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'SNL' Scorecard: Melissa McCarthy And The Cast Says Goodbye To Seth Meyers

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_4712994.html

For Seth Meyers – who left “SNL” last night after nearly 13 seasons (we wrote a more thorough goodbye post to him, with the help of some current and former cast members, here) – there was no Billy Joel song and there was no Mick Jagger (though, there was Stefon). Meyers had a quieter, more direct sendoff. There were no special sketches -- just an announcement at the end of “Weekend Update” as his friends Amy Poehler, Bill Hader (as Stefon), Andy Samberg and Fred Armisen (as David Patterson) joined him onstage as he said his goodbyes. Which for Meyers – always gracious and always understated – was fitting.

Melissa McCarthy brought a frenzied energy to the show – but that energy seemed to deflate after “Update,” which isn’t terribly surprising.

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”Weekend Update” (Meyers, Strong, Killam, Hader, Poehler, Samberg, Armisen) From a purely technical standpoint, this might have been one of the weaker efforts of the Meyers-Strong era. A lot of the jokes fell flat (though, Meyers’ delivery on a joke about a Google Glass redesign, “You don’t want to look nerdy … when you’re wearing a computer on your face,” should be taught in “Why Seth Meyers Is Good At His Job 101”) and even the always reliable Taran Killam couldn’t gain too much traction with his beleaguered Southerner who doesn’t understand snow.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter. By the end, when Poehler, Hader and Samberg joined Meyers behind the desk, this became a deserved celebration of Meyers’ 13 seasons. I was a little surprised that Hader showed up as Stefon, just because Stefon’s sendoff last season was just so perfect. But, Meyers and Stefon are forever linked and it would have been even more odd not to see him on Meyers’ last show.

It was classy sendoff for someone who is, by all accounts, a classy guy.


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