Does anyone watch?
I have it on now. This Souvenir shop skit is awful. I seem to find them less entertaining each week. Fuck they had months to come up with some good material.
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Does anyone watch?
I have it on now. This Souvenir shop skit is awful. I seem to find them less entertaining each week. Fuck they had months to come up with some good material.
Weekend Update still is pretty good. Other stuff is hit n miss.
Now I'm watching SNL vintage. 2000 Dana Carvey hosting. It's funny!
I haven't watched consistently in well over a year and haven't caught an episode since the pandemic but I just don't find it all that funny anymore. Not only that, but it has also gotten predictable and just isn't all that entertaining. Having to adhere to acceptable levels of political incorrectness is probably the main undoing but there is certainly more to the degradation of the show than just that. One thing to consider is the fact that the show has never been absolute hilarity; there are always good sketches and terrible ones, good cast members and terrible ones. Another thing is the talent of the cast: it is a travesty to compare Murphy, Belushi, and Farley to Kenan Thompson, Pete Davidson, and Colin Jost. Credit to the show for keeping on truckin though. It has got to be almost impossible to pull off a live comedy show with half-decent content week in and week out.
Kyle Mooney cracks me the fuck up for some reason. The rest....meh.
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I stopped watching SNL at least 25 years ago, probably more. Once Eddie Murphy left, it was over. In my experience, very few people still watch it except for low information voters who get their most of their 'news' from late night comedy programs.
Cheri Oteri......so underrated.
Chappelle is hosting next week, should be a good monologue at least.
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Akroyd, Belushi, Murray, Radner, et al. Downhill since then. Eddie Murphy was great of course but couldn't carry the show by himself.
Rose-colored glasses are on sale today?
Burr episode was pretty damn good.
rosanna danna danna called saidQuote:
Originally Posted by DeathRaven
whatever
polidipshit
Bill Burr is often pretty damn good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharon Needles
It was a solid show
This performance by jack white may have been the highlight
I haven't been watching that consistently, but I thought the one with Burr was funny. The one about the Sam Adams pumpkin lager was hilarious. I'll probably watch the recent one with Mulaney to see what it was all about. It's funny to me that everyone hates on whatever the current cast is. The show goes in cycles and I think people just identify with whichever one they watched when they were younger.
I am younger and I do not identify with this cast at all. They just aren't that accessible.Quote:
Originally Posted by AdventureJonny
I watched a 1980 SNL with Steve Martin hosting. It was great. But still had the political views on Reagan which was funny based on current trump SNL
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Kate McKinnon is probably the funniest and more versatile cast member in decades.
kate mackinnon is as good as any; kenan thompson also good
plenty of good performers in between the current crop & the old guard
you grumpy fucks need to lighten up a bit
i did find this listicle...not endorsing their order in any way...some folks i had no idea were even on the show...
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-l...y-quaid-94954/
I agree, McKinnon is pretty funny. I find Michael Che to be pretty hilarious. And I thought Bill Hader and Seth Meyers were both very funny.
Don't keep up with it nearly as much as I used to, but lately been having fun re-watching the first few seasons (from 1975+). Man, there's no denying those early years were LEGENDARY. The writing back then was pretty edgy and much of it certainly wouldn't fly today. SNL certainly had a decades long run that was pretty solid.
Here's a nifty list of the cast members over the years. Amazing how many of them ended up having massively successful careers. Also sad to think about all the ones we've lost as well. :(
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...83d39ac54c.png
I think it's great. People forget the clunker skits of the era they love but if you go back and watch a whole old episode from then they had just as many. It helps to record it so you can bail on the skits that are obviously not going anywhere.
I do wish they'd get rid of the "specialty stars" for the open (Baldwin doing Trump, Carrey doing Biden, Rudolph doing Harris) and just let the not ready for prime time players do those roles- they can handle it.
i completely forgot that Franken was on SNL. fucking legend.
so many funny skits- this one never gets old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmtkNrufSwQ
saw him on Bill Maher yesterday though and he was not very coherent. not sure what was going onQuote:
Originally Posted by stealurface831
You know that Murphy, Belushi and Farley were never on a show together, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by stealurface831
Meh. 70s probably the best incarnation, late 80s very strong as was most of the 90s. Has sucked since on the whole.
SNL is IMO, a dinosaur, a throw-back to the world pre-inner-net. Kinda fun once in a while to make a buhwheet sammich once tice fee times a-wAAdie or reach for a schmidts gay or sweetriver banes or all kindsa shit they are trying hard to make never happen.
Current cast doesn't have a superstar, which hurts them, but McKinnon is fantastic, Strong is excellent, Che and Jost are excellent. Yang and Fineman will be very good. I actually really like Davidson. Top to bottom the cast is as solid as it's ever been right now, but I think they need that superstar. The writing now is ok/solid, but they dont' hit some of the high notes of years past. maybe they need that one superstar writer too.Quote:
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That said, I watch it and when I do almost always enjoy multiple skits, while thinking multiple skits are really awful.
