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Just my two cents:

When did Sabrina Carpenter become Beyonce/Taylor Swift/Charli XCX/Lady Gaga? The Washington Post reviewer asked if SNL owes Carpenter money.

Will Ferrell's horrid Robert Goulet impersonation: WHY? It ruined Fred Armisen and Kristen Wiig's normally side-splitting Lawrence Welk spoof.

The celeb-packed audience Q&A: Did they disinter Cher from a local cemetery? And no lines for Steven Spielberg?

I kept waiting for Cecily Strong to break her water right there on the "Weekend Update" set.

Was that Chevy Chase in the celeb-packed Q&A audience? I wonder if they even allowed him backstage.

Oh, Emma Stone: Please wear a bra with that beautiful dress.

Chris Kattan looked older than his caveman character.

Unless I missed something, the smartest thing Lorne Michaels did for this was to not feature anything involving Melanie Hutsell.

Some of the funniest moments over 50 years involved Norm MacDonald's "Weekend Update" snark, and his dead-on takedown of "marital expert" Dr. John Gray --- his "doctorate" came from a since-closed California diploma mill --- and his effeminate seminar. Gray was previously married to serial marrier Barbara DeAngelis, another "marriage expert". Yet...why so little footage of MacDonald?

Or, for that matter, of Dennis Miller....Jan Hooks.....Phil Hartman.....

Now that the 50th anniversary is finally over and done, I hope the national media never again writes hagiographies of Lorne Michaels and his "genius" eye for comedy and comedians. Let Lorne retire to a nice life of daily dinners at Orso. The reason some of those Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade improvisational performers were available for Michaels to take was because no other national programmers or show scouts found them funny.

WHAT DID YOU THINK OF "SNL50"?

Pink Freud wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025 11:35 am Chris Kattan looked older than his caveman character.

Kattan broke his neck while filming an SNL sketch like 20 years ago, and has had multiple surgeries to try and get it fixed (which NBC paid for). He also got addicted to painkillers as a result.

But great snark!

I generally enjoyed it, and thought most of the skits worked. I would have liked to see a little more on the cast members that have passed, but I guess they wanted to keep the night light and in good spirits.

-Sabrina Carpenter is the IT Girl right now, and she looks great, plus just recently was on the show, so I think they factored all of that in.

-The Will Ferrell Robert Goulet was baaaad. One of the reviewers I read said it best, with all the GREAT Ferrell material, why choose that one?

-No Dan Aykroyd, no Dana Carvey (IMO a top-3, maybe 5 all-time cast member) or Bill Hader really surprised me.

Like most all of the 50-years of SNL, some things worked, some things didn't.

Pink Freud wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025 11:35 am
When did Sabrina Carpenter become Beyonce/Taylor Swift/Charli XCX/Lady Gaga? The Washington Post reviewer asked if SNL owes Carpenter money.

From the AVCLUB:

"Add Sabrina Carpenter to the lengthy list of people Paul Simon would rather sing with than Art Garfunkel."

Pink Freud wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025 11:35 am
The celeb-packed audience Q&A: Did they disinter Cher from a local cemetery?

Cher performed 'If I Could Turn Back Time' on the SNL 50 Music Special and she looked just about like she did when she shot the video for it on the USS Missouri in 1989. Looked like she was wearing the same outfit, too.


Thought it was a pretty good show and a good idea to go with an extended version of a regular episode as opposed to just some clip-heavy retrospective. Because of that, it was inevitable that many people would get left out or not mentioned enough. I don't think I heard the name "Charles Rocket" once in the entire broadcast.

They also replayed the very first episode of SNL over the weekend. Definitely rough around the edges with humor that doesn't really stand the test of time.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/snl ... 36976.html

Interesting, Aykroyd gave no reason and Hader declined.

FrankTheTank wrote: ↑18 Feb 2025 09:43 am https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/snl ... 36976.html

Interesting, Aykroyd gave no reason and Hader declined.

Odd: Aykrody didn't show up for SNL50, but DID show up for "We Are the World".