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The best part of ‘SNL 50’ was the nostalgia — not the new stuff (many photos within)
NY POST ^ | Feb. 16, 2025 | By Johnny Oleksinski

Posted on 02/17/2025 4:09:28 AM PST by dennisw

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To: dfwgator

I didn’t watch then.


41 posted on 02/17/2025 7:25:14 AM PST by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: dennisw

It was not funny. I turned it off when Tom Hanks was MAGA hat wearing racist. Do not insult me and expect to stay tuned in.


42 posted on 02/17/2025 7:26:35 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: Da Coyote

How many of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players can you name?


43 posted on 02/17/2025 7:31:43 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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To: LouAvul

The second group was pretty good. It went downhill after that.


44 posted on 02/17/2025 7:32:37 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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To: cymbeline

Rap isn’t even music. It has rhythm, but no melody or harmony.


45 posted on 02/17/2025 7:34:04 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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To: Rummyfan

Why does Miley think she can improve on any of those songs she sings?


46 posted on 02/17/2025 7:34:49 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ComputerGuy

Too bad Gilda left us so early. She was a very funny person.

“What’s all this talk about endangered feces?”


47 posted on 02/17/2025 7:35:16 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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To: bobcat62

“Beisbol been berry, berry good to me.”

“Ed Kranepool steal Chico’s soap and no give it back.”


48 posted on 02/17/2025 7:36:13 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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To: TBP

Bad Stuff ‘Bout The Mets.

When I heard that Ed Kranepool had passed, it was the first thing I thought of.


49 posted on 02/17/2025 7:36:56 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Then there was the time Jane Curtin announced that Morris the Cat had tried to commit suicide, but since cats have nine lives, he needed eight more ways. She said to send your ideas to:

Kill Morris
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY

Then the next week, she announced they had gotten over 1000 responses, “including someone who wanted to kill Garrett Morris” and suggests ways to do it.

“We know where you live,” she said. Nobody was entirely sure if she was joking.


50 posted on 02/17/2025 7:47:42 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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To: TBP

“Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who is still dead...”

“The late Casey Stengel...”


51 posted on 02/17/2025 7:49:02 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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To: TBP
Reminds me of Larry The Lobster...


52 posted on 02/17/2025 7:49:05 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TBP

“Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who is still dead...”


Like Chevy Chase’s career.


53 posted on 02/17/2025 7:49:27 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TBP

Speaking of Chevy, back then before I became politically aware I would laugh at his mocking of President Ford, because frankly, I wasn’t a fan of Ford at the time.

But now I realize, it certainly was an indication of which side of the political fence SNL was on.


54 posted on 02/17/2025 7:53:24 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Little did we know that Eddie Murphy gave us the DEI theme song:

https://www.streetdirectory.com/lyricadvisor/song/cculwj/kill_the_white_people/


55 posted on 02/17/2025 7:53:25 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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To: TBP

I thought it was Garrett Morris’ “I’m Gonna Get Me A Shotgun And Kill All The Whities I See”


56 posted on 02/17/2025 7:54:01 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ComputerGuy
There was Gilda. And then there was everybody else.

Belushi was the one for me, but I find it hard to disagree with you. She was always magic.

57 posted on 02/17/2025 8:00:03 AM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

My SIL has a DVD of her stuff. My favorite is the one where she’s a rocker at a recording session.


58 posted on 02/17/2025 8:10:56 AM PST by ComputerGuy ( )
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To: dennisw
For me, SNL was good until windows 95 came out. Win 95 brought the internet, which brought the decline of many cultural factors such as popular music. I bought my first computer in 1996 to see what this internet thing was all about.

I was just tall enough to peer over the top of a desk when my folks placed a brand new Windows 98 machine thereupon. We had no television (too much inappropriate garbage for a child's mind) so the computer and I became close companions. I was probably around 12 when I first saw SNL on a dvd. It was...okay..."best" of SNL, really? Gilda Radner was in it, and John Belushi. It's hard to believe my boomer folks ever stayed home at night because that was on in primetime, but...I've seen funnier stuff. Guess you had to be there, as they say.

Now, pop music from the 50's and 60's -- timeless. Almost nothing now compares to it. I perform in a band and when we do oldies, the elderly get lively and romp like monkeys. It's doubtful a rehash of SNL would have similar effect.

59 posted on 02/17/2025 8:11:09 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: TBP

“Rap isn’t even music. It has rhythm, but no melody or harmony.”

And usually unwholesome lyrics.


60 posted on 02/17/2025 8:11:36 AM PST by cymbeline
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