OT Saturday Night Life - Cold Open 10/7/2017

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  1. SlyPokerDog

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    That was good, respectful. But I do look to comedy and comedians to push the limits and use humor to help heal. This isn't a music show. I'm not mad at that intro, just wish there was a way they could have done what they do best and make us laugh.
     
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    Music has always been a huge part of Saturday Night Live. Some of the greatest performances in Rock and Roll history have taken place on that stage.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I'm not really sure what you can do to make light of 58 people dying from a mass shooting.
     
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    The "fake news" had some pretty good jokes about it.
     
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    On November 20, 1976, Paul Simon made his second of thirteen SNL appearances, serving as both host and musical guest. He cold-opened the show by singing “Still Crazy After All These Years” in a turkey costume (it was the Thanksgiving episode), and near the end of the show, he played the Simon & Garfunkel standard “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.” But it was an odd, but lovely, two-song interlude with George Harrison that would turn this episode into an instant (and lasting) classic. The two performed Harrison’s “Here Comes the Sun” and Simon’s “Homeward Bound,” blending their disparate guitar styles into a seamless backdrop for their beautiful harmonies. It seemed as though the two had been performing together for years, but, in actuality, they had never once been onstage together. Simon would go on to cover “Here Comes the Sun” many times in the subsequent decades, but he and Harrison would not perform as a duo again. There are 300 seats in NBC’s Studio 8H, and no fewer than 15,768,943 people have said that they were there for this taping. But in truth, no one but the crew saw this performance live. It was pre-taped in an empty studio. (Keep that bullet in the chamber in case you ever meet a 63-year-old who likes to lie about performances he’s seen in person.)



     
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    " he played the Simon & Garfunkel standard “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.”

    I know you didn't say it, but that song is not a Simon and Garfunkel "standard", since that was a Paul Simon single.
     
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    What was it Tom Petty said about most country these days? A bad rock band with a fiddle? Where's their fiddle?
     
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    I thought you were talking about my wedding night being cold. We had a good time, and i got some bling bling on my finger.
     
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    Off topic, why's that guy famous? He couldn't hold a tune if it had a handle on it. He can't sing.
     

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