Tonight's halloween special was a look back at the years when Saturday Night Live was fun to watch. Okay, that's not fair - it's sometimes fun to watch current episodes (I have higher than normal hopes for Jane Lynch hosting this weekend), but these sketches all came from the years better SNL years.
Hosting the special were Wayne and Garth, bookending the special with top ten lists. The skits varried from spoofs on The Twilight Zone to a gay vampire starring John Travolta. Like a typical SNL show, the skits were hit and miss - and they often ran too long past the initial joke.
Chris Farley made an appearance as the motivational speaker Mike (you know, the guy who lives in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!) trying to teach a couple of unruly teens how inappropriate it is to pull Halloween pranks.
Another classic was Anna Gasteyer as Martha Stewart, giving advice on how to fashionably toilet paper and ex husband's house. Hilarious. And of corse, the opening skit featured Landshark, the classic bit where Gilda Radner is afraid to open the door as 2am on Halloween Night. "Unicef man? Oh, well that's different!" LANDSHARK!!
For me, the worst skit of the special was Adam Sandler (as himself) with halloween costume ideas. With such ideas as "crazy man with a pickle for an arm" or "crazy eye man" it's hard to understand why the audience was actually laughing. It's probably just me. I've never really been a fan of Adam Sandler's humor. I know most everyone thinks that he is hilarious, but is it really comedy when the funniest line in the skit is at the end when Kevin Neelon takes out a cigar, holds it up to his chin and says "Hey! I'm crazy cigar-chin guy" and Sandler says "Once again you topped me again, Neelon!" It just isn't very funny to me.
Hosting the special were Wayne and Garth, bookending the special with top ten lists. The skits varried from spoofs on The Twilight Zone to a gay vampire starring John Travolta. Like a typical SNL show, the skits were hit and miss - and they often ran too long past the initial joke.
Chris Farley made an appearance as the motivational speaker Mike (you know, the guy who lives in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!) trying to teach a couple of unruly teens how inappropriate it is to pull Halloween pranks.
Another classic was Anna Gasteyer as Martha Stewart, giving advice on how to fashionably toilet paper and ex husband's house. Hilarious. And of corse, the opening skit featured Landshark, the classic bit where Gilda Radner is afraid to open the door as 2am on Halloween Night. "Unicef man? Oh, well that's different!" LANDSHARK!!
For me, the worst skit of the special was Adam Sandler (as himself) with halloween costume ideas. With such ideas as "crazy man with a pickle for an arm" or "crazy eye man" it's hard to understand why the audience was actually laughing. It's probably just me. I've never really been a fan of Adam Sandler's humor. I know most everyone thinks that he is hilarious, but is it really comedy when the funniest line in the skit is at the end when Kevin Neelon takes out a cigar, holds it up to his chin and says "Hey! I'm crazy cigar-chin guy" and Sandler says "Once again you topped me again, Neelon!" It just isn't very funny to me.
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