Saturday Night Live (TV Series) Reese Witherspoon/Alicia Keys (2001) User Reviews

Strange episode

[byronwatts · 14 March 2006]

This SNL was first live show to be aired following the 9/11 tragedy and featured an opening scene with the NYC mayor, members of the NYPD and FDNY, along with Lorne Michaels..the show tried to be funny, but struggled (even more than normal). Funny comment by Lorne Michaels in the opening.. Rudi talks of how things will never be normal anymore, but we have got to try, which prompts Lorne Michaels to ask Rudi "Can we be funny?". Rudy immediately replies "Why start now?". That easily got the biggest laugh of a show that really struggled to maintain a sense of normality. Alicia Keyes was good and saved the show. The whole cast seemed to be trying too hard to act like everything was normal, but the audience was hard to crack.

Paul Simon's performance

[mrhankeyfan · 10/10 · 23 March 2007]

Let's face it, people. This show has been absolute dog crap for the past decade. However, in homage to what this show once was, I found myself obligated to watch the 1st "post 9/11" episode.

I'm so glad that I did.

Paul Simon's performance of "The Boxer" had me in tears. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that this performance ranks right up there in magnitude with the Concert in Central Park. It's a damn shame, and dare I say a CRIME, that NBC doesn't offer this performance on their website.

NBC needs to reach way up there and GRAB A CLUE. Either do the noble thing and let viewers relive a glorious piece of television history on your website, or do the sleazy thing and offer a DVD version of Episode 1 of Season 27 to consumers.

Either way, just let the American public at least SEE the damn thing!