and yes, the Celebrity Jeopardy skit was hilarious. I can't believe I forgot that one. It's a French expression! LE t*** NOW!
The show was the best. "Jaws, you b*stard" was the peak-est peak. The Californians, Taylor Swift in particular was the worst. Kanye was representative of the shows history of cutting edge music. Elvis Costello and The Replacements mess come to mind. Steve Martin said at the top of the show, they wouldn't have time for everyone so, they just cut them out. It gave Lorne free range to cut whomever he wanted and include even obscure cast members he wanted. It's his show and you get a good one doing what he wants. 40 years? shiat, I watched the first one live... with my wife.
I got a pretty good chuckle out of them including Jon Lovitz in the In Memorium segment. <iframe src="https://vine.co/v/OPlplnBeTAa/embed/simple" width="480" height="480" frameborder="0"></iframe><script src="https://platform.vine.co/static/scripts/embed.js"></script>
I guess they had to choose between either copy-machine guy, or David Spade's rude airline attendant. I think the show would have been just fine without either. I was pleasantly surprised to see Sandler not only there but have a big role... IIRC, he was fired rather abruptly from the show indicating there was some wrong-doing on his part. Its just nice to see a true television institution not only still going on but not afraid to honor the past... very rare that there will be another entity that lasts this long in this social media age.
I was also rolling at Garth's "Saturday Night Dead" line (that's the headline for every article every year that pronounces the show as "done"). Reminds me of every SNL thread here where every 5 years, there's somebody complaining that the "new" cast is not as good as the "old" one (when the exact same thing has been said about every cast/era that follows the old one).
It is simply remarkable, American television institution at its finest. American pop culture or just comedy in general, it rules so hard!!!
One more thing.... can't believe I'm saying this but Miley Cyrus actually did a pretty damn good cover of Paul Simon's "50 ways" (and he was in the building and performed well later).
Some highlights for me ( I missed the first 20-30 minutes): Nick the Lounge Singer- Love theme from Jaws Lovitz in the memorium (My wife said, I didn't know he was dead??) Garrett Morris interpretation for the deaf. Wayne and Garth Killed Carvey choppin' Broccoli Sandler and Samberg and the generous use of D!ck in a Box is never a bad thing. I too thought Miley Cyrus wasn't terrible, which was very unexpected. Californians was bad; Kanye was meh Seinfeld Q&A was also good.
Good to see Norm and great that they included one of his OJ jokes - didn't that have something to do with why he was fired before?
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Who was the older, long-haired girl in "The Californians" skit that I think was sitting next to Taylor's character toward the end of the skit? I assume she was a former cast member but I didn't recognize her and any time she did her lines the audience seemed completely quiet....like they did with Taylor Swift's character.
Agreed on all points. I usually liked The Californians but that was not a good run at it. Loved seeing Bass-O-Matic (and then the blender failing). And it's a good thing Victoria Jackson wasn't involved. That could have been a train wreck. The only other disappointing thing was the Eddie Murphy part. Chris Rock did a great and touching tribute. Then to have Eddie come out and do essentially nothing was just weird. Why not at least show a quick burst of his skits? I would never expect him to perform one live again but it just seemed strange to have him standing there accepting applause and then just cutting to commercial.
I think Miley Cyrus was the best musical act. Paul McCartney's voice seemed shot and it's clear that he and Paul Simon aren't the singers they were. Kanye's performance was visually interesting but even accepting the Autotune there seemed to be something off occasionally when he would hit some notes. Anyone know who was the female singer who hid her face? It sounded like Lauren Hill?
