I have not watched SNL since 1997 or so. Phil Hartman was one of the best back then. I was shocked when his crazy wife killed him.
Haven’t watched it 4ever, last time I watched it was funny, thats how long.
EDL Every Day Live. There is real comedy (and tragedy) every day. Enjoy this wonderful life.
“NBC may be moved to axe legendary sketch comedy show SNL...”
That show has been living off of its reputation for at least 30 years.
I once heard Lorne Michael’s say as long as he had anything to do with, snl would always be on the air....so yeah, it would take him stepping down to finally flush that rank turd down the crapper.
Constantly kicking 60% of your potential audience in the teeth may be part of the reason.
Like most network TV, SNL is pure propaganda programming, not some money-making entertainment.
It’s been that way for decades.
SNL quit being funny when they decided that Democrats were off-limits. It left too much comedy on the cutting room floor
Hasn’t been funny for a long time. Mostly woke propaganda.
USAID or other government funding sources have been propping up the “News Business” and the “Entertainment Business” in order to manipulate the public. This has been going on for decades. Now the hidden money is going away and the “business” has to actually pursue a path that can achieve “profits”. It’s a harsh world.
Slicing your potential audience in half and then going from there is a terrible business strategy. To me, it’s really that simple. But they’d rather go down with the ship and whine one last time about “fascist censorship” before they sink into the dark abyss of history.
They could try digging up the corpses of John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Phil Hartman and any other dead former SNL cast member and the show would be funnier than what it now is.
SNL went from sophomoric humor with some level of humor to just boring political soapboxing.
I haven’t seen SNL since Phil Hartman. The show sucks.
Funny how losing money didn’t matter until Trump cut-off the USAID spigot.
Hows its lasted this long is a miracle.
SCTV > SNL
true story- they were talented and funny in the 1970’s , but after that, it’s just been really bad. The original cast members were hideously talented. They were kind of like the American version of Monty Python. For the life of me, I don’t know why it’s still on. It’s kind of like The Simpsons The Simpsons were good for about 10 seasons and then that was it. I think they actually make The Simpsons now in Korea and they just kind of spit it out. It’s probably AI anyway
I thought, what if SNL weren’t woke, would there be material for live sketch comedy?
1) The Math Olympiad with Asians from many countries doing so well
2) Sydney Sweeney getting into tight-fitting jeans
3) The woman who was trying to smuggle turtles in her bra
Obviously, what is funny about these topics is politically incorrect, therefore verboten.
Just axe the whole network.
LOL. These SNL threads are hilarious. 50 people will post how horrible it is, so they “haven’t watched it in 30 years!”
How do they know it’s so bad when they haven’t watched it in decades?
“Shut up subterfuge!”