SNL- Hamm & Bublé

When I think back to last season's episode with Jon Hamm all I can remember from it is Jon Hamm's John Ham. A year from now I'm pretty sure the only thing I'll remember from this week's episode is Hamm & Bublé. While last year's clever sketch on Hamm's name was just that, clever, this season's variety took things to the next level. It wasn't only a great idea, it also had substance to it and was performed extremely well.

Hamm does dominating yet gracious extremely well and it seems to me that Michael Bublé does everything well. Besides being able to sing with the best of them, Bublé showed once again that he's got the acting chops to go toe to toe with the best. When I say once again I am of course referring to his one episode guest stint on Las Vegas back in 2004 where he played himself.

Back in that episode of my favorite Josh Duhamel tv show, Bublé played himself as a confused performer. He didn't want to sing at the wonderful Montecito Resort & Casino, but rather do stand up comedy, spin plates on top of sticks and of course mime his infamous Bublé in a Bubble. Of course all of these silly ideas were just his way of pranking the terrible Mary Connell who deserved every bit of it.

I found it fitting that at Hamm & Bublé he would also not be doing his normal singing act, but rather a ventriloquist act followed by a one-man show about William Faulkner. Not only did Bublé play extremely frightened very well in this sketch, but he did it while singing the wrong words to his song "Haven't Met You Yet" with such ease.

The rest of last night's episode was rather dull in my opinion. Sure there were little snippets here and there that gave me a chuckle, not excluding the addition of the Brendan Fraser Special Clap in the Cold Open, but everything was just obvious and not very funny. 1920's Party, New Senator and Court Stenographer were pretty pointless sketches in which they chose to just put Hamm in a familiar situation and failed to find a place for jokes in any of them.

The only other sketch of the night that got me going was Bar. Not for the fact that they brought back the Closet Organizer commercial from earlier in the show, (although I did really like that they did that) but for Will Forte's response to Jon Hamm's statement, "Gin & tonic, hell of a drink."