Actually, I thought the show got better the year after Tina Fey left but it was truly atricious last season.
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For me it's the style of comedy. There used to be a lot of innuendo, jokes unsaid, things like that where the audience would pick up on it and start laughing. Now, however, everythin is practically spoon fed to you. "This is where you should laugh!" type things. It's annoying.
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There are kids in school that have never known life without shitty SNL on TV, that's how long SNL has been crap. They can walk, talk, read, kick you in your shins, and for their whole life SNL has been a bad show. I hear they were pretty desperate for new writers this summer, hopefully they can get a good season out for once.
Know good SNL? They don't even know "The Kids in the Hall"!
Everyone has their preference in SNL, mind falls from the mid 80's to about 1998.
Everyone has their preference in SNL, mind falls from the mid 80's to about 1998.
Those kids shouldn't be staying up late enough to know if SNL is good or bad!
Sounds like they have dumbed it down.
SNL has had good and bad years - I think they need an infusion of new comedic talent and then get the network's influence out of there. And someone tell me if Weekend Update has improved ANY? Last I saw it was two newscasters insulting people as their attempt to be funny.
Kristin Wiig is fun to watch on there. She can do some good stuff. I wish they would ditch Andy Samberg, I'm getting really tired of Laser cats. Bill Hader and Jason Sudekis are pretty good as well. I"m not sure but I hear that Amy Pohler is leaving and it's probably time for Darrell Hammond to move on as well. I know it's probably comedy blasphemy but I believe Hammond did a better Clinton than Phil Hartman did.
They should really come up with some good charachters, and quit with all of the indie hipster inside joke comedy.
They should really come up with some good charachters, and quit with all of the indie hipster inside joke comedy.
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God! I loathe Horatio Sanz...He is a terrible, terrible comedian. I stopped watching the show when he started becoming a regular.
To me, the show really started falling downhill after Ferrell left in 02. I know a lot of people didn't like Ferrell but he was comedic gold in 00 with Hammond playing Gore and Ferrell playing Bush. He didn't look like Bush because he was tall but he was simply great pairing up with Hammond in the presidential debates and the presidential spoofs.
Guys like Jimmy Fallon...Chris Kattan...Horatio Sanz (who I am now reading was to be similar to guys like Farley and Belushi...Don't ever tell me that Sanz is as funny as those two)...just killed the show for me.
BTW I did like Gore on the show when he hosted. He was hilarious!
Oh and I miss Celebrity Jeopardy, one of the reasons why I would watch to see if they would have it
"I'll take swords for a hundred..."
"That's S words, Mr. Connery."
To me, the show really started falling downhill after Ferrell left in 02. I know a lot of people didn't like Ferrell but he was comedic gold in 00 with Hammond playing Gore and Ferrell playing Bush. He didn't look like Bush because he was tall but he was simply great pairing up with Hammond in the presidential debates and the presidential spoofs.
Guys like Jimmy Fallon...Chris Kattan...Horatio Sanz (who I am now reading was to be similar to guys like Farley and Belushi...Don't ever tell me that Sanz is as funny as those two)...just killed the show for me.
BTW I did like Gore on the show when he hosted. He was hilarious!
Oh and I miss Celebrity Jeopardy, one of the reasons why I would watch to see if they would have it
"I'll take swords for a hundred..."
"That's S words, Mr. Connery."
On late Saturday nights, NBC would air Classic SNL. It would depend on the local station as to wether or not they would carry the show, but ours did. Man I saw some really great stuff on those night shifts. That was the best part of my shift the three hours of SNL I watched.
Yeah, Horatio Sanz is really unfunny. And as much as people rag on Jimmy Fallon (myself included), I'd sooner watch him than Chris Kattan. (Of course, I'll be goddamned if I'll ever tune in to Late Night once Fallon takes over from Conan next year. 
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Agreed. Under Tina Fey, the show was a significant improvement over the early '90s, which was so terrible it amazes me that SNL even stayed on the air.
Heh, feeling old. I remember when The Blues Brothers made their debut on SNL. The old Cheeseburger skit, Mr Bill skits, and all that. Sorry, but to me the original "not ready for prime time players" will always be the best SNL crew ever. The Eddie Murphey era was OK, and I caught some of the Dana Carvey era, but pretty much anything else has been or is craptacular.
SNL hasn't been great since I was in highschool, and even then is waning.
Give me Phil Hartman, Mike Meyers, Dan Carvey and that cast of comedians over the Jimmy Fallans (and yes I know he's not there anymore) and the others that've followed the mid-90s era of the series.
Give me Phil Hartman, Mike Meyers, Dan Carvey and that cast of comedians over the Jimmy Fallans (and yes I know he's not there anymore) and the others that've followed the mid-90s era of the series.
Oh, God! Colin Quin.
Who reads the.
News.
Like he is waiting for.
The teleprompter.
To advance to the.
Next Line.
Okay, Will Ferrell's Celebrity Jeopardy was a riot and his Bush impression was pretty good, but otherwise I couldn't stand him or the rest of that era.
While I freely admit I'm jealous of 30 Rock's success over Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, I didn't bother with 30 Rock from the get go because of Tina Fey.You're just jealous because 30 Rock got good reviews and a bunch of Emmys, while Studio 60 barely survived a single season (and I say barely because NBC finally did burn off the last episodes during summer reruns).
Agreed. As an ENSEMBLE, the originals were the overall best. And they laid the foundation for the 28 years to follow.
Certainly there have been outstanding individuals in the years since 1980, (Eddie Murphy, Phil Hartman, Ana Gasteyer, Dana Carvey, Mike Meyers, Christopher Guest, Billy Crystal, Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Kristin Wiig, and a few more) but the originals were the best.
To this day I pity the poor cast that had to follow the originals. Of course the late Charles Rocket will always be famous from dropping the first clearly audible live f-bomb on network television.
--Ted
I've never understood people's affinity for Colin Quinn. He's about as entertaining as a hemorrhoid flair-up.