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

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.
Wonder how many of the original cast are still alive anyway -- Chase, Curtin, Lorraine Newman, Dan Ackroyd, Garrett Morris? I would've guessed Morris had passed on by now since I never see him in anything but there he was last night.
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).
Bill Murray didn't come along until '77 but he probably seems like an "original cast" member to many.
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.
Interestingly James Austin Johnson wasn't shown doing his gold standard Trump impersonation, probably much to the chagrin of Trump.

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).

I was particularly touched by that last clip showing John Belushi as an old
man visiting the graves of all his former cast mates.

Yeah I remembered this one from the original broadcast. Pretty ironic Belushi was the first to go.