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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-16 (Sunday)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:25:59 -0000 (UTC)
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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:
>>>>  
>>>  
>>>  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.

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.