![]() ![]() ![]() on NBC (which will feature more than 50 past cast members, hosts, musical guests and other celebrities, including Eddie Murphy making his first appearance on the show in 30 years and, for some reason, Sarah Palin), we decided to take a by-the-numbers approach to the show’s legacy - one piece of trivia corresponding with every year it’s been on the air:ġ: The number of sitting U.S. This week, in the midst of VH1 Classic’s 19-day “SNL” marathon leading up to the show’s three-hour, 40th anniversary special this Sunday at 8 p.m. After this week’s unfortunate, headline-making photo-op, we have questions - so many questions - which SNL could answer by introducing us not only to the kids involved but also the photographer.For every memorable sketch, there are two or three that fall flat for every moment of brilliant comic timing, there are multiple flubbed lines or technical miscues (especially, it seems, lately).īut no matter how inconsistent or even cringe-inducing a particular season or episode might be, the “Saturday Night Live” juggernaut rolls on, with no end date on the horizon.īack in September, as “SNL” began its 40th season, we talked about the reasons for the show’s unprecedented staying power with Bucks County author Jim Miller, whose recently revised book “Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests,” co-written with Tom Shales, is a must-read for anybody interested in the stories behind “SNL’s” success. No, Not That Wave: Though prom preparations don’t typically include one-handed Nazi salutes, a Wisconsin high school might just step to a different goose. Wanna bet Pops wouldn’t make it to dessert before being told to shut his piehole? But we’d take that typecasting a step further, by aging him by about 30 years and letting “the old man” react to his very liberal daughter’s Turkey Day guests: members of the Central American migrant caravan. And since Carell’s so often tackled fatherly roles, he’s a given to play the patriarch. Pass the Turkey and the Politics: If tradition holds, SNL‘s Thanksgiving episode will gather a family around the dinner table for some cranberry sauce and awkward political talk. Something tells us that’s a challenge to which they’d, er, rise. Maybe by now they’d be out and proud, rebranded as the Unambiguously Gay Duo, and determined to mend the social divisions in our country. Were the crimefighters to reappear seven years later, we could find out if they’ve changed along with the times. But from 1996-2011, he and Stephen Colbert provided the voices of Ace and Gary, aka the Ambiguously Gay Duo, in Robert Smigel’s cartoons. The Return of Ace and Gary: Some SNL fans might not realize that Carell’s most memorable character on the show even is a Carell character. axing someone at the White House.ĭon Lemon Gives First Sit-Down Interview Post CNN Firing: ‘I Don’t Believe In Platforming Liars and Bigots’ Presumably, this is a “skill” that she picked up from her husband, so if Alec Baldwin’s POTUS returns Saturday, we can easily see him teaching Cecily Strong’s Melania how to fire someone - and, as an added bonus, the difference between sacking someone on The Apprentice vs. Melania Gets ‘Fired’ Up: Since it turns out Donald isn’t the only Trump who’s canning members of his administration these days, we want to know how the First Lady went from making fashion statements to deciding which National Security Advisors to pink-slip. Read on, and see if you agree we’re on a roll… Actually, we’re not riding a little high, we’re riding so high that we’re halfway to 100 percent sure we’ve also accurately guessed at least the same number of bits that’ll be included in this weekend’s Steve Carell-hosted episode. We’re riding a little high after we correctly predicted four out of five of last week’s sketches (among them, the return of Kate McKinnon’s “Close Encounters”). ![]() You’ll forgive us if this Saturday Night Live precap reads as if if was written in enthusiastic italics. ![]()
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