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UPDATE!!
Preliminary estimates give the alumni-rich Betty White SNL a 5.1 rating in adults 18-49. That beats every late night or PRIMETIME show aired last week except "American Idol." Last week's top primetime shows:
18-49 finals (repeats in gray; previous weeks in parentheses):
6.5 (6.7) (5.9) (6.8) (6.7) (6.7) (7.2) (6.8) (7.5) (8.5) (8.7) (7.0) (9.5) (7.8) (9.5) (9.9)(10.1)(----) American Idol (Wed)
6.2 (6.9) (6.9) (7.1) (7.3) (7.7) (8.4) (8.1) (8.2) (8.6) (9.0)(9.2)(10.1) (9.0)(9.0)(10.1)(11.8)(----) American Idol (Tue)
4.9 (5.2) (5.3) (5.6) (----) (-----) (----) (----) (2.9) (----) (----) (-----) (----) (-----) (----) (-----) (----) (1.3) Glee
4.6 (3.6) (4.1) (5.1) (2.2) (3.5) (5.2) (3.9) (5.9) (5.9) (3.3) (3.6) (6.0) (5.4) (4.0) (5.3) (5.7) (3.5) Big Bang Theory
4.1 (4.4) (4.8) (4.9) (5.1) (5.6) (6.4) (----) (-----) (----) (----) (-----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (-----) (----) Dancing With The Stars (Mon)
4.1 (4.1) (3.6) (3.8) (3.8) (3.5) (3.4) (----) (3.6) (3.8) (3.7) (3.9) (4.5) (-----) (----) (----) (----) (----) Survivor
4.0 (1.8) (3.7) (3.9) (3.9) (4.1) (4.0) (3.9) (4.2) (4.1) (4.6) (4.5) (5.0) (5.5) (1.4) (----) (----) (----) Lost
That also makes SNL the week's top-rated scripted show.
5.1 means also the best rating for an SNL episode since Nov. 1, 2008. That was the last Saturday before Barack Obama was elected president.
NBC has made available cut SNL dress-rehearsal sketches in the past, but never in my memory this many from a single show:
ORIGINAL POST:
As I remember it: Right after Betty White’s Super Bowl Snickers commercial aired, a group of (presumably attention-starved) young men started tweeting furiously that Betty White simply must host SNL. And somehow that worked and tonight she is doing precisely that. Now the same fellows should tweet that Al Queda must be wiped from the planet.
Announced way back on March 11:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LEGENDARY EMMY WINNER BETTY WHITE HOSTS
NBC'S 'SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE' ON MAY 8
NEW YORK, NY - March 11, 2010 - Legendary and multiple Emmy Award winner Betty White will take her long-anticipated turn at hosting NBC's "Saturday Night Live" on May 8. White will make her first appearance in Studio 8H.
The six-time Emmy winner and cultural icon will host "SNL" for the first time in her illustrious seven-decade-long career. White is best known for her performance as Rose Nylund on NBC's "The Golden Girls," the beloved comedy series that aired from 1985 to 1992. Previously, she co-starred as Sue Ann Nivens in the classic comedy series "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
In January, White was the proud recipient of the 2010 SAG Lifetime Achievement Award. White appeared in the 2009 romantic-comedy feature film "The Proposal," alongside Ryan Reynolds and Oscar winner Sandra Bullock, and can be seen again this fall in the film "You Again," starring Kristin Bell.
"I can't think of a better way to spend Mother's Day weekend than with Betty White ” said Lorne Michaels, Creator and Executive Producer of SNL.
"Saturday Night Live" is from SNL Studios in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels. Steve Higgins and Marci Klein are producers. Ken Aymong is supervising producer. Seth Meyers is head writer. Don Roy King directs.
As the first clip demonstrates, the episode will also serve to reunite a number of past female SNL cast members from the Will Ferrell era, among them Molly Shannon, Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey.
If one discounts installments that followed big-deal NFL or Olympic events, Fey hosted the top-rated episode of SNL of this season. (It drew a bigger 18-49 audience than any episode of “30 Rock” aired in primetime this year.) From TV By The Numbers:
Here are the top 3 rated SNL’s this season for reference:
Charles Barkley (NFL Wild Card game lead-in) 4.4 adults 18-49 rating
Jennifer Lopez (Olympics lead-in) 3.6 adults 18-49 rating
Tina Fey/Justin Bieber (standard NBC Saturday lead in) 3.3 adults 18-49 rating.
