Zooey Deschanel's efforts as the host of "Saturday Night Live" were, kind of surprisingly, quite great. Though, when a news story as big as
Whitney Houston's death breaks mere hours before the live show, it does put "SNL" in the weird position of being a "topical" live show, but not really. (The same thing happened last year on the day of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting in Arizona.) An image of Whitney Houston alongside Molly Shannon ...