In this “bonus sketch” from Saturday Night Live’s dress rehearsal, host “Charlie Rose” welcomes the following guests:
• “Mark Zuckerberg”
• “Arianna Huffington”
• “Reed Hastings”
• “Rupert Murdoch”
The assorted luminaries discuss the legacy of the late Apple CEO, “Steve Jobs.”
Direct link to the video via Hulu here.
MacDailyNews Take: You know a sketch blows when it isn’t even good enough make SNL’s live show. 😉
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boy, was that painful.
You must not watch SNL much. That was pretty good for SNL.
Really botvinnik?
I liked it. Pretty good impersonations. What pained you so?
uh, call me old-fashioned Hugh, but normally I like comedy to be funny.
Nice.
I actually thought it was pretty funny. What higher compliment could be paid to Steve Jobs than to use his achievements to show how bad everything else is?
YES! The redeeming point of the sketch indeed, one that will be ringing in the fetid halls of biznizz for decades to come.
It was OK funny. They should have done something with Jobs and heaven, etc.
This was certainly was no John Belushi level SNL skit but he’s dead too, so that level of humor isn’t coming back.
Funniest SNL Apple skit was with the invisible iPod. “…Holds a BILLION songs…Every photo EVER taken.”
Absolutely agree! SNL is know for its satire! Seems to me to be dead-on with this skit. SJ and Company truly puts all others to shame when it comes to innovation, and CLASS.
Wasn’t that good and wasn’t that bad. SNL all the way!
Can’t view Hulu in Canada….
So???
Impersonations critique:
Charlie Rose – Barely recognizable. Huh?
Arianna Huffington – NAILED! Fun satire. More please!
Reed Hastings – Kind of weak, but fun lines.
Mark Zuckerberg – Very good. Obvious lines however.
Rupert – Sucked. But excellent satirical lines nailing the nature of his disease vector. And, he needed a pie in the face.
Summary: Rightfully deleted.
The vague attempt at true impersonation is the SNL (Loren Michaels) way. There have only been a few SNL cast members over the years who could truly impersonate. Remember Dan Akroyd, with his big mustache doing Jimmy Carter, or Chevy doing Gerald Ford? Not even close. The SNL way is to stick someone in front of a camera with caption of who they are supposed to be.
SNL should be called TPF, ten percent funny.
I laughed, I cried. As a regular CR viewer (and saw the Jobs episode), I’d say most of the inflections were spot-on…and his fetish about “the table.” Hilarious!
My favorite parts were, “Zuckenburg saying he dressed up” and the guy from Netflix saying, “Apple started out in a garage and Netflix will soon be in a garage, preferably without cars–but then flips and says cars could be used as desks”. LOL. Just funny. Also the dare from Murdoch to find one complete sentence in the Post was funny too.
I thought that show died in the 80’s?
You know a sketch blows when it’s on SNL after about 1987.
Just not funny at all.
I almost think that watching SNL is a rite of passage for people as they go through college, and not much else. I mean, I watched it in college (during the Carvey-Lovitz-Hartman era), but once I graduated, I had better things to do on Saturday night.
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Really? I think I missed SNL throughout college. I definitely had better things to do on a Saturday night then!
With DVR’s, you don’t have to sacrifice Saturday night watching mediocre comedy. Since most skits aren’t funny, it’s easy to cruise through an entire show in about 10 minutes.