Doubting How I Met Your Mother on Saturday Night.

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How can SNL go from one week being so bad (Seth Rogen ep) to being steadily funny the whole way through. Another weird thing is how a cast member can be in nothing one week and basically in the whole show the next. In this weeks case Jason Sudekeis who was tons specifically a funny scene that lead up to a toe sucking. Sure it's a stunt, but the rest of the scene had good timing and the writing was brisk and sharp. Other good scenes was the commercial 'im your mother', the underage bar,biden open as well as update. Zac Efron even from the opening monolouge was fine as a straight man, but when he tried to go into character land being Kathy Lee Giffords son he didnt do so hot. Maybe it has something to do with the writers having something new to write with, or a host that inspires ideas. Many of these sketches really fit the host age and status.

Also watched DOUBT with Streep,Adams,Hoffman,and the amazing Viola Davis. Many times supporting acting nominations get criticized because the role in the movie was too short (see Dench-Shakespeare in Love). Viola Davis really has one scene but it is overboard fantastic. Watch this movie. You may have to be in a dramatic movie type of mood, and sure it is slow, but it reflects the setting and characters of the story. And one its gets into it, it gets into it. It also handles the story matter in a way that doesn't make it about the Church as such, but sure makes you think about it.

I'm back on the HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER train. It's really only cuz of the Patrick Harris, Segal combo. I think the writers know this is their goodness on the show because they pair them up much of the time. Or because those two don't really handle many of the A storylines. They leave those up to the borish characters who can't expand much on a script comedically.

Also caught the second ep of SURVIVING SUBURBIA with Bob Saget. I also watched the pilot, and it's really not that bad. That being said I did erase it half way through this latest episode. I like Bob Saget, mostly in a way that I don't dislike him, but he has specific tools as a comedic actor. See The Aristocrats as an example. They try to make him a bit grumpy and somewhat unlikeable, but it still doesn't work all the time. It's a bit standard in terms of sitcom, but it's better than According to Jim. The actress who plays the daughter is very good. She's probably seven. Someone should take her and the son from Gary Unmarried and make a show cuz they are both better than most adult sitcom actors. And yes probably better than me. But I am a late bloomer.

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