alec baldwin saturday night live soap opera digest

Host generously tips cast & crew to get special backstage treatment The audio of Toonces meowing LFNY fails to play when the LFNY subtitle appears on the bottom of the screen, then the meowing starts playing too late right as the SNL theme music begins. I love the idea of Toonces meowing “Live from New York”, though even that had technical issues.

After the car crash, there’s a malfunction with the chroma-key screen behind the car, as it isn’t showing any scenery. They’re clearly phasing him out by this point, as this is among his final stretch of appearances, each of which feature him only making a surprise appearance towards the end of an unrelated sketch. Toonces! First time we’ve seen him since late last season. Odd moment where, as the Dateline show is fading to black, Julia is heard mistakenly saying her “Well, that was pretty painless” line way too early, when she’s supposed to say it a minute later when she and Mike are shown in the car. SNL’s director apparently didn’t receive notes that that portion of this cold opening was removed after dress, because there’s one point where, after one of Julia-as-Jane-Pauley’s news items, the camera mistakenly cuts to a close-up of Mike’s Stone Phillips as if it’s his turn to tell the next news item, but he’s just sitting silently while an off-camera Julia is the one doing the next news item. One big difference between the live and dress version is that the live version I’m currently watching doesn’t have the meta bit with Mike’s Stone Phillips apologizing for SNL’s crass comments about Chelsea Clinton in a recent Wayne’s World sketch (during that apology, Mike gets in a dig at himself by mentioning that the Wayne’s World sketch starred an overrated performer). Reruns of this episode use the dress rehearsal version of this cold opening (you’ll see why later in my review of this opening). I like how the NBC mishaps the anchors are apologizing for are getting more and more ridiculous. Funny line from Julia’s Jane Pauley about Dateline being a cheap knock-off of 60 Minutes.

Segments are rated on a scale of 1-5 starsĪfter Dateline NBC anchors admit ethical lapses, Toonces drives them home

Alec baldwin saturday night live soap opera digest