Saturday Night Live

i'm having funny w/ this, but the A.D.D. montages are painful

I can't believe Jimmy Fallon has failed his way to the top, what a huge pile of mediocrity.

Newman hasn't been on stage (yet). I saw Spielberg & Capshaw in the audience as well.

ok, muting it now

the Miley cover was pretty all right tbh

Would rather hear her sing that than Simon, tbh.

This is the best way to watch SNL -- one episode every 30 years or so.

Ha. Should I turn on?

kanye getting like 8 mins of this to perform & do floor exercises shd prove hes goat imo

You'd think they'd have saved up some good material for this thing.

How embarrassing. I was about to call them out for not remembering Terry Sweeney, but then I found out he's still alive.

FInally visually confirmed that Valerie Dee Naranjo is indeed in the band.

ok the jon lovitz thing was funny

Was he singled out for any particular reason?

No reason other than picking on Jon Lovitz is funny.

I would've done this show completely differently...interview style, focus on the eras, the writers' room, get former cast members talking to each other about things and see what kind of conversations develop, and whatever. Not, I repeat NOT, try to recreate Celebrity Jeopardy and Wayne's World and Bass-O-Matic sketches with old people. And why McCartney? Kanye? Miley? Paul Simon? The fuck do I need to see music performances on this occasion for? Ugh. Anyway, it's finally over.

Also, very worrying to me is that it seems like John Goodman could die any day now. Eeesh.

chevy chase looked worse, frankly

yeah chase looked like he gained 40 additional pounds, but fuck him anyway

I actually thought the celeb jeopardy standard bit was funny. Sean Connery et. al.

Glad to see Fallon and Sanz called out for breaking.

this is like... shoah long

FB comment: "Whenever Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake perform it's like watching the jocks dress up as Devo at my high school talent show."

shoah long, it's been good to know ya

JF (and Morbs' fb commenter) otm.

Bill Murray's re-creation thing was the only one that worked.

i thought norm was funnier than ever. tbh i lol'd a bunch during this, and sure it was uneven at times but so is every SNL episode ever

Wasn't Eddie Murphy in this?

yep he just gave a "great to be here, enjoy the show"

murphy had what seemed like a ten-minute lead-up from chris rock, then came out for 60 seconds to thank the audience, then had a "live television moment"

i don't think murphy is anywhere near as loathed as chase but i do get the feeling that he's not exactly loved; his appearance had every hallmark of him and his agent stipulating that he had to be on stage effectively solo (save for a few seconds w/ rock), basking in applause and almost nothing else. god forbid they put murphy into a skit like the other peons.

Apparently even he has standards.

Not saying his appearance was remarkable, but I'm glad he didn't come out in a Gumby suit or Buckwheat wig like the other cast members reprising their greatest hits.

The Jon Lovitz RIP thing was great. It was just as funny when Dave did it though.

Jeopardy and weekend update p much the only funny things. Murphy appearance was ridiculous.

Odenkirk appearing kinda made me hope he gets to host

needed more of things like bill murray singing jaws

yeah bill murray really committed to that, god bless him

although oddly they staged it in a hallway; had they used up all the stage space?

whole murray thing felt super improvised to me. like it wasn't rehearsed at all, they just told bill to sing about jaws.

review:

http://www.vulture.com/2015/02/snl-40-was-patchy-but-it-had-moments-of-magic.html

btw whatever you think of Simon, his initial appearance (3rd episode?) with Garfunkel in '75 played a huge role in drawing attention to the show.

when is the piscopo comeback gonna happen

Besides Eddie (and the members of "the ringer season"), Piscopo was the only representation during the whole night of the Ebersol years right? They were lean years, sure, but not entirely devoid of funny people I'd have liked to have seen.

I remember the 15th anniversary SNL special (which, iirc, was their first such star-studded retrospective/reunion dealie) and Piscopo was in the audience wearing a sleveless tux to show off his weird-ass body-built arms. And it wasn't meant to be a comedy bit. I think he even flexed when he realized the camera was on him.

xpost Jim Belushi

I played with the app a little last night and it's fun, but def a big step up from shitty YouTube content but a big step down from actually having full episodes. A mix of stuff you'd thought you'd never see again, stuff you've seen a dozen times, and stuff that's not there for whatever inexplicable reason (one of these days I will prove that I saw a circa-2001 sketch loosely about Melt-Banana, but that day is not here)

Huge points off for providing the first 30 years in the wrong aspect ratio

take it to the AV Club buddy

Word, gotta pad those two grafs out to 8 or 9

This show stinks, always has. Get out a DVD set of one of those early series with the 'classic' cast and even those episodes are 75% crap.

Ooh yeah agree murray was good too. And seemed v spontaneous.

Xxp

Is there not an Android version of the app? Because fuck an iPhone.

Huge points off for providing the first 30 years in the wrong aspect ratio

^^^this, ugh

My favorite part of the show though is getting to search by cast member and watch stuff from Sarah Silverman, Ellen Cleghorne, Terry Sweeney, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, etc.

did J L-D make an appearance last night?

I did lol that dennis miller and victoria jackson were both awol