Justin Bieber On ‘Saturday Night Live’

Luckily for the dozens of Beliebers that camped out for tickets (and perhaps were actually hand picked--ew--by Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun), in one of the biggest snow storms ever, didn't keep them from seeing their idol host SNL. 

I didn't have high hopes for the show, and wasn't looking forward to an hour and 30 minutes of him mugging for his stans at home and in the audience, and there was a lot of that. Overall it was a decent show, he wasn't that bad but the rest of the cast was really good.

The Cold Open focused on the Super Bowl, and not the blizzard as I thought they would. If you still paid attention to last Sunday's game after Beyonce's performance, you witnessed the blackout that brought the game to a halt. The CBS sports commentators had to scramble to fill air time while most of the stadium sat in darkness. I think this would have been funnier if I had still been watching when the blackout happened, but the 2 Broke Girls jokes and the reporters starting in on secrets no one needed to know made for a great start to the show.

Would Bieber sing during his monologue? No, he wouldn't, but the show made good use of him. I said this last night while I was watching and I'll say it again, there it something very creepy about that kid trying to be sexy. I know it's not aimed at my 26 years, but it's so off-putting. Anyways, he praises the month of February which houses Valentine's Day and Black History Month, by sweet-talking some girls in the audience by telling them some black history facts. Then a wild Whoopi Goldberg appeared! Even though she works for ABC, she was all over NBC last week, but was a pleasant surprise.

BEST SKETCHES

"Justin Bieber Decoys" Bieber as himself, well he couldn't have screwed this one up. The sketch featured most of the cast dressed as him, and I'm sure it was no coincidence that all the girls looked more like him than the guy did. The funniest line came from an exchange with Jason Sudeikis when Bieber complains about how the black decoy won't fool anyone, "Well, neither are you, homey," Jason deadpanned. Then randomly, Kate McKinnon as Ellen DeGeneres.

"The Miley Cyrus Show" I'm glad they brought this one back, and since they hadn't done it in a while they had to update Vanessa Bayer's wig because Miley is all "edgy" now. It was a bit too obvious to have Justin play someone that hates him, but the admission to smoking pot was pretty funny.

"50s Romance" This reminded me of when the cast sang "Summer Lovin'" on Jimmy Fallon's last show and he accidentally, or purposely, touched Tina Fey's boob. Biebs almost cracked Fallon- style, but kept it together through this ridiculous sing-songy look at an awkward date. "Billy thought he saw a witch and ran and locked himself in the car." 

"Principle Frye: Valentine's Day" Principle Frye and the staff at Booker T. Washington High once again try to get through one of the school's dances without incident. Justin and Nasim Pedrad are an abstinent, but obviously curious, couple giving up some rhyming sex tips, "Don't do that thang until you get that rang."  The real star of this is always Jay Pharoah's Frye, who just can't seem to get things in order. Attention teachers and students!

WEEKEND UPDATE

There were a handful of good lines from Seth Meyers, none of which were actually in the script, like when he reacted to the audience jeering at his Honey Boo Boo joke. Cory, the black guy you saw in every Super Bowl commercial, was a good segment even though I thought Jay should have played him instead of Kenan Thompson. "I have to give a high five every 12 seconds, then I laugh and bite into a piece of pizza."

WORST SKETCHES

"The Californians" JESUS CHRIST ON A RITZ, STOP DOING THIS SKETCH! It's like they know how much we hate it but they keep doing it to piss us off. It's not funny. It was never funny. It will never be funny. Bill Hader breaking won't make it funny. STOP!

"Justin's Sexy Valentine's Day Message" again just felt creepy. He actually pulled a "Hey Girl." You are not Ryan Gosling! Bobby Moynihan as Taco, some weird man-child, was the weird icing on the WTF Cake.

Christoph Waltz is hosting on February 16. Let's see how many Django jokes are leftover from when Jamie Foxx hosted.

Thanks to SNL's Official Tumblr and Steph-Was-Here for pics!