Tonight, 'Saturday Night Live' is doing a special "Mother's Day" show with host Betty White and former cast members Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, and Ana Gasteyer.

It's not clear if this was completely planned this way or they created a theme show around women so White wouldn't have to do the work that most hosts do, but it should make for a fun show. I wonder how they'll get all of the women into the show, and it will be interesting to see how many old characters the women do and if this makes for a better show than what the current cast gives us.

If it's a success, maybe 'SNL' should do other theme shows or reunions. After the jump, five I'd like to see.

1. 'Weekend Update' hosts. The 'Weekend Update' gig is one of the more prized roles on the show, and an incredible array of talent has hosted it over the years. Wouldn't it be great to have Jane Curtin, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Dennis Miller, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Jimmy Fallon, Kevin Nealon, and Colin Quinn come back to host the show? Heck, even get Norm Macdonald in there, though I don't think he left under the best of circumstances.

Besides doing an opening monologue and sketches, the entire group could do a special, supersized "Weekend Update" in the middle of the show. Wouldn't it be fun to hear "Jane, you ignorant slut" one more time?


2. Original cast members. Having Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, and Chevy Chase (and Bill Murray too, even if he wasn't in the first cast) come back to host the show might even get older viewers interesting in it again, at least for one week. It would be great to see the old-timers act with people like Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig and open up a whole new "the old 'SNL' was better than the current one!" argument.

And they could also, of course, have special salutes to John Belushi and Gilda Radner.

3. Cast members who were only on it for a year or so. There have been a lot of cast members on 'SNL' over its 35 year history. And some of them we hardly remember being on the show because they were only on it for a year or so. It would be great to have a show hosted by people like Robert Downey, Jr., Martin Short, Ben Stiller, Sarah Silverman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Joan Cusack, and Anthony Michael Hall.

Throw in Janeane Garofalo as the wild card. She doesn't have too many great things to say about her short time on the show but it would be rather interesting to see her give it another go (also Chase -- he was only on the show for its first season).

4. The Phil Hartman years. OK, this is a very personal entry, because I happen to think that the Phil Hartman years -- the late '80s-early '90s -- was the best era of the show (sorry, Not Ready For Prime Time Players fans). They've had a salute to Hartman before, but they could reassemble the cast (including Dana Carvey, Nora Dunn, Jan Hooks, and Miller) and not only do another tribute to him but new stuff with the current cast as well.

I think Wiig would fit in fantastically well as the third singer in those lounge singer sketches that Dunn and Hooks used to do.

5. Writers. Let's get some past writers from the show and actually have them write an episode! Some writers over the years have been performers on the show too: Al Franken, Alan Zweibel, Don Novello, others. Those guys could come back along with Conan O'Brien (ha!), Anne Beatts, Jim Downey, Brian Doyle-Murray, Tina Fey, Robert Smigel, Bob Odenkirk, and Jack Handey and do a really special episode.

Who would you like to see reunited on 'SNL'?

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