SNL 40th Aniv Show

[Eismann]

Either I'm overly positive or you guys are all a bunch of ********. Just try to enjoy something a little unfamiliar maybe?

YOUR A BUNCH OF ASTERICKS, YOU DUMM STUPIDHEAD LOLJKJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!111111

[FreeCandy44]

Nice...Waynes World!

[FreeCandy44]

Awesome Beck joke(s)

[Pavel Bure]

Wayne's World still got it

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Is Paul Simon gonna sing a Miley Cyrus song?

[FreeCandy44]

This Paul sounds better than the other Paul.

[FreeCandy44]

Is Paul Simon gonna sing a Miley Cyrus song?

Nice

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

I never realized how much he looks like Teller

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

Zang

[FreeCandy44]

Still a good show. :)

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

It was good overall but some of it was just like "why". The stupidly long Californians sketch, Eddie Murphy doing nothing in particular, Kanye, etc.


Oh well

[Juice]

Either I'm overly positive or you guys are all a bunch of ********. Just try to enjoy something a little unfamiliar maybe?

YOUR A BUNCH OF ASTERICKS, YOU DUMM STUPIDHEAD LOLJKJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!111111

:)

[FreeCandy44]

No Rob Schneider? Dave Attell? Jim Bruer? Victoria Jackson? Jay Mohr?

[penny lane]

This Paul sounds better than the other Paul.

You're allowed one shot at Sir Paul, not two.B-)
Lennon and McCartney watching together when Lorne Michaels pleaded for their reunion. That would have been a moment.
I wonder if they asked for Lennon alone in the early years?

Gilda Radner gone too soon. It was not perfect, but a great TV night.

[FreeCandy44]

Penny as usual....gets it. Good night LGP and have a pleasant tomorrow.

[tifosi77]

Haven't watched the whole show yet (Mrs Tif packed it in after the Weekend Update thing), but up to this point it has been pretty spectacular. So many loltastic bits.

[Spangler]

Only thing that kinda bothered me was when Chris Rock hyped Eddie Murphy as practically the greatest SNL cast member, and then he comes out with nothing funny.

Also Chevy Chase looking like he's about ready to burst out of his tux.

[eddysnake]

I didn't get it. 3 minutes of show, then commercial. Repeat. Worse than a NFL game. I turned it off, so maybe it got better? I suppose it would be better on dvr, but it was a 3.5 hour show showing parts of sketches that just made me want to turn on Netflix and watch the best of so I could see the entire sketch. I enjoyed Seinfeld talking to Larry David.

[Jim]

So at first I thought Kanye's performance was a tribute to the D*** in Box skit.

Nice!

[Jim]

A few things...

* It was not a SNL show, it was not supposed to be. It was a 40th anniversary special. It is supposed to be talking about the 40 years, showing clips that made those 40 years great, and maybe redoing doing old skits/characters as tributes (ie: Jeopardy and even Roseanne Roseannadanna).

* The Californians sketch had no place in this show. Not only did it not make sense in theory, it was not a good sketch period. The cut other things to do that sketch? How bad were the other sketches?

* The musical guests were bad choices. Kanye West? Seriously? I don't even get that. Miley Cyrus? Paul McCartney needs to retire from performing, PERIOD! He has that old person shaky cotton mouth thing going on which is NOT good for a singer. Paul Simon was the only one that actually made sense since he was a big supporter in the early and dark days.

* A John Lovitz devil cameo would have been cool.

* I know that the original cast gets a lot of cred for the show... but it is amazing to think what came out of the 84-85 season. Billy Crystal and Martin Short were only on the show for 1 season. Think about their characters and then consider that all of that is from only 1 season.

* The 40th overall, there were a few questionable choices and a couple straight bad choices... but the majority of the show was pretty good.

[eddysnake]

Did they show the chippendales sketch? It doesn't get much better than that for me. I always enjoyed watching other people trying to keep a straight face when Farley was on.

[skullman80]

Celebrity Jeopardy was the highlight and that happened pretty early on.

[DudeMan2766]

Did I post in this thread last night? I pretty drunk. Gonna read thru it after work

[DropEmJayBird]

I thought they could have sprinkled in some "behind the scenes" precorded commentary about famous sketches.

Could have drown in the cast members who have passed... like have David Spade talk about why he laughed so much at Farley's motivational speaker sketches with maybe a little insight into something that happened during rehearsal.

If it was me - I'd cut the music out totally. I could care less who the musical guest was for any show ever... and if I'm watching a recorded version of SNL I just fast forward the music act.

[count2infinity]

Did they show the chippendales sketch? It doesn't get much better than that for me. I always enjoyed watching other people trying to keep a straight face when Farley was on.

there was a clip of it.

Celebrity Jeopardy was the highlight and that happened pretty early on.

That was definitely the highlight for me as well... The Californians sketch killed the entire thing, and then I got back into it and Kanye performed and killed it again.