From Scott Brown to Sergio, Jon Hamm May Be SNL’s New ‘Host with the Most’
Although the suave, sardonic and sometimes edgy Alec Baldwin holds the current record for number of times guest hosting Saturday Night Live by a non-alumnus of the show with 14 SNL guest
hosting stints, relative new kid on the block Jon Hamm may be nipping at Baldwin’s heels. Hamm has hosted SNL only twice, the second time last night, but his performance turned the usual lackluster and insufferable Saturday Night Live skits of late into outstanding comedy sketches that did not make me want to zip forward to Weekend Update after the opening skit.
From his opening monologue, in which Hamm showed clips of old TV shows he supposedly appeared in (for instance, Hamm pretended he had appeared as a high school student in an early 90s sitcom, only he was clad in his dapper Mad Men suit and tie and played the role as a teenaged version of the arrogant Don Draper) to his impersonation of recently elected U.S. Senate hunk Scott Brown (in which Hamm cast his sexy spell on Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi and Barnie Frank), Hamm’s charisma, comic timing and Hollywood handsome looks made last night’s SNL episode an outlier in recent SNL history. The show was actually watchable for a change.
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