Steve Martin Wrote A Kids Banjo Album
On Saturday, Steve Martin stopped saying "hamburger" in a Pepe Le Pew accent for a solid 90 minutes and hosted Saturday Night Live. It was a landmark occasion: the fifteenth episode of SNL hosted by Steve Martin, and also a very special 100% laugh-free episode.
Even in the most interminable of SNL episodes, there's usually at least one sketch or Weekend Update joke that does what the show as a whole is supposed to do: Be funny. This weekend's show, however, had absolutely nothing except the tinny echo of uncomfortable silence. Watching it was like sinking in quicksand that couldn't even be bothered to smother you in a timely fashion. A MacGruber sketch that turned out to be a Pepsi commercial and an ancient, go-to Angelina Jolie joke were the only things that even tried to graze the funny bar, before falling to the ground and flopping like dying fish along with the rest of the show.
Then Steve Martin played a song from his new banjo album that no one could stop him from playing because he's Steve Martin.
The natural progression of thought when confronted with something like "Late for School" is: