He was as good a host as he was an actor. 'nuff said. 
It had it’s moments, though. Personally, I enjoyed it when he beat the crap out of Rob Schneider’s “Randy! The Randster! The Randmeister!” character.
He was the most blatant cuecard reader I’ve ever seen. And for an SNL host, that’s saying something.
The show was so-so, I only watch SNL once in a while and rarely get to see a good one. I like Tracy Morgan, the Astronaut Jones sketches, with the Sammy Davis Junior overtones and the catchy theme song are great. Plus, the high school dropout who hears voices and likes animals, i.e. Brian Fellows, is funny as hell. At least they didn’t have one of those lame-ass TV funhouse cartoons last night. My dog could make a better, funnier cartoon.
Are you watching some kind of bizarro-world SNL where Tracy Morgan is funny and the Ambiguously Gay Duo is not?
SNL’s <<<Insert any SNL Cast member’s name from the last four seasons>>>>>: could you suck some more?
I haven’t seen AGD, but I’m assuming it’s (maybe?) one of those cartoons. I rarely catch the show. The cartoons I’ve seen have been the (I think…) one with Gen. Powell talking to the kids, and the (again, I’m racking here) Academy Awards one. They were about as funny as the original Simpsons on the Tracy Ulman Show. As for Tracy Morgan, hey, I think his stuff is funny, not all of it, but some. The bizzaro world to me is the freaky one where people think Martin Lawrence is funny.
So, how long before the “Astronaut Jones” movie comes out?
Zev Steinhardt
I only saw it once, but I thought it was the funniest damn thing in the whole wide world. “I’m Brian Fellowes!”
By comparison, The Rock was positively Gielgud-esque. (Actually, Rock was pretty good. Made Mr. Peepers amusing. )
Esprix
Hehehe. I admit to loathing Tracey Morgan, but I always chuckle when he says “I’m Brian Fellowes!” Everything else about that skit sucks.
Well, I like the “Astronaut Jones” idea. The intro and theme song are pretty good but the sketches could use some meat on their bones.
Overall, though, the show has fallen quite a bit since their second set of salad days during the Hartman/Lovitz/Carvey era.
Zap!
Worst host EVER? What about Milton Berle, whose episode Lorne Michaels has sworn to never release to syndication? Desi Arnaz? Louise Lasser, far too high to stand, much less be funny (another Never to be Seen Again episode)?
You people haven’t SEEN bad hosts!
This reminds me of a skit from Conan O’Brien a day or two before he hosted SNL. On Late Night his bit was that the regular SNL cast was on vacation so he was going to work with the secondary cast. And so he showed a modified opening credits of SNL (obviously I don’t remember all the names): “with Joe Blow, John Doe, Kim Whatever, Tracy Morgan…”
Oh God I was rolling on the floor… what made it so much better is that I had just finished telling my friends how much I hated Tracy Morgan when this came on.
Just because, as you say, they are never shown on syndication…unless the E! channel decides to air them…is that possible?
Have they? I don’t have cable and all I know is that Michaels swore they’d never be released and I last heard him say that about ten years ago. They were so god-awful live and in context I can’t imagine watching them again 25 years later.
Maybe I wouldn’t feel so strongly if it weren’t a recurring sketch. One time only, I could’ve lived with. But this one-note sketch living on and on and on … it boggles the mind.
haven’t watched snl in a long time, so i’m not too familiar with his stuff there, but i kind of chuckled at his small part in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
“That goat is weird! He’s got devil eyes!”