Alec Baldwin hosts next week’s 35th SNL season finale, and in doing so ties Steve Martin’s 14-show record for most times hosting. Martin and Baldwin appeared together in “It’s Complicated” and co-hosted this year’s Oscars, so it’s not inconceivable that Martin could stop by. Musical guests will be Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
My favorite sketch from April’s last new show:
11:30 p.m. Saturday. NBC.
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LEGENDARY EMMY WINNER BETTY WHITE HOSTS
NBC'S 'SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE' ON MAY 8
NEW YORK, NY - March 11, 2010 - Legendary and multiple Emmy Award winner Betty White will take her long-anticipated turn at hosting NBC's "Saturday Night Live" on May 8. White will make her first appearance in Studio 8H.
The six-time Emmy winner and cultural icon will host "SNL" for the first time in her illustrious seven-decade-long career. White is best known for her performance as Rose Nylund on NBC's "The Golden Girls," the beloved comedy series that aired from 1985 to 1992. Previously, she co-starred as Sue Ann Nivens in the classic comedy series "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
In January, White was the proud recipient of the 2010 SAG Lifetime Achievement Award. White appeared in the 2009 romantic-comedy feature film "The Proposal," alongside Ryan Reynolds and Oscar winner Sandra Bullock, and can be seen again this fall in the film "You Again," starring Kristin Bell.
"I can't think of a better way to spend Mother's Day weekend than with Betty White ” said Lorne Michaels, Creator and Executive Producer of SNL.
"Saturday Night Live" is from SNL Studios in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels. Steve Higgins and Marci Klein are producers. Ken Aymong is supervising producer. Seth Meyers is head writer. Don Roy King directs.
Charles Barkley (NFL Wild Card game lead-in) 4.4 adults 18-49 rating
Jennifer Lopez (Olympics lead-in) 3.6 adults 18-49 rating
Tina Fey/Justin Bieber (standard NBC Saturday lead in) 3.3 adults 18-49 rating.
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Even in good years SNL tosses out some clunkers, but this year has had too many shockingly bad episodes. I just wish the wife would let me remove it from our series recording list on our DVR.
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was not a cool dude.
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anyway, I'll be busy watching UFC 113 but I'm sure this will be the best episode of the season.
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She dresses them like a gimp and tricks them out. That's how she rolls.
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Premiere then?
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Last weeks episode sucked. Which means that tonight's should be decent. But that means next weeks will suck. So goes SNL. Hit and miss.
But if tonight's sucks then next weeks will be good. Go out on a high note. And tonight's will be entertaining no matter what, just for the spectacle. So I hope tonight is a huge trainwreck, with only Betty White emerging unscathed. -
Oh geez, a sweet little old lady swearing like a sailor, how funny.
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that last episode was just terrible, that rhino couldn't act her way out of a paper bag, she's just a fat sack of crap. Betty White FTW!
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While I'm not part of it, I think it's simply that the lady's been around in movies and on TV forever, and she's stayed fairly funny for all that time. And the occasional swearing and dirty jokes, yes, play a role.
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And do a Bitch Hunter sketch.
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I just like to type Betty White.
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That's Comcastic!
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....high expectations, causing it to suck...because let's face it, Betty White isn't all that funny. She's a decent actress and all and can be funny as a supporting actress who comes in and does the sassy old lady thing....but starring in an 1 and a half SNL episode? It's a nice sentiment, since she's the last surviving Golden Girl....Bea Arthur and Estelle Getty will look down in envy...but let's face it...don't get your boners all jacked up in anticipation tonight. It's gonna suck.
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But her career is dead.
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With basically every woman from the show from the last 10 years coming back tonight, spare Patton Oswalt's twin Casey Wilson and Michaela Watkins, I'm guessing they do one of the radio shows with Molly Shannon and Ana Gasteyer, Debbie Downer, and Good Morning Bronx
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idonotseekabanning is right.
If you're going to laugh at somebody wrestling the English language (and losing) via cue cards, go to the gold standard: Stern & Arty Lang on Dieon.
That poor fat woman in the window getting pity laughs was simply sad.
