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NBC’s Saturday Night Live last night posted its best overnight rating since the season premiere. The show hosted by Robert De Niro with musical guest Diddy-Dirty Money drew a 5.0/12 in metered-market households, up 14% from the same night last year. De Niro, who was promoting Little Fockers, was joined in two sketches with co-star Ben Stiller. Here are SNL‘s WikiLeaks/TMZ-themed cold open featuring De Niro as Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai and a sketch featuring him in a drag opposite Diddy.
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Blizzard Man the hip hop hermit. LOL
That sweater on De Niro looks like some threw up on it.
Too bad De Niro can’t read a cue card worth a damn.
And the final sketch with Ben Stiller might have been the least funny thing ever aired on television.
Give him a break man, he’s really old. Hard to read cue cards at that age.
SNL. So bad it’s just sad.
Oh GOD NO…Don’t encourage DeNiro to host another SNL.
He’s PAINFUL. Tripping over his words, struggling to read the teleprompter, mugging for the camera like he’s at a Boy Scouts talent show and getting COURTESY LAUGHS from the audience.
It was tough to watch. Throw in Diddy’s mid-life crisis portion of his career and it was an all-around cringe-iriffic episode.
look at these comments…they all seem like they are from Ari who is still sour De Niro left him!
De Niro is a national treasure end of story.
Yep, one of the greatest actors of all time, and yet he can’t perform on stage worth a damn, or improv worth a damn for that matter. Horrible.
DeNiro was not that bad. You are all jealous.
this was one of the worst snl’s ever. i watched bc of deniro, and figured they’d make good use of puff daddy, but it was awkward and humorless. seriously, one of the worst shows ever.
Robert DeZero personality.
The “Mr. Produce” and “What’s Up With That” sketches were hilarious. I also liked the digital short spoof of “Weekend At Bernies.” Keep up the good work, SNL!
Very true. “What’s Up With That” started out as a brainless idea devoid of any actual humor. But I’d have to say the writers have figured it out at this point and know how to use Keenan in the sketch. HILARIOUS!
When my 23 year old niece and I watched “What’s Up with That” during the Thanksgiving break, I let her know how GREAT SNL USED TO BE. I haven’t watched the show in eons – or since the day the REALLY funny people used to be on.
too bad since it was one of the worst episodes in an already awful year. The twitterverse was warning west coast viewers early on (during the monologue) so i’m surprised it got good numbers.
Right, the twitterverse now determines SNL’s numbers…
like it determine’s ANYTHING for that matter.
So bad – so unfunny – so lame – Seth is awful – weekend at bernie’s really? – Lorne clean house and find some talented funny people – The show sucks now – yet NBC will put in primetime again and again – Ben Silverman should be made to watch that episode 100 times.
Think Lorne is actually finding the shows funny, duh. The problem is HIM.
Force SNL to run SPECIFIC WRITING CREDITS on the YouTube/NBC.com clips. Who writes the shittiest skits? Writes the funnier monologues? The writing staff is bloated with well-connected, over-educated rich kids.
So, let’s see who the dead weight is among the writers…
What the heck is wrong with SNL? It’s just not funny anymore. What’s happened to the writers? How can you blow a show with this kind of talent?
It’s time for Lorne Michaels to take “What Up With That?” out back for a mercy killing. Why is the most painfully unfunny skit also the longest??? It’s consistently unbearable, but in this episode I really wanted DeNiro to just leap out of his seat and beat the crap out of that second-rate Bill Cosby hack from Nickelodeon.
Sorry I found that particular sketch the funniest on the show. Def subjective.
Don’t worry: Lorne is probably, at this very moment, polishing the script for “What’s Up With That?” the movie.
De Niro stunk up the joint!
Garbage in, garbage out.
De Niro, the actor, is as funny as a hitman.
Then again, SNL’s been stinking up the joint for the past 15 years.
Michaels, the exec prod., is just playing out the series. So, maybe De Niro and SNL are, after all, a perfect match.
De Niro’s acting range comprises brutal killers and boxing thugs. He has NEVER done any other role of note…no characters with love, kindness & compassion in their heart, or with sensitivity, intelligence & self-awareness in their mind.
Yet, De Niro is the quintessential Hollywood superstar.
What does that say about Hollywood?
Having a guy who’s famous for playing psychopathic murderers host SNL sets up one-and ONLY one-comic premise: Let’s see how awkward we can make things by putting the guy who played in “Taxi Driver” and “Wise Guys” in a skit trying to act civilized. Laughs ensue.
De Niro the actor (not the man) is the face of SNL: Humorless, wooden, and bereft of all that makes our species worth the price of evolution.
“He has NEVER done any other role of note…no characters with love, kindness & compassion in their heart, or with sensitivity, intelligence & self-awareness in their mind.”
You must’ve missed his performance in last year’s “Everybody’s Fine,” though in your defense, so did everyone else.
