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What's Your Dental Damage, Kermit The Blog?
Posted by Mark Graham at 7:22 AM on March 4, 2008
When Ellen Page strutted onto the stage of Studio 8H to deliver her monologue on this week's episode of SNL dressed like one of the Sweathogs, we didn't pay it much mind. With the benefit of hindsight (and after having seen this skit), maybe our eyebrows should have risen ever so slightly. But, at the time, we were too busy enjoying Andy Samberg's impression of Diablo Cody to wonder about the Ellen Page Sexuality Sweepstakes. While all you bloggers and froggers out there will likely concur that his Diablo didn't quite reach the level of the Diablo impersonator in the Funny Or Die video, we did love the calvacade of blog references that he managed to mix into his impression. The video, along with a complete list of all of the blog-related catchphrases in the making follows after the jump:
When Ellen Page strutted onto the stage of Studio 8H to deliver her monologue on this week's episode of SNL dressed like one of the Sweathogs, we didn't pay it much mind. With the benefit of hindsight (and after having seen
"Play it again Samantha, I blog to differ!"
"What's your dental damage, Kermit The Blog?"
"Exsqueeze me for writing you a world-class monoblogue!"
"What the blog are you blogging about, Sonic The Hedgeblog?"
While there were a few more blog puns thrown into the mix (including Blog The Bounty Hunter, Captain's Blog and Snoop Bloggy Blog featuring Nate Blog), the monologue closed triumphantly as an off-camera Diablo Cody howled to the audience, "I WAS A STRIPPER!" Well played, Samberg, well played.
BONUS: As long as we've got you, this week's Digital Short was pretty excellent (and we think likely inspired by the Waking Up From Bad Dreams montage from The Oscars last Sunday), take a gander.
- Saturday Night Live [NBC]
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A Pimp Named Daver4470
Posted 9:42 AM 4/3/08
@Beppo: LAY OFF HIM, HE'S STARVING.
A Pimp Named Daver4470
Beppo
Posted 9:42 AM 4/3/08
That wasn't Diablo, Adam. It was Chris Farley's 'Gap Girl' character. Well, minus the funny, obviously.
Beppo
nick_r
Posted 10:06 AM 4/3/08
Y'know, I wasn't too aware of the blogosphere in 1994, but I wonder if people were relentlessly piling on Tarantino for putting the line "Bacon tastes gooood! Pork chops taste goooood!" into Pulp Fiction, ignoring the rest of the movie entirely.
nick_r
Pop Socket
Posted 10:06 AM 4/3/08
The short wasn't a Donnie Darko homage? Boy do I feel foolish.
Pop Socket
SuperUnison
Posted 10:06 AM 4/3/08
By this time next week, will our girl Brooke be over-hated, or just graciously irrelevant? I like graciously irrelevant, but then I'm sure we'll see an even shittier version of this sketch in the next iteration of whatever the fucking "Meet The Spartans" guys end up doing, so really none of it matters. Hopefully her new one goes so far down the rabbit hole that it becomes sublime instead of irritating.
SuperUnison
Leviticus_71
Posted 10:06 AM 4/3/08
Possibly the funniest part of SNL this week. Which puts it in the running for funniest in the last five years or so. It's too bad Lady Laughing and SNL rarely hold hands anymore. Most of the time I just curl up in a ball, think of a happy place, and pray for the show to be replaced by Pro Wrestling again...
Leviticus_71
metroville
Posted 10:32 AM 4/3/08
"Bacon", "taste", "pork", "chops" and "good" are all recognized English words that were arranged by Tarantino in coherent sentences, so I'm guessing not.
metroville
bestdamnedtapper
Posted 11:46 AM 4/3/08
Am I the only one who finds Andy Samberg painfully average? I just don't get the hype AT ALL.
bestdamnedtapper
Guadalahonky
Posted 12:37 PM 4/3/08
@bestdamnedtapper: I think when it's just the Loney Islanders he's much better (Hot Rod wasn't written by them), because Jorma and Akiva know his strong points, but when it comes to the rest of the SNL writing staff, they just don't know what to do with him. Or anyone else for that matter, considering how painful most of the skits are. Since he at least does the Digital Shorts well, I'm not putting him in Jimmy Fallon territory.
Guadalahonky
TheStarterWife
Posted 12:37 PM 4/3/08
Only funny because there is a real Kermit the Blog.
[kermittheblog.wordpress.com]
TheStarterWife
CrankYank
Posted 1:13 PM 4/3/08
Do you guys really talk that way?
CrankYank
hack-a-rific
Posted 1:45 PM 4/3/08
@CrankYank: Are you asking the kids, the Canadians or the strippers?
hack-a-rific
Wolfsheim
Posted 2:12 PM 4/3/08
After watching this and last weeks episode I am wondering....are we sure the writers' strike is over?
Wolfsheim
yvonnjanae
Posted 4:16 PM 4/3/08
I liked both of these sketches.
yvonnjanae
CrankYank
Posted 1:51 AM 5/3/08
@hack-a-rific: Bloggers I guess. And Canadians.
CrankYank
YourGoldKeith
Posted 4:21 AM 5/3/08
@bestdamnedtapper: Rrrrrroger that; Samberg must've blown Lorne. Or something.
Just.
Not.
Funny.
Average? You're being nice.
YourGoldKeith
raincoaster
Posted 8:37 AM 9/3/08
You mean Americans don't talk that way? Uh-oh. Someone will have to tell TontoToronto.
raincoaster
keithwolf
Posted 8:37 AM 9/3/08
Mark-
I'm gonna have to stop reading Defamer if you keep pretending like SNL has any redeeming value! It makes me seriously question your judgement. The show has managed to become even more idiotic and unfunny. However the production values ARE excellent - as you know that's the essence of comedy. Forgive me, I'm angry...
keithwolf