Posted on 08/03/2022 10:04:24 PM PDT by conservative98
As one who watched nearly every episode from the first one in the 70s until Tina Fey trashed Sarah Palin, it was a no-brainer to finally ditch SNL. The only one I still liked to watch was Bill Hader, who was wonderful in everything he did, especially Stefon, the nightclub reviewer. And also Fred Armisen.But by then, you could single out one performer and just watch on video. Tina Fey really ruined the show.
LOL -- the audience was afraid to laugh at half of it!
Gore ran for president in the 1988 DNC primary, and declined to run in the 1992 primary. He didn't run again until 2000.
He did accept Bill Clinton's offer to run for VP in 1992.
-PJ
Yes, you are right, it was probably not a Gore campaign event, but just something having to do with him being VP at the time I saw him. I remember saying to the boy as I introduced him, “This man (Gore) could be our future president.” I don’t remember when the staged Tipper kiss occured, but I do remember that it was after the “unringed” evening.
Such a long time ago. My little mentee would have been in his early 40s had he not died in a Philadelphia shoot out a couple of years ago. A good-looking and intellegent child who asked me to take him to museums and churches, and to buy school supplies for him. So much potential, wasted. Just another father-free black child with no one to guide him into a stable adulthood. We had moved away when he was around 13. I’m heartbroken over him.
They can manage about one good sketch every few years. Here’s two;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv6FMEvNiWo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBcG5tOURuM
Agree 100%. I was thinking specifically about Hader, Armisen, and Will Forte.
That is really very good!
I turn it on about once every six months to see what it is like. After a few minutes of potty mouth humor and not one laugh out of me, I turn it off.
Now it’s almost painful to watch.
It was great though to see Bill Burr make the audience squirm during his monologue.
I know it’s just shitty SNL.... But I thought it was even a new low for SNL, for them to so blatantly cover for Biden, by not including an FBI Agent to speak in the cold opening about searching the Biden residence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzXZ8bTe5EQ
Loved watching Stefon, that was a funny one!
And then Bill would be struggling to keep a straight face.
Unlike many here, I do not consider the 1975-1980 period the "golden era" of SNL. It was by and large an uneven show with some really cringe-worthy skits. For example the skit about the mall store that sold scotch tape only. Or the land-shark skit with Lorraine Newman. But some really great skits as well.
After a few forgettable years in the early 1980s when Lorne briefly left the show, SNL started really hitting its stride and had its best era (in my opinion) from roughly the 1985-1995 period. During those years we had really great cast members like Jon Lovitz, Victoria Jackson, Dennis Miller, Phil Hartman, Chris Farley and Mike Myers just to name a few. Eddie Murphy, I never really cared for. Didn't find him funny at all. Not even in the movies he did.
SNL stopped being entertaining when it decided to take a knee to the politically correct "woke" movement over the past 15-20 years.
Just cinch it!
-PJ
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