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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Straight out of the Alinsky Playbook:
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
And “Let’s Go Brandon” is really the first time our side has effectively used it on the Left.
SNL was a big part of my teen years. I loved the humor. My friends and I would talk about the past show all week and wait in anticipation for the next installment.
I was sure that I’d be a comedy writer someday, maybe even on SNL.
The cast had it’s ups and downs over the years; sometimes funny, sometimes not. It has produced some of the funniest skits and stars ever.
In the recent past, it has become unfunny and offensive. Too bad. I can’t imagine Belushi sucking up to the sitting president each week.
Can’t wait until Chevy dies, then I can say, “This just in: Chevy Chase is still dead!”
That really happened?
As sure as you were ever Regular Army.
I stopped watching SNL when Akroyd sucked tongue with O J Simpson in the second or third season.
* Bill Murray
And, nobody "sucked tongue."
The only good thing on SNL in recent years: Bill Burr’s SNL Monologue....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1xgXJ5_Q34
Good riddance.
” ‘executive producer’ really just short for ‘i have some kind of possibly tenuous financial stake in this production’?
Yup. The guy with more $$ than the other guys.
SNL Ended after that era. I never watched it again.
You didn’t miss anything. Since then it was no longer funny the few times I watched it.
For some people, maybe. For me it was before the campaign when he showed up in a bookstore for a book signing for that ridiculous global warming book—without his wedding ring, a shiny whitened dent around his ring finger—and after his talk that evening went partying with a bunch of people I knew from Sierra Club. A few weeks later he announced for President, had the wedding ring back on, and was bending his wife over to kiss her onstage. Creep.
The other thing was, I took a 12-year-old black school child whom I was mentoring to the book signing and sat in the front row. I took the kid up and introduced him after his talk. Algore looked at me like I was out of my mind. I guess his roots betrayed him like a bottle blond's.
The best Algore store is from Courtney Love, Algore went up to her and told her that he was a big fan of hers and he really liked their music. Courtney then asked Al to name one of her songs, and of course, he couldn’t.
Probably during the time the horndog was screwing around on his wife.
Al Gore's book Earth in the Balance was published in 1992 during his run with Bill Clinton as the VP candidate. Still, that doesn't mean he didn't do a book signing for a reprint in 2000 as a campaign stunt, but I don't know.
His book An Inconvenient Truth was published in 2006, midway through George W. Bush's second term.
The Gores separated in 2010, but never divorced. That doesn't mean that he wasn't taking his ring off in 2000 when Tipper wasn't around, but that sloppy kiss during the 2000 DNC convention was a bit creepy.
-PJ
Everybody is brave on the internet.
And Jon Lovitz, Jan Hooks (loved her dance with Phil Hartman), Kevin Nealon, Julia Sweeney, and the inimitable Dana Carvey!
Mid 90s also had some standouts who didn't push their politics in your face: Darrell Hammond, Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon, Colin Quinn, Cheri Oteri (the other cheerleader), Ana Gasteyer, Chris Kattan, Tracy Morgan.
Seems that when Tina Fey became head writer in the late 90s, things started to go all-snarky, all the time. Too bad. She was teamed up with or writing for Jimmy Fallon and Set Meyers, so say no more—we see how they turned out.
I don't give Algore a lot of thought; but I'll never forget the sight of that white dent around his finger up close, and then watching him schmooze the girls afterward. That he wasn't formally separated really grossed me out.
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