Cold Open: Barach Obama on Wall Street reform — Pretty unremarkable cold open. Aren’t most of them, though?
Monologue: Gabourey Sidibe — Y’know, even I was confused that Gabourey wasn’t really Precious! Man, am I glad she cleared that all up … in song, even!
The Suze Orman Show — I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Suze Orman Show, so it’s really hard to make a comparison. Best quote from this sketch: “You can diagnose yourself for free on the Internet. One time I was feeling real weird. My face was hot, I was dizzy, I had slurred speech. So I typed my symptoms into WebMD, and it turns out I was only drunk.”
Steve Harvey does Who Wants to Be a Millionaire — I don’t know about you, but I definitely laughed out loud when the Icelandic volcano and towns came up as answers in the game.
Crazy Mrs. Johnson — A pretty short sketch, and Gabourey stumbled a little in there, but she played the perfect crazy Mrs. Johnson.
SNL Digital Short: Cherry Battle — Every now and then … hell, most of the time, you get a big ol’ WTF digital short on SNL. This was one of those.
I Did It In My Style: The Story of Frank Sinatra — I don’t think this is the first time SNL poked fun of Danish theatre. Oh, I’m not complaining! Still damn funny.
Musical Guest: MGMT — Their first number was followed by a commercial for MGD64 … and I was very confused. Anyway, what I’m learning about watching the musical guests for SNL is that I’m very quickly becoming out of touch with today’s musical tastes. Didn’t hate this music, didn’t love it, but wondering what’s up with artists having to make themselves stand out visually with how they dress and act instead of just having music that’s good. Yeah, I know — just let me rant.
Weekend Update — GOD I hate the Judy Grimes segment, but Bill Hader as Stefan saved the sketch. Newcomer to the SNL screen (at least to me, though I know he writes for the show) John Mulaney had a decent go of it with the Girl Scout cookies story, but will we be seeing him appear on the show more often now? I know a few fans of his would love to see more of him.
2010 Public Employee of the Year Awards — The best part of this sketch was the clip from what looked like the Golden Globes, of Brendan Fraser applauding and pointing to the winner of the award. They could play that clip at every award sketch and it would always be funny.
Alarm Clocks and More — This is another one of those repeating sketches that I’m ready for them to retire already.
Hamilton and Gabourey Sidibe — Sorry, but this was a total throwaway sketch. Not a whole lot to say about it because it was short and unremarkable.
Clacked by Keith McDuffee 
on Apr 25, 2010 @ 01:05 EST5EDT
I must’ve listened to MGMT’s “Kids” a couple hundred times while running last year. I bpm are just right :-)
Strange to me that they are on the show now, over a year after that song came out. I think that SNL itself is a bit out of touch when it comes to music because they usually have a guest on when their songs are already not in the charts anymore.
I got through the episode pretty quick this morning thanks to its mediocrity. I shot right through the cold open, Sinatra, that stupid Jenny Slate thing, and whatever the last thing was. I almost zoomed through all the Employee Awards sketch but went back wondering why Brendan Fraser flashed on my screen briefly. Should of kept going.
-Cherry Battle was stupid but the cherry singing as flew across the room made me laugh. So did the Steve Harvey sketch.
-Mrs. Johnson was decent
-I listen to MGMT and find myself unable to get Brian Eno out of my head. Flash Delirium (1st song) I just find too weird. If they played one of their hits you would recognize their music, but they are apparently sick of playing Kids, Time to Pretend, and Electric Feel. If you look those songs up you might like MGMT better. The new album is a bit too experimental and both songs last night were from it.
LOL @ thinking bands feeling the need to stand out visually is a new thing. You did live through the ’80s, no?
I haven’t caught last night’s SNL yet, though the previews with Sidibe and Samberg were cute. I’ll probably just watch the ones that were voted best here.