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Videos: <em>Saturday Night Live</em> Welcomes Shirtless Adam Levine, Jerry Seinfeld, "Sopranos" High School
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Published Jan 27, 2013
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After last week's stinker, Saturday Night Live bounced back with last night's episode. Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine was the sometimes-shirtless host—and despite some obvious line reading troubles, he did a pretty decent job mocking himself, especially in the star-studded monologue (featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Cameron Diaz, and Andy Samberg), and the Maroon 5/Train/Jason Mraz/John Mayer dance-off sketch (which, sadly, isn't online).
The return of Samberg and Lonely Island for "Yolo" was probably the biggest highlight of the evening, but our favorite sketch was definitely the killer "The Sopranos Diaries." Fred Armisen did a PERFECT Paulie Walnuts impression. Click through for those sketches, plus the real use of Rosetta Stone, Obama visited by the ghost of MLK, Biden Bash, mocking "Catfish," Arianna Huffington and Ray Lewis on Weekend Update, and performances by Kendrick Lamar.
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