they should've canceled this episode and let jay do a 1.5 hour set
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I turned this on just in time. Jay-Z sounds amazing.
― Mordy, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
snl hasn't aired anything this dope since the jeopardy parodies
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah this is killer
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
seriously, this performance just shit on all of network television
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i assume he's not doing a second performance?
They're letting him go on and on. Fantastic.
― Pazuzu's petals (kenan), Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
the only way i can be happy about hearing "empire of state of mind" is when it interrupts "bonnie & clyde 03"
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy shit.
― Mordy, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
They don't even let U2 go on this long.
Ok yeah, that was hot.
― Pazuzu's petals (kenan), Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i hope jay-z buys NBC and replaces all their shows w/ a loop of his live performances
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Aw, you can't say that the same week as the Community paintball episode.
― Mordy, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
other than jay this episode has been unwatchable
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
ban mya rudolph
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
ruining the only reliable part of the show
oh well, not even doing this song w/ a hoarse flea market chris martin can ruin his set
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha mr hudson sounds so bad, wtf
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually dig this song on the album. unpopular opinion, i know.
― Mordy, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
yea that dudes lil bouncin around & camera pull-back/low-angle was disturbing
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:54 (thirteen years ago) link
A friend on Twitter:
Jay!! This song is awful. I know you think everything you do is awesome but I know tapeworms more awesome than this song :(
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
This was funny for awhile! Then the monologue ended.
Old lady doing 5 minutes of vag jokes = 2010 'edgy'
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:12 (thirteen years ago) link
posts very much in character
― Mordy, Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
morbs otm tho -- all the jokes where betty white saying "balls" and "lesbian"
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Fags at the gay bar were ecstatic over those gags. That's why I'm a homophobe.
hasn't Jay-Z been rapping about his 99 problems for about a decade? Wilco is about as exciting as that shit.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
also, honestly didn't know Anglo comedians were still doing minstrel Latino shit. Someone tell Jerry Lewis to take his 'Asian' buck teeth out of mothballs.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
morbs is hardbody
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe if Betty White had pointed out the ironies of American nuclear policies Morbs would've digged it more
― Mordy, Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm just glad they didn't call her Sue Ann Nivens in the radio sketch.
(I guess cuz Nivens isn't a synonym for snatch)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously all you guys that hated on Jay's last album loved that medley? I don't get you guys, he sounded 'meh' at best, when he wasn't all out of breath.
The digital short was k-classic!
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
this post
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, May 9, 2010 12:15 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
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― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, May 9, 2010 1:27 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
THIS
― mizzell, Sunday, 9 May 2010 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Jay-Z's rap-metal medley was passable at best, I thought. It's pretty late in the game for him to be amping up and trying to broaden his audience - the dude already knows he runs this rap shit, so why try so hard? - and the constant fading in and out between songs was disruptive. There must have been as much awkward and self-defeating dead space as music. How can you show off your flow if your rhyming is so stop and go?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 9 May 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, in retrospect this morning, props for trying something different but it didn't sound good at all most of the time and this "seriously, this performance just shit on all of network television" is just o_O
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 9 May 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I love Betty White, but after a night of drinking and weed smoking, hearing about her "cherry" was a very sobering moment...
― Heroin Kills (Brad Nowell's Soiled Undergarments), Sunday, 9 May 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
You guys are all incredibly pissy. This was funny/entertaining. It was kind of interesting seeing that the biggest difference between old Jay-Z and nu Jay-Z is syncopation.
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Sunday, 9 May 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's some deleted scenes:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/snls-deleted-scenes-debbie-downer-bronx-beat-and-the-times-square-bomber/
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Sunday, 9 May 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it wasn't funny, although it wasn't at all due to Betty White, it was due to unfunny sketches.
Also MacGruber the movie is getting REALLY GOOD EARLY REVIEWS. WTF -- of all of SNL's movies, is this one going to be their Gunga Din?
― Heroin Kills (Brad Nowell's Soiled Undergarments), Sunday, 9 May 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
thx for the deleted scenes link
― Nhex, Sunday, 9 May 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
what does jay's newest album have at all to do with the performance? 80% of the album was 'the black album'
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
er, 80% of the performance
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
& anyway, jay has always been an amazing performer pretty much, and really he's only gotten better as he & his band have played more shows -- it was crazy to see him do "p.s.a" -- a song prob 20% of the tv audience knew, also the best song he's written in like 7 years -- and a huge part of the performance was not knowing that jay was gonna go on for 10 minutes & watching him transitioning between and teasing joints -- it was a completely thrilling performance and was more exciting than anything i've seen on network tv this year save for 30 rock
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
seriously if you like "parks & recreation" and are trying to tell me that that jay performance wasn't the shit, just sell your TV and play chess all night
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
what kind of a monster doesn't like maya rudolph though.
― A B C, Sunday, 9 May 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
her croaky delivery is priceless, and she's hot
― A B C, Sunday, 9 May 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I suck at chess, though. :(
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Sunday, 9 May 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, more than any of the other guests, the show reminded me how much i miss Maya Rudolph
― Nhex, Sunday, 9 May 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey, watched census sketch on Hulu -- funny!
BLAAHRFINGAHHHRRR
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 May 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought that sketch seemed old school
― mizzell, Monday, 10 May 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link