You know, I think we were all pretty damn excited for the SNL50 anniversary special, billed as creator Lorne Michaels's grand celebration of a half-century of the US sketch show Saturday Night Live.

Who else would star in the first sketch of SNL50 but Will Ferrell? The man obviously has an embarrassment of rich characters to choose from—Alex Trebek! Gene Frenkle! George Dub-yah!— ...

You know, I think we were all pretty damn excited for the SNL50 anniversary special ... want to giggle about Ryan Reynolds's wink to Baldonigate, SNL is about the sketches. And SNL50 over-delivered ...