{"id":12027,"date":"2015-02-28T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12027"},"modified":"2015-02-28T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:56:50","slug":"norm-macdonald-takes-behind-the-scenes-for-the-snl-40th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12027","title":{"rendered":"Norm Macdonald Takes Behind the Scenes for the SNL 40th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z022815snl40.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"661\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like millions of other viewers I enjoyed the recent <strong>Saturday Night Live<\/strong> anniversary special.\u00a0 Like any series that spans 40 years, <strong>SNL<\/strong> has had its ups and downs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Truth be told, I haven&#8217;t watched <strong>SNL<\/strong> regularly for years&#8230; more like decades.\u00a0 But I sure tuned in to see the special.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My favorite parts were the scenes from the first years with the original cast and <em><strong>Celebrity Jeopardy<\/strong><\/em>, but even the stuff that wasn&#8217;t great was enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Norm Macdonald<\/strong> sent out a series of tweets about preparations in the week leading up to the <strong>SNL 40th Special<\/strong> and they&#8217;re entertaining and informative.\u00a0 Thankfully the <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2015\/02\/18\/norm_macdonald_snl_tweets.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gothamist pulled them all together for an easy read<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like millions of other viewers I enjoyed the recent Saturday Night Live anniversary special.\u00a0 Like any series that spans 40<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12028,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12027\/revisions\/12028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}