I really wish I had done this sooner. It is fascinating to watch this era and see the comedy and music of the time on SNL, such as Paul Simon, ABBA, and Esther Phillips. WOW! Also-Art Garfunkel joined Paul Simon on stage and I had to look up thier history because I had NO IDEA about their relationship difficulties. Another WOW!
Also it is strange that Penny Marshal died this week. I had just watched S1 E3 where Rob Reinter hosts and mentions his wife who comes out on stage and its Penny! My third WOW! I can't believe how much I don't know about the 70's!
Candice Bergen was an excellent host on S1E4! And of course she was all, "I am the first woman to host SNL" and like I mean its the 4th episode, so funny. I see she also hosted ep 8 so I am excited to see her again.
I am enjoying the sketches and the jokes about President Ford. I need to research this thing about him sneezing and the secret service chasing after a hankerchief-becasue there are a lot of jokes about that one incident.
Some of the sketches are just okay-like the muppets ones, they are sort of cute. But some of the sketches would never fly in todays world. I will just leave it at that for now. Currently on S1 E7 with Richard Pryor hosting, which so far is funny. I see on WIKI there is a Lily Tomlin episode that doesn't seem to be on HULU....I will have to research that as well.
Also they seem to have these Bee costumes so the Bees appear in every episode so far. It is kind of funny in itself, but the actual sketches are not as funny! But to me it would be funny if each Season of SNL they received some sort of costume they had to work into each show some how.
Anyway, I leave you with: What a difference a day makes