We watched some of this tonight, hubby might have watched more since I fell asleep. The dress is OK, but I seriously hate the shoes.
The muskrat handbag is a nice touch.
The show brought back memories....liked seeing the old skits - Bass-O-Matic and Garrett Morris yelling for the hearing impaired....& Chevy Chase...
this was a good shot at Fow News: http://youtu.be/k_oYV-o68L4?t=1m11s
I remember sneaking down stair when I was 8 to watch it after a friend told me about it...the first crew...and I grew up with that cast watching their movies....wow! How time flies by...
Oh, and what’s this GSP? Is that Governor Sarah Palin? Because for those of us in Jersey it’s always going to be Garden State Parkway!
Is Todd Palin not the luckiest man alive?
Oh so nice.Thanks for posting.
I must say I was quite impressed. It wasn't an "awards" show a all, but simply a celebration of the past 40 years. Many classic skits were resurrected (to varying degrees of success) and I liked the fact that it was basically a long-form episode of SNL - albeit in prime-time.
Steve Martin, Jerry Seinfeld and Sarah Palin killed in their segments. Chevy Chase...what the hell happened to him? He looked like a corpse out there.
The musical guests were questionable which is my only real beef with the show over the past 40 years. I always felt that Lorne Michaels played it too safe with the music guests and should have booked more edgier acts - but that's my opinion. I always tuned into the show for the skits and Weekend Update anyhow, so musical guests was usually a chance to hit the bathroom or make a late-night sandwich.
For those wondering about Dennis Miller and Victoria Jackson, I don't know what's up with that. I do know that Lorne Michaels went out his way to invite EVERY cast member, guest host and musical act that ever appeared on the show over the past 40 years. So nobody was snubbed over their politics, as some here are trying to infer.
Seeing original cast members like Jane Curtin, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase was sobering - they all got so old! I think all of them are well into their 60s now, with Chevy looking like he's 90.
The tribute to the deceased cast and staff of SNL was nice and in true SNL fashion, they added some humor to it by pretending that Jon Lovitz was also dead, even though the camera kept panning to him sitting in the audience.
So I mentioned up top that I've been watching the show since it's debut in 1975. I was just a teenager then. I found out about the show before its debut as there was a feature article, in The New Yorker I believe, talking about this new variety show that was going to be filmed live in New York City.
In August of that year, I had made my first trip to NYC and went to the RCA building as part of my tour. So when I saw the article about the show that would be produced there, I made it a point to check it out so on October 11, 1975, I stayed up way past my bedtime to watch the entire thing. While that particular show was hardly up to the standard it would achieve shortly thereafter, I was hooked in and have pretty much seen every episode over the next 40 years including the Mardi Gras epic fail in 1977, the only time SNL did not broadcast from 30 Rockefeller, which Lorne Michaels never allowed on television again. (You can probably get it on DVD.)
I know I will get an argument from many here, but I always thought the humor on SNL was well balanced and hit liberals just as hard as they hit conservatives. When you are a politician, these late night "attacks" go with the territory. Over the years, I think politicians like Jerry Ford, George Bush and Sarah Palin handled their treatment on SNL very well. Others like Mike Dukakis, Jimmy Carter, John McCain, not so well, and they suffered for it.
Smokin...
The bit with Sarah and Jerry reminds me of one reason I’m surprised that Tina Fey isn’t a bigger electoral supporter of the gov. Because if Sarah ever actually does get elected, Lorne is going to call Tina and say, in that Dr. Evil Ontario accent, “Tina, come back. I’m offering you a chance to be rich beyond the dreams of frickin’ avarice.”
I’m a straight guy, so what do I know, but I’m not a fan of the shoes either. That said, ladies, if you look like that at 51, it’s good to be you. And it may be even better to be your husband.
Oh, yeah. Kathy Griffin, in spite of herself, also really ought to be a bigger Palin fan. Again, because if Sarah ever gets elected, “Fashion Police” will become a blockbuster hit, because people will turn in just to see Kathy’s reactions. As I said, I’m a guy and I would.