4:20 pm - 03/04/2012
Lindsay Lohan's Return to 'Saturday Night Live': Road to Redemption
Lindsay Lohan and Jack White on ‘Saturday Night Live’: The Best Bits.
Lindsay Lohan is at the point in her career where every move she makes is considered a comeback attempt. Last night the actress appeared on “Saturday Night Live” with musical guest Jack White. The latter’s appearance was reason enough to tune in, but the extra incentive to watch was basically to see if Lohan would hold it together for an entire show (her opening monologue was based around that theme).
Remember, Lohan, when she’s on her game, is fully capable of delivering a solid comic performance–she was quite good in such movies as “Mean Girls,” “The Parent Trap,” and “Freaky Friday,” and if you don’t think she was, well, you’re just being a hater. On last night’s “SNL,” she didn’t have any real breakout moments on the show, but there were a couple skits worth watching, including a sketch sending up the Real Housewives Franchise along with the Disney Princesses. White, in his performances, rocked.
wall street journal
Lindsay Lohan's Return to 'Saturday Night Live': Road to Redemption?
Lindsay Lohan made the most of her personal and legal woes in her so-called "comeback" appearance on "Saturday Night Live."
For Lohan, hosting "Saturday Night Live" is almost like coming home. It's her fourth time hosting the show, but it's been six years since the last time.
Appearing in a modest blue dress, Lohan jumped into a self-mocking monologue as cast members came out to welcome her to the show.
As she walked toward the audience a siren went off - a riff on Lohan's once often active ankle monitor.
Kenan Thompson came to help the starlet but wound up shining a light in her eyes to make sure they were clean.
Kristin Wiig piled on, greeting Lohan by giving her a full body pat-down.
When Wiig coyly explained herself by saying "I'm a lesbian now," Lohan quipped, "been there, done that."
Jimmy Fallon made a guest appearance for Lohan, announcing that John Hamm (in the audience) was on hand in case she couldn't handle her duties.
It was a sharp contrast to the last four years..
abc news
Lindsay Lohan returned to Saturday Night Live after a six-year absence and to a monologue that was one part up-front about her recent drug issues, another part totally hilarious, and the third part a loving welcome back.
zennie62
LOL at the haters jumping in ONTD to post reviews before the fans that usually post Lindsay's news from sources like the DAILY MAIL and CONTACT MUSIC.
YES, I NOTICED.
Lindsay Lohan is at the point in her career where every move she makes is considered a comeback attempt. Last night the actress appeared on “Saturday Night Live” with musical guest Jack White. The latter’s appearance was reason enough to tune in, but the extra incentive to watch was basically to see if Lohan would hold it together for an entire show (her opening monologue was based around that theme).
Remember, Lohan, when she’s on her game, is fully capable of delivering a solid comic performance–she was quite good in such movies as “Mean Girls,” “The Parent Trap,” and “Freaky Friday,” and if you don’t think she was, well, you’re just being a hater. On last night’s “SNL,” she didn’t have any real breakout moments on the show, but there were a couple skits worth watching, including a sketch sending up the Real Housewives Franchise along with the Disney Princesses. White, in his performances, rocked.
wall street journal
Lindsay Lohan's Return to 'Saturday Night Live': Road to Redemption?
Lindsay Lohan made the most of her personal and legal woes in her so-called "comeback" appearance on "Saturday Night Live."
For Lohan, hosting "Saturday Night Live" is almost like coming home. It's her fourth time hosting the show, but it's been six years since the last time.
Appearing in a modest blue dress, Lohan jumped into a self-mocking monologue as cast members came out to welcome her to the show.
As she walked toward the audience a siren went off - a riff on Lohan's once often active ankle monitor.
Kenan Thompson came to help the starlet but wound up shining a light in her eyes to make sure they were clean.
Kristin Wiig piled on, greeting Lohan by giving her a full body pat-down.
When Wiig coyly explained herself by saying "I'm a lesbian now," Lohan quipped, "been there, done that."
Jimmy Fallon made a guest appearance for Lohan, announcing that John Hamm (in the audience) was on hand in case she couldn't handle her duties.
It was a sharp contrast to the last four years..
abc news
Lindsay Lohan's 'SNL' Comeback Gets Mixed Reviews
Lohan scored early laughs as host but 'Saturday Night Live' castmembers did heavy comedic lifting.
Following a week of self-deprecating promos and a cold open starring Jason Sudeikis as Mitt Romney and Andy Samberg as Kid Rock, Lindsay Lohan's monologue dove right on top of the white elephant inside New York's Studio 8H: her troubles.
