sextonseven said:

Exactly. Last night was the first time I have watched "Saturday Night Live" in years. The skits were boring as hell. I'm surprised they are still on the air.

sextonseven said:

I was feeling sorry for Steve Martin! He's normally hilarious and even he couldn't salvage that mess. Ugh!!

Tom said:

LOL! She sounded JUST like Drew's dingy ass!

WaterUdrink said:

LOL! I did! Weren't you thinking P was gonna come out at some point and trip the whole skit and audience out?

GaryMF said:

Thank you Thank you THANK YOU GARYMF for that post... I am So glad to see
that SOME ONE felt as I did!!! I can't believe how excited everyone got
over this.. I am NOT living in the past with Prince.. I mean I LOVED HIS
"Musicology Tour".. that was great..
But this all just seemed so "commercial" & Forced!.. and you are SO right... They had some great chances to high light Princes sence of Humor last night.
I was thinking.. Even when Steve Martin Dragged Alex. B. down the Hall.. couldn't Prince of been standing there with a guitar and have one of his
CLASSIC Prince looks as they went by. How easy would that of been for Him
to do??
I didn't think Prince would do a ton of skits like Steve did.. but I think
it would not of killed him to do at least ONE..
You are also correct.. that SNL show has run its course over and over and
over again!! I think "The Prince Show" is old.. I mean Beyonce and Prince..
that was 2 years ago! Give it up.. Might of been funny once.....
All in all I KNOW Prince can do MUCH better and I know when he wants to really get funky he can be as exciting as he was in the 80's or WHEN EVER
I hope IF he is on anything else he puts a bit more "gusto" into it and
blows us ALL away!

vainandy said:

Me too. I was kinda upset he didn't performed Black Sweat but then I calm down a bit when he performed blb. My fav moment when Prince and Tamar hugged. And when I rewatched Fury again today and after some more listening I am liking the song. Prince that I came to know is back and he better stay!!!

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Now, wouldn't Ledisi be a better choice for P to back?

vainandy said:

Thank goodness I didnt see SNL skits as I watched Prince's performance via net. Like I said I am a tough cookie when comes to hearing some jokes because I been around real comedians who are funny as Eddie Murphy, Dave Chapelle, Martin Lawrence in the 90s, DL Hughley, and Richard Pryor.

When "Prince" (Fred") was standing before his Mirror of Reflection, I really thought they were going to do like what they'd done with Jimmy Fallon and Mick Jagger that time, and have the real Prince on the other side of the mirror, playing Prince/Fred's reflection. That would've been great.

Yeah,,,whats up with that??? what a wasted oportunity for a cameo....DAM!
all in all i loved BOTH songs,,,really up-beat

vainandy said:

The only time I actually laughed out loud was when Kenan as Aretha Franklin was commenting about his titties being so big.

The skits sucked.I expected better from Steve Martin. Prince first performance rocked. He had his bad ass look. The orange suit with the black scarf wraped on his head. That's his cool rock star look. I really did not care for the whole backup dancers thing. It was a change though...& it made the peformance hot. The laying the guitar on the stage & then his smile was just too cool. The second performance with Tamar was good. That was the first time i seen or heard her. It was nice that he shared the stage with her. Overall Prince still wears the crown.

I agree but Prince set himself up for that by going beneath himself and performing with someone like her in the first place. For a lot of non-Prince fans, especially the younger ones, this is how they are going to remember him from now on....with her.

i loved the performance of "fury"...made me look forward to a tour...but i wasnt cool with tamar having her own song at the end...prince was the guest, not her...i think he should have performed something like "black sweat" and worked in a solo for her, then give her props to get her name out there...i was not impressed with her to be honest, her vocal ability...but certainly, "fury" was the highlight of snl for at least the year...snl is just not funny anymore...i only laughed at the superbowl skit and the prince skit...u couldnt ask for a better host than steve martin but the show has gone so downhill over the past few seasons...they need to fire most of the writers...the producers should have offered prince the chance to write some the skits...lol

Orionforever said:

What do skits have to do with his musical performance?

murph said:

Nothing. I was making 2 points (well actualy 3):

1. The musical performances were IMO just OK. nothing special. (bear in mind this relative to Prince....compared to any toher artist that performs on SNL it was a 10!)

2. The fact that they didn't use Prince in the "Prince Show" skit was a HUGE missed optty.... not just because of Fred's talent, but beause Prince has shown he can be brilliant doing comedy himself (certain scenes in UTCM, Cloreen Baconskin etc.) See my added comment above about his expression at the end.

3. SNL in general has reached a new low. I actually watch fairly often and this was a new low point for them.

I can't imagine them NOT asking P to be in the "Prince Show" skit. My theory is, P turned them down when they asked him, because I refuse to believe that the SNL big-wigs are that incompetent.

My next question is...Did anyone ask for a remake of "The Pink Panther"? Talk about your soon-to-be-FLOPS!

Orionforever said:

Oh Yeah, I do agree that he could have done a skit. I guess he thinks having a sense of humor for the show will make some fans look down on him like when he performed with Beyonce at the Grammys that year.

ChristopherTracyParade said:

After watching what they came up with for the rest of the show, I can believe it!

I'm amazed at just how much of this thread has been dedicated more to discussing a skit that he didn't even appear on than the actual performances themselves! Whatever keeps you guys happy I guess

BananaCologne said:

i'm even more amazed that people would think/believe that he'd make an appearance on the damned thing in the first place, knowing full-well how prince rolls...

Everyone should have peeped the SNL appearance.

[Bootleggage snip - luv4u]

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Well, considering he did dress up like Bryant Gumbel for the Today Show and even did a cold opening for his appearance on Lettermen a few years back, why would we NOT think that he'd be in a skit about HIM, especially since he's more outgoing since his WB days?

Prince looked pretty awkward at the end standing next to Alec Baldwin .. . . they both had Kim B's stank on their hang low . . . ha ha ha . . .

ChristopherTracyParade said:

simple: because he's him.

mapaul said:

One of the most INTERESTING points for me was at the end when Prince was standing RIGHT NEXT TO Alec Baldwin.
They looked so uncomfortable next to each other!!!
They didn't even look at each other while the camera was on!

I can't believe they put them right NEXT TO each other considering the whole Kim Basinger thing.....guess they've outgrown it though, since it's been so long.

it was still weird though!!!!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

PurpleRok said:

Maybe they just happened to end up next to each other? Plus, them cats ain't trippin' off some old pussy.

i just watched "Fury" again -- first time since last night
it's just totally incredible -- MUST be a dream
but no, it really did happen, didn't it?
just amazing, truly amazing
and i loved how he imitated himself at the end
throw down the mic-stand and run (he had to smile at himself)
i was thinking Prince would've shown up somewhere in the skits
and that maybe they'd do a flashback to his first SNL performance
but i'm definitely not disappointed
"Fury" made my night
it's almost as amazing as his solo during 2004's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
since when has Prince been playing guitar THIS good??
damn!!
oh, and i loved the hendrix-style vox too
very cool
man, there was kick-ass guitar all over that song!!
what more can we ask for?
what more will he give?
3121, don't ya wanna come?
oh yeah
[Edited 2/5/06 14:28pm]

ChristopherTracyParade said:

OKAY!!! if prince can be in the same room as doyle (whom is still married to susannah) he can stand next to alec...