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By MOLLY DAVIS
Taylor Swift knocked it out of the park Saturday night.
She hosted “Saturday Night Live,” and has added another career to her already overflowing plate of accomplishments.
Comedienne.
She began the night in a glittery black number, guitar at her side, and performed the comic “Monologue Song (La, La, La).”
She wowed the audience.
The usually soft-spoken, PC girl stepped aside and was replaced by an edgier version of herself.
In the number, she took a lyrical swipe at Joe Jonas, her ex-boyfriend, calling him a “dbag,” and let him know, as if he already didn’t, how amazing she’s doing and her accomplishments of the past year.
She also took a verbal swing at Kanye West: “You might be expecting me to say/ something bad about Kanye…But there’s nothing more to say/ cause everything’s OK/ I’ve got security lining the stage…”
About her rumored love life, she belted out: “And if you’re wondering if I might/ be dating the werewolf from “Twilight”/ I’m not going to comment on that in my monologue.”
Then she blew a campy kiss and winked at maybe-boyfriend Taylor Lautner, but she’s “not gonna comment.”
Her skits were hilarious.
They included:
Deftly channeling one of my favorite targets, Kate Gosselin, in skit skewering “The View.”
Taylor even looked good with the crazy “Kate” asymmetrical hairdo — which is no small feat — that ‘do is not easily pulled off.
“My hairdresser was halfway through giving me ‘The Rachel’ when his blowdryer exploded on the back of my head,” Swift as Gosselin said, explaining the evolvement of “the Kate.”
Taylor donned another wig to play a Bella-esque lead in an over-the-top dramatic spoof of “Twilight.”
Only in her version of the lovesick teen, dubbed “Firelight,” Swift is not crushing on a vampire — her love interest was Frankenstein.
“I know what you are,” her character says. “You’re green… You have bolts in your neck… You freak out around fire…”
Swift nailed Kristin Stewart’s trademark lip-biting and constant tucking-hair-behind-her-left-ear moves.
It was hilarious.
She had a maniacal laugh in a bit about being interviewed by manipulative celebrity reporters.
In another segment she played a teen, fed up with all the talk about “Driving While Texting,” who starts campaigning against the dangerous things that parents do, including “Driving While Arguing with the GPS” and “Driving While Singing Along To a Song You Don’t Know the Lyrics To.”
The texting teen came complete with headgear and the excess saliva mouth orthodontics cause.
And she was still adorable, mouth metal and all,
The only skit I thought was a little stretch for Swift?
The prisoner “Skeet Deadly,” complete with cornrows, facial hair, prison-issued jumpsuit, Timberlands, and badass attitude in a “Scared Straight” parody.
She was playing a dude.
I just have trouble seeing the uber-sweet singer playing a male, tatted up gang member.
She ended her skits on a high note — the last being an impression of the hip shaking, throaty singer Shakira.
Oh, and she sang her little heart out.
I actually forgot she was also the musical guest, but she reminded me quickly where her roots are firmly grounded.
She performed “You Belong With Me” as her first musical number and “Untouchable” as her second song.
She rocked.
As usual.
“This has been the best week of my life,” Swift said at the close of the show.