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SNL 40th season premiere

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WMC2006

We had Chris Pratt hosting, Ariana Grande singing, and former castmember Darrell Hammond announcing as he takes over for the late Don Pardo.

Through about 12:15am, it's been a pretty lame show with some of the lamest sketches I've ever seen. Nothing great at all.

Ariana Grande showed a lot of skin during her early number although I wasn't a fan of the music itself.

Michael Che debuted as the new co-anchor of Weekend Update with Colin Jost. It took about two minutes for former co-anchor Cecily Strong to appear as her former (and now current again) character "The girl you wish you hadn't started a conversation with at a party". She got a nice ovation and some laughs. Che stumbled over his words a couple of times and might have had more airtime than Colin Jost. I wasn't impressed at all. Even less so with Colin who hasn't improved. Sasheer Zamata , the lone African American woman in the cast, appeared as Relationship Expert Leslie Jones. She and Cecily probably were the highlights of the entire show, not just Update, and again there's still 40 minutes left of the show although I won't be watching.

Darrell Hammond did a good job announcing, sounding like himself rather than trying to impersonate Pardo.

Following Update, there was a quick screenshot of Don Pardo, then fade to black to a commercial.
 
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WMC2006 said:
Sasheer Zamata , the lone African American woman in the cast, appeared as Relationship Expert Leslie Jones.
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That character was actually played by the real-life Leslie Jones, who is a writer for the show. She appeared on Weekend Update once last season as well.
 
blizzard59 said:
That character was actually played by the real-life Leslie Jones, who is a writer for the show. She appeared on Weekend Update once last season as well.
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I wondered about that. Sasheer is prettier and thinner. So why did they not have a woman to play black women before if Leslie could have done it?

I didn't care that much for Darrell Hammond, but only because there's only one Don Pardo. Darrell did good for Darrell.

I wish the girl hadn't started a conversation, period. And I want Seth and/or Tina back more than ever.

I can skip the so-called music since I tape.

At least AT&T Guy is back.

Earlier in the evening (I saw it the day before the new episode, actually) the episode with Richard Pryor as host where Chevy Chase announces Francisco Franco is still dead was on. That was interesting. The video and audio seemed so amateurish and low-budget back then. I'm not sure the comedy was any better. And the cast was having trouble with stumbling over lines since it was live. I skipped the sketch where Richard and Chevy called each other names since I had seen it. Richard still used the N-word in a couple of other cases doing standup. The audience seemed to like whatever it was he did, but I wasn't that crazy about it. Don ended the show by asking whose hand he had to shake to get off the show. He obviously never found out, because he kept doing that job for 40 more years.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Earlier in the evening (I saw it the day before the new episode, actually) the episode with Richard Pryor as host where Chevy Chase announces Francisco Franco is still dead was on.
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Finally! Someone else remembers that running gag. I remember laughing every time they repeated that joke.

When Don Pardo died, I posted, as an homage to the early days of SNL, "Don Pardo is still dead". It was deleted and I was threatened with being suspended.
 
I didn't laugh much. Chris Pratt had one of the worst monologs in history. Several verbal mistakes, but it's live TV and people get nervous.
 
NBC is running one show from each of the preceding 39 seasons Saturday night at 10PM. Tonight it's Steve Martin hosting. Nice move. I find it tough to watch SNL these days. Lame sketches and possibly the worst incarnation of Weekend Update and musical guests I could care less about.

I was 25 when SNL debuted, so I really can't relate to the new shows. Then again is it me or were the 70's shows funnier?
 
benale said:
I was 25 when SNL debuted, so I really can't relate to the new shows. Then again is it me or were the 70's shows funnier?
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Yes, and no. They had as many lame skits in the olden days as they do now. The thing is, when they show reruns, they only show the good skits.
 
I don't really see that the older skits are any better. But having seen last Saturday's, I'm starting to understand a lot of the comments made when I was in high school. Unless they weren't original to the show.

It seemed like everyone stayed up and watched that show but I never got to stay up that late. With TiVo I don't have to and I don't know why it took me this long to realize that.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I skipped the sketch where Richard and Chevy called each other names since I had seen it. Richard still used the N-word in a couple of other cases doing standup. The audience seemed to like whatever it was he did, but I wasn't that crazy about it. Don ended the show by asking whose hand he had to shake to get off the show. He obviously never found out, because he kept doing that job for 40 more years.
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I am surprised NBC ran it without bleeping the N word.....However, Pryor probably wrote the skit....he was head writer of 'Blazing Saddles' and we all know how that movie went (Mel Brooks in PBS recently said NO WAY he could do that movie these days.....even Tavis Smiley was laughing about it! Having worked around Tom Joyner who had Tavis as a frequent guest on his ABC show, that surprised me...Joyner on the other hand would be screaming racism though he was a racist himself off air....often making comments about the "white" engineers)
 
brian4 said:
I didn't laugh much. Chris Pratt had one of the worst monologs in history. Several verbal mistakes, but it's live TV and people get nervous.
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It did suck....did not find Ariana Grande's music interesting...I watched something else instead

I would have though they would have done something better for Pardo than what they did....
 
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