TV Review: Saturday Night Live Hosted by Anne Hathaway - Page 3

"Mary Poppins" (Grade B)

This sketch featured Anne Hathaway doing Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins. Hathaway (who of course appeared with Andrews in The Princess Diaries movies) did a great job with the impression, sounding just like her both speaking and singing. A couple of kids asked Mary Poppins what supercalifragilisiticexpialidocious really means. The answer? A fatal disease in which the liver stops producing bile. Suddenly the word wasn't quite as much fun as it used to be. Mary Poppins doesn't care because the world is so fun to sing. The sketch also features Bill Hader as Bert, Will Forte as Constable Jones, as well as Casey Wilson and Bobby Moynihan as the kids. All were funny and they did a good job evoking the characters from the film.

"Sioux City News" (Grade C-)

I think this sketch could have been funny if it actually parodied something specific. Basically in this sketch, some news team is popular on YouTube because of all the blunders they make during their broadcast. If it was a real news team it would be funny, but as far as I can tell this was made up. All the jokes in the sketch ended up falling flat, because I just wasn't reminded enough of real news broadcasts. It just wasn't a good enough parody of the news.

"Mark Wahlberg Talks To Animals" (Grade D)

I really thought this sketch, in which Mark Wahlberg (Andy Samberg) talks to a bunch of barnyard animals, was not funny. I get that it was supposed to be absurd and that obviously the animals can't talk back, but where was the joke? Why Mark Wahlberg? I guess that was the joke — there was no joke and there was no reason, other than sheer randomness, for it to be Mark Wahlberg. This one didn't make me laugh, though the studio audience seemed to get a kick out of it.

"I'm Not Gay" (Grade C+)

A couple of roommates (Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis) are going their separate ways after living together for five years. The concept was that Sudeikis was pretending to be gay in order to get close to Hathaway so he can develop a romantic relationship with her. Finally after five years, and on verge of separation, the roommate must tell her that he is in fact not gay. There was some funny dialogue with Sudeikis explaining that he even lived a "gay lifestyle" to keep up the ruse. However, as a whole this sketch was just kind of average and didn't really go anywhere.

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