Saturday Night Live

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

what does jay's newest album have at all to do with the performance? 80% of the album was 'the black album'

er, 80% of the performance

& anyway, jay has always been an amazing performer pretty much, and really he's only gotten better as he & his band have played more shows -- it was crazy to see him do "p.s.a" -- a song prob 20% of the tv audience knew, also the best song he's written in like 7 years -- and a huge part of the performance was not knowing that jay was gonna go on for 10 minutes & watching him transitioning between and teasing joints -- it was a completely thrilling performance and was more exciting than anything i've seen on network tv this year save for 30 rock

seriously if you like "parks & recreation" and are trying to tell me that that jay performance wasn't the shit, just sell your TV and play chess all night

what kind of a monster doesn't like maya rudolph though.

her croaky delivery is priceless, and she's hot

I suck at chess, though. :(

yeah, more than any of the other guests, the show reminded me how much i miss Maya Rudolph

Hey, watched census sketch on Hulu -- funny!

BLAAHRFINGAHHHRRR

i thought that sketch seemed old school

yes, IT WAS FUNNY

it also wasn't the Golden Girls 'shock' of dirty old broad ad nauseum

Hate to agree with Morbs on anything comedic, but that really was the funniest sketch of the lot. Really well written.

And I normally like vagina jokes.

i agree as well, also like the debbie downer and bronx beat on hulu.