Great touch with Quincy’s Marion Barry doing a cocaine-snorting motion while sniffling during his crying. Very funny how Waltman makes Helmsley finally bust out in tears by mentioning she recently had to fly coach. I always love Nora’s look as Leona Helmsley. Heh, then again, I’m the same guy who also thought Referee Pitman was a real person. I was surprised to learn that, because I had always assumed from these sketches that Bob Waltman was a real person. I forgot to mention this in my review of this sketch’s debut the previous season, but I found out a few months ago that these sketches are supposed to be a parody of Barbara Walters, right down to the name (Bob Waltman). Marion Barry (host) & Ronald Reagan (PHH) cry While nothing unexpected or exciting happened for the remainder of the sketch after the initial reveal of Toonces as the new driver, this still provided reliable laughs as usual. Great reveal of Toonces being Miss Daisy’s new driver. Interesting seeing Phil playing Dan Aykroyd’s character from the real Driving Miss Daisy. Ha, I love how in the scene immediately after the aforementioned crash, we’re shown a completely unharmed and casual Miss Daisy in her bedroom. Funny how Quincy gets up and leaves while the car is still driving, causing the car to crash off the cliff with Miss Daisy still inside. I liked Quincy’s long-winded insult to Miss Daisy that started with “old, ugly, dried-up camel…”. This overall commercial had a fairly clever idea, but the result of it was kinda forgettable.Īfter Hoke (host) quits, Toonces takes over Driving Miss Daisy (JAH) She didn’t even have any lines in this one! I know Victoria isn’t the most versatile performer, especially when compared to her two female castmates, but I still feel bad for her getting shut out of so many live shows lately. For the second time in the last three episodes, Victoria makes her only appearance of the night in a pre-taped commercial. The employees’ odd-looking bright green suits are making me laugh, though I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be funny. Here comes a fake ad that would later be removed from reruns and be replaced with a cut dress rehearsal piece with Quincy Jones advertising an album of himself performing music scores from movies. It remains to be seen whether that comment was just a good-natured joke or 100% genuine. ![]() Turns out he DOESN’T want to be here he just cares about Mandela’s freedom. Okay, they threw in a little joke at the end just now, with Quincy admitting he lied about a few things at the beginning of the monologue, mainly about how he’s happy to be here. We get Quincy conducting the enlarged SNL Band in a nice instrumental to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. There’s also a much larger number of SNL Band members than usual (looking more like a full orchestra than a band), which probably explains why the SNL theme music had a bit of a different sound tonight. ![]() ![]() Hmm, the home base stage looks a bit different, with the walls on the left and right side gone, giving the stage a much wider look and overlapping it with the musical guest stage. Host conducts SNL Band in “Manteca” to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s freedom SNL would later fix all this in reruns by using a different take where Pardo announces all the musical guests’ names quickly and without any mistakes. He announces Melle Mel as “ Melanie Mel”, and announces Quincy D III (which is supposed to be pronounced “Quincy D 3”) as “Quincy D the 3rd”. (For anyone curious of who the musical guests are, they’re listed in the tags at the end of the review) In fact, there’s SO many musical guests that Don Pardo has a lot of trouble getting through all the names, announcing them too slowly and awkwardly, and messing up some of their names. We get a record-high number of musical guests tonight too many to include in the header of this review. I’m surprised they didn’t do more with this than just having the characters sing a few quick songs. Hans and Franz singing famous songs altered to have a muscle theme is decent, especially the song “Someone Left His Buttocks in the Rain”. Yet another deviation from the usual Hans and Franz formula. Pumping Up With Hans & Franz- a muscle serenade for Valentine’s Day Segments are rated on a scale of 1-5 stars
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