And while the crowd (and cast) was clearly supportive during at the top of the show, the evening's sketches featured "SNL" regulars doing the comedic heavy lifting. Lohan's lines were noticeably few. ....
While Hamm never stepped in to take over, the early consensus online was that Lohan was given noticeably little to do and relied heavily on cue cards and / or teleprompters. To be fair, the long-running iconic show is famously rewritten and rehearsed until the eleventh hour and many hosts (and castmembers) often read cue cards. ....
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mtv
Lindsay Lohan Rocks Saturday Night Live
Lindsay Lohan returned to Saturday Night Live after a six-year absence and to a monologue that was one part up-front about her recent drug issues, another part totally hilarious, and the third part a loving welcome back.
What was most heart-warming to this blogger was the ovation the SNL audience, and even staff and band members gave her as she started. They all really wanted to see her do well and that part of the video is worth playing again and again, just to feel the love.
Then Lindsay got started by saying that she thanked SNL for putting its trust in her, then as she steps down, an alarm goes off. After that Kenan Thompson comes out to check her eyes with a light pen. Then Kristen Wiig searches her, but then when Lindsay reacts in protest, Wiig says, “Oh well, I’m Lesbian now,” to which Lohan says “Been there, done that.” Too funny.
But just when you thought SNL couldn’t top that, a woman yells out something from the audience, and then here comes Jimmy Fallon to give his own welcome, and to let Lindsay know that if anything went wrong, Man Men’s John Hamm was on hand to step in and take over the show!
Congratulations to Lindsay Lohan, and thanks to SNL for helping her make her much-deserved comeback.
zennie62
LOL at the haters jumping in ONTD to post reviews before the fans that usually post Lindsay's news from sources like the DAILY MAIL and CONTACT MUSIC.
YES, I NOTICED.
Rich white girl given every opportunity and just blows it all, literally and figuratively at every opportunity. "Aww, she's just having a bad day".
Most people not with her privilege would be in jail by now.
when was the last chance she had that she blew? she was professional when she filmed machete and labor pains, and she hasn't done any other acting work since. you haters have no fucking idea what you're talking about lol, you're all just so bitter and i never understand why.
god forbid a woman who fell victim to addiction and made mistakes like everyone else because of her illness now tries to get her life back together and relaunch her career. what an outrage
i watched season 1 of got but i dont remember that lady in ur icon :c is she introduced in season 2/book 2? or do i just have rly bad memory.
lol nvr
srsly if you look bad next to the JoBros you need to stfu
and how many posts are necessary for the same lather rinse repeat?
she didn't do well
stans and their sockpuppets are rationalising
it's a live show and other hosts have been able to save with nothing more than their charisma and competence
The strange thing with SNL that perplexes me to no end is how the really bad skits get on air. They have like 30-40 skits at read htrough and somehow the ones that get no laughs frequently make it to air, like at no point someone noticed that it just isn't funny.
Which would be fine if they were all bankers running a comedy show. BUT THEY'RE FUCKING COMEDIANS!
Every episode has maybe 1-2 skits that are actually funny.
Every SNL post we have on ONTD I wonder why people even bother watching.
I will tune in if I like the musical guest and MAYBE if I like the host.
I think Kanye West should host SNL tbh. He'd make it wonderful.
bill is the best part <3
That said, maybe they tried good stuff and she couldn't pull it off in rehearsal?
I want people to cite one other time she was HILARIOUS on SNL that it was the writers' fault this time. The only skit people can remember her in is Debbie Downer, in which she was awful.
people are quick to blame the writers when really it depends on what the host can and/or will do.
The only reason this wench is so in demand is because people are assholes by nature and thus morbidly curious to see how much further she can fall, and that's it, no matter what the 800 and counting stan accounts here try and tell us.
It's not the writers, it's Lindsay. They cut her skits and she couldnt read the lines.
She's just terrible. So no, I didnt watch to see her fall, but I'm sick of her falling.
Paging,
Edited at 2012-03-04 07:19 pm (UTC)
and you're wrong, because those who get pleasure out of lindsay's fall from grace are a small group of fucked up people who are better off seeking counseling. the majority just want her to clean her act up and get her life back together.
That's putting it mildly. Best musical performance this season tbh.
Real Housewives was the only notable moment from last night.
mte
And I loved the touch with switching an all female band for an all male one. A nice bit of theatrics
I need his solo album right NOW.