This story starts today...I had seen my friends post about how funny the SNL 40th Anniversary Show was. I was sure that there were a number of funny skits that spanned the years, but the cynical part of me kept me from watching it.
I came home from the bar today and decided I needed a laugh....Backtrack 15 years or so (I'm 25 now) and I'm sitting in the living room of my Grandma's house. She lived in Detroit, Royal Oak to be exact, at the time on her own; but when my mom lived there she was single mother to three children and she had come to the United States from Japan after the Korean War.
Her living room was this old, brown, shag carpet. I remember it because it was the same color carpet as when my uncle made a house for me out of an old refrigerator box. (He died a few years later from complications due to AIDS.)
Anyways, back to SNL...My grandma didn't have cable so we would watch these VHS tapes on her bunny eared TV. I remember being so attracted to them because both my mom and her mom were laughing at the jokes. I can't say I understood everything, but Bass-O-Matic, Roseann Rosanna Danna, and Samurai Delicatessen were as funny as anything else on TV. My mom's favorite cast member was Gilda Radner. At the time I didn't realize that she identified with the Detroit-born comedienne.
When I got home from my grandma's house, my brother and I would pull our beanbag chairs into our parents room to watch SNL before we fell asleep (late 1990s - early 2000s). This was the time of Will Ferrell, Anna Gasteyer, Cheri Oteri, etc. My sense of humor was impacted so much by these comedians. Not to mention that my generation was seeing Jack Handy transcripts online.
I just wanted to say that I owe so much of my sense of humor, my personality, and my history to this show. It's impacted me and my loved ones in such a way that I don't know what my life would be like if it didn't exist.
It's funny because a guy I went to school with (Jay Pharaoh/Jay Farrow) ended up being on SNL. (Not to mention the fact that I have a huge crush on Tina Fey and that 30 Rock is one of my favorite shows.)
Anyways, it's been on my bucket-list for a long time, and I hope it's around for long enough for me to see a taping.
Submitted February 17, 2015 at 08:30AM by justmeantu http://ift.tt/1v8wI4P SNL
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