SNL is truly at its nadir.
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blow up the basket
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May 08, 2010 12:10:58 PM CDT
I think I'll pop in my VHS copy of "STOP! OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT!"
by digitalbeachwar
I totally forgot SNL existed! Haven't seen it in a couple years now. I get the feeling there will be very little to miss. The sketch Betty White did on Funny or Die was really fucking stupid and boring.
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Fans have been complaining about this one since the late 80s & early 90s. Just go back and watch the years with McKinney, Sandler, Farley, etc. Those years produced some amazing sketches and characters, but it also produced tons of sketches that would seemingly never end. Worse than today. If you think that today's sketches are too long, revisit the 90-98 seasons. Those were some rough years. Great to a certain extent, but bad since, if you didn't like a sketch, you had to deal with knowing that it would end about 5 or 6 minutes after it logically should have.
Bad years for hosts too. I remember them having to cut a Lucy Lawless sketch short when one they all got the giggles. Somebody lost a wig or something, iirc. More laughs from bloopers than actual jokes. Thank goodness for taped dress rehearsals.
Trust me when I tell you that SNL has gotten better about ending sketches. Not great with quality control on those sketches, but definitely better at cutting them to a reasonable length. If anything, some really good sketches end up getting cut too soon.
This episode should be interesting. I don't expect White to do a whole lot, given her advanced years. Pretty sure she's not going to be running around & doing prat falls. Still, I think that FB voters should be happy that Lorne caved in. It'll be interesting to see what they give her and how much the other women have to prop her up, metaphorically speaking natch. -
better then the last new crap fest hopefully.
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All of those chicks are like a billion times more talented and funny than Wiig and the youngins. My dick belongs to Jenny Slate's ass but my heart will always belong to Mary Catherine Gallagher. On another note, where the hell is Cheri Oteri and what bridge did she burn to have such a shitty post-SNL career? Who knows. Though NONE OF THEM can hold a candle to Gilda.
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Have a "Not ready for primetime players" reunion show hosted by Steve Martin. Get Murray, Ackroyd, Chevy, Garrett, Jane and Lorraine and do an awesome show with a lil funny tribute bit to Belushi and Gilda . Yeah they're all old but with the 35th anniversary this year I really can't think of a better gimmick.
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So she can do her tired Sarah Palin shit, and then Colbert and Stewart can have some more footage to air on the cheap as shit shows.
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(crosses fingers)
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...is if her blouse rides up a bit high at the waist, 'cause that's where her nipples are.
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no one is missing her either
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...is the worst fucking recurring character of the last 20 years. And you just know they're going to give us one of those sketches. And another lame Fey as Palin sketch. Then an NPR sketch (because there's really nothing else for Ana Gasteyer to do). Probably a Debbie Downer (because what else are they going to have Dratch do?) too. The only funny thing about any of this is that it will be done under the umbrella of "see how amazing the women of SNL have been in recent years? Girl Power!"
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Yeah, real lame...she may have actually changed the outcome of a national election (and therefore, history) by crystallizing every single doubt American swing voters had lingering in the back of their minds...
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I blame the media for the Sarah Palin thing. They really brought her up so much you had to hear about her for months. And the comedy shows didn't help.
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BurnHollywood Lives in a retarded fantasy world where Tina Fey changed history with a shitty Fargo impression.
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"Blame the media" is up there with "Cameras and mirrors always make me look fat!"
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The truth hurts, doesn't it? Your candidate was so fucking weak, a comedienne and a fluff-piece journalist took her down. And then she completed that destructive streak by committing political suicide for a career on...fucking cable?!
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Maya Rudolph was on Fallon Friday night and all I kept thinking was...damn I'd hit that...so umm yeah wanted to say something other than Betty White blah blah blah...that is all.
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They alays promote all these stars being on the show, and then have them sit in chairs and smile and wave while they play the same old clips we've seen a million times.
How about instead, writing some knee-slapping funny stuff, and then have Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin, Chris Rock and Adam Sandler and co. go at it! Some of these alums need work and those that don't could use the practice!
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Watched a few sketches from the Precious girl's epsiode. Dreadful.
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Sarah Palin is a weak ass, but she's still a media darling because the media LOVES to make fun of common folk. If she was such a boring person the media would have dropped her like a bad habit.
