Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-16 (Sunday) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:25:59 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 79 Message-ID: References: <5ch6rj9gtdedcnrsa8ah9oc4cdr5chsiq2@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 03:25:59 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="109ad7558f2a90e8ce35d5ee30bcd5eb"; logging-data="1493372"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/kk0P0x7vcNPEUno1n0XDQ" User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Cancel-Lock: sha1:r9NZrgUUEiHgy/x426MmwkdGWF4= Bytes: 4451 On Feb 17, 2025 at 6:24:00 PM PST, "shawn" wrote: > On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:39:43 -0600, super70s > wrote: > >> On 2025-02-17 14:52:36 +0000, shawn said: >> >>> 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. >> >> 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.