Anyone else watching?
I jumped in and out.
Kanye performing now.

They should have cut that California sketch in half and did something more with Murphy or the originals.

Either he just didn't want to or he didn't like whatever they wrote for him.

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His One Night Only on Spike was the same thing. I just don't think he gives a fuck. He's probably scared on some level. He's so admired and loved, and he can't go back to that place in his career ever again. He's never gonna do stand up because he doesn't have the ability to work out an act by failing. It's actuallly kinda sad...but I mean, only for his fans.

For real you can't be funny for 2 minutes? He looked real akward up there

out of the park. Chris Rock did all the heavy lifting and nostalgic pieces, Chris Rock served him up a softball and Eddie Murphy struck out. Very sad because I was hoping this would set up an Eddie Murphy come back but it just looks like he doesn't want to come back and just wants to retire with his trophy piece.

>out of the park. Chris Rock did all the heavy lifting and
>nostalgic pieces, Chris Rock served him up a softball and
>Eddie Murphy struck out. Very sad because I was hoping this
>would set up an Eddie Murphy come back but it just looks like
>he doesn't want to come back and just wants to retire with his
>trophy piece.


I think u guys are thinking too hard on this one....

Before the show Eddie did an interview about coming back to SNL just last week. And he gave up the ghost early saying that he would not be in any sketches and was just happy to be back.

Sad isn't the word. It's simple: dude was on self exile from SNL. He had REAL beef with L. Michaels and has refused to ever step foot onstage there. So Murphy even coming back was an achievement in itself....

Eddie just being there was a big deal in and of itself. he's been pissed with SNL dissing him back in the 90's (i think he referenced a David Spade skit that trashed one of his movies or something). he felt like he was one of them and shouldn't have been attacked like that. that's why he never showed up for the 25th anniversary special. so we should be happy that he even showed up.

plus maybe he feels awkward around SNL peeps b/c he was on the show during the only period when Lorne wasn't producing. there's an asterisk on that era. plus his fame was a bit of a problem for several of his castmates while he was on the show - especially Joe Piscopo.

but anyway, i hope his appearance last night means he'll perform on the show in the future.

Your''re a comedian and one of your peers gets at you. This man pouts and goes in bitch mode instead of clowning weak ass David Spade. Huge L.

Yeah...let's take it down a bit, homie....

Eddie coming back was big with in itself....Read up on the history...

In the '90s u didn't see any hit jobs or jokes about SNL alumni on that level...But Eddie was a target...

So imagine....U were the one person (Eddie Murphy) that literally saved SNL. If not for u SNL would have ended by 1980....Throw in race (Eddie being one of the handful of black talents to be involved in a show that has historically been tilted to the VERY white-Second City-Yale-Harvard clique) and the fact that Eddie became the the biggest star from SNL?...That's some real explosive shit...

Murphy felt like SNL owed him more. A lot more. U rarely saw SNL giving shade to the movie bombs that were being made by SNL stars....And if they did it was really playful...Not mean spirited like Spade...

But Eddie was an easy target to a generation that had no idea that he saved that show.....Yeah...he had a reason to be crossed.....

Yes Eddie saved SNL and maybe he's the biggest star of the show. But during his reign Lorne Michaels wasn't under control, if he was I think he woulda kept Eddie on a short leash and he wouldn't have blown up they way he did. Lorne Michaels seems like he wants black performers to only play the side role and not the lead, definitely not the star of the show.

>Yes Eddie saved SNL and maybe he's the biggest star of the
>show. But during his reign Lorne Michaels wasn't under
>control, if he was I think he woulda kept Eddie on a short
>leash and he wouldn't have blown up they way he did. Lorne
>Michaels seems like he wants black performers to only play the
>side role and not the lead, definitely not the star of the
>show.


Yep...And u basically underlined the beef between Lorne and Eddie....

Eddie felt that Lorne never respected his impact on SNL because it was done when Michaels was off the show...But when the Eddie jabs started coming his way in the '90s it was under Lorne's watch....

Like I said, Murphy showing up was a HUGE first-step. There was talk that he would never walk on that set again...Hell he telegraphed his appearance when he said just days before the special that he wouldn't be in any sketches....Dude is just getting use to the idea of being a part of that SNL family again....

