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'Saturday Night Live': January Jones is no Taylor Swift
After musician Taylor Swift brought "Saturday Night Live" to a surprising, hilarious season high the previous week, actress January Jones had less success bringing the humor to that level on Nov. 14. Jones still doesn't seem quite comfortable with comedy. Not exactly the best way to prove your acting chops to unsupportive ex-boyfriend Ashton Kutcher. Perhaps it wasn't Jones who was at fault, but the writers who didn't quite know what to do with her.
Nevertheless, the "Mad Men" actress had a few highlights that mainly played off her very outwardly proper Betty Draper character. And of course, she looked gorgeous.
The best by far was the "Ladies' Guide to Party Planning" skit, a period piece spoof that poked at the veneer of propriety that veiled other problems. Check it out:
The rather uninspired opening monologue placed Jones as the straight man, whilst cast members played "Mad Mennies" -- extreme fans of "Mad Men." Nice shout out by Fred Armisen to Peggy, the character played by his wife, Elisabeth Moss.
One of the worst skits featured Jones as Grace Kelly, on the set of the Alfred Hitchcock film "Rear Window." Warning, the sketch is a real stinker!
Finally, this simple little sketch sort of summed up our feelings about her performance in general on Saturday. She really wasn't bringing a whole bunch to the table comedy-wise, but was a good sport and sure was purty.
Bring back Taylor Swift! Or better yet, get Justin Timberlake back!
Your thoughts? Did you think Jones did better than we gave her credit for?
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She was bland and uninteresting
no spark
looked pretty but lacked comedic energy and star power.
Kind of your average bland gal you see at the mall but skinnier
black eyed peas sucked too
yikes what a show!
black eyed peas were great. and the 'clouds' sketch was great too. but yea, an uninspiring episode.
TAYLOR SUCKED!!!
when the black eyed peas were the greatest part of SNL, you know you have a problem... that being said, to say January Jones had no comedic timing or spark to her performance is a BIG UNDERSTATEMENT. long time fan here & that's the worst ep i've seen in awhile.
it's bad when a singer (taylor) can act better than an actress.
"Which camera?!"
Awful episode, not even Update could save it. I agree that Ladies Guide to Party Planning was the only good sketch/short film, and the only thing that got a laugh out of me. She was definitely not comfortable doing this.
At least January Jones and Taylor Swift are more talented than Meghan Fox.
January was fine...it was the writing that was horrible. They could've done alot with the 'Rear Window' sketch but instead relied on toilet humor. SNL did not serve Jones well.
January will someday get another shot at SNL, but Taylor Swift had one of the best SNL appearances of all time - of all time.
Seriously, when did SNL become the place to show "your acting chops"? And when did Taylor Swift become such a phenomenon that people are writing articles about other people JUST to say Swift did better?
TERRIBLE THE WORST VERY DISAPOINTED