Decorating the Christmas tree with my mom. Chevy opens with a prat fall and I ask “Mom what is this?” “Oh it’s this weird little late night show. It’s funny sometimes.” ❤️
It was like watching my entire adulthood. All the subtle political nuances were there, as always. How was I able to sing every word of Homeward Bound yet I can’t remember what I ate yesterday? 😊
I'm in the same age cohort as most of the original cast and yet it was hard to witness how old they (and I) have gotten. It was also sad to see the montage of "offensive sketches" and know we'll never laugh like that again.
An awesome tribute and although some things hit me the wrong way, I watched it the whole way through and that says something for how it was produced. It is our 50th and SNL 50th respect people for 50th.
born 57, i think i was 17 yr old when the show began ? It came right around the time of Nixon’s resignation, if memory serves. 2nd City was in downtown Chicago. Which seemed like a world away for a kid from western suburbs. I followed SNL for the first 2 yrs then left for college. Incredible writing
and performances. improvisational skits made the greatest impact for me. I think they coincided with what Jung termed “ active imagination”. letting dreams, images, sounds, memories arise & then freely associating. This is the word, “ genius” Trump superficially spews but has little understanding of
Instead SNL was closer to what Michael Meade termed “genius”.
For me SNL was closer to the spirit of Muhammad Ali, Richard Pryor, Sal Alinsky, Robert F Kennedy, George McGovern, Bernie Sanders, Ken Kesey, Chris Farley, John Belushi, Bill Walton and my Sister….
I liked this. Pretty solid show, overall. A few misfires. I did notice that it’s a lot of the women’s characters and sketches that have had staying power over the decades.
The thing I missed was Ackroyd doing a Bassomatic ad. Culturally, I don't know that there was ever anything that SNL did that hit quite the way that one did.
That was also classic. But the fact that the entire cast stopped everything they were doing when the Bassomatic skit was performed just to watch it because they had never seen anything like it says a lot.
Already tearing up knowing he was going to bring in Gilda and Phil, but all out tears when he showed Farley and Norm together. I’m done. I have the show recorded and will likely cry more than I laugh. #memories #SNL #SNL50years
That show started when I was 3, I’ve watched it since. I remember the original cast! The coneheads, Roseanne Roseannadanna, Emily Latila (I still say ‘Never mind’ when I get it wrong 😂), Ernestine, and Edith Ann. I was little but it meant special time with mom and dad and they’d howl with laughter.
Yes, the original cast is legendary, yet there have been so many good casts that followed on their backs. Adam is one of the jewels in the crown of Saturday Night Live!💗
Trump’s ‘Napoleon’ quote was actually taken from the ‘manifesto’ of the Norwegian right wing school shooter and bomber Hans Anders Breivik who killed 77 mainly kids in 2011.
Very emotional and obviously very personal, but I can't help but notice in his listing of all the people who had long runs on the show that Keenan's name wasn't in there.
The show was magical. My 14 year old self stayed up late to watch the subversive sketch and since those nascent days of the killer bees and coneheads, there have been touchstones all along the way. Thoroughly enjoyed with my 32 yo son.
Got to mute this guy..
Spent a decade, along with Swisher pumping Musk and the rest of the silicon valley tech bros...
Haven't seen anything close to a minimal ... I was wrong.
I made it 2 minutes into the show when Paul Simon chose to sing The Boxer. Sandler had me crying too. It’s been 48 years since I saw the Belushi visiting the graveyard skit. And sobbed thru Sir Paul’s performance. I was a teenager when SNL began and the memories from 50 years flooded back.
Overall I give the show a C+. Eddie Murphy was incredibly funny and the best performer of the night. I can’t believe they didn’t do a tribute to the cast members who died. Too much of an emphasis on the newer casts of the last 20 years & not enough celebrating the past. Where were Akroyd & Carvey?
It was fantastic. You're wrong. It was hilarious. They brought back new versions of classic sketches with the comic actors who were still capable of performing them, mixed with a moderate number of clip segments. It would have been extremely difficult to do it much better.
Agree. I kept waiting for at least one small clip of Gilda Radner. I think the only mention was in Adam Sadler's song. For all the hype, I was expecting more.
They did a 40th anniversary special just 10 years ago that featured a lot of older sketches. I think they didn't want to do the same things again. I liked last night's show but really could have done without another Domingo sketch
Today's NYT has an article by James Poniewozik, which is insightful. But, the comment section, (now closed) is a riot, it brought me to tears. Readers shared their favorite skits and bits, and it was LOL. If you subscribe, check it out. Memory lane, so many great moments.
BTW, for more esoteric information yes I always bring the receipts but for something easily searchable I leave that for others to do the work. If I’m ever wrong, I do admit it immediately.
Firstly, I never said anything about Adam Sandler supporting Donald Trump, I never said anything about him donating to the Trump campaign publicly. He was a registered Republican in the late 2000s and donated to Rudy Giuliani‘s campaign to the tune of $2100. You can find that on the Internet. Fin.
Should we tell #AdamSandler that if he uses #GoogleCalendar that Veronica won’t be able to celebrate #Hanukkah because they eliminated it from their calendar!? 😹🤘🏻🤟🏴☠️🙀🖖🏼
Oh yes! Google bent down and licked the boot of #Felon47 and that only eliminated DEI from their corporate policy they went one further and wiped entire holidays off their calendar!
There were a lot of emotional moments in the show. Paul Simon playing Homeward Bound at the start, the first glimpse of Gilda when she was dancing with Steve Martin, and that song by Adam when he mentioned Norm and Chris. So many memories wrapped up in this show.
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…but the name of that new co-worker….???
The toilet from America is overflowing into the world right now, and I can't watch this damn clip
#SNL50
#musicheals #strongtribessavelives
For me SNL was closer to the spirit of Muhammad Ali, Richard Pryor, Sal Alinsky, Robert F Kennedy, George McGovern, Bernie Sanders, Ken Kesey, Chris Farley, John Belushi, Bill Walton and my Sister….
Or, do you collaborate with the terrorists who are slaughtering their own?
Get over it. It's a 5000 yo religious conflict.
Get rid of religion, get rid of the genocide.
It's YOUR problem.
Saw the very first one and decades more to date.
Also, IIRC it was a real dead fish
We r not a perfect country but we have a lot worth protecting. They are coming for the arts. We can’t let them.
Prismatic!
Spent a decade, along with Swisher pumping Musk and the rest of the silicon valley tech bros...
Haven't seen anything close to a minimal ... I was wrong.
I used to wish he was my dad growing up...idk
Brutal
I also hate the Oscar’s annual “who we lost this year” montage, I don’t need the mortality reminder dammit!
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not always rhyme
(Jenna Ortega)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/adam-sandler-trump/
Really? Anyone who might have sorta had anything to to with the GOP is automatically bad and our enemy?
There's a big difference between Rob Schneider and someone who donated to a campaign 20 years ago.
Tears.
Party’s stopped & TVs turned on.
Who knew it still be going!
Greatness.
So was joe piscopo