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Saturday Night Live: The Road to Season 50

I was reading up on Rocket not that long ago, as all I knew him for was being fired from SNL for swearing and then killing himself. Turned out he had no trouble finding work after his termination, but when people remember him at all, it's for the first two things I mentioned.
 
That tweet had me looking more into his career and I was reading an obituary on RogerEbert.com and it said that half of the AP obituary was dedicated to him getting fired for dropping an F bomb despite his accomplished career as a character actor (and being a mentor to the Talking Heads!)
 
What the friggin hell with the camera work in the five timers sketch? Also several missed cues it seemed.
 
Re: Rocket, he did have a pretty sweet career but I think a lot of sympathy/pity is because he was supposed to be Chevy Chase but ended up just Charles Rocket. I've gotten to love how much of a mess season six is and how straight bad he was live, despite being awesome in pretapes, and I've heard enough stories about him being a dick to have tempered sympathy for his mercy killing his SNL spot. But bless that guy.

Besides the small giddyness I got from seeing him in that Tom Petty video is something I'll treasure for a while.

Also Charlene Tilton was gorgeous.
 
I always see Charlene Tilton used as a reference for how crappy the hosts were in Season 6 but by the standards of that season, she actually seemed like a pretty good get.

Love Gilbert giving her a peck on the cheek. Probably makes up somewhat for one of the shabbily treated years for an SNL cast member (they had the man play a corpse! A CORPSE!)
 
Dallas was big, as her episode showed. That season on paper had some pretty solid hosts in terms of star power, I think. All completely wasted to an insulting level, sure, but it isn't like it was totally fucked up booking (Debbie Harry and Gail Matthius as a lesbian couple aside). Bill Murray, though. That guy pulled through and elevated that cast big, just way too late.

They need to do right by Malcolm McDowell though. That trainwreck of a show warrants an apology appearance to this day.
 
Malcolm McDowell was so pissed about his episode that he talked Gary Oldman out of hosting a decade later!

I don't think SNL's decline really showed with crappy hosts until Season 7. They had some really irrelevant hosts that year. That string of episodes hosted by washed actors with the name Robert. Seriously, no one was asking for Robert Conrad, Robert Urich, or Robert Conrad to host SNL in 1982!
 
Urich made sense just because it was like 1982-82 and it's Robert Urich. Robert Hays was relevant although the pan had flashed for him. Conrad is just a misfire. It was a big step down, though. Season six had star power.

That McDowell show is still the worst thing they've ever done based solely because they were actually trying. He seemed game, or started game. Wouldn't have been a hall of fame host, I don't think, but that writing is unbelievable to the point of sabotage by ineptitude.

The Ebersol years did have some of the greatest lineups of musical guests, though. Somehow. The Cock needs to get the rights to at least a couple already because it isn't like they aren't good for it. Maybe I want to see Jimmy Cliff, they don't know.
 
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Maybe I want to see Jimmy Cliff, they don't know.
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Bob lunacy peaked in Season 8 though when they had Robert Blake on even though Barretta ended a solid half decade earlier. And all they got for it was Gary Kroger being humiliated and the most heavily edited SNL ever.
 
If not for a writer's strike season 6 was going to have shows hosted by Franken and .Davis and Dan Aykroyd. Like Murray I think those would have been elevated by the hosts and have come off overall fan friendly.
 
It's weird that Dan Aykroyd didn't officially host on his own until 2003. Although he basically co-hosted the John Goodman Season 20 episode cause Goodman was either sick and/or filming Roseanne that week. Not that he didn't do plenty of cameos in the '80s-'00s but man an entire Aykroyd hosted episode in the '80s-'90s would have rocked IMO.
 
Dan Aykroyd in season six means a high chance of Belushi, too. Either way I think yeah, he'd do a lot of what Murray did and make the best talent shine while letting the lesser ones look better than they ever would. It's actually kinda sad he and Bill Murray didn't get a shot at some Ghostbusters rub later on.
 
Think Goodman had Roseanne filming conflicts and didn't show up in NY till Thursday/Friday of show week. Made sense for Aykroyd to be there because Tommy Boy was being released at the time.
 
I love how redass he is in Live from New York. He's the only person interviewed in there that lasted more than one season that seems disdainful of the show. I hope he somehow ends up on Dana Carvey & David Spade's SNL alum podcast although I won't hold my breathe for it.
 
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Kind of weird that he doesn't already have it considering he broke the longest tenure a while back but I guess there was never an era where episodes were dominated by Kenan sketches. And he really didn't get on that much at all his first 4 or 5 seasons.

He's obviously developed into a very good castmember but I doubt I'd put Kenan on my list of Top 10 GOAT SNL castmembers.

Edit- Nevermind. He got 1500 sketches last night and it doesn't say anything about a record for most sketches. Reading is hard.
 
Forgot to post about it earlier but Mike Myers was on Dana Carvey & David Spade's podcast earlier this week. I can't imagine he does too many interviews (although I *think* he did Maron 5-10 years ago to promote his Shep Gordon documentary) and it's always interesting to hear him and Carvey interact given their weird relationship.

I'm a few episodes behind but the podcast is surprisingly good. It confirms what I've heard from other comedians that David Spade is actually a p. cool, laidback dude unlike his snarky jerk persona.
 
Season 11 featured player Dan Vitale has died. He was just doing snl reviews for
Entertainment Weekly (or something of that ilk) a few months ago so I assume this was sudden
 
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