On the last episode, Julia Louis-Dreyfus made her return to SNL and Nick Jonas made his debut as a solo performer. Both did a great job and I’m sure they’ll both be back. Nick Jonas could even pull double duty on an episode. Some highlights from the last episode include:
-A cold open about the Democratic debate with JLD reprising her Seinfeld role and Larry David as Bernie Sanders.
-An appearance from one of JLD’s Veep costars in the monologue.
-Nick Jonas featured in two sketches.
-The return of “Cinema Classics”.
-The return of Charles Barkley and Shaq as well as the One-Dimensional Female Character from a Male Driven Comedy to the Update desk.
-A possible new recurring Update character for Aidy.
-A parody of the God’s Not Dead movies.
It was heartbreaking to hear about the sudden death of Prince. I think it’s safe to say he was a legend and a musical genius. I’m not a Prince super fan but I do love his music. When the special first came on, I was surprised to see Jimmy Fallon host the special. Regardless, I thought he did a great job with telling backstories of the performances and the sketches. I loved how they showed his performances from 1981, 2006, and 2014 as well as his performance from the 15th Anniversary Special. I loved how he threw down the mic during his 1981 performance and at the end of “Beautiful, Loved and Blessed” he did “Superstar” at the end in tribute to Mary Katherine Gallagher. When they showed the 2014 performance it brought me back to when it first aired. Of course, I knew I was witnessing history with that performance. One thing that I loved about this special is that they showed a never before seen video of Prince performing at the after party for the 40th Anniversary. Seeing that video made me wish I was at that after party. I also loved how they showed several episodes of “Prince Show” with Fred Armisen as Prince. I thought this was an awesome tribute and I loved how they used the goodnights from 2006.
This has been my take on the SNL special “Goodnight Sweet Prince”. I’ll be back soon with a review of SNL hosted by Brie Larson with musical guest Alicia Keys. Please spread the word about the blog and subscribe to the blog. Also, follow the blog on Twitter @SNLblogger. I live tweet during new episodes on the blog’s Twitter so feel free to join in on the conversation. Feel free to start your own conversations about episodes in the comments section but keep them clean. Also, please feel free to give me constructive criticism about the blog so I can improve the blog in any way.
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Lauren
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