Jennifer Lawrence Pulls Her Punches During ?SNL? Oscar Rivals Monologue

If you need an idea of how intensely competitive Oscar campaigning has become, look no further than Jennifer Lawrence's opening monologue for Saturday Night Live. Given the ridiculous media tempest that arose from Lawrence's First Wives Club "I beat Meryl Streep" reference at the Golden Globe Awards, I figured that the show's writers were going to address the issue in Lawrence's opening segment. And they did ? in such a half-hearted way that it sounds like some negotiating went on to make sure that the Silver Linings Playbook star and Best Actress nominee didn't say anything that would hurt her chances to bring home a statuette. The monologue started out in promising fashion. The Tommy Lee Jones stuff was genuinely funny and Bill Hader's Tommy Shuffle deserves to become a genuine dance move. And then, when Lawrence told her fellow nominees, "Ladies, I love you all, but you're about to get served," I thought, for a few seconds at least, that the Silver Linings Playbook actress was going to earn her comedy warrior stripes by playfully dissing her competition and sending up the whole Golden Globes controversy.

It started out that way, at least. Here's how Lawrence began:

"Well, well, well, look who it is. Jessica Chastain. More like Jessica Chas-ain't winnin' no Oscar on my watch!  In Zero Dark Thirty, you caught bin Laden. So what?  In Winter's Bone, I caught a squirrel ? and then I  ate it. Boom! Deal with that."

And then ? boom! ? Lawrence pulled her punchline, so to speak.  This is how she ended:

"Also every time I see you act, I learn

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