Last night SNL reran the very funny episode hosted by Eva Longoria, and I couldn’t have been happier. I went gaga when the episode first ran, but it was less because of Longoria (though she does a wicked Lucille Ball impression) than it was because of newcomer Kristen Wiig.
The first skit, a joke awards show for spam email, featured Wiig as Megan Mullally, which the producers liked so much that they asked her to do it again a couple weeks later. Her money scene, though, came during this silly Vincent Price Thanksgiving special circa 1957, and Wiig positively steals the scene with the funniest Judy Garland impression you’ve ever seen.
Don’t look now, but SNL, with the additions of Wiig, Bill Hader and Adam Samberg, is about to get funny again.
