No, NASCAR is definitely a sport...it just isn’t racing. 😏

“For cleaning purposes, please use a soft dry cloth.”

That’s why I bake my Switch at 150 degrees for 20 min. Low and slow. 

“Anyone who claims that Eddie Murphy wasn’t the biggest star in the show’s history is making a racist argument. He’s right.”

Nahh... people can be wrong without being intentionally or unintentionally racist.

Murphy was the biggest star in SNL history but I’m unwilling to brandish someone as necessarily “racist” if they…

Only most people.

I thoroughly enjoyed the show, and it’s the first time I’ve done so for an SNL in years. I was almost nervous for Murphy in the beginning. I thought this might turn out like one of Michael Jordan’s later comebacks, where you wish your heroes had just stayed memories.

I admit to shouting out loud the moment I realized Buckwheat was the Masked Singer and I also admit to have completely forgotten about Gumby only to drop my jaw once the character came back to me. I also wonder how many people watching knew who all those characters were.

I don’t care what year it is, I’ll always be here for a good Joe Piscopo joke.

“Girl, they dead!”

I thought Tracy Morgan’s joke that he made all his money on the road (“You mean touring” “No, I got hit by a Truck”), was perfect. It was totally a joke Tracy Morgan would have made before the accident, but afterward it was poignant, self-deprecating, and self-referential in just the right way, while still being…

Davidson’s line about people’s reaction to him dating famous women had a bit of a bite to it. I was always struck that people reacted to the news he was dating Ariana Grande with some version of “What?! That loathsome sack of shit? HOW DARE HE?!,” and then when it came out that he was having real issues and battling…

The Last OG films on my block every few months. Keep in mind that Tracy suffered a pretty severe TBI a few years back. The fact that he can do anything requiring memorization or timing for an extended period of time is truly a miracle of recovery. 

Working through the sketches this morning on YouTube. The masked singer sketch was pretty bad but the rest were funny. The monologue was great.

Murphy’s still got it! He showed that, if he cared to, he could return to the cast and still rock every Saturday night.

I remain not sold on Jost, but I can give him a pass for the Pirro bit because of the puke hose thing. 

Chappelle lighting a cigarette was “hilariously transgressive”? I don’t think either one of those words means what you think it means.

I want the James Brown Hot Tub/What’s Up With That crossover, The ‘Infinity War’ of SNL.

Damn good. Murphy has a rare talent where he makes you simultaneously hella guilty about laughing at a bit like Mr. Robinson’s AND invites you into that laugh. The one thing I kept thinking about that monologue was that I was missing one guy in that line-up: Charlie Murphy. :(

The only downside about this episode is that I wish that Eddie Murphy returned earlier so we could’ve got a sketch involving him and Jay Pharaoh.

I had my fingers crossed for James Brown’s Celebrity Hot Tub with special guest Dr. Joyce Brothers, but yeah, that was pretty damn great. Always nice to see Ed again no matter what he’s doing, but to see him on SNL again with this much energy... man, that’s not something that happens every day. If he’s this fired up…