Taylor Swift Hosts ‘Saturday Night Live’
Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift played host on Saturday Night Live last night and, in my humble estimation, did a pretty good job bringing the funny and holding her own as SNL host. As usual, some of the SNL skits fell flat but overall there were a few funny bits that actually made me laugh … so Taylor deffo scores points there. Here are a few of Taylor Swift’s SNL promo bump photos featured on the show last night:
I think pretty much everyone was waiting to see how many times Kanye West (who infamously and very rudely interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards back in September and ignited a firestorm of controversy in the process) would be mentioned or parodied but the Kanye talk was almost nonexistent. SNL referenced the incident in Taylor’s opening monologue and it got another nod in the Hollywood Dish skit but that was pretty much it. To be honest, I’m glad that last night wasn’t at all about Kanye … the less said about that a-hole, the better. After the jump, watch video of Taylor’s opening SNL monologue (and hear her performance of The Monologue Song) and watch a few of my fave SNL skits featuring Swift as featured last night in full …
Taylor Swift’s monologue:
Firelight (A Twilight parody):
The View (Taylor Swift portraying Kate Gosselin):
Hollywood Dish:
Roomies:
Again … not all the gags were winners but all in all, I think Taylor Swift did a pretty good job hosting … and she managed to make me chuckle and chortle a few times so … mission: accomplished. Did you watch Taylor Swift host SNL last night? What did y’all think?
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November 8th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Trent, you left out the opening skit on Fox News! I thought that was one of the funniest ones. Although the “Firelight” skit was pretty funny too.
November 8th, 2009 at 9:37 am
@jamie — LOL, yes the Fox skit was funny but no Taylor ;) For those of you who want to see that skit, you can watch it here: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/fox-news-election-open/1173560/
November 8th, 2009 at 9:55 am
I thought she was pretty good! The convicts skit was awful, and the roommate one wasn’t the funniest, but overall she did a great job!! She’s such a good sport. My favourite was when she started singing “ha ha ha” in the monologue after the Joe comment – priceless!
November 8th, 2009 at 9:57 am
The Firelight sketch was the best one! She had the Bella lipsuck thing down pat! I think she did a great job and held her own up ther! The Monolouge Song was GREAT! I was IMPRESSED!
November 8th, 2009 at 10:02 am
U left out the T.R.A.A.A.P 1!!
(The 1 where she said that teens r always getting
blamed 4 txting and driving when sometimes its
the parents fault)
That 1 was Hilarious!
November 8th, 2009 at 10:08 am
damn can’t view the videos :(
November 8th, 2009 at 10:20 am
She was so cute..It’s crazy to think this girl is..What? 16? 17? She has such a crazy future ahead of her..
November 8th, 2009 at 10:36 am
BOOoooo, Canadians can’t view the vids :(
November 8th, 2009 at 10:42 am
So just one question – was the off-key singing meant to be part of the joke??
November 8th, 2009 at 10:56 am
@kendra… she’s 19. i loved the show. the monologue song was the best followed by firelight. pretty good i thought and i loved the convict skit, but i love it when the cast members start giggling. it warms my heart and bill heder started to lose it so i LOVED IT!!!
November 8th, 2009 at 11:22 am
I didnt see kate gosselin on the view, but from what i gather she did a good impression of her appearance. I liked the opening monologue….loved the reference to taylor lautner! (and joe jonas!) and that just made the twilight parody even funnier. Gwen you’re right, T.R.A.A.P.D was one of the more decent ones as well. Overall she did rather well when you consider how other musical guests/hosts have faired. Shes not JT but then again hes in a complete league of his own when it comes to this show.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:38 am
the funniest thing in firelight was the lip biting, lol, Kristin was doing it almost all the time in twilight ;)
November 8th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
She did a great job. Seems like a cute down to Earth person.
November 8th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
The monologue song was my favorite! it was so adorable and made me lol.
i love her. she’s normal and not trashy,
November 8th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
My favorite were the Monologue Song and Firelight.
The convicts was only funny towards the end, when everyone started breaking.
Bill Hader couldn’t stop laughing (:
November 8th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
I was dying during the convicts skit. She did a great job last night!
November 8th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
XD that was funny.
November 8th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
it takes a while to load… hope i can watch it somewhere. im not from the US.
November 8th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Okay, you gotta admit that monologue song a.k.a LA-LA-LA was really adorable, wouldn’t be any better if Taylor swift is not the one who sang that song!
as for the anti-fans who say its booring… I say, “are you kidding me? You should open your eye balls a little bit and turn-on your sense of humor even once”
All the juiciest info plus the firelight video: Twilight Spoof: http://bit.ly/taylor-swift-on-SNL-monologue-song-plus-firelight-video
Never seen Swift as a vampire… LOL..peace out!
November 8th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
OMG I thought she did so amazingly well. Usually I skip through all the skits just to get to Samberg, but I watched the whole thing and laughed at about 90 percent of it.
The beginning song and Firelight were so funny and I loved her retainer skit.
Give that girl a puppy and she’ll take over the world.
November 8th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I loved it and I love her! I am so buying her album. : )
November 8th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
I thought the Shakira impersonation in the very last sketch was AWESOME!
November 8th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
I know it’s been said but not being able to view most videos on your site is kind of annoying. I’m pretty sure it’s been brought up every time you post something from NBC….so..
November 8th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
I loved T.R.A.A.A.P.D!!! Haha, I can’t believe you didn’t post that one! It was hilarious.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
@Haley — Where in the world are you? I don’t think folks outside of the US can view NBC videos and NBC pulls their vids off of You Tube … which is SOOO annoying
November 9th, 2009 at 3:56 am
yeah it sucks…we cant watch it and they even take the vids off yt.. but ive seen a few vids on youtube thank goodness to some fans who uploaded it. hehee the firelight skit was cute.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Her monologue sounds like a kimya dawson song!!
November 9th, 2009 at 11:12 am
I don’t know… most of the time, I kind of felt like everyone was funny EXCEPT for her. Like when she was trying to “one-up” the Penelope girl in the wedding skit… oh my gosh that was painful to watch. Same with the Scared Straight bit (besides when Bill started cracking at the end. lol, you gotta love him). I’m gonna give her the Bella impression though. That was spot-on. It was an alright episode, I guess.
November 9th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I have to congratulate her for getting up there and having fun with it. Comedy is hard and she hung in there.
Favorite: Hader cracking up. They get in trouble for laughing during skits, but it’s always my favorite thing!
November 9th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
this ep was so freakin funny. Taylor Swift was fantastic. it looked like she was having a great time so it made the whole thing so fun to watch. the T.R.A.A.P skit was a riot.
i love seeing the cast crack up b/c then you know it’s funny if they start laughing. TS was so weird but funny in it.
best skit was the Twilight one spot on Bell impression but TS.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
the best skit where they lose it as a whole is the disneyland one with lindsay lohan and jimmy fallon from a few years back. it never fails to make me laugh so freakin hard, lol!!
November 9th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
@Trent. Canada and ya it is SOO annoying.
November 10th, 2009 at 3:05 am
The monolouge song was funny…
“I loved T.R.A.A.A.P.D!!! Haha, I can’t believe you didn’t post that one! It was hilarious.” +1