Sorry I was so late on this recap everyone! But, it looks like I didn't miss much, as this turned out to be just another, generically dreadful episode, although Blake Shelton did about as well as he could, given that he's not an actor or anything.
COLD OPEN: We start off immediately with technical problems, as we can't hear anything but the audience for the first minute or so, but eventually we get a spoof of A Few Good Men with reporters yelling at Taran's Tom Brady over the "deflategate" scandal. Meh. Go Seahawks! That's all I have to say about this.
MONOLOGUE: Blake Shelton comes out and sings of course, doing a Hee-Haw bit about country jokes. Eh- I don't like this either. It falls flat despite Blake's efforts.
FARM HUNK: Premise starts off promising, with Blake spoofing the Bachelor and all the girls as idiot contestants, but it goes on way, way, WAY too long, and amazingly none of the jokes about the girls are funny at all. That should have been a softball right down the middle, shouldn't it?
WISHING BOOT: This is a music video with Kate, Aidy and Blake singing a country song, but it's not funny. Although I'm not quite sure it's supposed to be either- it actually sounds like a real country song, so maybe that was the angle of it. Which makes it boring.
FAMILY FEUD: Kenan's Steve Harvey hosts Celebrity Family Feud, with the contestants doing impressions of the American Idol versus The Voice judges, but they all suck today. Taran's Adam Levine is best, but Kenan's one-liners are terrible.
UPDATE: A really bad one, with many of Colin and Michael's State of the Union/football jokes going over like total duds, to an audience who's just not having it. A new character comes on in the form of Bobby as Michael's friend "Riblet" from high school who wants to steal his job, and then his ex-girlfriend. Didn't work for me though- did you guys laugh at that? I do have to say I'd prefer to see Riblet anchor Update over Michael Che. Pete also comes in with another stand-up bit about gay anxiety, but it's just okay. Man, this show is struggling.
PAROLE BOARD: Kenan does a Shawshank spoof of Morgan Freeman's last speech about redemption, but he's a cannibal who doesn't want to stop eating people. This one's okay, I guess. Not painful, but not hilarious either.
MORNING SHOW: Another Blake singing sketch (we've seen quite a bit of that tonight) as he's hired to sing a tribute song to an old man's dead wife- it turns out to be a roast. This one is mildly funny, and probably a better sketch of the night.
MAGIC SHOW: Blake heckle's Taran's magic show and begs for him to give him the power to "go down on himself." Okay, so that was maybe a bit chuckle-worthy, only because Blake really kind of went for it with the enthusiasm there.
So this was a very bad episode, but Blake tried and I kind of feel some sympathy for hosts who aren't actors or comedians. But the writing wasn't there, although the worst stuff was at the top of the show and got less painful in the second half. I still have to give it a D, because nothing made me laugh tonight. Next week it's J.K. Simmons- I sort of have to wonder if they're struggling to get guests right now- no offense to him, but is there anyone who watches this show that knows J.K. Simmons by name? See you next time!
