Jennifer Lawrence

If there's one thing viewers learned from the latest episode of "Saturday Night Live," it's that Jennifer Lawrence sure doesn't mind poking fun at herself. As the host for the evening, the "Silver Linings Playbook" actress took multiple opportunities to make light of recent news headlines as well as "The Hunger Games" franchise.

Fresh off her Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical win at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards, Lawrence started strong with her opening monologue, which made fun of what some thought was a dis toward Meryl Streep during her ceremony acceptance speech. "I would never trash talk any of my fellow nominees at the Golden Globes, but the Oscars are another story," she said with sass, before throwing jabs (and closing praise) at her fellow Oscar nominees, even including 9-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis. "You think you can beat me? Whatchu talkin' bout, Wallis? Also, the alphabet called. They want their letters back," she told the audience. Much like the real Tommy Lee Jones during last Sunday's award show, an impersonator in the crowd kept a poker face, at least for most of her jokes.

When Lawrence wasn't playing a wannabe New York lesbian bandmate or a contestant on a canine version Top Chef, she kept the self-targeted jokes coming, particularly during a skit where she reprised her "Hunger Games" role as Katniss Everdeen for a news conference only a short 10 minutes following Everdeen's win in the film.

Sitting alongside a lookalike Games' character, the District 12 warriors were bombarded with a series of silly questions like "What the hell kind of name is Katniss Everdeen?" and "Have you been using performance enhancement drugs?" But one of the best questions came from a reporter (naive to the annual tournament's concept), who asked: "Did you have a chance to speak with any of the other competitors after the game?" Exchanging confused looks with her male tribute, Everdeen replied, "They're all dead...That's how the 'Hunger Games' work."

Lawrence hit another high note during her cameo in "SNL"'s trailer film parody of "The Hobbit" and its never-ending sequels. In "Hobbit 10: The Elf Queen Tries To Pick An Outfit," Lawrence appears as the elf queen with long blonde hair and contemplates which white dress she should wear. "We are going to be so late," says one hobbit, to which she barks back, "No we aren't!"

As the Luminers teased with MTV News in rehearsals, the 2013 Grammy-nominated band continued their PR momentum with a performance of smash "Ho Hey." While it wasn't the confetti-filled party like in the song's video, the fivesome appeared to have just as much fun during the number. Before a red-lit set, the group chanted the feel-good tune as a few of the bandmates hopped and pranced beside each other. Returning to the Studio 8H stage just a few skits later, the folk-rock group performed their second single "Stubborn Love." As the sounds of guitars, drums and the cello filled the stage, the band wailed the movie soundtrack-ready tune and was met with roar of applause.

"SNL" went old-school, and we mean 1860s old-school as Lawrence ended her hosting duties with a skit about two lovers exchanging letters during the Civil War era. Despite the amount of eloquence and tender love that dripped from her character's writing, her fiancé's vapid responses included a photo of his genitals.

"Gregory, we are through," she says in a final letter. "Harold Thompson has returned honorably from battle. I have accepted his proposal of marriage and burned the photograph you sent of your genitals with the inscription: now you."

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Parsing What Jodie Foster Did (and Didn't) Say

Now that everyone’s had time to process Jodie Foster’s speech, accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes – replay it here — responses are flooding in from all corners. Ms. Foster’s lengthy, somewhat rambling monologue confused viewers who thought she was retiring from acting. Her Wikipedia page was briefly updated to say so, though backstage in the press room, Ms. Foster denied that she would ever stop performing – “you couldn’t drag me away” — while adding that she would like be to directing “tomorrow.”

“I’m actually more into it than I have ever been,” she said of filmmaking.

The highly personal speech drew tearful responses from celebrities at the ceremony. Backstage, Lena Dunham, the “Girls” star, called it “mind-blowing,” later writing on Twitter that it was a highlight of her night. Others were also moved to post on Twitter:

Richard Dreyfuss

@RichardDreyfuss

Jodie Foster is one of the most amazing actresses of all time. More than that she’s one of the most amazing people #goldenglobes

 Adam Shankman

@adammshankman

In the most beautiful and real way, jodie Foster just stole the #goldenglobes.

But the most commented-upon of Ms. Foster’s remarks was a possible declaration of her sexuality. She referenced “coming out” and mentioned Cydney Bernard, a production manager, as “my heroic co-parent, my ex-partner in love but righteous soul sister in life.”

At The Wall Street Journal, Eric Sasson criticized Ms. Foster’s speech — “It felt confrontational, defensive, disjointed,” he wrote – and suggested it was a mistake to not make a more upfront statement. “I’m pretty sure that when someone famous comes out publicly that they aren’t automatically forgoing their right to privacy,” he said.

Ms. Foster has actually mentioned her relationship with Ms. Bernard before, in 2007, without much fanfare. But the critic Kate Aurthur, at Buzzfeed, posited that “the mainstream media didn’t know then, and still doesn’t know, how to report on the lives of gay celebrities who don’t make a huge, public declaration.”

On Facebook, the Bagger’s colleague Frank Bruni wrote, “It’s precisely BECAUSE Jodie Foster’s coming-out — if that’s what it was — had such a stop-start, am-I-doing-this, I’m-scared-but-determined quality to it that it was so powerful.”

In the press room, Ms. Foster was composed in talking about her career. She said that thinking about her directorial debut, “Little Man Tate,” can sometimes move her to tears: “It’s like a first novel you write; it’s the most you and in some ways painfully you, because you see all the words and all the, you know, the lack of confidence. But it was such an important moment in my life.” The films she made as an adolescent, “when I was, you know, chubby and had pimples and, you know, had a weird voice and made faces, I have a hard time looking at those,” she added.

She declined to comment on the more personal parts of her speech — “it stands for itself and it’s an expression of who I am and what I’m thinking and feeling,” she said – but hinted that her future projects would be highly personal.

“Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for,” she said. “And I will never be tired of that.”

Newly Single Jennifer Lawrence Reveals Golden Globes Date

Sure, it would have been awesome to see Jennifer Lawrence walk the red carpet at tonight's Golden Globes with Nicholas Hoult, but don't count on it.

As you may have heard, the couple recently broke up after two years together.

Instead, it will be a family affair for Ms. Lawrence. "I can bring both my parents, which is amazing," she told me at yesterday's BAFTA Tea Party at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. "It was originally just a plus-one."

As of yesterday afternoon, the Silver Linings Playbook star was still choosing between two Christian Dior dresses for the big night. "I'm not a fashion person so me looking at a sketch is like looking at a long-division math problem," she said. "I just don't know what I'm looking at so it's really nerve-racking."

Also not so high on Lawrence's radar of things to look forward to is the possibility of winning.

"I think of the nightmare of getting up there and like my pants falling down and instead of me saying, ‘Thank you,' I end up being like, ‘Screw all you guys!'" she cracked.

Here's hoping her Dior dress stays up.

Meanwhile, Les Misérables star Amanda Seyfried revealed she'll be wearing Givenchy tonight.

Make sure to watch the Golden Globes tonight on NBC at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. (E! Online and NBC are both part of the NBCUniversal family)