I thought Rihanna’s Digital Short on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live was by far the funniest of the night (jointly with the Vagasil bit). Rihanna did a song with “Shy Ronnie” played by Andy Samberg. The best part was that Rihanna didn’t speak – she sang whatever she needed to say to Samberg, and it ended up being hilarious.

RIHANNA was the musical guest on the weekly show and performed two new tracks from her Rated R album – but she also showed off her comedy skills when she appeared in a digital short with comedian Andy Samberg, who won a Grammy Award with Justin Timberlake for his D**k in a Box tune.

Samberg played a nervous schoolteacher, called Shy Ronnie, and quietly mumbled through a rap duet with Rihanna, who was prompted to add “Speak up” to the rhyme as she encouraged the character to be more assertive and confident.

Terrified Ronnie then wet himself, prompting a stunned Rihanna to rap, “Oh no, he p**sed himself.”

Rihanna also scored fashion points with her medieval style – she wore a red chainmail breastplate and hood for one of her two performances. Among her band was Extreme rocker Nuno Bettencourt.

Many fans expected her to poke fun at Brown, who was charged with assault and sentenced to hard labour after attacking Rihanna during a fight in February (09).

[From Contact Music]

Yes, what shocked some people about Rihanna’s appearance was that there was no mention of Chris Brown. No Chris Brown jokes – even though he told 20/20 about writing a song about beating Rihanna, then playing it for Rihanna, and how she cried. There would probably be some kind of joke in that one, but it’s good Rihanna took the high road.

However! Rihanna got side-swiped with some vague criticism for being part of a SNL show that seemed to make light of domestic violence. In the Tiger Woods post, I put the SNL skit where Blake Lively played Elin Woods to Keenan Thompson’s Tiger Woods. The skit was a play on the gossip – still unconfirmed, mind you – that Elin was going after Tiger on that fateful Thanksgiving night where he crashed his car into a fire hydrant and a tree. Personally, I wouldn’t doubt that Elin did come after him with a golf club, especially considering what we now know of Tiger’s extra-marital relations. But the fact is, we don’t know for sure that that’s what happened, and I thought the SNL skit was one of the rare topical and funny parts of the show. Real domestic violence isn’t funny – unconfirmed gossip about Elin attacking Tiger’s Escalade with a nine-iron is a little funny. I thought the skit was a fair hit, but other people disagree, and they’re starting to get all “how could SNL do a domestic violence skit when Rihanna was on the show” and “how could Rihanna just stand there” et cetera.

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