Tina Fey was the host and Carrie Underwood the musical guest. Fey of course is my favorite and it was fantastic to see her in the host role.

Her opening monologue was interrupted by a familiar SNL face: Steve Martin. You can watch it below:

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The opening itself was pretty hilarious, with Fred Armisen playing Barack Obama, which was a big mystery leading up to the show. No one knew who was going to get the job of playing Obama and they kept it under wraps until showtime. I thought Armisen did pretty good.

The skit was a great rip on CNN and the supposed bias towards Obama and you just have to love Amy Poehler and Kristin Wiig.

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There was also a surprise guest on Weekend Update: Mike Huckabee. He was interviewed by Seth Myers and the topic was the mathematical elimination of his chances in the Republican Primaries. Great stuff!

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Tina Fey also hopped on Weekend Update to give her input on Women’s News, and here is a clip of what she has to say about Hillary Clinton and women voters.

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Another pretty funny skit was a mocking of There Will Be Blood with a SUPERB impression of Daniel Day Lewis. The skit is about Drinking Milkshakes, which was a line from the film that has sort of caught fire on the web. Basically, he tells someone that he Drinks His Milkshake, sort of meaning he OWNS him. The skit is pretty good and the impression of Lewis is fantastic.

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And here is a new SNL commercial, this time about women and “periods”…oh my gosh.

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There was a ton of great stuff, but those are the highlights. Next week it’s Ellen Page hosting and Wilco performing. So great to have this show back!

Huckabee crossed WGA picket lines Wednesday afternoon to be on the Jay Leno show, amidst total confusion about who struck a deal with the Writer’s Guild of America.

From MSN.com:

Huckabee said he supports the writers and did not think he would be crossing a picket line, because he believed the writers had made an agreement to allow late-night shows on the air. That’s not the case with Leno, and pickets outside Leno’s Burbank, Calif., studio targeted Huckabee.

“Huckabee is a scab,” read one picket sign.

Opps. That can’t be good for your image at the beginning of the Presidential Primaries. More:

Late Wednesday, the Writers Guild of America issued a statement saying that the guild “thanks the former governor for his strong statement of support for striking writers and hopes that he will not cross the picket lines at NBC.”

However, Huckabee appeared on the show despite the calls from the striking writers, according to NBC.

Wow. I mean, it was pretty obvious to anyone that only David Letterman and Craig Ferguson had struck deals with the WGA, so how could you totally ignore that?

Whatever the reason for what he did, this is absolutely hilarious to me.

I’m off to watch Letterman, who apparently had a hilarious show tonight. From MSN, they had this highlight:

During his monologue, stagehand Biff Henderson interrupted Letterman to say, “When are the writers coming back?”

“They’re back, Biff,” Letterman said.