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It's no secret that Saturday Night Live has had its share of low points over its 33-season run.
If it's lasted this long, however, they've got to be doing something right, unless there's something really sickening happening between Lorne and the heads of NBC. The 2007-2008 season was full of laughs, but a few stumbles and one particular cast member change-up kept the show from being the shining beacon of comedy sketch shows that it used to be and occasionally is. And don't even mention Mad TV.
Here's CraveOnline's Top 10 best moments from the '07/'08 season of SNL:
9. Presidential hopeful John McCain's 5/17 appearance on Weekend Update, encouraging Democratic voters to wait as long as possible to vote for a candidate, or even put both on the ballot in November, so everybody gets a chance. Classic.
8."There Can Be Only One" - Best political skit of the season: a split-screen PSA shared by Obama (Fred Armisen) and Clinton (Poehler), with each candidate veering from the script with their own hilarious self-promotional ad-libbing. And for once, we get a political sketch less than fifteen minutes long!
7. Amy Poehler - Tina Fey left some big shoes to fill when she left the cast last year, and Amy Poehler has stepped into them with aplomb. Quirky and energetic, the little blonde spark plug is naturally funny and often breathes life into skits that would otherwise border on dull and ridiculous. Bonus points for nailing a hilarious Hillary Clinton impression.
6. Host Ashton Kutcher's "Death By Chocolate" mini-skits, featuring the many murderous ways of a chocolate bar. Super creepy and weird, which somehow adds to the awesome.
5. Annuale - Tina Fey's return to her old stompin' grounds yielded this hysterical menstrual control commercial.
4. MacGruber - "Making lifesaving inventions out of household materials....." The plastic surgery episodes and Shia Labeouf as MacGruber's gay son made this great. True story: I almost choked to death from laughing while researching this.
3. Weekend Update - No matter how tired I am or how badly an episode is going, I'll always wait until 12:20 am or so for Weekend Update to start. Amy Poehler and head writer Seth Myers play well off both current events and one another, and their "Really?!" segments always bring the laughs. Granted, most of the guest characters are unbearably ridiculous, but Fred Armisen's Nicholas Fehn character gets it right. Fehn's a hippie activist who passionately rants and raves about both everything and absolutely nothing simultaneously - in extreme fragments. It's a hysterically accurate depiction of an intellectual liberal poser.
2. The Japanese Office - Steve Carrell reprises his role as Michael Scott on the superb show The Office - except this is the Japanese version. It's awesomely similar to the real show, complete with Jim antagonizing Dwight, Stanley doing a crossword, looking bored and, of course, "That's what she said" - in Japanese. Kristen Wiig's Pam impression is a deeper shade of perfect; keep an ear out for her chipmunk giggles when Dwight once again finds his stapler encased in Jell-O. And Regis Philbin doing a tampon commercial! The Reege! (Not really, it's Darryl Hammond, but he's so good it may as well be the real thing.)
1. Andy Samberg's Digital Shorts - Andy Samberg has taken command of the Shorts feature this season with outrageously ridiculous, mostly musical segments that all seem to have homoerotic leanings. "Hero Song" features Samberg as a Batman-wannabe who gets his ass beat, but the real list-topper here is "Iran So Far," Samberg's love song (complete with chorus and backing vocals from Maroon 5's Adam Levine) to his one true love, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"He ran for the president of Iran/We ran together to a tropical island" - brilliant.
