I wish that I could say that I saw the first SNL Christmas presentation live and as-it-happened but my hipness to the show was just over a dozen weeks away. Once I'd married in late February '76 my young and beautiful wife got things rolling; it was her suggestion we watch this new 'thing' she'd heard of. We watched…

So long, fellow Baby Boomer and age contemporary, Kevin Meaney; we hardly knew ye.

My childhood memories include being allowed to stay up late in the summer when school was out to watch Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. Then, in the mid-1960s, I was around eight years old or so and my parents (in their late twenties at the time!) would order pizza, occasionally, from the place two miles away. Yes,…

A disinterested Penny Marshall made that dance hall scene for me. MacGruber!!!

So many very clever bits as that throughout.

The cult of MacGruber is growing. Love the first film.

Thanks for that link. What a find!

We're fortunate to be living in the time when Andy Samberg is gracing us with so many memorably off-the-wall characterizations. Since Hot Rod and his stint on Saturday Night Live we have been treated to innumerable legendary performances. Additionally, Andy's silly putty faces call to mind a composite of my younger…

He was, arguably, the most daringly best-dressed personality on broadcast television and remains the walking compendium of music knowledge extant.

Completely interchangeable while being disposable too. Some day David Letterman will be referenced as Groucho Marx is contemplated, fleetingly, by today's 20 year-old; a faded curiosity. It's amazing what the Boomers can cling to; I myself being one of those very same Boomers.

Great! I think that's pretty cool.

Did you secure one of those specials?

It's like going out to that field at the edge of town and surveying the trampled ground after the circus has moved on.

My new, and forever, personal favorite. The elevation, in an unambiguous way, of Van Halen seals the deal.

Cuba Pete and Desi's recitation of Jabberwocky excerpts stand out in memory. That I was there to have watched it with my bride of one week betrays my age. I still find myself anticipating a Killer Bees sketch some 37 years-on.