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If Tina Fey's Palin work proved anything, it's how fucking stupid American voters are. There are polls that show a ton of Americans still think Palin said she could see Alaska from her house when it was really just something Fey said. Tough to have any faith in American voters when they can't tell the difference between SNL and real life. As for Fey, she should thank God every single night for Sarah Palin. Her Palin impression is the only relevant thing she's ever done. 30 Rock sucks and SNL was better both before and after her stint as head writer.
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So they have an all-woman show and they limit it to Tina Fey and her friends from the lame 2000s casts? They should have brought back Jan Hooks and Nora Dunn. They were infinitely funnier than no-talents like Dratch.
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I know that many of the people posting here are not in the audience for, or were even alive when The Golden Girls, Mary Tyler Moore, and those game shows were on. I'm fairly sure Herc could bring you all to school about this woman much better than I can. She was a highlight of all of these shows, stealing scenes from casts full of scene thieves. Her timing is darn near perfect, and she's worked so long in front of live audiences (going back to guest spots on shows such as The Great Gildersleeve on radio) that even when she misses a line of messes up she knows what to do and how to handle it. I'm rooting for the old broad, frankly.
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Very comforting to me, which is funny now that I'm older and can understand it. The whole business started as a Facebook group. After 100,000 people it started to get media attention, and it was short doings from there. Which I think is pretty cool.I'm a bit boggled at the stacked cast. I miss the Tina/Amy/Maya/Raychel years. That was the last time I remember SNL being wall to wall funny.
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and hilarious on the com central roast of William Shatner. Funny to hear dirty jokes from an old broad - will be cool to see what SNL has in store for her. A MacGruber sketch for one I think.
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Or I will loose my 25 year old male, shit!
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Does that mean no Digital Short?
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What up with that!
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to cleanse my palate if this gets too stank.
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You're gonna like the way you look!
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Something be wrong.
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And man Molly Shannon looked like a bat out of hell yelling Live From New York.
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For Betty White, and Amy, and Maya, and Ana, and whatever that inbred character's name is.
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Hell yes!
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And to think MacGruber is now a movie.
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When we all go nuts that they dragged a decade-old sketch out of retirement.
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Hopefully, this'll still be "good times."
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oh no
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Yes.
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some sexual innuendo.
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EW!!
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May 08, 2010 10:46:56 PM CDT
Betty White has always been willing to do almost anything for a
by george newman
dag yo
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Good Times - This is what's known "Schooling the youngsters"
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then when someone they like comes on suddenly the show is the funniest thing ever.
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Fucking sick
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That real Spanish talk shows are Like this
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how is the show so far?
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I dug Betty White way back on THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, but even since her appearances on BOSTON LEGAL, she positively owns.
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She was actually dancing with them.
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Betty White looks like Sally Struthers in this skit
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How many vag innuendos tonight? Still enjoyable, tho.
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Wake Up Wakefield on the other hand...
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Yeah, his SNL gigs are hilarious, but how many appearances is he up to now?
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This is his 15th this year.
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...you probably meant, "This is his 15th [comma] this year."Although even Baldwin on SNL 15 times a year would probably be good, too.
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May 08, 2010 11:01:05 PM CDT
Ah, so it's lesbian skit, gay skit, lesbian skit, tonight.
by shermdawg
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so far have been tailored to her and put her in good roles. They may not be "starring" but she's part of the skits.
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Maybe a remix of Mother Lover featuring White?
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Mark your calendars. Hasn't happened since that bitch shot Phil Hartman. Something funny about Betty White bitching about balls and screaming "lesbian"
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dang, this is great
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True Lies, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and the trailer for that new Tom Cruise movie I can't remember the name of.
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New sketch
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Tap me some Maya Rudolph...what no one esle??? Come on...she sang in the Rentals for piss sakes.
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i was thinking that same thing during the trailers for iron man
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And so is Abbey Elliot
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I think you have higher hopes for that movie than I do. To me it basically looks like "What Happens in Vegas" but with guns.
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is pretty funny so far.
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She's practically America's sweetheart! Oh, and Jay-Z is performing.
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I'd go there
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"damn that Negro's music is unusually loud"
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got it. Thanks Betty White.
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Just rehashing his old shitty songs?
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trying to remind us why we should care.
