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While I'm In Your Mother, I'll Never Use a Rubber

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (21)



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If you didn’t catch “SNL” over the weekend, it was probably the best episode since the election — in fact, it was the only one besides the atrocious Alec Baldwin/Jonas Bros. episode that I actually managed to watch much of. Whatever you want to say about Justin Timberlake as a musical artist, he’s the best host “SNL” has had since Steve Martin in the 70s, although I feared that Saturday’s episode would basically be a rehash of all the past Timberlake skits. It was, and yet Timberlake still managed to breathe new life into his recurring characters as well as Tom Hanks used to (remember Mr. Short-Term Memory?).

Anyway, the Digital Short was the night’s highlight — a sequel to “Dick in the Box,” and, well, it was solid. If you didn’t love Patricia Clarkson before, first of all: What’s wrong with you? And second: You have no choice now.


The other highlight was Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto’s appearance on the news, an amusing appearance punctuated by Leonard Nimoy’s walk-on. Nimoy must be 75 years old by now, but I’m telling you, he could probably get more tail that he ever has. J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek is the best thing that ever happened to him — he’s suddenly a fucking rock star, and not just with Trekkies anymore.










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Comments

Timberlake does have comedic chops, I would dare say his Omeletteville skit is a classic.


Nimoy is dead to me.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at May 11, 2009 11:10 AM

If you didn’t love Patricia Clarkson before

Boynton seen this yet? Is he okay?

Posted by: Jay at May 11, 2009 11:12 AM

How can anyone dislike Nimoy

Posted by: GILP at May 11, 2009 11:41 AM

after hearing so much about this week's digital short, i went in with high hopes. i like most of the best of the digital shorts. however, i think i cracked a smile 2 times during this one. not even remotely funny. God bless Patricia Clarkson, but her being in this doesn't make it good.

Posted by: dg at May 11, 2009 11:41 AM

Jay, I posted a note to him on his fb to watch it. Haven't heard from him. Could be he hasn't seen it. Could be he's seen it and his hand is too tired to type...

Posted by: Lainey at May 11, 2009 11:41 AM

Saturday was my wife's wet dream:
"Star Trek" in the afternoon followed by hours of basking in its glow.
Drinks after the baby went to bed.
The glory of this SNL, capped by a Trek-gasm and the shocking appearance of The Barry Gibb Talk Show.
Good times, indeed.

Posted by: Kballs at May 11, 2009 11:45 AM

I was watching this SNL with my mom and as soon as the "They will come" was said off stage I went "oh my god they got Nimoy" and then there he was. Good for him.

Not sure about the tail thing. I'd be happy to set him up with my grandma, but as for me I'd go for either Zachary Quinto or Chris Pine. Slight advantage to Quinto, he's got better hair even if it's in a stupid cut in that clip.

Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at May 11, 2009 11:50 AM

Barbadoslim, when I saw that sketch yesterday I thought of you and enjoyed a nice, nonmalicious little chuckle. You can hate me all you want for liking Star Trek, but I refuse to quit you. You hear me? Refuse!!!

Posted by: Shinykate at May 11, 2009 11:57 AM

the shocking appearance of The Barry Gibb Talk Show.

THIS is what I need to be alerted to.

Posted by: Jay at May 11, 2009 11:59 AM

Spock is the motherfuckin' man!

Speaking of motherfucking, that song is all sorts of wrong/just right.

Posted by: Melissa at May 11, 2009 12:20 PM

Nimoy is 78 I think...and he'd going to be a recurring guest on Fringe...which I like so bite me

Posted by: Luke at May 11, 2009 12:36 PM

I love the video because the women are age appropriate to having given birth to the guys and because they're dressed very mother-ish. What good sports Sarandon and Clarkson are!

And opening the video with their coming emerging from the Brooklyn House of D, dick-boxes in hand, was pretty funny.

Posted by: samantha t at May 11, 2009 12:48 PM

Well, I haven't written a fully fledged "review," because... well, I stopped doing that when I stopped doing it for Pajiba. Kind of lost my taste for it when I stopped being paid. Now I just write brief comments on MLW letting people know in wildly over the top positive or negative exclamatory terms how I feel about films I've just seen.

So if anyone gives a shit, I can whore myself out with the best of them from time to time...

Which is, of course, exactly what Quinto, Pine and even Nimoy himself did on SNL. They, of course, are top shelf, while with my meagre offering I end up looking, comparatively, like a fifty dollar streetwalker. But in the end, we're just dickering over price; we all end up with the same job description.

But then, in my world view, people all fall into one of three categories: whores, pimps or innocents.

But that, my dears, is a story for another day.

Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at May 11, 2009 1:00 PM

Could be he's seen it and his hand is too tired to type...

Is this how you talk about me when I'm not around? Oh Patty, after all these years, you're finally ascendant. I'll be waiting at our usual place.

emerging from the Brooklyn House of D, dick-boxes in hand

"One set of keys; one wallet; one New York driver's license; eight dollars; one comb; one cell phone; one dick-box ... soiled."

Posted by: ted boynton at May 11, 2009 1:01 PM

And by the way -- I only linked to my own comment about the film; but review itself by another MLW and discussion by the MLW membership is worth a look.

Just saying.

(THAT, incidentally, wasn't whoring. Just guidance to another site's take on the issue. Weird distinction, since I did link once again to MLW, but... you figure it out.)

Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at May 11, 2009 1:05 PM

I have to agree, Dustin; I knew Abrams was a television wunderkind, but until this film, I didn't realise he was a motherfucking genius. I just... didn't.

Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at May 11, 2009 1:12 PM

Wow... pimps, whores and innocents. Way to be Captain Bringdown, Mary.

I do like your passive-aggressive "when I stopped being paid" comment.

Posted by: Patrick McShaughnessey at May 11, 2009 3:04 PM

Timberlake isn't bad, but there is a limit to hyperbole. Better than Hanks or Goodman? Not even in the conversation.

Posted by: solomonslines at May 11, 2009 6:04 PM

Patrick -- it wasn't intended to be passive-aggressive. I quit, I wasn't fired.

Ask Dustin. I mean, sure -- I SUCKED at film crit; on the other hand, I also got all the goddamned KIDS' movies. Just because I have a friggin' kid...

My heart was NOT in it. I'm a political writer. It's hard to work one's loathing for all things BushCo into a 5 paragraph review of Curious George, you dig? There are only so many puns you can think up about the irony of George W. and that title when the movie doesn't have thing one to do with the smirking chimp himself...

Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at May 11, 2009 6:20 PM

Fucking Hulu...

Posted by: FabMax at May 12, 2009 7:35 AM

You've got to see the spoof of this that was done for Father's Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSerNyhxNl8

Posted by: Billy at June 11, 2009 8:34 PM


















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