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Saturday Night Live: Presents A Very Gilly Christmas

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Back in the day I used to tape alot of Saturday Night Live. Between the live stuff on NBC and the reruns on cable I came up with quite the collection, none of which I have any longer, sadly.

The Christmas show was always cool because you got to see a lot of classic stuff. But sometime in the past ten years they started to re-tool the X-mas special, first with Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon as MC's and then, last season, with Gilly. That character that you always want to punch in the face. In some ways I see this as a waste of time, even though I can understand them trying to appeal to a younger crowd with newer bits...

That being said, a bulk of this collection goes about as far back as the Will Ferrel years. Remember then? Way back in the 1900's? Anything before those years are represented by "clips"... so some classic sketches only get a couple seconds. A shame when you only get three seconds worth of Dysfunctional Family Christmas! There is an older collection that includes more sketches that DONT include Will Forte (that guys a nub.)

However what this collection has that the other doesn't (besides bring it on back to "Homeless-ville" and Dick in a Box) is the full cut of the 1975 cast performing Winter Wonderland,,, a real holiday treat! With the Band of Nurses ripping it up and a hot sax line inspired, I think, from the Ventures version. It's very cool. Plus the lost ending of It's a Wonderful life is always amazing!

You can either go with this version of the Christmas special or the older one from 1999 on DVD. Neither is perfect SO... basically if you want more post 2000 stuff look here, more pre-2000 stuff, go there.

*Neither version has Gumby's Christmas Special or The Sweeney Sisters, just as a heads up :(

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