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May 08, 2010 11:13:06 PM CDT
Jay's making up for all those seasons he should've appeared.
by shermdawg
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She'd say "goodness," not "damn."
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Hopefully Betty White will wear that outfit later.
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I stll prefer Rakim and Nas. 99 Problems video is classic. Gallo rules.
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Although Fallin was a good song
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Science has managed to merge Alicia Keys with Karen O. Damn!
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Only time will tell.....
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Betty needs to smack his bitch ass up.
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And they were going to have Jay-Z perform for the next hour.
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Shlomi
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They need to plug him some more.
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gold Jerry, gold.
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i'm totally digging her too. she's a friend of p so she can be a friend with me...and my junk
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50 years old! 50! She's 50 years old.
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May 08, 2010 11:27:49 PM CDT
"Not Fair!" say kids who will now have to pay for icecream
by george newman
that was A W E S O M E
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It's also a Family Guy Joke from 5+ years ago. Whoever did that is a dumbass, because he ripped his own new name off from a fucking cartoon. Like no one is going to notice...
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She turned into Megan Mullally.
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Other way around. Please tell me you know that. Really.
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I was wondering where Kenan was.
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I thought she always looked like that.
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May 08, 2010 11:38:55 PM CDT
...and once again, Hader can't keep a straight face during a ske
by leto iii
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She also kind of looks like Aughra.
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Update, usually the strongest part, is actually the weakest. Impressive. Usually takes a Timberlake or Hamm to get that to happen.
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She's not Della Reese, man.
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CSI: Sarasota
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was that
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that was fun
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May 08, 2010 11:47:20 PM CDT
I just realized Amy Poehler has turned into Rachel Dratch.
by flim springfield
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goddamn!
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Please God, don't let this episode end...
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Out of character, but oh so fuckin' funny.
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It's official. Betty White will do anything and allow anything to be done to her person.
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When I heard about the old cast members coming back, I assumed it was because Betty couldn't handle the work - she's been in almost every sketch!
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Not since Seth Myers took over.
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Dratch has turned INTO those little old men she plays.
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It's not gonna be a tin man and scarecrow in the wizard of oz. It's gonna be ten men and scared ho's in the wizard of ass!
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Only thing you can count on when you get a Precious or January Jones phoning in their eps.
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singing with Jay-Z?
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Terrible.
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May 08, 2010 11:55:35 PM CDT
Aw, they should have brought Betty out there to sing along.
by flim springfield
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so that I can have another performer talking over me when I sing it.
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Maybe she can catch up with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.
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Betty White has turned out to be one of the bests hosts in a long while. See what a host can do when they actually give a shit? Amazing that a near 90 year old would host SNL. Even more amazing that she'd show up most of the younger hosts. Kudos, BW.
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Flowers. That was sweet. I feel like they tried with this episode. Regular SNL seems lazy in comparison.
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And Betty White is greatness.
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Lorne Michaels needs to realize that he can achieve this kind of energy every week if he makes each week a bit of an event. Bringing back so many old players and having a truly unique host redefined what has otherwise been a truly tired format for the last few years. Tonight, I applaud Betty and Lorne Michaels for doing something that reinvigorated SNL...if nothing more than one night. But here's to other classic episodes to come.
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May 09, 2010 12:06:45 AM CDT
Fire the current writers and rehire Fey, Pohler, Rudoph, etc.
by sighborg
The show would have sucked had Fey, Pohler, Rudolph, etc. not been guest hosting and more importantly, writing.
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I don't know if Tina Fey helped out with the writing for this episode, but it seemed sharper unless that was just Betty White's inherent awesome elevating the material to something actually funny.
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Agreed. It's why I still watch SNL. Every once in a while, even if it's not every week, they'll surprise you with something truly special.
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It's where they always put the weird Kids In The Hall-style humor. "How would you describe your race?" "Well, superior to the Asians, but not as smart." Awesome. Betty White was an excellent host, and well worth the wait. (Amazing to think she was AARP-qualifying 53 years old when SNL first started, in 1975.)
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May 09, 2010 12:11:51 AM CDT
Yes, great episode, which inevitably has only one downside...
by pardon_my_zinger
Namely, you just KNOW they're going to re-run it something like nine times between now and September. BLARRRFANDAR!
