The best part of ‘SNL 50’ was the nostalgia — not the new stuff (many photos within)

NY POST ^ | Feb. 16, 2025 | By Johnny Oleksinski

[sit-rep]

the last time I watched SNL was waaaaaaay back with eddie murphy and dan aykroyd... never cared for anyone after that. ESPECIALLY that will ferrel. man I hate that guy!!!

[dennisw]

For me, SNL was good until windows 95 came out. Win 95 brought the internet, which brought the decline of many cultural factors such as popular music. I bought my first computer in 1996 to see what this internet thing was all about.
Microsoft was behind the curve. They had an ugly primitive ISP called the Microsoft Network that I used. That was confusing and hard to figure out.

[exnavy]

Yeah, hard to enjoy the comedy of lefties.

[Da Coyote]

The ONLY worthwhile thing about SNL was the Not Ready for Prime Time Players.

[LouAvul]

I was in college when SNL first aired. That initial crew was the crew. I didn't even like it when they brought Bill Murray on board. I stopped watching when Belushi, Akroyd, Chase, left for a movie career.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

The SNL of the 1970s was the best, none of this woke crap, skits on the edge that they wouldn't even think of doing today.

I remember they had Burt Reynolds hosting on one show, and they did a skit on the movie "Deliverance" where Reynolds is in the canoe with two S&M gay guys who heard what happened to Ned Beatty ..."So where arrrre these hillbilly boys at?" LOL Today they would get protests over "gay bias"

[Shqipo]

If the baby Clark Kent had grown up in Nazi Germany, he’d be known as Uberman. Just ask Jimmie Olstein.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

New stuff, like the last 15 years?

[cymbeline]

“... the internet, which brought the decline of many cultural factors such as popular music. ...”

It seems to me that popular music evolves rather than declines. But I will say that I prefer the softer-edged, more musical music of the 60s and the early 70s. So to me it has declined, but that’s just me.

What is the “decline” that you speak of, and how did the internet produce the decline?

Thanks!

[ComputerGuy]

There was Gilda. And then there was everybody else.

[Rummyfan]

I tuned in for a glimpse and there was Miley Cyrus murdering Nothing Compares to. You... I couldn't take it. usually these shows turn into such self-reverencial sets that they are unbearable. How was this one in general?

[Gay State Conservative]

I watched about 10 minutes of it. Painful....not even remotely funny. Maybe I was watching the wrong segments because I saw about 2 seconds of Chevy Chase,5 seconds of Steve Martin and not a single second of Garret Morris,Jane Curtain or Lorraine Newman.

Except for one or two people who came after Akroyd and Belushi SNL stopped being funny after they left.

[bobcat62]

The last time SNL was funny was back when Chico Esquela was part of SNL.

[Gay State Conservative]

Bill Murray the best Update host? Gimme a break. “Jane,you ignorant slut!”

[pepperdog]

It was “cute” at one time, long ago. Now I enjoy not watching it.

[Jim Noble]

SNL’s 50th?

It hasn’t been funny in 45 years, and, although I am well aware that I’m 50 years older than when the show debuted, I don’t enjoy people who were young when I was looking like fossils on live TV.

No thanks.

[dfwgator]

It was also a thrill to see Bill Murray back. During “Weekend Update” with Colin Jost and Michael Che, Murray, who was behind the desk for two seasons in the 1980s, ranked the best “Update” hosts of all time. He named the late Norm Macdonald, who was eegregiously fired by NBC in 1997 for ruthlessly going after OJ Simpson, No. 2.

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Thank you, Bill!

[dfwgator]

Most of the last 80s cast are conservatives: Dennis Miller, Victoria Jackson, Jon Lovitz and Rob Scheider.

[Jim Noble]

Guaranteed to ride up.