of sketches is what athletes and politicians and musicians and other non-actors do. That being said, "Jon Hamm's John Ham" was pretty funny.