The comedians then hadn’t “studied” comedy by watching 200 hours of reruns.
Same with cartoons these days, they are “funny” because they are doing something they saw that was funny once. Or because it’s a hip reference and wait for it, now the audience gets it. Ha.
SNL needs to get off the air and let the local affiliates return to showing old movies.
The humor of National Lampoon (and SNL’s early days) was in part a revolt against the political correctness of the hippie liberals.