Saturday Night Live..

[Bionicfanboy66]

There was a weird short era when the beginning credits had a fake NY skyline and the actors were like giants as they were introduced.

I remember Rich Hall lighting his cigarette with the Chrysler Building.

Did I dream that ?

That was the 1984-85 season. During Billy Crystal and Martin Short's brief run as regular cast members.

[Sideshow Spock]

^Here's that opening (which is also a fave of mine), altho the uploader screwed around with it for some reason with the smaller square thing, which is not how it was..

[Earth 2 Chris]

^I remember that. I was probably too young to be watching SNL, but I was always a bit of a Night-Owl on the weekend as a kid.

Ringo looked like Christopher Lambert from Highlander there.

Chris

[Spawn67]

[QUOTE=johnnystorm;1191912]I've been watching that marathon on vh1 , it's addicting as they roll through the hosts. It's funny how some of these people were such big stars for such a brief period that they hosted and disappeared.
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I was thinking the same thing. As well as some of the music acts and even some SNL cast.

[Brazoo]

Anybody given a shout out to Dennis Miller as anchor?

I gave him a quick shout out in my post too. I was about 13 and SNL got me interested in reading the news for the first time, particularly Miller's Weekend Update. We used to do a weekly current events thing in our class, and I always stole some of his gags when I had to present to get a laugh.

[EMCE Hammer]

I loved Norm McDonald. I remember one of the anniversary specials where his cast was hanging out with some of the originals. He looked at one of them and said something like "It must be really hard for you guys when everybody says 'Oh, the original cast just sucks but these new guys are great!'

[Mikey]

I loved Norm McDonald on Weekend Update... also as Turd Fergusen

Hated Dennis Miller (still do)

[Brazoo]

I loved Norm McDonald. I remember one of the anniversary specials where his cast was hanging out with some of the originals. He looked at one of them and said something like "It must be really hard for you guys when everybody says 'Oh, the original cast just sucks but these new guys are great!'

Norm is amazing!

[Brazoo]

I loved Norm McDonald on Weekend Update... also as Turd Fergusen

Hated Dennis Miller (still do)

It's funny, I never liked anything Miller did after SNL, or even his stand up.

[Mikey]

It's funny, I never liked anything Miller did after SNL, or even his stand up.

Yea, after he went all super conservative and started being Bill O'Reilly's buddy his funniness went more to subdued anger hiding in humor

[Brazoo]

Yea, after he went all super conservative and started being Bill O'Reilly's buddy his funniness went more to subdued anger hiding in humor

Yeah - being funny wasn't his main interest anymore, I think too.

Jim Breuer had some good Inside SNL stories about the later part of this era on Marc Maron's W*T*F*. One story involved Miller. Something like how Miller was a the type of guy who would tease the rookies if he ran into them in the hallway, and at that time two of the rookies were Jim Breuer and Ben Stiller. Breuer would always play along, accepting it as a part of an initiation onto the team - but Breuer thought Stiller didn't even get what he was suppose to do. Stiller already had so much experience in show business getting teased didn't make sense to him - he wasn't use to needing to get accepted onto a team, he was just annoyed. This is a reason Breuer thought Stiller was not a good fit for SNL.

[Hector]

I gave him a quick shout out in my post too. I was about 13 and SNL got me interested in reading the news for the first time, particularly Miller's Weekend Update. We used to do a weekly current events thing in our class, and I always stole some of his gags when I had to present to get a laugh.

My second bad...glad you previously mentioned him.

Really liked Miller as SNL weekend Update anchor...never liked his stand up act though.

[Mikey]

Yeah - being funny wasn't his main interest anymore, I think too.

Jim Breuer had some good Inside SNL stories about the later part of this era on Marc Maron's W*T*F*. One story involved Miller. Something like how Miller was a the type of guy who would tease the rookies if he ran into them in the hallway, and at that time two of the rookies were Jim Breuer and Ben Stiller. Breuer would always play along, accepting it as a part of an initiation onto the team - but Breuer thought Stiller didn't even get what he was suppose to do. Stiller already had so much experience in show business getting teased didn't make sense to him - he wasn't use to needing to get accepted onto a team, he was just annoyed. This is a reason Breuer thought Stiller was not a good fit for SNL.

That's an interesting story.

Seems like Stiller is a nice guy in real life so that could also be why they didn't bust his a__ as much as Breur

[Spawn67]

Anyone see the 40th Anniversary show tonight?

[monitor_ep]

I was hoping for more skits with past cast members than what was shown. I was surprised the Miley Cyrus not only was a musical guest star but didn't do one of her crazy songs.