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

On Feb 17, 2025 at 6:24:00 PM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:

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
 

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).

 
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.
 

Bill Murray didn't come along until '77 but he probably seems like an
"original cast" member to many.

 
Not to me but even though was but a young lad I caught some of those
early year episodes.
 

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.

According to the moviePig standards of humor, they should never be allowed to
do a skit like that because stupid people might not understand it's a joke.