Much like winning an MTV Moonman award, Taylor Swift talked about how she wanted to host Saturday Night Live ever since she was a little girl.
In her first SNL appearance as host Saturday, the 19-year-old country and pop star broke into a musical monologue to open the show and sang about how she wasn’t going to mention Joe Jonas, talk about Kanye West or comment on the rumors that she is dating Twilight hottie Taylor Lautner.
But she did.
She sang to Joe, who publicly broke up with her after cheating on her with actress Camilla Bella, that she’s fine and hosting SNL. She winked, mouthed a “hi” to Taylor Lautner and blew him a kiss. As she wrapped up the monologue, two bodyguards appeared on stage with a sketch of Kanye, who had interrupted her MTV VMA acceptance speech, and shouted that SNL was going to be a great show because “Kanye West is not here!”
Swift, who appeared in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation earlier this year and just wrapped up the movie Valentine’s Day where she met Taylor Lautner, held her own with SNL’s veterans, portraying Kate Gosselin with a combed over, back-flipped wig as a guest on The View and wearing braces to portray a teen spokesperson in a commercial for TRAAPD (Teens Raising Awareness About Awful Parents Driving). In the TRAAPD commercial, she said that people complain about teens driving while texting, but parents are much more dangerous because they drive:
while lecturing to their kids
while trying to get something out of their purse
while trying to balance hot coffee
while rushing to a Nordstrom sale
while giving the talk about the birds and bees
while talking to the GPS
while revealing family secrets
while trying to find the cell phone you dropped
while having a sarcastic conversation with the car in front of you
while singing along to a song you don’t know the words to

Taylor also was hilarious as Bella in an SNL spoof of the Twilight movie, while trading barbs with an obnoxious wedding reception guest played by SNL queen Kristin Wiig and donning a goatie and corn rows as a tough ex con at a juvenile detention worker.
She ended her SNL appearance the way she began, singing. She sang her award-winning hit song, “You Belong To Me” and her new song, “Untouchable”.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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