""There will be no twerking tonight, now that white people are doing it, it seems kind of lame," Cyrus said during a monologue that addressed her performance on the MTV Video Music Awards and the fate of Hannah Montana ("She was murdered").
Let’s talk about what else did not happen during Miley’s second visit to Saturday Night Live. She did not get naked. She did not rip up a picture of Sinead O’Connor, as rumored. Not one peep about Sinead O’Connor. She did not tarnish the reputation of any sports-fan paraphernalia.
Other than an opening skit about her VMAs performance causing the end of America, Cyrus, who was both the show’s host and musical guest, mostly steered clear of controversy, like last week’s online exchange with Sinead O’Connor. She did, however, play a slutty Michele Bachmann in a We Can’t Stop parody video about the government shutdown. Other sketches featured her as Hillary Clinton in an MTV miniseries, a hip-hop-obsessed high-school student, a sullen morning-show anchor and Scarlett Johansson doing a screen test for Fifty Shades of Grey.
Needless to say, the 20-year-old pop star’s performance, which includes her licking an Abraham Lincoln doll and twerking with Boehner while singing a chorus riffing on her popular "We Can’t Stop" tune, is generating a lot of buzz on the interwebs.
On Sunday morning the unlikely Google combo of "Miley Cyrus Michele Bachmann" pulled up more than 400,000 results. Twitter was also roaring with chatter on the video, much of it positive. It seems Cyrus’ willingness to both mock herself and the GOP appealed to fans, many of whom were divided about her hugely controversial performance at the MTV Video Music Awards earlier this year.