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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-16 (Sunday)
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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:
>>> 
>> 
>> snipped text
>> 
>>> 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.

>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).

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

>> 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.