SNL used to be funny, once upon a time. Everything woke turns to s***.
Posted on 08/03/2022 10:04:24 PM PDT by conservative98
Rumors continue to swirl around the demise of one of the few sketch-comedy shows remaining, "Saturday Night Live."
With tanking ratings, a dwindling all-star cast and creator Lorne Michaels' contract expiring imminently, the show might not be "live from New York" for much longer.
In a recent interview with Charlamagne Tha God, the longest tenured cast member of "SNL," Kenan Thompson, alluded to the end being near.
When asked about the rumors the show would be ending, he said, "There could be a lot of validity to that rumor because 50's a good year to stop at."
Thompson is referring to three seasons from now, when Michaels' contract with NBC expires.
The reason for the potential ending of "SNL" could be related to the rating's debacle, with the season 47 premiere recording only 4.9 million total viewers. The season 46 premiere in 2020 raked in over 8.2 million viewers, per a Nielsen report, meaning loss in viewership was just below 50 percent.
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Thank you
Though I’d say decades
The muppets we’re the beginning of the end IMHO
I think SNL went through two successful eras (the 1975 to 1978 period, and the period when Norm McDonald was around). The past decade? All crap.
I’d like to see it removed from NYC, and done some place else.
Lets hope the leftist advertisers continue advertising to an ever dwindling audience. Works for me.
They've always been political, beginning with Gerald Ford's alert Secret Service agents who were always wrestling something to the ground, to Dan Aykroyd's Jimmy Carter giving overdose advice on a call-in radio show, to Ronald Reagan's stupid/not stupid switch skit, and on and on.
I've written before that they accidentally found their super-power when the mocked the first Bush-Gore debate in 2000, potentially turning the tide against Al Gore's sighing, interrupting, crowding behavior. I don't think they set out to politically assassinate anybody at the time, but their mockery struck a mortal blow to Al Gore's chances with that skit. WorldNetDaily's multi-part series on the Gore family in Tennessee did the rest, and Gore ended up losing both his home state and Bill Clinton's home state.
Fast-forward to 2008, and SNL learned to use their power for evil when they mocked Sarah Palin's debate, creating the mythology of the "I can see Russia from my house" line, and propelling Tina Fey to A-list fame. They never touched a Democrat that way again.
After they successfully took down the Palin/McCain ticket, they never looked back. They became shrill, angry, and one-sidedly leftist. They refused to mock Obama, and tepidly treated Hillary Clinton.
I stopped watching after the Palin show, and never looked back. They learned their lesson with Gore and swore never to repeat it. Just like with the rest of late night television, what was once funny (Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, early David Letterman) became dreary left-wing agitprop, and SNL happily joined the fold. It's the same lesson that the LAAP-dog media learned after President Trump won in 2016.
-PJ
SNL used to be funny, once upon a time. Everything woke turns to s***.
Ended for me long, long ago
As far as I’m concerned, SNL died 30 years ago. The early to mid 90s was the last good cast they had. I haven’t watched since they let them all go.
It has become just another unfunny overtly Leftist platform catering to a Northeast/Left Coast audience only. Surprise Surprise, their ratings are in the toilet. When you show nothing but contempt for half the population, you’ve already put a huge ceiling on your audience size.
In the early 90s they had: Phil Hartman, Mike Myers, David Spade, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock.
Look how many of those had success outside of SNL. Notice that none of them are noted for being hardcore Leftists? Even if they vote liberal, they do not let their politics infect their comedy and they generally keep their mouths shut and do not show contempt for half the audience. Notice how different that is to the people who have been on since the mid 90s.
Although the show has clearly declined over the years, it really took a hard left turn in the early 2000’s when Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were added to the cast and injected a full-on feminazi agenda. When Fey (and liberal producer Lorne Michaels) realized the impact of her impression of Sarah Palin on the 2008 election (“I can see Russia from my house!”), the show essentially became the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party. It broke with years-long traditions of gently skewering the sitting President (Saint Obama, in this case) and solely and savagely attacked conservatives, especially when Trump was elected. There have been a few genuinely talented cast members since, but in a sea of over-the-top wokeness, the show is no longer worth watching.
I agree with that. The quality clearly dipped massively after the mid 90s when that star studded lineup departed....but it became nothing but unfunny overtly leftist agitprop starting in about 08.
That’s about when Letterman who had gone downhill since the 90s came out as nothing but an unfunny hardcore Leftist too. I started calling him Bitterman because that’s what he was - just bitter and unfunny all the time.
The corporate media really let the mask slip and dropped all pretense when Obama came along too....so that same 07-08 timeframe. I know NBC pushed Jay Leno out because he would actually....GASP!....make fun of Obama too. We just can’t have that now can we?
Too much competition. It’s hard to parody a White House Press briefing.
It’s been dreadful for decades.
“what does a producer (TV or otherwise) actually do?”
I’ve always wondered about that, too.
SNL ended when Akroyd and Belushi left.
“In the early 90s they had: Phil Hartman, Mike Myers, David Spade, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock.”
The only one of that group I liked was Phil Hartman. That’s when it stopped being funny. The “class” before them was the best.
That really happened?
They would rather cancel their show than make fun of Democrats.
Sounds about right.
I now actually think we can convince Dems to kill themselves over fear of overpopulation/climate change.
Jim Jones Climate Kool Aid. Take a swig, do you part.
Cults be Cultin’.
SNL has not been funny for many years.
and I “get” what young folks laugh at
In the early 90s they had: Phil Hartman, Mike Myers, David Spade, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock.
During that period, they churned out my favorite SNL skit of all time was the “Matt Foley - Self Help Guru” skit with Farley, Spade, Hartman and Applegate (guest). It still cracks me up to this day. Have no idea how the cast managed to keep even a monocrum of a straight face when it was shot.
The last truly funny people on that show were Phil Hartman (RIP), Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz. After that, not so much.
They went woke and did this to themselves. That's what happens to woke comics/comedy shows.
If you remember "In Living Color" they went after EVERYONE, none of that woke B.S. That show was also the last time Jim Carrey was funny too. After that he became some woke libtard a-hole and full on commie bastard.
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