SNL 40th Anniversary Special: Views/Review

SNL: The Reunion.

 As many people know, I am a HUGE Saturday Night Live Fan. 'It's like that SNL sketch where...' being much higher in my repertoire of most-used phrases than myself (and those around me) would like. So with this 40th anniversary special, I decided it was an appropriate time to begin sharing my insights into the world of entertainment, (TV, Film, Music etc) with all of you unfortunate twats. (Blog followers -1)

'The potential of this episode was limitless' - (My Brother, 2015). Often I disagree with my brother, not because we have opposing views, but because I'm much cooler, wiser, handsome..and generally better than he is. Except in Madden NFL 15, that game is the bane of my existence. This statement of his rung true though.

It's an unfortunate truth that SNL has been teetering on the brink of 'mediocre' for quite some time, I seem to always enjoy it, because its great moments are truly fantastic. But I was left a little annoyed at this Reunion. I felt with the people they got together in Studio 8H something much more memorable was on the cards. I'm trying to keep this as concise as possible, so here goes:

Things I liked:

• The spectrum of guests, early members such as Jane Curtin, chairing weekend update with the Feyhler duo was great
• Popular sketches with celebrities/great impressions (I'm looking at you Californians, and the always pretty decent Jeopardy)
• 100% of the time I've seen Maya Rudolph as Beyonce, I've loved it #surfboard #airport
• The moments where you realise how long SNL has been creating contemporary laughs
• The audition tape was adorable. They were all nervous awkward, kind of funny people performing to a crowd that could change their lives forever. A bit like the 40th special, perhaps the 50th will be more like the confident innovative comedians who leave SNL? 

Things I Disliked

• The show was largely timid banter and acting as Lorne Michaels A-list studded hype squad.
• The lack of sketches-SNL was built as a sketch show, yet tonight there were only a handful at best, you could've put Bill Murray, Taran Killam, Will Ferrell (random names from across the timeline) in one sketch! That's more talent in a few minutes than most movies nowadays. (also, perhaps not those three, because they're all white...maybe throw Sasheer Zamata in there.)
• The lack of quality writing- there are some of the best writers in the world in that studio, but poor De Niro's monologue was not only stumbled, but sounded pretty standard. 
• The lack of the current cast - they are, after all, the people on who SNL's future relies on.
• All this hype of Eddie Murphy?! Why. I get he was good, but today he just grinned, clapped...and left. Or did i miss something?
• Whilst I liked weekend update, a segment of 'Really?!' with every anchor they could have mustered would have been interesting...
• Lack of Stefon
• Kanye West...Wolves may need a bit of work.
  
  

Just a snippet of the talent present.

That's a fairly brief feeling of what I got from tonight. It sounds like I'm extremely cynical and mean I'm not, honest! (except when I'm losing at Madden NFL 15...I hope it goes to hell.)

All in all, it was a timid reminder that SNL has been a cultural staple for the last 40 years, but also more strongly that it needs to do something drastic, quick.

P.S. A Vogelchecks Sketch would have been insane.

Let me know what you thought/ write generic hate comments! I look forward to reading anything (please? someone read my blog?)