Saturday Night Live

Thing is, it was kind of awesome. I'm just wondering, wtf WAS it?

I mean, was it a prody or something? Some phenomenon? Some culture? Anything at all? It can't have been nothing.

I mean, I have never seen anyone put on a Mace Windu costume and spit cherries.

iron chef

lol Ok.

I felt it must have been Japanese.

see to me it just felt like a retread of the "extreme challenges" digital short with samberg & wiig doing a bunch of bizarre competitions

Dudes, I love Betty White.

I hope they give Seth the night off and let Tina and Amy do the Weekend Update.

lol at bobby m literally having to help betty white get off the couch

they should've canceled this episode and let jay do a 1.5 hour set

otm

I turned this on just in time. Jay-Z sounds amazing.

snl hasn't aired anything this dope since the jeopardy parodies

yeah this is killer

seriously, this performance just shit on all of network television

i assume he's not doing a second performance?

They're letting him go on and on. Fantastic.

the only way i can be happy about hearing "empire of state of mind" is when it interrupts "bonnie & clyde 03"

Holy shit.

They don't even let U2 go on this long.

Ok yeah, that was hot.

i hope jay-z buys NBC and replaces all their shows w/ a loop of his live performances

Aw, you can't say that the same week as the Community paintball episode.

other than jay this episode has been unwatchable

ban mya rudolph

ruining the only reliable part of the show

oh well, not even doing this song w/ a hoarse flea market chris martin can ruin his set

hahaha mr hudson sounds so bad, wtf

i actually dig this song on the album. unpopular opinion, i know.

yea that dudes lil bouncin around & camera pull-back/low-angle was disturbing

A friend on Twitter:

Jay!! This song is awful. I know you think everything you do is awesome but I know tapeworms more awesome than this song :(

This was funny for awhile! Then the monologue ended.

Old lady doing 5 minutes of vag jokes = 2010 'edgy'

posts very much in character

morbs otm tho -- all the jokes where betty white saying "balls" and "lesbian"

Fags at the gay bar were ecstatic over those gags. That's why I'm a homophobe.

hasn't Jay-Z been rapping about his 99 problems for about a decade? Wilco is about as exciting as that shit.

also, honestly didn't know Anglo comedians were still doing minstrel Latino shit. Someone tell Jerry Lewis to take his 'Asian' buck teeth out of mothballs.

morbs is hardbody

maybe if Betty White had pointed out the ironies of American nuclear policies Morbs would've digged it more

I'm just glad they didn't call her Sue Ann Nivens in the radio sketch.

(I guess cuz Nivens isn't a synonym for snatch)

Seriously all you guys that hated on Jay's last album loved that medley? I don't get you guys, he sounded 'meh' at best, when he wasn't all out of breath.

The digital short was k-classic!

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hasn't Jay-Z been rapping about his 99 problems for about a decade? Wilco is about as exciting as that shit.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, May 9, 2010 12:15 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

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Seriously all you guys that hated on Jay's last album loved that medley? I don't get you guys, he sounded 'meh' at best, when he wasn't all out of breath.

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, May 9, 2010 1:27 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

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Jay-Z's rap-metal medley was passable at best, I thought. It's pretty late in the game for him to be amping up and trying to broaden his audience - the dude already knows he runs this rap shit, so why try so hard? - and the constant fading in and out between songs was disruptive. There must have been as much awkward and self-defeating dead space as music. How can you show off your flow if your rhyming is so stop and go?

I mean, in retrospect this morning, props for trying something different but it didn't sound good at all most of the time and this "seriously, this performance just shit on all of network television" is just o_O

I love Betty White, but after a night of drinking and weed smoking, hearing about her "cherry" was a very sobering moment...

You guys are all incredibly pissy. This was funny/entertaining. It was kind of interesting seeing that the biggest difference between old Jay-Z and nu Jay-Z is syncopation.

Here's some deleted scenes:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/snls-deleted-scenes-debbie-downer-bronx-beat-and-the-times-square-bomber/

I think it wasn't funny, although it wasn't at all due to Betty White, it was due to unfunny sketches.

Also MacGruber the movie is getting REALLY GOOD EARLY REVIEWS. WTF -- of all of SNL's movies, is this one going to be their Gunga Din?

thx for the deleted scenes link