Saturday Night Live

[dimejinky99]

[Happy Trees]

One thing I can say for certain is that I'm reasonably disturbed by how old all of my idols look now.

Krist Novoselic needs to back off the creepy uncle vibe. Officer Dangle wants his pornstache back.

[zeb]

Saw Bargatze in the crowd. Maybe he’ll be in something tonight.

Guaranteed.

Spoiler: show

[zeb]

These shows where they bring a billion acts together to play are usually terrible. This was fantastic.

Cher!

Brandi Carlisle is a powerhouse.

Eddie sounded great.

Nirvana needs to tour with Post.

Fire Fallon into the sun.

As usual, E9 and I are on the same page.

[Ensign9]

[zeb]

[96583UP]

watching this red carpet thing live

not as annoying as the music show

but still pretty annoying

yet i can't look away...

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Eddie Murphy as Tracy Morgan was so fucking great

[96583UP]

yeah that was the best part of the show for sure

reminded me

i saw paul mooney at caroline’s one frigid dark cold winter night years ago

sitting at my table, show about to begin

right before mooney takes the stage, Eddie Murphy briskly walks in with Ed Norton Jr and they sight just to my left like 6 feet away

there was like 1 table separating us

show was hilarious and accented along the way by seeing and hearing eddie murphy laughing along

nothing like watching the show and laughing and then hearing eddie’s distinct high-pitched laugh ring out as well

later i smoked a cig out front in the set break and lionel richie walks out and lights up a smoke too

he wanted nothing to do with me

was awesome they are all so black

i am so white

RIP Paul Mooney

[wease]

Damn! I don’t think this is going to end.

[Ensign9]

First half was strong aside from that bizarre, energy-draining swap out of Eddie for MAGA Hanks during Jeopardy. And I don’t think any musical artists who played Friday should’ve had another number tonight.

The rest was mostly awkward, wasted time. You could feel the weight of 50 years in the lack of energy. Lorne all slumped over, frowning onstage at the end, looking tired, was the perfect personification of how the whole thing just tailed off.

Anyway, Cher and Brandi Carlisle won the weekend.

[Stickman]

Amy and Tina's Q&A was the funniest bit for me.

2nd was Update.

3rd was Alien abduction interviews in a tie with Scared Straight

History of NY was fun too.

There were a few laughs throughout the rest but with that many moving parts, timing always seemed off. Not waiting for the audience to finish with the laugh before delivering the line, guests flubbing their lines/ not reading the card and so on.
Some tech issues too: Sabrina and Paul's mics were muted after their song so their "Live from NY!.." got missed. I could barely hear Will Ferrell over the music. Lil Wayne's mic when down about 20bd after the intro to his song. The camera switch was late so we saw Tom Hanks jump into the sketch before the reveal (them re-using the same lines he had the first time he did Jeopardy fell flat).

I don't envy the producers with having to juggle that many people for 3hrs.

[epilogue]

Miley Cyrus, Brittany Howard, and Questlove should form a super group, record an album, and tour.

Drunk Uncle is maybe my favorite thing SNL has ever done.

Adam Driver as a hot dog.

Steve Martin still has it.

Murphy as Morgan

Streep!

[Monkey_Driven]

Agree about drunk uncle. So fun to have him back.

[wease]

I enjoyed it. Really the only thing that didn’t land for me was Debbie Downer. Other than that, I laughed at least at something in all the other sketches.

Murphy as Tracy Morgan and also in Scared Straight were the absolute highlights. Him breaking after Ferrell got out there was golden. And that had to be special for Morgan to be standing right next to Eddie Fucking Murphy playing him. I can’t even imagine.

Wish we could’ve seen Jane Curtin, Aykroyd and Chase in something. Murray fucking killed on Update. And there was practically nothing from the ‘86 cast. Lovitz was in that bit with Tina and Amy, but that’s it.

I did find it odd some people were in more than one thing.

All in all, a great and fun anniversary.

Oh yeah, glad to GE Smith there, too!

[epilogue]

I enjoyed it. Really the only thing that didn’t land for me was Debbie Downer. Other than that, I laughed at least at something in all the other sketches.

Murphy as Tracy Morgan and also in Scared Straight were the absolute highlights. Him breaking after Ferrell got out there was golden. And that had to be special for Morgan to be standing right next to Eddie Fucking Murphy playing him. I can’t even imagine.

Wish we could’ve seen Jane Curtin, Aykroyd and Chase in something. Murray fucking killed on Update. And there was practically nothing from the ‘86 cast. Lovitz was in that bit with Tina and Amy, but that’s it.

I did find it odd some people were in more than one thing.

All in all, a great and fun anniversary.

Oh yeah, glad to GE Smith there, too!

Yell yes!

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[zeb]

RE: Andy Samberg

Have you seen Sushi Glory Hole?

[Monkey_Driven]

Thought the special was great. Not phenomenal, but better than your average episode, and with enough solid laughs and heartfelt moments to make it all feel like a fun ride. The technical hiccups didn’t bother me. I do feel like they leaned too hard on newly minted celebrities in an obvious attempt at relevancy. But honestly I’d take a questionable newbie like Sabrina Carpenter over an established black hole of talent like Kim Kardashian.

Finished this tonight and I largely agree with this. They did an admirable job of keeping things light and joyful while also acknowledging current events. I do think it's important to laugh and celebrate and it was very enjoyable to see different eras work together.