Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson camps it up on SNL

One of the best opening parodies I've seen since Jake Gyllenhall and the "Brokeback-meets-Dreamgirls" bit.

I saw an interview with him last week where he was lamenting his single status. The interviewer pitched in with "Ladies, you heard it here" and Dwayne stopped her and said not to leave out the guys. Interviewer looked kind of confused but went along with it anyway. Needless to say, I fell in love all over again.

Never a WWE fan, I was less than thrilled when I heard Johnson was going to host SNL the first time about 10 years ago (as The Rock, as we notes in the monologue). Great, I remember thinking, another sports figure who can't act or make fun of himself. Boy was I surprised by how charming, multi-talented, and (yes) sexy he could be. In the first hosting gig he even sang a decent cover of "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" I was smitten.

But this week's SNL made me fall even harder for him! I literally squealed during his Chicago-inspired opening. His "The Rock Obama" sketch was hilarious. And he did some hot hula dancing in a Hawaiian restaurant sketch (during which I realized we just don't get to see enough of this man's knees...)

My dream: He gets cast just once without his physicality being a factor. (I know, ironic considering how much I appreciate his physical attributes.) But I think he'd be surprisingly refreshing in a smart romantic comedy or an indie serio-comic workplace drama where he just gets to utilize his natural charm.

 

I have to say I've not watched the show for quite a number of years but that was a HOT opening number. He has a great sense of humor and the talent to pull something like that off without it being over the top. That put a smile on my face and rise in my pants!.

 

I like The Rock, and thought that many of the skits were funny as well. Go figure. The Neil Patrick Harris eppisode and now The Rock episode... Maybe SNL finally hired some writers who are actually funny.

Much Love, Brian

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I enjoy Mr. Johnson when he hosts SNL.  When he hosted in 2002, he dressed as Drunk Girl's sister and he played a gay bartender in one of those "The Girl with No Gaydar" sketches.  He also sang in that sketch, but I can't recall the song.

Dwayne Johnson is about as good as they get and come.  The most infectious smile I have ever seen and I have to just say that he is the complete package of a man.  He is one that everyone in the family can relate too because he has build a career of being all over the place.  To the jocks that love wrestling and even football, to the kids and tweens for his Disney stints and the action lovers he done a great deal of movies for the thrill-seekers.  I can't leave out the desperate and lonely housewives, that look over at their husbands getting bored and disgusted at the fact that they let themselves go.  Then you have his fabulous gay following, we have a body of art to admire openly and secretly, if you get my drift.  Did I forget to mention his body, which is completely a work of art, carved and crafted into this masterpiece.  From his skin tone that isn't just as dreamy as Palmers Coco Butter on sale at the Dollar Tree and I can't leave out that color which is completely french-kissed by the sun.  There is this true mystery of The Rock and that is the fact that you have no ideal what his ethnicity is, lets just say a beautiful blend of everything.  I know the truth of matter that no really cares because he is that smoking hot, that he melts not just my heart but tv sets and movie screens alike.  The Rock is an alien from another planet and I would want to take my starship and land on that planet and never leave.  Goddamn, the man is just so fine.  He has been a 'friend of Dorthy for a minute and it would be a sad day on this planet when he stops befriending his biggest fans, the Average Gay Joe.