Live from New Jersey, it's Saturday Night!
So, the former love of my life/ full-time obsession Jon Bon Jovi
hosted SNL last night, and as KarTek mentioned in the last post's
comments, how apropos that I was able to watch it from our shared
homeland. So, a couple of observations:
JBJ: What a businessman. The first commercial during
the show was for their new album, and the band played during the
opening monologue and I think again later, even though they weren't
the musical guest, the Foo Fighters were. And he mentioned the new
album during the opening monologue. Which brings us to...
Richie Sambora: Drunk! Poor guy. He totally forgot
his second line out of only two!
David Bryan, formerly David Rashbaum, the keyboardist
who I have totally talked to on the phone when I worked at an
entertainment law firm: What is up with this man's style. His
aggressively curly hair was bleached blond and he appeared to be
wearing an oversized, wide-necked, bespangled '80s mom sweater. Is he
going through some sort of life change?
Then I fell asleep, because I've been traveling for the greater part
of the past three days.
hosted SNL last night, and as KarTek mentioned in the last post's
comments, how apropos that I was able to watch it from our shared
homeland. So, a couple of observations:
JBJ: What a businessman. The first commercial during
the show was for their new album, and the band played during the
opening monologue and I think again later, even though they weren't
the musical guest, the Foo Fighters were. And he mentioned the new
album during the opening monologue. Which brings us to...
Richie Sambora: Drunk! Poor guy. He totally forgot
his second line out of only two!
David Bryan, formerly David Rashbaum, the keyboardist
who I have totally talked to on the phone when I worked at an
entertainment law firm: What is up with this man's style. His
aggressively curly hair was bleached blond and he appeared to be
wearing an oversized, wide-necked, bespangled '80s mom sweater. Is he
going through some sort of life change?
Then I fell asleep, because I've been traveling for the greater part
of the past three days.
Labels: comedy, living the stereotype, rock, the jerse, travels
posted by Colleen @ 3:43 PM
10 Comments:
At 8:25 PM,
Julie Klausner said…
I saw SNL too, and quoth me from my IM convo with Tom just now; Richie Sambora looks like one of the hot messes on Rock of Love. Like something Rick Solomon would stick his dick inside of. Eek! Do not want. PS. WELCOME BACK!!
At 2:53 AM,
Anonymous said…
Richie was not drunk. Seriously. It's unfair to say so, he's been working realy hard to be sober and HAS been for the past 5 months now. This is the hardest bit of his rehabilitation, getting himself strong again and coping with his body changing as a result of the lac of alcohol. He has lost ALL of his confidence nearly, he's had 4 months of sould seraching that's been really difficult.
This is the part where people need to commend him, NOT just say he's drunk. He's not, he's recovering.
At 5:42 AM,
S.Nason said…
Besides New Jersians (is that right?) only Texans are prouder of their home state. Did you know that there is a New Jersey anthem? Maybe you can use your old contacts and send this to Bon Jovi to update.
http://www.njstatesong.com/
At 7:24 AM,
Colleen said…
JK--haha! and thank you
anon--do you Google Richie's name so you can defend him? I'm not happy that the man appears to have relapsed, but that looked a lot more like drunk than lacking confidence.
Steve--I know! According to my mom, Bon Jovi was in consideration for the state song with their tune from the tourism commercials, "Who Says You Can't Go Home."
At 3:39 PM,
Julie Klausner said…
Maybe Anon is Richie's AA sponsor. Talk about Anon!
At 5:34 PM,
ecs said…
I was reading trashy mags with a 23 year-old co-worker last week and there was a pic of Richie Sambora and Lindsay Lohan, and I was all, "girlfriend has a daddy complex" and co-worker was all, "who's Richie Sambora?"
Umm.....
At 6:22 AM,
JDizzle said…
I saw SNL and laughed my a$$ off at the intro skit. Hilarious! I did feel a little bad for the Foo Fighters since JBJ stole the whole show and only let them perform once! Kinda blows.
At 7:02 AM,
Colleen said…
jk--totally! anon sounds like a good AA sponsor though. or at least a good bon jovi fan.
ecs--kids today don't know anything.
jd--i LOVED the opening sketch. story of my life! except jon never stepped out of his poster in real life, and i did not become an SNL personality.
At 1:55 AM,
Anonymous said…
Colleen, you clearly know nothing about alcoholism or recovery from it. This is the stage where having that drink would make things a whole lot easier for him.
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