VIDEO : Ryan Gosling Might Be The Only One Who Found the 'SNL' Season 43 Premiere Amusing

We're only a couple weeks past Saturday Night Live piling up an absurd haul of Emmys for the show's appropriately hyped, over-praised 42nd season, so that means it's probably time to hop off the SNL bandwagon with a resounding thud and announce, "Man, remember when this show used to be funny? Four months ago?" The kindest thing I can say about Saturday (September 30) night's 43rd Saturday Night Live premiere is that host Ryan Gosling seemed consistently amused. Gosling broke in at least four of his live sketch appearances, a tone that was set early when the night's first post-monologue sketch was the recurring thing with Kate McKinnon as a raunchy alien abductee.