I laughed my head off at Jon Hamm - that cracked my shit up. The rest of it was okay - it was a fun experiment. They can go back to regular film now. 
She was probably sober for the East Coast version. I’m a little disappointed they didn’t do the nip slip, maybe with an actual blue cardboard dot taped to her nipple.
Jon Hamm and Matt Damon’s “haha, I was in on the surprise the whole time!” were the only bright spots.
The Fox News joke, “Hi, I’m blonde” was the lowest I’ve ever seen in recent memory. I was disgusted with how they went for the easiest joke known to man.
The timing was off for everything; people seemed uncomfortable in the space, Alec Baldwin seemed to be grandstanding throughout. His performance made me think of all of his bizarre antics in the news, whereas Jack Donaghy bears little resemblance to the real Alec Baldwin.
I thought the reason for that was it was Jenna playing a character on the sub-SNL quality TGS, where the writing is weak and they go for the low-hanging fruit, rather than Jane playing a well-written character on 30 Rock.
Correct. It was a satire of TV satire, not of Fox News.
Ienjoyed it. As a one-time thing I thought it was pretty cool.
HULU has both versions up now.
Meh. I thought of that, but frankly the real SNL does garbage like that, so I didn’t buy it. The audience loved it.
I liked it well enough. Alec Baldwin seemed to be channeling the ghosts of bad SNL hosts past. Definitely performing to the camera. Wonder if that was deliberate in homage to his many SNL appearances.
It dawned on me late in the show that they have to do JLD as Sarah Palin. It would have been a great bit. Too bad they didn’t try that.
Spaceman can sing!
On the West Coast version Spaceman did a very sly finger quotes when he called himself a doctor. Pretty funny and subtle.
Yeah, he did that on the East Coast version as well. I laughed.
Great link! Thanks.
Thanks for the link. You have to wonder if the writer understands what he is writing about when his first paragraph contains the phrase, “…subtle tweaks made between the two different versions taped for the east and west coasts…”. Italics mine.
I’m pretty sure Dr. Spaceman had the best line of the night:
“Baby, let’s let the dog watch us. Do you think he understands the love that we have? Oops, I’m finished, call yourself a cab.”
Of course it was taped. You think they’re never going to show it again? True, it was taped as it was being aired, and that is a distinction for a live show, but everybody who will see the reruns, or watch Hulu to see the differences, or get the DVD, will see a taped version. It’s completely clear that the writer had to record the first broadcast to compare it to the second; he wasn’t doing that from pure memory. He wasn’t comparing as he watched either. The article is timed at 4 am.
Except that he writes that the show was “taped for the east and west coasts”, implying that it was taped for broadcast on the east and west coasts. Which it was not. It was broadcast live. That was the whole point of the exercise.
A better choice of words would have been, “performed for the east and west coasts” or “broadcast for the east and west coasts”.
Does anybody know who played the “flashback” Jack? You know, the one with the smaller penis? 
I turned it off minutes after the first commercial break due to the overpowering stench of Bad SNL Sketch.
I thought it was fun, particularly Jon Hamm’s commercial.