So, SNL has become banal and nothing but a self-parody. I knew that.
I quit liking it about the mid 80s.
Though some of the early SNL cast was quite talented, I never thought CC was particularly funny.
Danny Aykroyd and John Belushi had more talent in their pinkie fingers than Chevy Chase has in his whole body.
SNL scooped up the National Lampoon Radio Hour talent (voice actors) and NLR struggled along on radio and putting out albums.
But National Lampoon expanded to movies and producers hired those old NLR guys who’d gone to SNL (but had since left SNL).
SNL is still on? Who knew?
When Norm MacDonald left so did the comedy.
I don’t see “national” channels these days. tuned them out over a decade ago as the media fell on their knees to come all over Obama during the 2008 election.
But while watching DailyMotion today I saw ads for a “Daily Show” election special this year and it’s my first time seeing the replacement for Jon Stewart and he’s doing 3rd grader taunts akin to Eddie Murphy talking about the Ice Cream Truck (not the ice cream bit, just the taunts the kids use), but the host was talking about adults, not kids.
I wish there was comedy for grownups again.
I liked the original cast.....I didn’t like much of the 80’s casts......I liked the cast in the 90’s that had Phil Hartman, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Jan Hooks, etc........haven’t actually watched it now in a decade or so.
SNL used to be funny, before they become nothing more than an arm of the Democrat Party..they NEVER poked fun at Obama, NEVER..and IF they did they would poke fun at him but make Republicans the punch line so Chevy is right..SNL is NOT funny
The problem with libs (well, one of them) is that they don’t know the difference between mockery and humor. So, much of what they laugh at is actually cheap shots at people or groups they hate, but isn’t funny to anyone else.
The writing for the skits seem to be screwball disjointed gibberish.
It’s not coherent, let a lone funny.
It’s like they think the show is so “anointed”, that they can say “sky sunk oak” and people will roll over laughing.
They don’t even pretend to have a story line.
Even after the Chevey Chase, John Belushi, Jane Curtain, Gilda Radner, Garrick Morris days, Eddie Murphy days, there were still some great bright spots.
Today it’s a vast wasteland.
Admittedly, I haven’t watched it in a year or so. It’s so painful knowing what the possibilities are, and watching these folks destroy the brand.
The great talent from the older, non-SJW SNL should band together to form a production company to create an alternative to SNL. It would kick the ass of the current SNL zombie show.
He’s right, it is not funny at all. I tried watching a few weeks back, and I mostly cringed. Judging from my kids and their friends, younger people are getting their humor from YouTube channels that people Chevy’s age have never heard of. Part of the reason is the shows like SNL are waaaaaaay past their sell by dates.
Even without Trump bashing it would still stink. Gilda Radner was my favorite.
Haven’t watched since Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscapo.
It has gotten to the point where somebody will be named as a member of their cast and I have NO IDEA.
And I don’t even care.
Nothing lasts forever.
Chevy was never that funny, but his Clark Griswold character was classic.
RIP Belushi and Radner
Chevy. You never said a more true word.
I stopped watching when the Not Ready For Prime Time Players stopped being on. I really only liked those shows. After that it seemed to be unfunny.
“Hey you!” Gilda Radner
He was banned forever from SNL, so this is expected. Sour Grapes.
I haven’t been able to sit through an entire show for at least 10 years probably longer. It’s not even on my “entertainment radar screen” anymore. I didn’t know it was still on!
SNL was alway a unwatchable after Weekend Update. I watched the first 20 minutes of a single episode last year and realized they put all the crap up front as well.