It's a rare minute when there's any humor that is similar in style and wit to that which made SNL popular to begin with. It has gone thru some "ups and downs" w/ varying casts, but by and large it has gone on a downhill slide and is continuing on that trend.
Much of the humor has always been boorish and crude, but at least done with a semblance of good taste. These days, and for the last 15 years by and large, it's a complete waste of time.
I suppose little kiddies and "Peter Pans" get a good chuckle out of the nonsensical humor, but what is genuninely humorous is layered in between so much crap, waste of time junk, and overall drivel trying to pass for real humor, that the laughs are not worth the time and can be synopsized in less time than the commercials run for throughout the hour.
Most of us that grew up with the Jane Curtin, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, even the Eddie Murphy days, have invariable "gone back" to take a look and been sorely disappointed and even ashamed that "their" original show has degenerated into such crap.
Maybe Al Franken should go back on there in a week or two after the "Hate-America Radio Free Terrorism/Communism Network" folds up like a cheap tent in a hurricane!
Go have at it Al! Maybe you do have some worth and value on this planet other than as food for the sub-terrain food chain following your otherwise seemingly worthless existence and brief stint here on earth! I cringe to think that there isn't a single, regardless of how minor, success still waiting to be released in that brain of yours. Then again, even that may be hoping against all hope.
http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2004-04-05#celeb2