Da Daily Dank

Saturday Night Live goes for the trifecta tonight as “The Dude” Jeff Bridges hosts while a pair of high profile rappers occupy the musical guest slot. In the midst of a major career comeback, Eminem will be joined On SNL by newly freed Lil Wayne. While Eminem has spent most of the year enjoying a resurgence in popularity on the strength of his new album Recovery, Wayne has spent most of the year in jail. No word on whether either or both artists will find their way into sketches tonight, or whether those sketches will address either of their ongoing career sagas. Meanwhile, the hosting duties of Jeff Bridges will almost certainly include some kind of sendup of his Big Lebowski character known as The Dude, because really, how can it not? As far as tonight’s music, props to Saturday Night Live for having the guts and range to have a living legend like Paul McCartney perform one week and cutting edge hip hop artists like Lil Wayne and Eminem the next. If only the show’s sketches, which thus far this season have largely been rehashes of older sketches which weren’t all that funny to begin with, had the same range or guts.