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Alright, I'll Admit It: I Don't Get Justin Timberlake I'm not trying to be a jerk, I just really don't get him. He's on SNL constantly, and everyone I know always acts really excited about that, but I'm not one of those people. And I can't even really put my finger on why, because he's really, really good at performing and he's more polished than half of the actual cast in his delivery, but it's just not my thing. It started with his furry Speedo guy sight gag in those God awful Love Guru trailers (admittedly more Mike Myers' fault than JT's but still -- he agreed to it and really went for it), and I guess the last straw was that stupid homophobic "Single Ladies" sketch from a few months ago that everyone loved for some reason surpassing logic. There's just something about him that reminds me of the guy from high school who got voted "Most Likely to Be on SNL One Day" who constantly put on "skits" at football rallies and was the self-proclaimed class clown. He's a ham, I guess, and while I tend to like super-hams (huge Hugh Jackman fan right here), he's an immature super-ham, and I just can't deal with that. I'd love it if he stuck to singing and dancing -- two things he also does very well but that don't bother me when he does them -- and stayed away from being a comedian, is what I'm saying. And I need him to stop making that dopey smirk. It drives me nuts.

This is what I'm talking about:


And the sketch that people seem least able to shut up about (this one bothered me a lot less and I actually did laugh a few times, but gah -- Britney virginity jokes in 2009? Ugggghhhhh):


And here's a bit from this weekend that he wasn't in that made me laugh. As Karen Walker would say, it's funny 'cause it's true:


Thoughts on this matter? And feel free to leave your Timberlake-as-a-comedian love in the comments. It's only fair.

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