Many people watching the Super Bowl were excited to see the trailer for The Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special. The trailer promised a night full of many celebrities and special musical guests.
When Rob Schneider's not making hit movies like "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo" or "Grown Ups," the former Saturday Night Live star is performing his standup comedy routine.
SNL has this schizophrenic quality to it. The show can either be very funny at times – or a total letdown. And when it's good - or in some cases, crass - it's what everybody talks about the next day or so.
I don’t’ know if anyone made it through the Christie/Kaci Hickox bit but the stint that seems to have grabbed the most attention was guest host Chris Rock’s opening monologue about the Boston Ma
It actually seemed like the Garden State's reputation was improving. With the popular, tough-talking Gov. Chris Christie at the helm, New Jersey's days as the laughingstock of the nation appeared to be fading, but that was before Bridgegate.
If I’m up on Saturday night and I don’t want to see a rerun of “Homeland,” I’ll put on SNL just for the hell of it.
Some skits are pretty funny – it’s the ones that try too hard to be funny that fall flat.
But that’s not the issue here...
No publicity is bad publicity.
Especially when it comes to Miley Cyrus.
So while we are on the sidelines of the great pissing match of 2013, you’d figure with Miley Cyrus in a guest role on SNL this past week, the show would come up with a crafty way to spoof the shutdown...