Drew Barrymore is probably one of the less notable Saturday Night Live hosts to join the mythical Five Timers' Club. Her first hosting stint is infamous for her being the youngest person ever to host Saturday Night Live. Since then, her episodes have been more or less nondescript. It's not like she's been as memorable as fellow five-or-more-timers Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, Christopher Walken, Candice Bergen, Danny DeVito, or John Goodman.
Hell, lowly four-timers Eric Idle and Michael Palin have had more memorable moments (though most of their moments were in the first five seasons of the show.) Still, five times. It's amazing that she's at that level.
As for the idea of more SNL seasons on DVD (as evinced here), bring them on. It almost cheapens the idea of best-of DVDs for the show. Of course, the obtaining of rights clearances for at least 31 more season-long sets would be maddening. There's obviously a market for the first five seasons of Saturday Night Live and a market for the Hartman/Lovitz/Carvey period. Considering it took until 2006 to get to a first-season DVD release, how long will one have to wait until the seasons when SNL really started to make that push over the cliff?
Finally, Lily Allen. Let's see if the hype for her is warranted. It's nice to see her making the late-night rounds, but you know what happens when hype meets reality. Sometimes those two freaks want to kill each other.
American Idol - The bad contestants are literally animals, and there's a subtle-as-a-jackhammer gag involving fish in a barrel. In the words of Vince Russo, GET IT?! I'm surprised the corpse of Barbaro wasn't wheeled out so it too could be beaten. Aren't I timely and lamely controversial?
There was nothing distinct about this cold opening, but Jason Sudeikis' Simon Cowell impersonation was accurate. Other than that, it's the standard American Idol parody that appears from time to time.
Monologue - Centred around many a parody of the romantic comedies Drew Barrymore tends to often appear in. It could have been funnier, but Andy Samberg holding a boombox over his head — the gag is old, we all know — and Will Forte declaring his love for Kenan Thompson (no gay kissing, thankfully) saved this from being an average monologue. Barrymore threatened a Five-Timers' sketch, and that could have been worse/better depending on one's tolerance for Five-Timers' sketches.
Wow, SNL went from the monologue straight to a sketch without cutting to a commercial first? That rarely happens on Saturday Night Live. It's a slight variation in format, but I'd like to see more of that.
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1 - Cindy
I don't think having Keith Urban as a musical guest is "odd" at all. Sure, he sings "country" music, but he isn't a typical country music act. He sings and plays "contemporary/rock" country music. He writes most of his songs and plays phenomenal lead guitar on each song. He doesn't sing with the "twang" of most country artists (thankfully!). Believe me, after this show, everyone will know how good he is!!