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Next up: Christopher Lloyd
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can serve a purpose!
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Pete Schweddy will be in town...
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When you have someone like Betty White who has been doing this shit for years, it shows. She is a consummate performer and only believes in giving it her best. And yes, she elevated material that would have paled with someone else reading the same lines.
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May 09, 2010 12:20:46 AM CDT
At the after party, Betty will give every cast member $5.
by flim springfield
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Just as the after party started she felt short of breath and passed out. She I'd apparently at the hospital in stable condition, fuck if she dies tonight I'm never watching snl again
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She knew that the episode wasn't about her, or her showcase. She wasn't there to plug a movie, or keep herself in the limelight, or prove she has a sense of humor. There were probably no primadona moments where she rewrote sketches or refused to do anything. She knew she was part of a team and there to make us laugh. Every host should know that, but most don't.
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May 09, 2010 12:38:50 AM CDT
Don't forget the Lady that started All of this: Carol Burnet
by mistergreen
get her on for next season!
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Ana & Molly. Molly's gotten a few decent minor jobs, but Ana has pretty much fallen off the Earth. Glad to see her again, eve if only for one night.
Would be nice if SNL utilized some of these former members more. I'm not saying have NPR or Sally O'Mally on every week, but Lorne really should be exploiting its 35 run & stable of characters. Former greats like Gasteyer don't work much after leaving SNL.
I think it'd work on a couple of levels. There are newbie supporting players like Nasim & Bobby. Current vets like Forte & Hader. Old faves like Shannon & Dratch. Go cross-generational. Past-Present-Future.
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Lets make this happen FACEBOOKERS!
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And "TNX" is apparently a Japanese recording studio. Somebody please drop the banhammer on this Bathman asshole for trying to start shit about Betty White.
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Nothing on either the SNL or Betty White IMDB forums. Nothing AP, Yahoo, TMZ, NBC forums, live feeds, etc & so forth. Not saying bathman's yanking us, but I've checked enough places so far that I can't substantiate his claim either.
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She is funny. I may DVR it.
Mad TV was WAY better than current SNL.
Betty White should be on Monday Night Raw as a guest Host.
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Kthx.
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May 09, 2010 1:29:42 AM CDT
Bring back Murray, Ackroyd, Chevy, Garrett, Jane and Lorraine...
by thecomedian
I think I'll start that facebook group and see how far I get. Too bad Eddie Murphy(along with Bill Crystal and a few of the other Ebersol crew)hates Loren Michaels' guts. Would love to see a show where the real not-ready-for-primetime-players mix it up with the new kids. The world could stand another coneheads sketch.
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The woman is amazing. She was on the top-rated sitcom WHEN SNL STARTED! Then another one in the 80's... What career is she on now, her ninth?? It was great seeing her tonight and really inspirational to think that an 88 year old can not only still perform live like that but is so appreciated by younger fans. The best show in a while - and I agree with all the above posters who say the Lorne should bring back ex-SNL'S much more often. Make the show an event where you never know who might return on any given Saturday.
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Is what I meant to say.
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...but Betty White owns.
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I haven't laughed like this at SNL in years! Gotta love me some betty White!!! Who'da thunk it?
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You are HYSTERICAL!!! ?
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Came on here expecting you guys to be bitching about it sucking (admit I half expected it to suck too), but it's nice to see we're all in agreement. That was a good ep. Funny even. Actually LOL'd that last sketch. And I never really LOL. I don't even write LOL in e-mails or texts, because it would be a lie, because I don't LOL. But here I am. LOL'ing. Just please stop saying penultimate.
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Dude, you really, truly suck for making up sick, petulant lies like that. Move out of your momma's basement and get a life.
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I would shisk her kabob and hum her mus if you know what I mean. What I mean is I would saddle her camel in a heart beat.SNL was consistently funny from start to end tonight which is a rare and wonderful thing to behold.
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After the skepticism here that she could go the distance, 88 year old Betty White was in the cold open (unusual for a guest host), delivered a killer monologue, did both music spot intros (customary), cameo'd on Update, starred in the Digital short and was in three pre-taped McGroober skits and was in EVERY SINGLE SKETCH. Admittedly she managed to do most of the show sitting down and wedged into pre-existing sketches, but hey, we're talkin' about an 88 year old lady, right?
