The 40th anniversary special will now match the Oscars in length, running 8-11:30 ET.
http://www.thewrap.com/nbc-extends-snl-40th-anniversay-special-by-30-minutes/
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Why did they even bring out Eddie Murphy? He didn't match Chris Rock's build up.
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The numbers are in: 23.1M average during the three-hour primetime window (8-11et). That’s NBC’s biggest non-sports audience since the ’04 “Frasier” finale (23.9M).
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Personally, I was happy to see that they didn't go with the standard clip show format that previous SNL anniversary specials have favored. In a nutshell, here's what I thought of the non-retread/non-musical performances:
- Fallon/Timberlake cold open: I appreciate the fact that they did a song & dance to work in other cast members (like Drach & her "Debbie Downer"), I feel like the open was more reminiscent of their 'history of rap' segments from LNWJF than anything either did on SNL. I would have much rather had them do "Barry Gibb Talk Show", since it's a sketch that only gets done every 3 years, and it would have allowed past & current cast members to do some political impersonations.
- Steve Martin & friends monologue: spot on, except Miley Cyrus had no business being on stage with 5+ timers.
- Super Bass-O-Matic 2150: Almost perfect, and I like how Ackroyd handled the blender's failure at the end of the sketch. (Could the props department not afford a VitaMix? It's the SBOM2150, not the BOM76, for chrissake.)
- Celebrity Jeopardy: YES. ALL OF THE YES. (And I'm kicking myself for missing the jokes in the category names.)
- The Californians: Betty White saves the sketch. Godddamn that woman is game for just about anything. Complete waste of time otherwise. (Although a decent idea to have David Spades' snarky flight attendant kill the sketch, Graham Chapman style.)
- Weekend Update: I would have liked more of this and less of the Californians.
- Marty Short/Maya Rudolph: Loved this except for the aforementioned Garth/Kat appearance. G&K were redeemed by Murray as Nick Ocean (with Paul Schaffer!) and, as much as I hate to say it, "What's Up With That?" (Sudekis in the tracksuit FTW.) Again, the lack of Fallon & Timberlake as Barry & Robin Gibb was a big oversight here, if you're not going to do BGTS.
- Digital Short ("That's When You Break"): a nice way to use both Sandler & Samberg that highlights the challenges of live TV. Also, an entire verse of "Here's another one of Fallon & Sanz" - yep.
- Wayne's World: it was good to see Wayne & Garth again, but I wish they'd done more than just a top 10 list. (Again, swap this for the Californians in both placement & timing.) Would have preferred to see W&G interact with some other SNL talk show hosts - the "Girlfriends Talk Show" girls, Jarret & Gobi, Dieter (oh, wait - never mind), Barry & Robin Gibb (damn it!), Steve Harvey, Fernando...well, you get the picture. I did like the shout-out to the crew at the very end of the sketch.
I also really liked that the band got to have a moment of their own as he introduced the memorial reel, which also featured cast, crew & band alike. And seeing Nora, Phil & Chris all in a row during memorial reel was like three hard shots to the gut. That was the one that got me.
Musical performances? Sir Paul needs some Ricola (and probably should have been scratched in favor of another performer/sketch), Miley actually did a nice job with 50 Ways, Kanye & his 'genius' can eat a bag of dicks, and Paul Simon was great, but I was disappointed that Lorne didn't have Paul perform "Still Crazy After All These Years" in the turkey costume for old times' sake.
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The best quote I've read about it came from Bill Simmons: "If you think of SNL 40 as a massive dress rehearsal that inadvertently became the live show, the whole night makes more sense."
Two things that stand out for me are semi-related. First, the number of photos of people in attendance who supposedly despise each other smiling and hugging, specifically Sarah Palin and a Baldwin.
Incidentally, I was a little disappointed that the "in memoriam" reel appearance was the only tribute Don Pardo has had on the show, considering how long he was a part of it (his death hasn't been acknowledged on the regular shows this season) -- seems like they could have carved out a little bit of time for some former cast member to talk about how great it was to hear him say your name, et cetera.
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Norm wrote that Eddie Murphy refused to play Cosby. I wonder if Cosby helped him after his prostitution scandal.
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On Feb 18, 2015, at 5:59 PM, "Kevin M." <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote:FYI, Norm is over on the Twitter speaking about the writer's room for the 40th. However, if you have not visited Norm's Twitter account before, he does tend to use it as performance art. I'm not saying you shouldn't believe what he's posting, but I'd certainly wait for verification from multiple sources.For reasons known only to Norm, he tends to delete many Tweets not long after posting them, especially the ones that get noticed.
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I don't understand what this is - it can't be that Macdonald sent this whole narrative out one tweet at a time, can it? Did someone smooth it out or supplement it?
I can tell you my Twitter app alerted me that three people I follow were now following MacDonald. I went to check it out about 90 to 100 minutes in, and was so hooked, I turned on notifications so I knew when he posted something.
MacDonald is a master story teller. I still consider his Uecker story on Letterman one of the great talk show stories ever.
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