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Katy Perry, Just Quit While You're Way Behind

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under TV Reviews | Comments (34)



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“Saturday Night Live” returned last night with a cold open lampooning Delaware Senator Christine O’Donnell, as well as Amy Poehler’s opening monologue, which included Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, and Jimmy Fallon, and Justin Timberlake. It was good to see “SNL,” at least being a little political, even if the O’Donnell skit (featuring Kristen Wiig) was lackluster and a huge excuse to say masturbate a lot.

Here’s last night’s monologue:

The Digital Short, where musical guest Katy Perry sang the theme song to a movie called Boogerman at an awards show was middling.

One of the few honestly good highlight was seeing David Patterson on Weekend Update.

The Lesbian Wedding at the Mosque at Ground Zero wasn’t that funny, but hey: At least “SNL” is trying to have a political bite.

I never get tired of Amy Poehler and Seth Meyer’s Really, and last night they deftly tackled “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Finally, Katy Perry spoofed Elmo and “Sesame Street,” by wearing an Elmo shirt in a skit, this after her video was pulled from the network. Really, Katy Perry? Really? Aren’t there better and more appropriate targets than “Sesame Street,’ which refused to air your appearance because you were showing cleavage to three-year-olds? Honestly? Perspective, Katy. Perspective.









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Comments

I can't understand why anyone, at any time for any reason would object to Katy Perry's cleavage. You think 3 year olds aren't exposed to cleavage in other forums? BAH!

I SAY THEE BAH!

Posted by: superasente at September 26, 2010 11:01 AM

Can we talk about how spectacularly tone-deaf Ms. Perry is when singing live? My God, she was ear-splitting. Ke$ha sounded better. KE$HA. Karaoke done by drunk, 40-something secretaries sounds better than she did last night.

Posted by: Tammy at September 26, 2010 11:06 AM

Ms Perry, like Ke$ha, is a staggeringly untalented performer, but hell - that's what the kids like these days. Screw it.

She is gifted with an amazingly pretty face and a fascinating decolletage. I saw the Elmo vid and it couldn't be any cuter, if it wasn't for the fact that her adorable little top stopped just above her nipples.
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Posted by: Meander at September 26, 2010 11:21 AM

I quite like these recaps. They reassure me that yes, I am making better use of my Saturday nights than sitting in front of SNL.

Posted by: Lefty Mothersbaugh at September 26, 2010 12:01 PM

I'd wager that the PBS people weren't worried about people being offended by cleavage, but that they'd be offended her utter lack of talent.

Posted by: figgy at September 26, 2010 12:11 PM

No real time review of Sharktopus? REALLY?!

Posted by: TylerDFC at September 26, 2010 12:25 PM

SNL's cutting edge

Posted by: Pork Bowl at September 26, 2010 12:31 PM

is it just me or did the guy that said "i was born boogerman and i'll die boogerman" look like peter sarsgaard?

Posted by: kristin at September 26, 2010 1:06 PM

katy perry should be drowned in a pool of her own urine.

Posted by: stopthemadness aka Angry Black Lady at September 26, 2010 2:07 PM

Heard a couple of her recent songs on the radio today.
Is it my imagination, or is she heavily reliant on Autotune?

Posted by: Simon at September 26, 2010 2:27 PM

SNL's cutting edge
I imagine that as a sharp section of metal behind the audience grandstands where the writers and performers go after each show; they grind their arms and scalps against the razor-sharp metal and, as the cleansing blood trickles down their arms and the pain wraps their head in a mental Snuggie of shock, they forget that they work on Saturday Night Live.

Posted by: Jim Doggie at September 26, 2010 2:45 PM

Boobies!!!!!! rest of the show,meh.

Posted by: clancys_daddy at September 26, 2010 3:16 PM

I second Tyler's dismay at the lack of Sharktopus support when it finally entered all our lives.

Posted by: Fredo at September 26, 2010 3:33 PM

Katy Perry should be allowed to show her talents anywhere anytime! This is America damnit and we invented large breasts and I'm not letting you fuckers spit on our flag! Free Katy's boobs! Free Katy's boobs! Free Katy's boobs! Free Katy's boobs! Free Katy's boobs!

Posted by: logan at September 26, 2010 4:48 PM

Oh my God, CLEAVAGE!? How dare that whore. I mean, it's not as though three-year-olds would otherwise be exposed to the existence of breasts. WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

Posted by: Erin B. at September 26, 2010 4:51 PM

Ok to be half serious for half a second. I'm pretty sure Sesame street isn't a live show and I'm also pretty sure they knew what she was wearing so how is this her fault again? When they taped the show would have been the time to say something. I'm pretty sure she didn't sneak the titty version in at night when the God fearing Sesame street people were sleeping.

Posted by: logan at September 26, 2010 4:52 PM

I am the (un)fortunate bearer of large boobies. I have been teased, mocked and ridiculed from the time I was a pre-teen as a result. People I meet for the first time feel it's appropriate to comment on them. I have been chastised by bitter female employers for wearing t-shirts (T-SHIRTS!) that were deemed too revealing, somehow. I have been accused of flaunting them while wearing turtlenecks. Short of wearing a caftan every day, I've realized that I can't please those that take offence to them...they seem to forget that I didn't choose them or pay for them, but that they are a consequence of genetics and possibly eating too much chicken.

