The “pre-game” show is airing right now.
Fan Votes:
1970’s sketch: Hamburger Hamburger Hamburger (John Belushi centric)
1980’s sketch: Mr Robinson’s neighborhood (Eddie Murphy)
To me SNL is kind of a like Dave Kingman at the plate. Home Run or Strikeout. Hopefully a home run tonight.
Yes I am. 40 years of SNL is a big deal.
No hamburger, cheeseborger!
G.E. Smith on guitar! Too cool!
I’ve enjoyed the whole thing so far.
What the hell are they doing to Paul Mcartnys voice??
Filtering it through a 60s era Voicebox?
My wife and I are finding it borderline unwatchable. They refuse to show more than 2-3 seconds of any given clip. There was a 6-7 minute period where they must have shown 100 different punchlines. None of the new content has been funny and it’s mostly been a parade of A listers there for seconds.
There is nothing else on tv tonight though.
“What about singers named Paul”?
Liked the reenactment of the Bass-O-Matic spot. And the New York sequence. But yes, a bit breathless at times.
The “Jeopardy” skit killed! Who was doing Sean Connery?
I first noticed Paul McCartney’s voice going bad on SNL when he was on for the 30th anniversary of Lennon’s death.
IIRC, there was even a thread about it.
40 years is pretty impressive but they almost completely lost me before they hit 20. Shame really because despite being below the core demographic age my older sister kept me up to watch when the original cast was still on.
At 7-8 I mostly liked Mr Bill.
Amazing the amount of stuff I still remembered later in reruns though.
This whole extended segment of “The Californians” [del]had better have the payoff to end all punchlines or I shall be extraordinarily ticked off at the writers…[/del] has me extraordinarily ticked off at the writers
They throw those Californian sketches in so you can go pee and put the clothes in the dryer.
Darrell Hammond did Sean Connery as usual. BTW, that skit was supposed to revolve around Norm McDonald as Turd Ferguson but then Norm got fired. So they made Connery the guy who was on every episode.
I’ve been enjoying it, even though some of the individual moments, and whole bits, haven’t done much for me (“The Californians” was one long “I don’t get it”). But it’s been worth it for the stuff that’s worked (a new Celebrity Jeopardy!) and just to see everybody.
Kind of like SNL as a whole.
Super bad move doing the Californians.
This Martin Short/Beyoncé part going on right now is the best part so far. Everyone is hilarious - except fucking Garth and Kat goddamn they are terrible.
I’m generally enjoying this tho!
I notice some of the performances are getting a little loose, which suggests to me that, like the Golden Globes, liquor may be being served at the theater.
I’m recording it on the DVR but watching the “Grantland Oscar Preview” on ESPN.
Meh, wanted to like it but it seems typical SNL…
repeat…