SNL 40th Anniversary Special
 

Anyone watched (or is watching)?

Wasn't it last night?

*researches*

Saturday Night Live's 40th anniversary....on a Sunday? Wow....I guess Valentine's is stronger.

If it was, then I'm watching a rerun.

Nah, I just assumed that SATURDAY Night Live would air on a Saturday....and I was wrong.

Curse you NBC!!!

What happened was, Last night they played the very first episode of SNL.

I turned it on just to see. It's somewhere in the middle.

I've never been a huge fan. I watched more during the Will Ferrell era. I thought it was pretty good then. Still I feel MADtv was much better.

I've been tuning in through out the week on VH1s SNL marathons to see what the really old ones were like and during the 90s since I never watched it back then.

They were ok I guess. Thought they would be better.

SNL was never as good as it's best sketches, if that makes sense. It's like sifting through poop for the corn.

Haha, I'm pretty sure it's only 'cause they needed the dates to match up to be precisely 40 years.

That's how it almost always is, but I was (mistakenly) expecting this one to be different - since, you know, it was a 3-hour-long special episode and everything. Only bits I really enjoyed were the Jeopardy game, Murray singing about Jaws, and McCarthy's impression of Chris Farley. Aside from that...meh.

Loved the Blues Brothers bit, most of the Update segment, Californians and Celebrity Jeopardy. A couple of the montages as well as the opening lead by Martin. Paul McCartney and Paul Simon added a nice touch.

I would have preferred Cyrus have been left out of the opening. She just does not fit with all the others. I turned it off when the West guy showed up to sing. He did not belong among the others either.

Mr.Bill!
Mr. Freakin Bill!

A lot of it felt awkward to me, like DeNiro.

I will like to see this again skipping the parts I could care less about and rewatching what I enjoyed. Will it have an encore presentation or a DVD release? The DVR went out yesterday morning and apparently did not keep my set recording.

Had to work so I missed it, plan to watch it tonight with my wife. I've seen the Jeopardy bit because it's "trending" on FB and I watch the In Memorium where they said Lovitz was dead. I hope it's at least OK.

As for the date...the 1st episode of SNL debuted in October of 75...*shrugs* I'm still betting on not wanting to spoil Valentine's Day

Yes! When I was a teenager(90's) SNL dominated my life! I may have squealed a little when I saw Turd Ferguson, Norm Macdonald is my favorite comic/cast member ever, so needless to say was on the edge of my seat laughing like a fool during this.

Quick question: Did they honor the late Don Pardo?

No,unfortuantely it got left out.:(

Let me know if its a DVD release for this.

Where the Hell was David Spade? There was only on screen for half a minute in one sketch and they didn't show really any of his old clips.

The Simpsons and two CSI episodes aired when this was airing. I watched those live, but I had the SNL special DVR'ed and watched it today. So I skipped the Miley Cyrus and Kanye West performances.

I DVR'ed it, and I thought about recording it on a tape. I'd probably get it on DVD (or better yet, Blu-ray) if they put it out, though they most likely won't.

Anyway, it airs again this Friday at 8pm.


I don't know how, but I started watching the show in the 21st season, and I was a junior in high school.

I hate to say this, but although the Jeopardy! sketches can be a little funny, I'm not sure what the basis of them is.

They did honor Don Pardo. They showed him among all the other SNL alumni and crew members who've passed away.

Thought it was pretty good. Liked the Break song, the Wayne's World, and Jeopardy. Seemed to skew to "new" SNL. Not much from the 80's and 90's a little from the 70's but mostly the Otts and 10's. Pardo, Gilda, Farley, Hartman, Belushi, and Hooks probably deserved more than a place in a photo montage.

My coworkers were talking about this, today. I wished that Eddie Murphy revisited an old sketch, like Gumby.