Eddie took it too personally and blamed Lorne for the joke b/c as he understood it Lorne approved all of the show's content. and since Eddie never worked w/Lorne on SNL i'm not sure they have a personal relationship. so maybe Lorne didn't feel much allegiance to Eddie.

but no matter, i hope whatever rift there was is smoothed and now Eddie will perform on the show in the future.

It had nothing to do with history and a beef there....so...

i read the SNL book: Live from New York so here's my thoughts on this intriguing beef:

1. Lorne hates those 'Eddie years' because to him it was a one man show not an ensemble effort for laughs, which is why HE BOUGHT THE RIGHTS AND NEVER PUTS THOSE YEARS IN SYNDICATION EVER.
2. friends and early collaborators Keenan & Robert Townsend were castoff the show, always thought Garret Morris sketches were demeaning = EDDIE THINKS SNL DON'T FUCK WITH BLACK COMICS FOR REAL
3. till this day Lorne still thinks john belushi is the funniest to ever come out of SNL
4. spade's 'falling star' barb was the tip of the iceberg

*he also didn't wanna play Cosby on the 'celebrity jeopardy' sketch because, well....

Voice was shot and that's saying something about him. I'm truly bummed with where his career is going.

He wants to dog out other folks artistry, yet he is on stage sounding like a fool trying to sing. Terrible!! His rendition of Jesus Walks was cool though.

Prince called it way back in 94'


See the rapper's problem usually stem from being tone deaf
Pack the house then try 2 sing,
there won't be no one left (ha ha) (on it)
Parking lot's on fire, brothers peelin' out of the town
They say in disgust, they singin' their guts
Rappin' done let us down (down down)
u got 2 be dead... on it

Dead on it

-- Prince/Dead on it/Black Album

greatness

Have to say, the confidence necessary to do that in front of that crowd is remarkable. But how screwed up must it be to just be on a track with him, yet he's dressing you when you showup for a TV gig.

ye voice was wrecked from all these appearances this week but that was pretty good.

him, vic and sia are real cool together.

I watched just to see Eddie. Weird.

I think dude is scared he isn't funny anymore.


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He had too much to drink, couldn't do it, so Eddie did it instead.

Thus spawned the line "Live from New York it's the Eddie Murphy Show!"

but he was sick so Eddie stepped in.

drive, will or whatever you want to call it.

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Holy Man was his last watchable movie

As far as being a stand up comic. Not movie star obviously

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I wouldn't even call it that. He had a legendary run in the 80's to mid 90's. Now it's beyond over.

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Half of it was cool and funny (mostly b/c of nostalgia), and the other half seemed liked wasted potential.

It's kind of sad when Miley Cirus was the only musical performance that was watchable.

seinfeld got a laugh
californians never been funny not one time
kanye had blue contact lenses, the music as a whole was trash

i dont expect shtt from eddie, cool to see him, that was it

needed more ferrell and cheri oteri

well, i mean other than the actors who appear in it.

i love that shit though.

It's so spot on it's ridic. Swift was trash in it though. Don't ever start acting girl.

When someone in it doesn't understand the cadence and joke of the accent.

and find it spot on for people in LA.

Taylor Swift tossed a wet blanket on that sketch pretty swiftly (teehee) though.

That's one of my favorite skits 9f the last 10 years.

....by Tina and Alec almost caught me out there...I damn near teared up...

I'm pulling for dude to at least walk again....

Hope a video of all the skits from that night pop up without all the older clips in between.

https://www.youtube.com/user/SaturdayNightLive/videos

Thank ya kindly

Like Sasheers camera time has dropped dramatically since Lesli Jones has arrived. Which sucks because Lesli Jones work is more bug eye stereotypical stuff.

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I fully expect the Leslie/Lorne on-camera pairings to increase in frequency.

I wonder if Leslie Jones is a better writer than Sasheer Zameta or if the writers like writing for Leslie more than Sasheer.

As easy as it was for Good Times writers to write for JJ.


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Celebrity jeopardy will forever be my shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkma9cw0WHw

the rest was garbage.

it was like modern SNL opposite day where now you go for the rest and the skits are just "there" mostly.

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idk how will keeps a straight face through that.

got nothing to prove to nobody, he's the most successful comedian of all time.

>Eddie got more money that everybody else on that stage combined

http://i.imgur.com/KzcHHUz.jpg

>he's the most successful comedian of all time.

http://i.imgur.com/cN8ZEQA.jpg

does he have and where would he be without Larry David?

