Saturday Night News with Brad Hall

This week seemed lighter on jokes, aside from Hall's lenghty John Hinckley bit. While that had an alright payoff, the whole thing seemed to stretch a little too long. Other than that, more photo-based humor (a picture of giant paper rolls on a story about a diarrhea research grant, Jerry Lewis "inflating" his bride). The "Ed Koch's long lost Chinese children" joke had promise but was marred by a cheap punchline ("an hour after the wedding, he felt like getting married again") Fortunately, Tim Kazurinsky's two segments made up for the jokes tonight. Kaz's first segment was a return engagement from Havnagootiim Vishnuuerheer, answering more Unanswered Questions of the Universe. The audience loves it as usual; this one also stands out a bit more than the others in my mind thanks to a few of the jokes (dictators favoring sunglasses and thin mustaches). Kazurinsky's other segment, as George Washington enthusiast Seymour P. Huggins, is the real highlight. Right away, Kazurinsky realizes he still has his mustache on, which he rips off almost immediately while he enters as Huggins. Through much of this segment, Kazurinsky's tri-corrner hat keeps sliding off his head, and Brad Hall repeatedly reaches in to fix it. Eventually, Kazurinsky gives up and takes the hat off (to applause), but then Hall seems to start yanking on the wig's pony tail, until eventually Kazurinsky rips that off (revealing he's still wearing his Havnagootiim Vishnuuerheer bald cap). Throughout all this chaos, Kazurinsky is delivering lines about Washington sleeping around, Martha Washington having splinters in her hickeys, and the Washington Monument being a true representation of what the first President really looked like. It may veer a little close to the territory Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz went into during their time on the show, but here it's just fun. Brad Hall seems to debut a new sign-off tonight "Goodnight, right on."

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