# SNL 50th Anniversary show Sunday 2.16.25 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** talk-variety-show\ **Created:** [February 16, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383 "2025-02-16T17:31:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/81 "2025-02-17T16:56:44Z")
Yeah, I guess it was, although he was going through list so fast it was hard to keep up. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/82 "2025-02-17T18:02:02Z")
It would take the entire 3 hours to recognize every passing of someone connected to SNL over the last 50 years. The weekly shows already do a good job of that not long after an alum s death. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/83 "2025-02-17T18:05:02Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > You guys gotta remember that they did a big to-do for the 25th and just 10 years ago for the 40th. So they’ve already done complete retrospectives, twice. It woulda been a huge bummer to see the 40th show again. Just as an aside: Did anyone else feel like the 40th anniversary special was _maybe_ “five years ago”? Lord, the years are fleet. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/84 "2025-02-17T18:07:19Z")
For some more perspective, someone just posted on Reddit incomplete summaries of the 15th, 25th and 40th shows (all being 5-10 years ago of course 🙃) > **SNL 15th Anniversary** > > Laraine and Jane introduce a Gilda tribute > > Aykroyd and Jim Belushi introduce a John Belushi tribute > > Robin Williams does the audience interaction bit > > **SNL 25th Anniversary** > > David Spade introduces a Farley tribute > > Mike Myers, Jon Lovitz, Jan Hooks, Victoria Jackson, Kevin Nealon, and Dennis Miller introduce a Hartman tribute > > Molly and Cheri O’Teri introduce a Gilda tribute > > New Hans and Franz > > Aykroyd and Lorraine Newman introduce a Belushi tribute > > Weekend Update Reunion with Chevy, Norm and Dennis Miller > > Tom Hanks does the audience bit > > **SNL 40th Anniversary** > > Tina, Amy and Jane do Weekend Update > > New Bassomatic > > New Wayne’s World > > Bill Murray does a proper in memoriam tribute a la the Oscars or Grammy Awards > > Norm Macdonald, Seth Meyers, Kevin Nealon, and Colin Quinn introduce a Chevy tribute who appears with Garret Morris ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/85 "2025-02-17T18:27:42Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Wow. That song by Sandler had me tearing up. When I watched last night, I was expecting another of Sandler’s clever, funny songs, like “The Hannukah Song”, and when he started singing I was kind of disappointed and didn’t really pay attention. Now, rewatching the clip, I realize it was really just a (very) touching tribute sorta kinda set to music. It wasn’t meant to crack the tv audience up; it was for the cast and crew and actually very sweet. Also, is his pronunciation of “show” mocking Lorne? The first time he said it, right at the beginning, I thought “Ed Sullivan? What does he have to do with anything?”. When he did it again, I figured it’s some kind of inside joke and with Lorne being Canadian, that must be it. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/86 "2025-02-17T18:50:50Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > When he did it again, I figured it’s some kind of inside joke and with Lorne being Canadian, that must be it. Yeah check out the [intro to Saturday TV Fun House](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdSz3rjgxOM&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive). It depicts Lorne as a cartoon and they use the same affectation on “show.” ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/87 "2025-02-17T20:01:06Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I watched most of it and enjoyed most of what I watched. What I really didn’t want to see was a bunch of clips, for me the best way to celebrate 50 years of a variety show was to keep doing it; and as others have said, the historical clips are available in lots of places. I do not get this at all. It is a celebration of the last 50 years. Not the next 50 years. Remind me why the show has been on the air for 50 years. Have I seen those old bits? Sure. But they are why I like the show which has been inconsistent. Remind me why it is a cultural icon. At my 50th birthday friends and family remembered good times we have had in the past. They did not try to wonder what the future will bring beyond best wishes it was a good one. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/88 "2025-02-17T20:20:38Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Remind me why it is a cultural icon. I don’t think the show was primarily for people who need to be reminded why it’s a cultural icon. