Saturday Night Live Season Premiere

Saturday Night Live returned this past weekend for it's season opener with Seth MacFarlane as host. MacFarlane, best known behind the camera for his show Family Guy and this summer's hit Movie Ted, showed that he is certainly more than just a voice actor.

From an opening monologue where he went from impression to impression while singing, actually singing, to an impression of Ryan Lochte on Weekend Update, MacFarlane showed he is very talented.

The funniest skit was called " Introduction to Puppetry" with MacFarlane spot on as the energetic, over sincere teacher and Bill Hader as a dark Vietnam Vet who creates doppleganger puppet withthe same memories as him. When the camera shifts to the puppet and he is smoking you realize the skit is a pure homerun.

Jay Pharoah began his run as President Obama and in a classy move Fred Aremison introduced him as part of the handoff. Pharoah is a great impressionist but Aremison had geown into the job and had rhe nuances and verbal ticks down pat. There is no reason to think Pharoah will not be succesfull as well.

Frank Ocean played twice and showed why he is such a dynamic performer. On his second song, Pyramimds, John Mayer played guitar for him and in a move that has been talked about everywhere, during Mayer's solo, went to the sode of the stage and played one of the video games that lined the set. I do not know if it was planned or spontaneous but it was clever and certainly memorable.

All in all a good start for the season.