Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-16 (Sunday)

On 2025-02-18 02:24:00 +0000, shawn said:

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:39:43 -0600, super70s
<super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
 

On 2025-02-17 14:52:36 +0000, shawn said:
 

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:51:56 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:
 

On 2/17/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 As expected, no movies. But I did get through most of the SNL 50 special.
 I watched:
 

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SNL 50 - I didn't see all of this - I saw the end of the first airing,
and the first 3(!)-hours of the second airing, so I maybe missed some of
the last 15-20 minutes of this.
But, while it wasn't the show's best skits, I enjoyed the overall
nostalgia ("Coffee Talk" lady is back!), and most of the "celebrity
cameos" (not Baldwin!  >:/ ), in the special.
One thing is for sure - a number of the old timers (I never did see
Chevy Chase or Jane Curtin) still have it, esp. Eddie Murphy! Get this
guy his own show!!

 I didn't see Chase or Curtin live at the show so I'm not sure if they
were there. Of course both got a good deal of air time in the clips
from the past.

 I thought I caught a glimpse of Chase walking off the stage as the
credits rolled. He may be getting too "up there" to want to participate
in any skits, there's not much doubt he was asked to. If Curtin was
there I didn't recognize her.

 It's possible as I missed the credits. Ah, just caught the credits in
a short over on Youtube. Chase was there behind Lorraine Newman.
Jane Curtin was also there to the right of Newman looking much the
same as always.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFj_AOlvy5A

Yep. Seems really strange that Michaels didn't insist Chase and Curtin at least be recognized during the "important people who weren't in skits" segment. Unless they made it plain to him they didn't want to be. Newman was in her own skit with Pete Davidson (which I thought sucked and entirely because of him, she's great).
And did Ackroyd even show up? Apparently not or he would've been included in Short's original cast tribute.

I've always said even though Morris didn't get as much screen time as
Chase and a few others he was responsible for some of the most
hilarious bits in the show (he says he had to "fight to get people to
write for me" in a short article in the new Time).

 I'm not surprised Morris didn't do much given that he is 88 years old.
They also had him sitting down to do his intro speech so he may have
mobility issues.

Is he *that* old? Wow.

BTW I understand the MAGA world is extremely upset at the recurrence of
Tom Hanks's "Doug" parody. Actually I don't think a lot of the audience
recognized the character, or that it was Tom Hanks doing it, at the
start because you could hear a pin drop during the entire thing.

 As soon as they started Black Jeopardy it was only natural they
included Doug.

I guess I forgot a lot about Black Jeopardy, with that fake beard I didn't even recognize it was Hanks until well into it.

I thought Baldwin wasn't even going to show when there were clear places
he would have fit, but then they brought him in towards the end.

 He's probably doing a full image rehabilitation attempt before his new
reality show premieres on the 23rd, I believe. He's also on the cover
of the latest People (with his entire brood).

 Is this one where he "doesn't" shoot anyone from week to week?

Can you believe he's bringing a malicious prosecution suit against some of the authorities? Jeez I'd just let the whole thing drop and be grateful I didn't do prison time.
He settled a civil suit with the dead woman's husband but he's still being sued by her parents and sister, with ambulance chaser royale Gloria Allred in charge.