saturday night live

Occasionally, legendary late night sketch show 'SNL' can still get pretty weird.

In her first spot as host of 'Saturday Night Live,' America's most beloved recovering sex addict (in her film 'Silver Linings Playbook'), Jennifer Lawrence, kicked off with a bang.

Coming straight off of her Golden Globe win, America's favorite archer -- Jennifer Lawrence -- is getting set to host 'Saturday Night Live' this coming weekend. The 'Hunger Games' star is catching some good press from her latest role in 'Silver Linings Playbook' so naturally the legendary sketch show opted to get in on the action.

Cecily Strong's 'Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started A Conversation With At A Party' character — one which speaks not only incoherently but also incorrectly and rudely — made another appearance on last night's show, teaching host Seth Meyers a thing or two about being a good person.

In one of the funniest sketches of the episode, last night's 'Saturday Night Live' gave us a version of the Peanuts gang that adults have craved for years: 'You're a Rat Bastard, Charlie Brown.'

As a way to address this past Friday's unfortunate tragedy in Newtown, CT, 'Saturday Night Live' opened their most recent episode -- hosted by alum Martin Short -- with a heartfelt performance of the Christmas classic, 'Silent Night.'

While most would agree that 'SNL's' most recent turn with 'Django Unchained' star Jamie Foxx hosting and musical guest Ne-Yo stayed mostly level, it's no secret that a portion of 'SNL' viewers tune in to see which sketches can make the performers break. "The Californians" has been known to get cast members giggling, partiuclarly Bill Hader and Fred Armisen, but we've never seen them lose

The high point of last night's episode of 'Saturday Night Live' (with guest host Jamie Foxx) was probably the Academy Award winner's portrayal of the not-so-popuar Hostess snack, Ding Dong.

Sometimes 'Saturday Night Live' is smart. Sometimes 'Saturday Night Live' uses a sketch to make a point or skewer an topic worthy of parody. Sometimes, 'Saturday Night Live' sketches have pretty clear points. Not this one. This sketch feels like it was thought up at three o'clock in the morning on Friday by a group of writers with only a few hours of sleep between them...and it's kind of amazing.

With the election a month behind us, 'Saturday Night Live' has to find another political subject to latch onto in the coming weeks and the Fiscal Cliff crisis certainly feels right. Last night's episode continued the 2012 tradition of opening episodes with something politically themed with a typical presidential press conference sketch, where Jay Pharoah's President Obama took the stage to address

Poking fun at the fact that America can't look at writer/director/producer/arrogant-individual Tyler Perry without seeing the 6'5" grandmother that made him famous, last night's 'Saturday Night Live' spoofed his recent foray into drama.

Occasionally 'Saturday Night Live' offers up a sketch that isn't only clever in its dialogue but also in it's absurdity. Good example: last night's 'Dylan McDermott or Dermot Mulroney' skit, in which three guests — who refused to be introduced — appear on a game show in order to dechiper which actor is which.