Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-16 (Sunday) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:52:36 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 42 Message-ID: <5ch6rj9gtdedcnrsa8ah9oc4cdr5chsiq2@4ax.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:52:40 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="91c016de5567d48e04512ab6dc97339e"; logging-data="1262508"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+E847FK3poNJRm6SGuWOWXd8kjSiC5DvQ=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Tapx34PN0XWB+Y2l8RPB6kjb1GE= Bytes: 2601 On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:51:56 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" 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. >What did you watch? I watched much of the SNL 50th special. Which was a nice addition to seeing the first SNL episode from 1975 on Saturday night. 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. I was particularly touched by that last clip showing John Belushi as an old man visiting the graves of all his former cast mates. I also finished up THE DIPLOMAT. I wondered where they were going with the addition of a blonde Allison Janney as the USA's VP, but then there was the surprise ending which sets up a third season What did you watch?