HEY TV GUY – TOMORROW, AFTER YOU GET COFFEE FOR YOUR BOSS AND PICK UP HIS DRY CLEANING, MAKE SURE YOU GO CHECK OUT THE FULL CATALOG OF DE NIRO FILMS! HE MAY BE GETTING OLDER, BUT I SURE AS HELL WOULD NOT KICK HIM OUT OF MY BED!
So stale…
You have Robin Williams, Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller on the same show and this is the best you can do?
Please stop giving Keenan his “What’s Up With That Sketch”… it reeks of Mad TV.
By the way, why was Robin Williams (who Nellie neglected to even mention, by the way) only used in ONE sketch, and as a silenced guest on WUWT for that matter?
Why would you use Robin Williams in that way? He actually seemed to me to be utterly pissed, during the sketch, and at the show closer.
Lorne just needs to go, I’m sorry.
>>Why would you use Robin Williams in that way? He actually seemed to me to be utterly pissed, during the sketch, <<
You've missed the joke.
No, the joke is that SNL only used one of the original kings of comedy in one, albeit STUPID, sketch.
I know the point of WUWT. Does not explain why RW was even ON IT.
God, at least MAD TV was funny. I don’t know a single person who DOESN’T fast-forward through Keenan’s crap on Sunday mornings.
Right on!!!
I also watched for DeNiro, but wasn’t impressed. But I WILL ALWAYS watch to see Kristen Wiig who is PHENOMENAL.
The ONLY redeeming thing about the What’s Up With That sketch.
Can Diddy pick one name and stick with it? Who rotates their name once a year? Is it supposed to be cool, because it’s not.
And al Pacino can’t read a script to save his life! Go figure!!
I agree with the poster who said DeNiro is a national treasure. Even when the material wasn’t funny HE was funny. And yeah, that last skit was terrible, but DeNiro is awesome.
I also agree, he is a national treasure. De Niro freakin rules. No ifs and buts about it. Maybe the material wasn’t great, but having SNL’s highest ratings this season is a testament to the fact that this man is one of the greatest actors of all time. Plain and simple. Get a life haters.
Still agree with the guy’s comment a while ago about all of the people saying ‘SNL sucks’ week in and week out. Clearly still watching the show.
Look, everyone needs to calm down – it’s SNL. It’s what it always has been, and frankly, the talent they have now is light years ahead of what they had when Tina Fey was head writer. They don’t hit every time? Really? You think? They put together an hour-long live sketch comedy show in six days. Give ‘em a break.
As for DeNiro, he was great in spite of himself. You could tell they wrote the sketches for him to be himself and them drag him through all sorts of bad situations. On a level, it felt like they didn’t want DeNiro to perform, and that’s why it clicked.
People need to get off SNL’s back – don’t watch the show if you don’t want, but don’t pretend it’s not still the national institution it’s always been. And for chrissakes, when it started it was dubbed the “not ready for primetime players.” The whole shtick of SNL is that amateur, not-quite-refined style. SNL done perfectly is SNL undone.
SNL continues its pattern of having flashes of excellence, then a completely lame show. DeNiro, sadly, is not suited for live television. He stumbles over his lines and reads cue cards like someone in a 1960′s variety show.
I still don’t see the attraction of the “What’s Up With That?” skit. It seems to be filler – you know 80% of it will be the theme song and its variations anyway. Kicking off the show with this telegraphs that Lorne really had nothing else up his sleeve.
And Diddy – please pick a name and stick with it. And that Blizzard Man idea wasn’t that funny the first time Andy did it awhile back.
In my own opinion, this episode with DeNiro was one of the pooerst examples of the 2010 SNL season so far.
That show is so bad. Period. Stop putting clips up, please.
Yeah, SNL can be really bad, but every once in awhile, a sketch hits. I think Bill Haber makes that show. Wiig’s okay, but I still laugh like hell with Vinne’s Italia TV show sketch.
@ Find the dead weight: “The writing staff is bloated with well-connected, over-educated rich kids.” You know the staff? How the hell would you know? Did your spec sketch script get ignored? Boo-hoo.
@ TV Guy: “De Niro the actor (not the man) is the face of SNL: Humorless, wooden, and bereft of all that makes our species worth the price of evolution.” Man, get out of the house/basement/apartment at least ONCE in a while! It’s just a TV show, fer chrissakes!
Crazy that this got so many viewers and it was one of the worst of the season!
NBC, if you can’t get of Lorne, please al least make him fire Seth Meyers as SNL’s head writer.
The show has not been funny since Tina left.
Dreadful.
It was awful. The only original or funny skit was the “Kardashian sisters” skit during news update. Otherwise, old, tired and unfunny.
Plus, would somebody tell the people at 30 rock P Ditty was done 15 years ago. Musical guest, my arse.