He also suffered some hearing loss. I was able to catch his Farewell Tour about 4-5 ? years ago and he still put on an amazing show. I wouldn’t expect him to have the same voice now but I was still glad to see him, he’s one of my favorite songwriters even though I normally listen to a different genre.
I made the same joke. It’s the only time I’ve found Lorne himself to be funny. My kid, who is just a teen, had never seen the bit so I tried to find it and I couldn’t. I guess I could scour NBC’s site itself, but what a shame it isn’t on youtube. Or at least where I couldn’t find it on my first page of results.
I think my favorite thing not mentioned yet was the “joke” Steve Martin made about someone who was born when the show started would now be old enough to die of old age. It hurt deeply. Almost as much as when I find out people I went to HS with are grandparents.
Dana Carvey was not there, and I haven’t seen a reason why. But he has made several appearances on the show earlier this season (including as Joe Biden and The Church Lady).
I think the bigger “oof” about age was Sabrina Carpenter who sang the opening song with Paul Simon. She mentioned that not only was she not born when the song was first sung on SNL her parents had not yet been born either.
As someone who just turned 50 fifteen days ago, I laughed, then I winced at that one.
I really like to think that was a joke. The math maths, but it’s close or teenage pregnancies. She’s 25 and if her parents were a responsible 22ish, that puts them being born 76-79, as just a rough guess. So it’s not like they’re babies but … yikes
According to Wikipedia, she has three older sisters. Maybe it’s a set of triplets, but still…yikes, indeed.
I had believed it when she said it but a quick search proves it’s a joke. Mom was born in ‘64.
The Wikipedia article on Sabrina Carpenter says that her parents’ names were David Carpenter and Elizabeth Carpenter and that she was raised in . When I search on each of those names and East Greenville, Pennsylvania, I find a webpage that says that they both lived in the same house in East Greenville for nine years. It says that he is 63 and that she is 60. I’m reluctant to show you the webpage. Never use an address that you find for the relatives of someone famous to go bother them. Sabrina was making a joke, since they were born then.
raised in East Greenville, Pennsylvania
Thought the show pretty good. Like said upthread - some quite good, some quite bad, mostly just sorta pleasant nostalgia - even the new material.
Would be interesting to see an annotated seating chart. I think I was only able to ID maybe 1/4 of the audience members - but they were all A-Listers.
At the sign-off - who was the largish older guy w/ glasses standing behind Lorne? Didn’t recognize him as a performer, so I assume he was production/management.
And I didn’t really catch the uber-disgusting part of the “scared straight” sketch. Maybe I’ll go back and seek the link above. I mean, the whole thing was kinda rough - being about prison rape. But I didn’t find the language any worse that Kate McKinnon’s alien abduction talk.
And you gotta wonder what McCartney is thinking, performing if he can’t sing any better than that. It was sad. I thought Paul Simon did slightly better with Sabrina Carpenter.
And, consistent with my lack of appreciation of rap, that Lil Wayne performance was just boring. At least he had live musicians behind him. (What was th eguy to the left behind him doing. His “instrument” looked like a Star Trek bridge console, with lit up colored squares.
Dispelling my ignorance - I had never heard of Brittany Howard before last week’s Grammys. That song w/ Miley Cyrus sure didn’t need THREE guitars and THREE keyboards…
Thought it interesting that they shouted out their own past non-PC-ness.
That LONG bit w/ Belushi visiting the graveyard in the snow was a curious - and boring - inclusion.
“Don’t Look Back In Anger” was a classic bit from the early years. It’s especially ironic as Belushi’s first line is “They always thought I’d be the first to go.” And I’ve always thought that the literal “dancing on their graves” at the end is hilarious.
The dirtiest line from the episode, for anyone wondering:
Eddie Murphy: There won’t be no Santa coming to town. It’ll be Santos coming in your brown.
Anyone catch the remark about two hosts who murdered people? I suppose he meant OJ and Robert Blake. Some might include a third but he’s still alive and likely to sue. Though I guess he could anyway because the other two weren’t named specifically.
They kinda were later in the show’s montage of things that haven’t aged well. Interesting to note that neither was a convicted murderer; just wrongful death civil suits like (I think) Baldwin is facing.
I guess I didn’t find that line significantly “dirtier” than the many other references to prison rape in that sketch. Or, as I suggested upthread, the comments by McKinnon/Streep.
IMO, SNL too often relies on bodily function/genital humor. I’m not offended by such subject material, just don’t think they should need to go there as often as they do. But mostly, so often IMO their off-color jokes aren’t funny. I appreciate an off-color joke as much as most. But simply thinking it funny BECAUSE it is off-color is puerile.
Who is the alleged third? Can confirm Blake and OJ are the two.
I assume Alec Baldwin, with that accidental on-set shooting awhile back?
I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but I’m not a fan of prison rape jokes (I think they’re even discouraged here at the SDMB). The alien jokes, on the other hand, were hilarious, probably because so artfully delivered.
Baldwin is the only other one that occurred to me. Any other possibilities for more?