And she was wicked funny and nastier than a lot of hosts a third of her age would get away with.
"When I was young we didn't have facebook. We had Phone book, but we didn't spend the afternoon with it."
And even if that Dusty Muffin sketch was just Schwetty Balls recycled, it was still pretty awesome. "Like I used to tell my husband, what are you waiting for, eat it!"
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You could see he was barely holding it together. Always love the scared straight sketches. Who threw the shoe at him? Great episode next week The Great One returns.
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Well, TB's are actually informative! Has it been 15 years since I bought their first CD?
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Try to do one "All-Star" show every couple of months and have a bunch of all-star alumni comeback for an ep. If they do it every sweeps I'm sure NBC will cough up the extra bread.
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It seems to have become the sketch where Kenan and Sudeikis try to get the "kids" to laugh. Probably because Hader seems to start losing it when Kenan attacks people. And Sudeikis just likes screwing around. Probably him tossing that shoe.
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...the entertainment world will reel from her loss when her time comes which sadly will likely be very soon!
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That's the difference between flash in the pan garbage of this generation, and people like her. She's 90 freaking years old and she memorized every last line. And she killed it too. SNL can be good if the guest hosts give a shit, and the writing is tailored to their respective talents. Great episode. She is pure class.
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Um, no, she read cue cards...like most hosts...it's partcularly apparent in the Census sketch. Still, she did a great job, and it actually was a really funny episode, and she is a class act.
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Done in the way anniversary shows SHOUD BE done. Returning cast members flexing their chops!
Missed a great opportunity for What's Up With That?
More Abby Elliot, please!
Jay-Z's Alicia Keys stand-in: (Bridget Kelley?) Holy shit! Good hire, Jay-Z! My man! Please tell me you're getting your Bill Clinton on! -
She did memorize some of the lines. She was looking at the actors faces for alot of the sketches
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I was hoping for a new "Prince Show" but at least I got to see a new Debbie Downer in the online nbc clips. And my local affiliate must have a hair trigger. During the first Jay Z performance they ran a local commercial. I thought maybe he cursed or something but I think it was just because the music slowed down and lights dimmed a little. They must have thought he was done 30 seconds in then realized he was still on and jumped back to it after the commercial.
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singer. I'm glad I didn't turn when he started as I customarily do when his music starts. "Tonight's the night like Betty White and I'm chillin'." Snoop should've been the musical guest. Poopcaso indeed.
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What amazed me the most about Betty White compaired to much younger hosts is that she had her lines memorized. She wasn't starting at cue cards at all. A true vetern and one of the funniest SNL shows in a while.
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I was hoping for a sketch last night - glad they posted it online.
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I'm claiming copyright infringement on that one! We had a serial pooper at my wife's middle school (she's a principal) a few years back, she labeled him Poopcaso because of his habit of making art work on the restroom walls with his feces. The legend of Poopcaso has floated around that school for some time now!
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and blows these facebook-twitter assholes off the map before they destroy the internet any further.
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Oh, so you're a Republican and you like Sarah Palin. Great. Good for you. But don't rush online to post bitchy nonsense, because you look like an idiot. Tina Fey has a fucking awesome career. Virtually every young comedian - male or female - wants to be in her position (or just in her, ha). But seriously: She was the head writer for SNL, then a performer, and now she's in season 4 of a hit sitcom, that she created, writes and stars in, and she also STARS IN MOVIES. She's creative and famous and successful. Every casting company in LA routinely looks for "Tina Fey types." And you're really going to act like she's just some random nobody whose claim to fame is a Sarah Palin impression? Really? And that impression upsets you so much you have to whine about it on the Internet? Even if it's only tangentially related to the topic of discussion? Get a fucking life, dude. What do you do for fun, strangle puppies?
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THERE! No sign of alexnivek on the TB, so SOMEbody had to say it...
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It got that rating in a hour when nothing else is on. If Lame Leno was on in that same time slot with no Nightline or Letterman against him, even his lame show would likely score in the high 4-5's in ratings. Imagine how high the ratings would be for an actual comedy with talent! A new episode of Modern Family, Community, or The Office would probably score 6,7,or maybe even 8's in that slot with nothing against it. No matter which way Herc tries to spin it, there's a huge difference between primetime rating numbers and graveyard rating numbers. There's a reason why SNL cast get paid so cheap and why they're dieing to jump from that show first chance they get. Advertisers will still feel they are reaching more people at 8pm with a 2.0 then at 12:30am with a 4.0.
