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GS Warehouse:
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Nov 2 2003, 01:16 AM\'] ObGameShow: Tonight's SNL host, Kelly Ripa, co-hosts a daytime talk show with this guy who used to host "Millionaire." :-P [/quote]
 All those who guessed "November 7" in the when-will-Regis-drop-in-on-Kelly's-primetime-gig pool may collect at the two cyberdollar window.  The ex-Millionaire host will guest on Hope & Faith this Friday.

Matt Ottinger:

--- Quote ---I think the Satan thing was weak. Didn't even make much sense to me.... and it got a few groans from the audience.
--- End quote ---
It was tasteless, but no more or less so than several other skits that evening.  In fact, I counted four completely different moments when the audience reacted negatively to a joke or skit -- not just silence, but actively booing or groaning at something that was either offensive or painfully unfunny.

Skynet74:
[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Nov 2 2003, 07:27 AM\']
Did the joke last longer than 18 seconds? [/quote]
 
  Yeah..... unfortunately it did.




John

DjohnsonCB:
The Kelly Ripa edition was one of the few times I actually bothered to watch SNL in recent years.  I figured I'd sleep through some of it, and I did.  But I saw the "Live" takeoff and the WU shot at Rod, and the Satan thing made no sense whatsoever, though there's probably a lot of twennysomthinns who get the "joke" (maybe it had something to do with his sequined jackets).

My philosophy on SNL in recent years is that--like "Barney and Friends"--it's designed to appeal to a specific age group, and at some point in everyone's life, they just outgrow it and never want to go back, with a vengeance, while a new group of fans comes aboard to appreciate it for what it is.  But maybe the time HAS come for NBC to give it up after all this time.  Hey, even "Gunsmoke" and Ed Sullivan had to hang it up at some point.

Mike Tennant:
I didn't even see this, but I don't think the Satan joke is that hard to understand.  Think about it.

Hell, in the minds of most people, is "down," toward the center of the earth.  If Rod were there, then he could say, "Come on down!" to people who are destined for that locale after death.  If he's in heaven, well, he's going to have to say, "Come on up!" and that doesn't make for as good a joke (if you consider this a good joke, which I don't) since it requires changing Rod's signature line.

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