Cold Open: Mayor Bloomberg — Admitedly, “snowpocalypse” was absurd, but once again SNL focuses a bit too much on NYC events that maybe most of the country can’t relate to.
Monologue: Jim Carrey — Great opening, pretty much no-nonsense, and right up there with what I’d expect out of Carrey.
Bosley — Repeat. Carry on, or watch below.
Black Swan — Jm Carrey’s antics kick off to a great start. For some reason I was thinking he’d tone things down a lot for this episode, or at least the show wouldn’t really provide many opportunities for him to get into them. Well, I was way wrong. Some people hate his schtick, but this is back to his roots.
Finding Your Power — This one sorta ended rather abruptly, didn’t it? I’m not saying I didn’t like the sketch, just that — as with most SNL skits — this was going to go somewhere more significant in the end, and it didn’t.
Grady Wilson’s Tantric N’ Tasty — Anyone else getting tired of this one? When I saw it was going to be another Grady Wilson, I was hopeful it would take a different turn. Well, it was a little different with Carrey’s involvement, but mostly it was the same. Time to retire this puppy, guys.
The Worst of Soul Train — Best part for me was Bro-botix and the “Just Give Me One Titty” song. Yeah, I’m real mature, I know.
Musical Guest: The Black Keys — I dug this music more than I thought I would, the first song more than the second. For once the musical guest’s purpose worked in that I think I’ll check out more music from the band.
Weekend Update — This update started of really weak, which is unusual. I’m actually a fan of the Anthony Chrispino sketches in this, maybe because my own father makes the same kind of mistakes Anthony does … minus the suspicious glances all around. The fish/bird story was just epically stupid.
The Merryville Brothers — Best damn sketch of the season! I can totally relate to creepy animatronic rides, and I believe one of my greatest fears is getting stuck on one of these.
The Comedium — Like how I did that? Comedian/Medium? I’m brilliant, I tell ya! Anyway, we got another good sampling of Jim Carrey’s crazy impressions. The Alan Thicke impression was the definite highlight.
A Taste of New York — The funniest part of this sketch was Wiig starting to lose it during her section of the song.
Clacked by Keith McDuffee 
on Jan 09, 2011 @ 01:19 EST5EDT
Who wrote merryville song?
I loved the Merryville Ride sketch. Carrey, Killum and Hader were so great as animatronic characters. Carrey’s Black Swan was classic In Living Color Carrey. Reminded me of the female bodybuilder he used to do on that show. Kristin Wiig didn’t have much to do this week, but she made the most of her Black Swan bit (all fraction of a second of it) and I loved her Soul Train reject. Using the mic to cover up her losing it during the last sketch was pretty funny.
Merryville reminded me of the time I was stuck on Its a Small World at Disney and someone on my boat went, “Isn’t this when the dolls come alive and eat us?” after the PA asked us to sit tight. I actually would of preferred that to the dolls singing that song over and over again.
Also who knew you could say titty on network television?
That Merryville sketch was the hardest I’ve laughed at SNL in a long, long time. Also really enjoyed the Black Swan sketch. Jim Carrey is an ideal SNL guest.
GRADY WILSON IS MY FAVORITE SKIT ON SNL.
HAVE YOU EVEN TRIED ANY OF THESE TECHNIQUE???
GREAT FOR LOVERS :-)