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They could include all the cut sketches. They aren't any worse than the ones that weren't cut, on average. How did a new DEBBIE DOWNER get cut but the repetitive Latino dancing talk show sketch didn't? The only fake talk show with dancing that I wanna see is WHAT UP WITH THAT?! (And THE BARRY GIBB TALK SHOW, I guess.)
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before i watched it i couldnt believe they cut it either.. and while it wasn't a complete disaster, (the oil spill line was funny.. although, not the BP line after it) it would have been a bad note for good 'ole debbie to go out on... kind of a DOWNER..!.!. GET IT? A DOWNER! i kill me. i should write for SNL.
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at the end you could see she kinda thought it bombed. But I LOL'd several times. Never gets old. That was the funniest SNL in a LONG time. Except for that skit with the people that dance every few seconds. That one grates on me like the "oooh.. weee.. what's up with that?" thing. Kill that one already. Kenan is hilarious though. Just hate that one thing he does.
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Abby Elliott's are nicer. I would taste things on her that her mom felt uncomfortable cleaning when she was a baby.
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*ahem*
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When Alec Baldwin recycles the same old shit.
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Could have had White play Nana Nuni for Armisen and Rudolph's European couple. But then again, I wouldn't do it without Parnell's butler (fuck Samberg's attempts at trying to pull it off).
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...and continue booking hosts that viewers WANT to see, instead bimbo flavors of the month who are only there to promote a shitty movie or TV show that no one will remember in a year. I'm not saying it has to be every single episode, but goddamn.
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Though original conceived in 1975, no show has ever worked so well on TiVo and in bite-sized bits online.
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lets get some real proven actors and actresses and stop with the cast of fucking twilight and - ugh the previous host who was awful. betty was great.
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I actually think the current cast is very good. People always complain that whoever is in the cast sucks because it's not the era that they fell in love with the show. I've been watching regularly ever since the first Phil Hartman episodes, and this current cast and the writing is really on point. And it's really fun to see a comedic genius come into her own: Kristen Wig.
Betty White just hit it out of the ballpark last night. It's hard to not repeat what others have said but this lady is almost 90 years old and she is just as edgy and funny as anyone else a third her age. That was truly a "special episode" and it's going to go down in the history books. However long Betty has a career, if this was one of her last big nights, she definitely earned herself a host of new fans with last night's show. She has the ability to be bawdy and sweet simultaneosly that no one else can match. -
Same kind of lies. Can we IP ban this idiot, please?
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...Don Rickles for SNL
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it's been like that for years, where shit old people watch like NCIS and Touched By an Angel rule the ratings even though every person under 50 in the world knows that stuff is SHIT. Betty White was an average host at best, with every joke just being that she was old or playing against type by being vulgar or gangsta or something. What a lame, overrated episode.
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I think I fell asleep about 3 hours into his song
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Shows you what atrue professional can do. Betty White was terrific, and you can tell that she made the effort to actually give a comdic performance, cue cards and all. Young folks, take note, that's how you do it! Also, I co-sign on Maya Rudolph - I'd hit it any time!
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Can't understand why anyone would complain about that. When a skit is so funny that the SNLer cracks a smile or even starts to giggle...that kills me! As long as its not overdone, of course.
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when Christopher Walken, Alec Baldwin, and Justin Timberlake host.
Betty White was a very solid episode. The "SNL Homecoming" theme should be done once a year in the penultimate show, where former cast members can show and be peppered into skits. I wouldn't mind seeing Ackroyd or Dana Carvey (Eddie Murphy is too much of an a-hole) every couple of years. -
I didn't see Avatar just cause Michelle Rodriguez was in it. I won't see MacGruber because Wiig is in it. Also fuck JayZ doing Alphaville, that asshole.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv1SGjfiAx4
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Makes sense. The people demanded it. The Betty White ep is the first time in years I've heard other people speak about watching SNL in public. NBC should have an online vote on who they want to host the show.
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...the fact that Jay-Z was on the show at all, though. Right?
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No one has cared about JayZ Jeff since he broke up with the French Prince.
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