Saturday Night Live 40Th Anniversary

For sure. When you see Chris Farley take off his shirt for laughs more than twice in the same season, that's a sure sign of writers who have run out of ideas. That was gross. They also had trouble sometimes finding the right material for Bill Murray. I remember him mostly for his movies. "Groundhog Day" and "What About Bob" are classics.

Looking back at some dates on Wikipedia, I guess it was around 2001 and 2002 that I got really attached to the show. I haven't missed many episodes since then.

I guess my main problem with Alec Baldwin is that I have trouble separating his fictional characters from his obnoxious real world personality, in my mind. I love it when they play up the rivalry between him and Steve Martin. Remember when Steve (fictionally) hit Alec in the head, rolled him up in a rug, and threw him out of a high window in the 30Rock tower? Steve's acting on that segment was just priceless. Comedy gold.

Of all the people who have hosted only once, I'd have to pick Payton Manning as my favorite. I've seen that episode at least four times.

 

that is gold.. I need to see that.

 

I agree....and nor should it have been........each montage brought back a flood of awesome memories that I associate with the various decades....the current running show is still mostly funny just like it always has been....they hit most of the time and miss occasionally......we all do

 

Some of the clips were so short that if you hadn't seen the skit before, the clip wouldn't mean anything to you. Hard to cover 40 years in one night.

Got to check out that new archive app. First thing I want to search for is Richard Pryor. My husband hasn't seen his "dead honky" word association skit with Chevy Chase.

 

The special got me in the mood to dig out my old Blues Brothers "Briefcase Full of Blues" album and play it all week. For a lot of young people back in the day who didn't have much exposure to the blues, Belushi was definitely good enough to make us want to hear and know more.

Hey Bartender:

http://youtu.be/ZzP0GCILr7c

Shotgun Blues:

http://youtu.be/7Hwt5lvQ3zw

...and, I have to give Dan Aykroyd his moment:

http://youtu.be/U6LEVhxjtds

 

I wish the show would have done ALL clips from past shows instead of the "live" stuff they did. SNL is a classic show, but some of the skits over the years caused me to change the channel. As far as Chase goes, I've never liked that guys show biz persona. He just isn't funny.

 

They also used some of the movie profits to start up the House of Blues national chain of music venues, which now spotlights not only blues performers but jazz and classic rock.

Several noteworthy live DVD's have been filmed in the House of Blues in New Orleans, but my personal favorite is the one in North Myrtle Beach, SC, because of its open air bar. Most bars around here with live music stages are only for those aged 21 and over, but this one has no age restriction. The bar itself has a roof over it, and there's a roof over the stage, but the dance floor is open air. Cover bands play there all summer long, playing all kinds of cool vintage music. Parents hang out around the bar, while their kids dance in front of the stage, and get indoctrinated on the value of older music. The venue also has an indoor bar for winter use, and a large indoor space for headliner acts, of course.

You might enjoy some of the "decade" shows that have run on VH1 and VH1 Classic on cable in recent weeks, if you can find them. Each one is an hour to an hour and a half of SNL clips from a specific decade. I've seen them all. I don't think Lorne Michaels wanted the reunion show to be too much of a duplicate of the "decade" shows.

 

I had it on last night and watched bits and pieces. The old clips were hilarious...the newer stuff I give a "meh". Paul McCartney...rocks no matter what..I mean the man is in his 70's. I read several things about his performance, that song is hard for him to sing, he did a concert the night before and did that song...then the SNL show. I'm sure the old dude was worn out.

 

It's 106 miles to chicago, we have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark...... and we're wearing sunglasses! Hit it!

 

NBC just ran that episode at ten! Laraine Newman did a great job on an Exorcist skit. Episode 2 was also the first appearance of John Belushi as the Samurai.

 

Great stuff


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2b21yAeEpQ




Hotwater

 

Dead Honkey! Lmfao...... I enjoy his expressions just as much as replies.

 

Richard Pryor was multi-talented, and somewhat ahead of his time. Most of America wasn't ready for his style of humor until after he was dead.

He was a better SNL host than George Carlin.

 

I grew up listening to him, Eddie Murphy, Cheech and Chong and many other albums my parents had/listened too. He was ahead of his time! The movie 'the toy', he was the only man who could play that role at that time.
All of his work is great and they just got iirc 40hours of him on audio/video? Article was vague but said it was a two year ordeal and that the people who now have it will produce it. Always nice to find a time capsule of great comedians, singers etc.

 

It's a classic


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i thought it was ok. i remember watching its first few seasons. i didn't think it was THAT great. by the standards of television it was ok though.

 

I guess the 40th anniversary celebration is finally over. Saturday's schedule on NBC is for just one new episode, and no old ones.

All this week, VH1 Classic has been running two episodes a day from the year 2000. What a great season! Will Ferrell, Cheri Oteri, Ana Gasteyer, Jimmy Fallon, Rachael Dratch, Darrell Hammond, Maya Rudolph, and Molly Shannon, all on the cast at the same time! I love Colin Quinn's Weekend Update sign-off line, "That's my story, and I'm sticking to it."

Thinking back to the first decade of the show, I remember a few things about its cultural impact. From the first episode, remember the skit where John Belushi clutches his chest and falls out of his chair? The first time I saw that, it wasn't on TV, but sitting in a junior high school (middle school) class. A guy got sent to the principal's office for acting it out during class. Almost everything that guy did or said was an impersonation of John Belushi, Steve Martin, or Peter Sellers (Clouseau). I guess every public school had at least one guy like that, back then.

Maybe an honest advertising slogan for SNL would be, "Corrupting America's youth and providing inappropriate role models for 40 years!" :rofl:

Before I ever got around to watching the movie Animal House, I heard about an idiot at my college having to get stitches in his head for trying to crush a beer can on his forehead, at a party. Everywhere he went, everybody said things to him like, "Damn, did it never cross your mind that Belushi might have used a fake can in the movie?" :rofl:

Fun memories.

 

Aluminum cans are easy , you can help it along with a little dent with your fingers gripping the top..

Tin cans are not, even with a little help.. its going to hurt ..

there is a trick to do and of course trick cans would help plentiful ..