TV Clip of the Day: Bronx Beat with Betty White

The legendary Betty White hosted SNL last night, and what a show it was! Not only was she the host, but past SNL cast members Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Molly Shannon and Ana Gasteyer all returned to the show last night for a big Mother's Day special! With these old cast members back on SNL, we saw the return of some classic sketches such as Delicious Dish, classic characters such as Molly Shannon's Sally O'Mally, and class impressions such as Maya Rudolph's Whitney Houston. However, one thing that we did not see was the return of our favorite SNL sketch, Bronx Beat. We've blogged about the sketch before and posted it here a few times, and with the return of Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph, we really thought we might get the chance to see it come back, but unfortunately, it never happened.

That was, until this morning, when I read that they did indeed film a new Bronx Beat sketch during dress rehearsal! (There was also a cut Debbie Downer sketch too!) It was cut from the live show, but with the magic of the Internet, it is now available online! Here it is:

Clip of the Day: Bronx Beat

Since this blog is named "we like TV," you probably assumed that there is more than one person who likes TV contributing to this blog. However, close examination of the past few entries reveals that only one person, J, appears to like TV. This is not the case. Hello. Nice to meet you. My name is A, and I like TV. J demands that I make up for the posts that I should have posted over the past days. I don't take J's demands very seriously, but I figured if I want to be considered 50% of "we," I should put a little effort into it.

Now, on to the clip of the day.

Here in New England, the air is getting cool and the leaves are changing, which means only one thing to me: SWEATER WEATHER, or as the ladies of SNL's Bronx Beat (as played by Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph) put it, "sweta weatha." I am a huge fan of sweaters, but this isn't a blog about sweaters, this is a blog about TV. Of course, I couldn't find the sweata weatha clip (from the Brian Williams episode), but I found a clip of Bronx Beat from the Jake Gyllenhaal episode on Hulu.

Wait. That was a bad segway into the clip because it had everything to do about sweta weatha and nothing to do about this clip. I must say, that was a poor introduction. I am actually embarassed of that introduction. I must think of something more relevant. Let's start over.

I was stuck in traffic in the Bronx on Friday night. It was not great. But Bronx Beat is great.