'Saturday Night Live' Recap: Taylor Lautner and a Show Full of Tiger Woods Jokes

So it turns out Saturday Night Live was saving most of its Kanye West-Taylor Swift jokes not for Swift, but for this week's show hosted by her boyfriend Taylor Lautner. And they were just as lame as you'd expect.

The only thing worse would have been if SNL made a lot of obvious jokes about Tiger Woods - and that's just what happened: it seemed as though half the show last night consisted of Tiger material.

Woods was the subject of the mirthless cold-open. And then Jason Sudeikis played a PGA Tour commissioner made nervous about Woods' announced "indefinite break" from the tour in no fewer than three unfunny promotions for the PGA tour. As an incentive Thurs keep people watching the golf tournament, they promised that "if you hit a slice, you get hit by Kimbo Slice" and that whoever gets the "worst score has Thurs appear on an episode of Jersey Shore." Judging from the APPLAUSE for the mere mention of that phenomenon on MTV, SNL should have done a parody Jersey Shore this week. Even when the writers make the right reference, they're doing the wrong sketch for it.
But wait, there was more: Three Tiger jokes is a "Weekend Update," including a character-mom for Nasid Pedrad as "mistress number 15," Pedrad's performance was good, it was the punchlines that failed her.

The first time I laughed was when Fred Armisen wheeled out his "Native American comedian Billy Smith" during "Update." I can not help it: I love Armisen's Inventive varieties of bad comics ( "These jokes kill is the reservation").
To those of you who've noted how little most of the female cast members are given to do, it's worth noting that Abby Elliott put in more screen time than she probably has all season, and that Kristen Wiig limited herself! Just One Big , horrible, screech-out moment, as nervous "Aunt Sue."
Oh, right: host Lautner. They danced at every opportunity, such as a show-choir skit, but there was certainly no Glee to be found here: