BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Martin will be hosting Saturday Night Live on Dec. 13

**Posted by REReader** November 20, 2014 7:10 pm

(Source: Broadway World.)

That should be interesting!

**Posted by tonnaree** November 20, 2014 8:16 pm

OMFG
I feel a bit lightheaded.

**Posted by A lovely light** November 20, 2014 8:47 pm

Call me living-under-a-rock creature, but i have never seen before a SNL episode. Are they very well know? Would help Martin to get atention in USA for further projects or is like a Graham Norton Hobbit promo interview?

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** November 20, 2014 9:25 pm

Ah, I was just about to post this up. SO EXCITED :DDD

**Posted by tonnaree** November 20, 2014 10:20 pm

A lovely light wrote:
Call me living-under-a-rock creature, but i have never seen before a SNL episode. Are they very well know? Would help Martin to get atention in USA for further projects or is like a Graham Norton Hobbit promo interview?

Saturday Night Live is a comedy sketch show that has been around for decades. The cast has featured many people and the quality of the show varies wildly. However, being ask to host is still a pretty big deal.

**Posted by A lovely light** November 20, 2014 10:53 pm

tonnaree wrote:
A lovely light wrote:
Call me living-under-a-rock creature, but i have never seen before a SNL episode. Are they very well know? Would help Martin to get atention in USA for further projects or is like a Graham Norton Hobbit promo interview?
Saturday Night Live is a comedy sketch show that has been around for decades. The cast has featured many people and the quality of the show varies wildly. However, being ask to host is still a pretty big deal.

Thank you, that explain why i haven't see it till now, i am not into american comedy normally. Well, i hope then it will be good quality.

**Posted by maryagrawatson** November 20, 2014 11:06 pm

A lovely light wrote:
Thank you, that explain why i haven't see it till now, i am not into american comedy normally. Well, i hope then it will be good quality.

This is a BIG deal and a huge honour for Martin! You don't get to host SNL if you're not 'somebody.' So excited!!! I've been watching SNL off an on for 20+ years, whenever I can get it. It's a fanastic lineup that skewers the news and big people of the day.

Mary

**Posted by tonnaree** November 21, 2014 12:44 am

I hope it goes well. We know Martin has the comedy skills but so much depends on how the writing is for the week.

**Posted by REReader** December 4, 2014 6:38 pm

From USA Today: Martin Freeman on being an 'SNL' newbie. (Um, Martin? I think slightly more than 18 New Yorkers know who you are. Also, nationally-aired show. You'll be fine.)

**Posted by REReader** December 9, 2014 8:32 pm

There were two relevant SNL tweets yesterday: here and here.

**Posted by REReader** December 10, 2014 8:34 pm

On the NBC website: Two-and-a-half minutes of Martin shooting SNL promos with Kate McKinnon. (I am so not into SNL any more that I have no idea who Kate McKinnon is.)

**Posted by besleybean** December 10, 2014 8:41 pm

A pretty lady, apparently.

**Posted by tonnaree** December 10, 2014 8:51 pm

I'm trying to decide if I want to watch it live or wait till the next day and just watch highlights on the web.

**Posted by besleybean** December 10, 2014 8:53 pm

It would only be the latter for me.

**Posted by Russell** December 11, 2014 4:28 am

Loved that! Can't wait to see what he does/how they'll add in riffs on his roles.

**Posted by REReader** December 11, 2014 8:08 pm

VH1 has an interview clip up in which Martin talks about his upcoming SNL appearance. Ha!

**Posted by Vhanja** December 11, 2014 8:16 pm

So great! What channel is this on? I probably don't have it.

**Posted by Russell** December 15, 2014 5:46 am

So... different sites already have different parts of it up!

If you want to watch the whole thing, Hulu's best quality for catching episodes of stuff networks let them put up after it airs: http://www.hulu.com/watch/726809#i0,p317,d0
I'll be honest, though… to concur with most of the above comments about it, SNL is indeed a famous long-running sketch comedy show over here (kind of like how Brits had Monty Python?), that's a big deal to get to host, and I can appreciate it's influence on comedians/careers/pop culture. That said, I very rarely watched except for checking out some of the sketches that became infamously popular, because the rest of the time, just found the humor usually on the 'stupid' side. Super happy for Martin, and fits great with his usual vibe, but… sorry to say all the clips I watched were kind of 'stupid' for me, again. Wish he had gotten some better stuff!

I happily recommend at least watching his opening monologue though: http://www.hulu.com/watch/726778 Plus the best one, their riff on two of his works, the Hobbit Office: http://www.hulu.com/watch/726780 (also on hulu, because the clips I found on youtube were bad/hasty quality)
What did you think?

**Posted by Vhanja** December 15, 2014 8:00 am

Ok, The Hobbit Office was awesome!

Going back to the Benedict/Martin-issue, I did notice that he didn't even mentioned Sherlock when he listed what he might be known for, in his monologue.

**Posted by nakahara** December 15, 2014 9:34 am

He is just jealous that Benedict has more media attention than he has (as if that was something pleasurable, when it´s more like a curse, really).

If Benedict said something equally distasteful about him, we would never hear the end of it and Tumblr would explode.