As such, I'm inclined to think that Ms Perry can wear whatever the fuck she wants and that she should tell the naysayers to go suck a nipple. That said, her ensemble for Seasame Street could have been a bit more demure, for sure. The problem is that we're so fucking fascinated by breasts that regardless of what a big boobied girl wears, someone will find fault with it. At a certain point, it becomes easier to wear what you're most comfortable in and stop worrying about what everyone else thinks.

Leave her damned boobs alone, and let's focus on what's really important - she can't sing pop music worth a hoot(er).

Posted by: kalafraja at September 26, 2010 5:08 PM

Eating chicken gives you big boobs?

HONEY I'M GONNA GET US SOME KFC FOR SUPPER!

Posted by: logan at September 26, 2010 5:14 PM

"Karaoke done by drunk, 40-something secretaries sounds better than she did last night."

...hey, hey, hey. Just because Katy's a two-trick pony, don't be mocking drunk 40-year olds singing karaoke. At least we try and don't just stand there and giggle. Damn whippersnappers. Stay off the lawn.

I asked a Sesame Street staffer about The Great Elmo Breastususes Debacle and he got pretty pissy with me, insisting that haters should STFU and that KP was "all about the kids".

Actually I think anyone who goes on Sesame Street is pretty cool. But it was pretty obtuse to think that that outfit was going to fly. It was just a dumb move.

Posted by: malechai at September 26, 2010 6:40 PM

As someone pointed out above, it's not live; they could have changed the outfit. I'm sure they thought it was fine on set, then some people get up in arms, and the decision was made to pull it. Even though it doesn't matter, because it lives forever on youtube, and the "controversy" gave it more views than if was just played with no fanfare.

I also enjoy those boobies. That is all.

Posted by: e at September 26, 2010 6:57 PM

Kalafraja, we should hang out.

Posted by: superasente at September 26, 2010 7:03 PM

is it just me or did the guy that said "i was born boogerman and i'll die boogerman" look like peter sarsgaard?

Is that who it was? I thought he looked familiar but I could NOT place figure it out.

Katy Perry could probably sing better if she didn't wear such ridiculously short, tight clothes that probably impede her ability to use her diaphragm to sing. Of course, you take away her tight clothes, you'd lose half her audience, I'm sure.

The "Actor II Actor" sketch was cute, if only because it asked what I've been wondering. When the hell IS Justin Timberlake gonna release a new album? It's been 5 years!

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at September 26, 2010 8:12 PM

Posted by: Fredo at September 26, 2010 8:25 PM

The problem is that we're so fucking fascinated by breasts that regardless of what a big boobied girl wears, someone will find fault with it.

I really need to find out who these someones are so that I can go back in time and prevent their parents from procreating.

Unless we're talking about ponchos. Because, frankly no one should ever wear ponchos.

Posted by: branded at September 26, 2010 10:08 PM

I find that Elmo T-shirt extremely blasphemous.

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at September 26, 2010 10:10 PM

Weekend Update..... Blind jokes? Really? I made it through about 45 secs.

Posted by: Tsuru at September 26, 2010 10:19 PM

What's with the whole "don't blame Katy" crusade? There's no fault here. She wore a dress that the powers that be at Sesame ultimately decided not to air it because viewers who saw it online complained about it. There's no punishment, there's no blame. And, yes, Katy, you're a churlish ass for wearing a tight Elmo tee-shirt on SNL, especially after Elmo and Grover gave a shout-out to you on Good Morning, America.

Posted by: samantha t at September 26, 2010 10:42 PM

No real time review of Sharktopus? REALLY?!

D'ARRRGH! I FUCKING FORGOT TO SET MY TIVO!
It's bad enough I've been called in to work a 12-hour shift on my day off.
Now several people might die today.

But in the other hand... Boobs.

I'm feeling better now...

Posted by: Rykker at September 27, 2010 3:30 AM

Samantha T- she was just giving a jiggle back to Elmo. It's a like a shout out but with boobs.

Posted by: logan at September 27, 2010 10:52 AM

No one told me I was going to have to sit through 5 minutes of the dumbest sketch on earth just to see some cleavage. Seriously, are the audience forced to laugh at gunpoint or something? They didn't even TRY to put jokes in that. It was just Mike Myer's Coffee Talk but somehow even worse.

Posted by: PaulterA at September 27, 2010 11:15 AM

Dustin are you seriously complaining about Katy Perry cleavage? That's the most unAmerican thing I've ever heard. I hope she keeps going and going so I can enjoy many more years of her quite honestly perfect tits. Fap away.

Posted by: GreenBastard at September 27, 2010 12:41 PM

Forget Katy, the best song ever to air on Sesame Street was by
The Count (censored). Slowly, slowly, slowly getting faster...

Posted by: Smokey at September 27, 2010 2:33 PM

Isn't anyone else bothered by the punctuation of "Really!?! with Seth and Amy"? Since the use of "Really" and their schtick implies a question it should punctuated "Really?!? with Seth and Amy".

Posted by: stardust at September 27, 2010 3:32 PM

kalafraja, yeah, i hear you. i definitely think there can be that misperception with big breasts. i do think, in this particular case, she could have worn something that covered up the cleavage. i would say the same thing if you put a starlet with nice legs in a teeny skirt on the show. It'd be the same thing if a gal with less plentiful cleavage had them on display (although less noticeable)

i think she has great boobs. i'm less worried about boys getting turned on by her breasts, and more worried that girls sesame street age will want to emulate her style of dress. Or that they'll think you have to show your body whilst showcasing your talents. i know we're exposed to a lot of things, but there is no need for this type of thing from seasame street.

Posted by: stump at September 27, 2010 7:50 PM