And can the PLEASE fix the damn sound for the musical acts? Good lord.
Those old 70’s and 80’s casts had just as many garbage skits as now.
There were some gems though.
Bad Idea Jeans. Happy Fun Ball.
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Probably just more cocaine.Quote:
Originally Posted by EWG
Yeaaahhh, that's not happening.Quote:
Originally Posted by EWG
I agree. You go back and watch some of the early shows and there are more misses than hits. Same thing now.Quote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
The Mulaney show last Saturday was the first one I've caught this season. I thought it was decent. The headless horseman sketch was funny even if they dragged it out a little long. The only current cast member that sort of annoys me is Cecily Strong. I don't understand her appeal at all.
she does a good jeanine pirroQuote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Didn't you just know that headless horseman sketch was going to go long from the first joke? It's Lauren's trademark go-to: come up with a joke that's kind of funny, put the best version up front and repeat until the joke is that the latest person to join the sketch hasn't already heard it. There are worse things. It usually works. But the predictable joke is pretty predictable.Quote:
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Still, John Mulaney carried that well. He should join the five timers' club.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/...e-it-ever-was/Quote:
‘SNL’ the same as it ever was
Viewers have been complaining about the show’s decline almost since it premiered in 1975. But it’s always been uneven.
Q. I liked your piece on the best political impressions on “Saturday Night Live.” Two questions: How could you leave out Melissa McCarthy’s Sean Spicer? And am I right in thinking that “SNL” is worse than ever?
A. Well the first answer is easy. The list was restricted to presidents, vice presidents, and those who’ve run for those offices. So McCarthy’s Spicer was not eligible. Likewise a few other strong impressions, including Kate McKinnon’s Jeff Sessions, Matt Damon’s Brett Kavanaugh, Cecily Strong’s Melania Trump, and Beck Bennett’s Vladimir Putin. McKinnon’s Kellyanne Conway remains one of my favorites, political or otherwise, of the past few years.
The second question, to be honest, even though you seem awfully nice, has gotten a bit tired. People have been saying that “Saturday Night Live” is not what it used to be almost since it premiered in 1975. At this point, some 46 seasons on, the not-what-it-used-to-be concept is just part of its basic identity. In my opinion, the show has always had ups and downs, not only from cast to cast, but from sketch to sketch. Omnibus shows like “SNL” are almost by definition uneven. I rewatched season one not too long ago, and I was surprised at the amount of mediocrity folded into the brilliance of that era.
And our judgments are particularly subjective when it comes to comedy, so that one person’s classic sketch is another person’s sketch encapsulating everything that is wrong with the show. Often I’m shocked at how lame a political sketch is, given the number of writers on the show, and yet it’s a sketch everyone is talking about the next day. John Oliver and his writers also do one show per week, and their work is as consistently sharp as the “SNL” writing is not. One of the few times everyone appeared to feel the same excitement about something on “SNL” was Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin.
“SNL” is no longer restrained to Saturday nights, since the sketches are all available online after they air on TV. That means the show is more seen than ever, even if it’s worse than ever. Websites publish recaps of each episode because on Sunday and Monday, they create a rush of clicks from those who didn’t stay up late. While baby boomer institutions such as Rolling Stone magazine are in dire straits, “SNL” stays solid and continues to speak to people, including those who love it unconditionally, those for whom hope springs eternal, and those who need to see it just to confirm that is truly worse than ever.
While every skit doesn't always land, some still absolutely kill. Weekend update has never been better and if you didn't think Halloween night's show brought some laughs then check your sense of humor.
The headless horseman bit was fucking hilarious.
SNL was good to me as a kid. I learned about the Meatwagon, ignorant sluts and male prostitution for examples.
But the Halloween night I saw this, it opened my eyes...
12341234!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frud5RFtTi0
This not the network version, you can hear alot of Fbombs dropping live on TV.
The history of this moment is epic.
True there were a lot of duds that you can skip past, but there's something about the old casts' energy that just hasn't been matched lately. The humor was definitely edgier then too. ESPECIALLY for the time considering it was on a regular broadcast station.Quote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
Haha. DEFINITELY a factor. They were pretty open about that and even casually mentioned their drug use somewhat frequently in their sketches. Too bad it was also the demise of a couple of the greats. RIP John Belushi and Chris Farley. Tragic what's happened to a good number of the cast actually!!! Gilda Radner, Phil Hartman, and too many others to list right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Hopefully his monologue has a different tone than his last one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skistack
I don't watch the show and haven't in years, I just don't watch regular TV. But this somewhat recent skit is damn funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPdYYsEfAE
We watch it on Hulu later. Only takes an hour for the whole thing. Still some funny stuff to me, but when it’s not, whatever. And you can fast forward when musical guest is not our thing.
Plenty of crap out there. It is less crappier that a lot.
Mountains of cocaine will do that.Quote:
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