SNL 40th anniversary show tonight.

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#26
Greatest skit imo was the Chevy Chase/Richard Pryor word association skit. That was cutting edge TV. SNL took addressing racism to an entirely new level with that skit. It was one of those skits where you were like, "Oh my God, I can't believe they just did that!"
 
#28
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Weezer said:
Greatest skit imo was the Chevy Chase/Richard Pryor word association skit. That was cutting edge TV. SNL took addressing racism to an entirely new level with that skit. It was one of those skits where you were like, "Oh my God, I can't believe they just did that!"
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"Dead honky!"
 
#29
#29
I really wanted to see Garrett Morris reprise his role of a prisoner and sing "I'm gonna get me a gun and kill all the whiteys I see" would have been fun to see that break the internet
 
#30
#30
Eddie Murphy's lack of involement was still my biggest disappointment. During the musical number, I kept expecting him to do James Brown, or Stevie Wonder. Especially when Piscopo did Sinatra, I thought, okay, here comes Eddie, then no Eddie. Huge letdown imo.
 
#31
#31
It was sad to see Clark Griswold looking so bad. Hopefully he was just on something and not failing. He is the oldest of the original cast by several years.

Edit: actually Garrett Morris is the oldest, Chevy is 2nd oldest.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
It was sad to see Clark Griswold looking so bad. Hopefully he was just on something and not failing. He is the oldest of the original cast by several years.
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his pre show interview with was awful. He was asked a bunch of question and never really answered them. Stuttered. Sad.
 
#35
#35
Was really good of what I saw. The Californians skit was horrible. Haven't watched the last hour yet
 
#36
#36
People always talk about how much better SNL used to be compared to now, regardless of when "used to be" was and when "now" is. I watch a lot of the old episodes now. I love the cast. I realize it was ahead of its time, but it's painful to sit through entire episodes. It's easy to romantacize how good it used to be when we tend to only watch the highlights from the past.

I grew up on the Mike Meyers, Carvey, Hartman, Sandler, Rock, Farley years, and to me they were the funniest. When I watch those episodes now, it's like 2 good skits, 1 OK skit, and 7 duds. That's not how I remember it at all.
 
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SDV said:
Was really good of what I saw. The Californians skit was horrible. Haven't watched the last hour yet
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I love that skit, but they overdid it even before Taylor Swift appeared and she was horrendous. Her valley accent sounded like she was imitating a deaf person.
 
#38
#38
n_huffhines said:
People always talk about how much better SNL used to be compared to now, regardless of when "used to be" was and when "now" is. I watch a lot of the old episodes now. I love the cast. I realize it was ahead of its time, but it's painful to sit through entire episodes. It's easy to romantacize how good it used to be when we tend to only watch the highlights from the past.

I grew up on the Mike Meyers, Carvey, Hartman, Sandler, Rock, Farley years, and to me they were the funniest. When I watch those episodes now, it's like 2 good skits, 1 OK skit, and 7 duds. That's not how I remember it at all.
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In other words, exactly like the current SNL seasons that everyone says are so awful. Like you said, the older seasons seem to get romanticized because of how we only remember the best sketches that get played over and over. The show has always been hit and miss.
 
#39
#39
Cowherd was going on and on about Miley Cyrus' performance of Paul Simon's 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. He played an excerpt and I wasn't all that impressed.
 
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#46
It was pretty amazing what they pulled off last night. I haven't watched it all yet, but the parts I've seen were great.
 
#47
#47
TrueOrange said:
Singing and performing in concerts, shows, etc, for almost 60 years will do that to a voice.
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Of course. And the more you wail, the worse it is. It's such a sad shame with Daltry. Dude was amazing and now he's paying for it.
 
#48
#48
Taylor Swift should never be asked to appear on SNL ever again. Not as a singer, not as an actress, not as a comedian, not as anything!
 
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#49
volger said:
The first few years defined SNL. Anything after that was copycat and wannabe. It was a steady decline after that. The 80's and 90's were hit and miss. I haven't watched since then.

Eddie Murphy and Phil Hartman breathed new life to the show imo
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Hartman was amazing. It's a tragedy he's not still around.


I thought the 90s were pretty good, but a large section of its popularity seems to be how they carried/handled the OJ trial.
 
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