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Best moments from SNL's 40th Anniversary special, excuses for getting out of a ticket and Jesse & Lucy bring in new items for this week's Show & Tell.

Paul McCartney and Paul Simon helped open 'SNL 40' with a Beatles classic.

Rock legends Paul McCartney, David Bowie and Bob Dylan all turned up for comedian Jimmy Fallon's opening monologue on 'Saturday Night Live' last night. And one of them even showed up in person!

Although much of last night's SNL was fairly standard (albeit, very funny) stuff, there was one sketch where it felt like host Zach Galifiankis was allowed to run wild. The scene found the 'Hangover' star playing the host of a public access TV show about how to entertain guests in your home and...well...let's just say that you have to watch it.

Some SNL hosts just feel like they were born to be on that stage and Zach Galifiankis is one of them. Rather than do a traditional monologue, he performed six minutes of his oddball, avant garde stand-up comedy. It was a great reminder that he may be a big movie star now, but he's still one of the great modern comedians.

Ted Nugent's heavily publicized appearance at last week's State of the Union address caught the attention of NBC's 'Saturday Night Live.' This past Saturday (Feb. 16), the long-running late-night comedy show ran a sketch that took aim at the Motor City Madman.

In one of the funniest sketches of the episode, last night's 'Saturday Night Live' gave us a version of the Peanuts gang that adults have craved for years: 'You're a Rat Bastard, Charlie Brown.'

When you've got Paul McCartney as your musical guest, you need to take full advantage of his presence -- and that's exactly what 'Saturday Night Live' did on this past weekend's (Dec. 15) episode, finding a way to wedge in three performances from the former Beatle, with talented backing bands that included Joe Walsh and members of Nirvana.

The high point of last night's episode of 'Saturday Night Live' (with guest host Jamie Foxx) was probably the Academy Award winner's portrayal of the not-so-popuar Hostess snack, Ding Dong.

New Jersey's governor made his 'SNL' debut to inject a little levity into the hurricane cleanup effort, proving that he has a sense of humor about himself, his home state, and his storm-soaked outerwear.

If you're getting fired anyway, you might as well let everyone know just what you think of them! However, you'd really better make 100% that the neck on the chopping block is actually yours before you make fun of anyone's stupid name or above-ground pool...

Amid last night's 'Saturday Night Live' cold open — mocking the second Presidential Debate — a familiar face emerged from the crowd...