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Posted December 4, 2005 • Comments Off on First time ever

I’ve been watching Saturday Night Live since I was about nine. Call it twenty years, though it’s been more.

When I was a child, I’m sure the hosts were frequently people I’d never heard of, because I couldn’t watch the shows and go to the movies they were famous from. Sure. But after a while that stopped happening. The host was always someone I knew, even if it was someone who was famous for something I hadn’t seen; it was always someone for whom I could tell you why they were there.

This weekend, for the very first time I can remember, the host was once again someone I had never heard of. Dane Cook. Lin had heard of him, and said he was “that stand-up comedian everyone keeps saying I’m supposed to watch.”

I honestly can’t remember the last time the host of SNL was a young comedian who wasn’t also pimping a sitcom or something. But here he is. And you know what? This guy is hysterical. I’m a total convert.

Next week it’s Alec Baldwin for the forty-fifth time (or so). That’ll be just fine.

Edited to add:
This one bit where the guy’s been in a coma for a day and the girlfriend has moved on and married and sold his shit is totally ripped off from The State. I’m just saying.