Well, that was good! I think a lot of people feel this way, but the level of affection I have for Jimmy Fallon has increased greatly since he stopped being a cast member on Saturday Night Live. Not that he wasn’t good on Saturday Night Live, but I always kind of didn’t like him? I think it was because I didn’t feel like he seemed very genuine and I thought he was a showy jerk, and I was annoyed when I heard he was taking over Late Night. Basically I just remember a vague dislike that I clearly shouldn’t have even gone into because I don’t know how to explain it but oh well, no looking back now! What I’m saying is that Jimmy Fallon, since taking over the Late Night, has become someone who I really like and who seems like a good person, and I was excited for this episode. And it was good! But not great. But still good! The “Sully and Denise” cold open was just the best. “My mother lost her birth certificate in a sex fire.” LOLOL. And the monologue was also great. And there were other good things that we’ll talk about in a minute, but there were also some not good things that kind of slowed the whole operation down, like the “don’t make me sing” lady sketch. OOF! I almost like it because of how much I hate it and how annoying it is, but almost don’t count, as she says. Also: The Tim Tebow sketch. I DON’T KNOW WHO THAT PERSON IS! Also: The Beethoven sketch. That one really wasn’t that bad, I appreciated how weird it was, but also the joke really wasn’t that good and it went on forever. Also: So many good things happened! Let’s talk about them.

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As we all know, Charles Barkley hosted the best episode of Saturday Night Live of the season, and it is going to be pretty hard to take that title away from him. To do so would require a perfect storm of crackerjack writing, a carefree cast, and if the host is illiterate that doesn’t hurt (apparently!). But Jon Hamm did great this weekend, so you can relax now, ladies. I know how nervous all of you ladies were that your ManCrunch would January Johnoes it up all over the place, but he didn’t. (No one was actually worried about that.) In fact, I am completely confident in declaring this to be The Second Best Episode of the Season. Is this our nation’s highest honor? Maybe. There is no way to know. But let’s go to the highlight reel:

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