Martin Freeman Skits Saturday Night Live
Oh, Martin Freeman. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways! The Sherlock and Hobbit series star (not to mention his incredible turn in the TV version of Fargo. Oh..and the original The Office!) hosted Saturday Night Live this week (12/14/14)
Martin elevates any project he’s involved in, and SNL is no exception. The Office/Hobbit mashup is NOT TO BE MISSED. If you watch one skit, that’s the one. Also not to miss: Kate McKinnon as Keith Urban. You heard me right.
Check out the best skits from the Martin Freeman hosted Saturday Night Live below:
Cold Open.
The guys who invented the CIA torture techniques invented a bunch of other terrible things as well. Who knew.
Charlie Rose (Taran Killam) learns the psychologists (Bobby Moynihan, Kyle Mooney) who devised the torture outlined in the CIA report are also behind self-checkout and autocorrect.
Martin Freeman Monologue
Dame Maggie Smith (Kate McKinnon) and Alan Rickman (Taran Killam) join Martin Freeman for his monologue because all British actors are friends.
“My name is Martin Freeman, unless I embarrass myself, then I’m Colin Firth.”
If you’ve been crossed off Santa’s nice list, here comes Sump’n Claus (Kenan Thompson). Justin Bieber is getting sump’n! Paula Deen is getting sump’n! Donald Sterling is getting sump’n!
WNBA athlete Alberta (Leslie Jones) and White Castle owner Ian (Martin Freeman) are getting married no matter what anyone says. Warning: My vote for worst skit of the night. The premise–two people who are so outrageously mismatched that EVERYONE objects, even strangers–wasn’t developed very cleverly in the first place.
After saving Middle-earth, Bilbo (Martin Freeman), Gandalf (Bobby Moynihan), Gollum (Taran Killam), Legolas (Kyle Mooney) and Tauriel (Kate McKinnon) take up office jobs. So funny, so clever, I could not breath.
While appearing on the daytime talk show Right Side of the Bed, Louis the handyman (Martin Freeman) keeps getting awkwardly cut to. The real stars of this skit is are the hosts Taran Killam and Cecily Strong, as the clueless (and in Taran’s case, super closeted) hosts. AND I KID YOU NOT KATE MCKINNON AS KEITH URBAN.
St. Joseph’s Christmas Mass Spectacular features Pastor Pat (Bobby Moynihan), organist Linda Tayhoe (Kate McKinnon) and all 44 verses of “O Come All Ye Faithful.”
Sasheer Zamata discusses the lack of diversity in tech, pointing out that of all the emoji available on Apple products, not a single one is black. Even the black power fist is white.
New hire Gordon (Taran Killam) has a hard time grasping how the assembly line works despite his boss’ (Martin Freeman) many attempts to explain it. Classic premise, but still pretty funny.
Isaac (Martin Freeman) just wants to play saxophone but the audience would rather he explain what’s going on in his personal life. Kenan Thompson and Taran Killam also star in a skit that started off promisingly, then went nowhere.
When Dom (Martin Freeman) wants to advertise his Waterbed Warehouse, he turns to his wife, Janine (Aidy Bryant). I don’t understand why this skit was tacked at the end of the show, because Aidy’s terrible jingles are hilarious.