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/89 "2025-02-17T20:41:09Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > At my 50th birthday friends and family remembered good times we have had in the past. They did not try to wonder what the future will bring beyond best wishes it was a good one. At my 50th birthday we hung out and had a good time, played some board games, and yakked about whatever. At most there were one or two stories from the past,and my history isn’t as pervasively and repetitively available as SNL (for one thing, there aren’t daytime infomercials on my history) (though that would be both interesting and terrifying). > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I don’t think the show was primarily for people who need to be reminded why it’s a cultural icon I think people tuned in for a number of reasons, and I’d guess that for some of them it was “I like to wallow in familiar past sensations, please deliver that”, and for some it wasn’t. That first group was understandably disappointed; I wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/90 "2025-02-17T20:46:06Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I don’t think the show was primarily for people who need to be reminded why it’s a cultural icon. On what planet are anniversaries not a time to remember the past? If we celebrate the 75th anniversary of Word War II are we meant to remember WWII or ponder what WWIII will be like? ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/91 "2025-02-17T20:49:39Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > The Scared Straight skit was funny. I only saw the show in short bits but this was the only one I found funny. I missed the intro to the skit but saw Will F in lil shorts, lol, then Eddie Murphy said the filthiest thing I’ve ever heard on television. Instead of Santa coming from the North Pole… Lol ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/92 "2025-02-17T20:54:52Z")
Splain Lucy. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/93 "2025-02-17T21:01:29Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > If we celebrate the 75th anniversary of Word War II are we meant to remember WWII or ponder what WWIII will be like? Nah that’s not it. This is more like honoring the 50th anniversary of the Marine Corps, an ongoing institution. You don’t just talk about what happened in the first 10 years of the Marine Corps. You leave plenty of space for talking about the previous 10 years too. If you have a 50th birthday party with all the same folks as attended your 40th birthday party, and your grandchildren aged 1-5, you don’t completely ignore the grandkids. You talk about what has happened since you all got together 10 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/94 "2025-02-17T21:12:18Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > I only saw the show in short bits but this was the only one I found funny. I missed the intro to the skit but saw Will F in lil shorts, lol, then Eddie Murphy said the filthiest thing I’ve ever heard on television. > > Instead of Santa coming from the North Pole … That skit was after 11:00 p.m. on the East Coast. Probably the dirtiest thing I can remember seeing on network television. Funny, but filthy. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/95 "2025-02-17T21:17:26Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Splain Lucy . Watch from 1:36 - 2:40 and then from 6:35 - 7:10. You’ll be caught up. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LNt1l2Kkfe4/maxresdefault.jpg "Scared Straight – SNL50") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNt1l2Kkfe4) ---
**Author:** ![CoolHandCox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coolhandcox/32/16233_2.png) [@CoolHandCox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoolHandCox)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/96 "2025-02-17T21:40:06Z")
I thought they threaded the needle pretty well. I definitely agree anniversaries are about celebrating the past. Here, the new skits were all based on _old_ established characters/skits - some going back decades, some more recent (Domingo; Mulaney skit). Like any SNL show, some worked, some not as much. Overall, fun for me and definitely felt like an Anniversary show. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/97 "2025-02-17T21:56:25Z")
It is nice to see Eddie Murphy in sketches again. I really wish he’d just do another stand-up hour-long special. He did a short bit of material at the Mark Twain awards and it was still very funny. I think he is a great stand-up comedian who never really put out that much material. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/98 "2025-02-17T22:04:51Z")
Were Mike Myers and Dana Carvey there? I can’t believe they didn’t come out and do a Wayne’s World bit. Wondering if that top 10 hosts of Weekend Update was conceived as a Wayne’s top 10 list and changed when they didn’t do their bit. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/99 "2025-02-17T22:12:59Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Were Mike Myers and Dana Carvey there? I don’t remember seeing Dana, but Mike did a Linda Richman Coffee Talk bit. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383/100 "2025-02-17T22:15:17Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Wondering if that top 10 hosts of Weekend Update was conceived as a Wayne’s top 10 list and changed when they didn’t do their bit. You know, that’s a reasonable supposition. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-50th-anniversary-show-sunday-2-16-25/1014383.md?page=6)