Prince fans loved the SNL tribute until the sketches started, and then they were pissed

Not too tasteful, SNL.

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"Saturday Night Live" scrapped its normal show this past weekend to do a tribute to Prince, who died Thursday. The first hour of the show entitled "Goodnight, Sweet Prince" and featured four of his classic SNL performances. That wasn't enough to fill the entire 90-minute show. so they brought out an old compilation of sketches based on "The Prince Show."

This is where things went off the rails. Shia LaBeouf came in and pretended to be Tobey Maguire —- before LaBeouf went totally crazy —- and was actually pretty decent. However, it was the parody of Prince by Fred Armisen that people didn't appreciate. Maya Rudolph played Beyonce and was Prince's "interpreter" throughout the show.

Fans were not happy.

[h/t Bro Bible]