>Eddie got more money that everybody else on that stage combined

"that stage"
one could only assume you were speaking about *that stage* that they all performed on last night


>how many blockbuster movies does he have and where would he be without Larry David

doesn't fucking matter. you called him "the most successful comedian of all time"

he's not

highest level and didn't need to do some watered down TV monologue just to please some comedy fanboys.

I'm sure they probably wanted him to do Buckwheat and he politely declined.

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The man made Delirous.

>The man made Delirous.

Most of the late career success he's had have been shit quality and/or sell out status type of work. Anything for a buck I guess.

link? I can't find anything with Eddie in top 3 so just wondering, not really disputing cuz it would be cool. I just find that hard to believe. Maybe if the list was from 1992...

shit even will ferrell almost worth more than eddie.

Is Kevin James among the elite? ?

he said eddie is richer than everyone there combined. then said castmembers. which is also wrong. very wrong.
yes eddie's great. but he aint above it all.

and good lord did Larry David murder for the limited time he was on. He never got any sketches on while he was on SNL, correct?

like so much. but it's something.

JS: larry we'll see u at the after party?
LD: no, why would i be at the party?

"If you wanna help us, fine. Sit down with your kids and make 'em study at night...otherwise, shoot THIS mothaf*cka!" (c) Morgan Freeman,

is that Larry David was pretty much a failure on SNL, so it was a surprise to see him participate for that sketch.

OMG, if she sings acoustic, raw country like that all the time, I might pick up an album!

without him that overrated Racist Butt show would have gone off the air 30 years back.

Chris Rock ain't nothing but a broke Eddie Murphy.

truth is Eddie sold a character and a role where it was huge for its time and it spoke for that time and he moved on.

he ain't had to prove nothing since 88. Eddie been where few Black Entertainers ever been and that also goes for Whites as well when you think about it because how many acts from the 80's still pulling in roles and counting?

Eddie is a Smart cat. and cats after him are in doubt to him period because he took cross over to a whole new level period.

before Him you had to share camara time with a un funny white dude and needed as a side kick. after Eddie broke through that kind of casting was done period.

to me he is Saturday Night Live and he turned that mother out and saved that cornball show from being yanked years ago,

It was so random but the highlight of the whole thing for me.

Californians is always great, as is the Jeopardy sketch so very happy to see those again, and awesome to see Sudeikis don the red tracksuit for Keenan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53DQgbj2mIc

This clip has scenes from Star Wars but it's got Bill singing the song over it. I can't find the actual clip which makes me think that NBC has a grip on it and shut it down from youtube.

One of my favorite things he did.

>Californians is always great, as is the Jeopardy sketch so
>very happy to see those again, and awesome to see Sudeikis don
>the red tracksuit for Keenan.

^^^ I cracked up at each & every one of these moments.

Thanks for hunting for the link.

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I knew Lorne would short change her and Tim. I love her... She deserved more than 5 seconds. And Tim was on that show mad seasons...
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and jimmy fallon lol

in the audience. along with nasim.
i was wondering about aby and chris eliot actually.

they had bad experiences and if asked about their time there, they would not hesitate to bash SNL

granted ,i only knew of dude for one reason. i really didn't expect to see him..but at the end i was like "oh snap, there's....:"


"If you wanna help us, fine. Sit down with your kids and make 'em study at night...otherwise, shoot THIS mothaf*cka!" (c) Morgan Freeman,

...the audience barely wanted to acknowledge Eddie.... most black cast members became bigger stars AFTER SNL....the Leslie Jones thing was REALLY unfunny, and seemed like pandering, although i think she IS funny in other instances...after watching the show, and reading this post, i have to admit that i really do beleive Lorne isn't interested in promoting anything not stereotypically "black", and i ain't mad cause he's an old successful white man, what else would he think? there just seemed to be little love for black cast members in general, but i understood, cause let's face it, other than Murphy, the funny from cast members of color is hit or miss...

i can't front though i'm always happy to see "What's up with that"....

oh, and y'all really mad about Eddie huh?? dude ain't put in enough great work to get a lifetime pass? really? dude ain't ever gotta try to be funny again to me....he really has NOTHING to prove....

http://gawker.com/how-eddie-murphy-almost-played-bill-cosby-on-snl40-by-1686690335

larry talking shit from the audience basically saying the sketches he wrote that went over people's heads ended up being the blueprint for 'Seinfeld' is hilarious