SNL is a trainwreck these days because:
1) Creative control has been handed over to Tina Fey who is as funny as cancer.
2) Its guests are a “whose hot at this nanosecond” rather than the established funny comedians and actors who have made it. Instead of ripping on american and world politicians, it rips on celebs like your watching a episode of TMZ.
3) Instead of political satire or developed skits, its a hit and run every week.
4) Where the show used to be politicaly neutral in that it would diss everyone, every skit is run through the NBC political agenda filter. The latest diss hillary, love obama skits are a prime example. The show is like a mockery of itself and painful to watch.
>>>1) Creative control has been handed over to Tina Fey who is as funny as cancer.
Tina Fey left the show a year or two ago to do her own prime time series. She came back last week as a special host. SNL alumni do that when they are having success in the outside world.
>>>2) Its guests are a “whose hot at this nanosecond” rather than the established funny comedians and actors who have made it.
They always had “whose hot at this nanosecond” in addition to the established performers. We just don’t tend to remember them, or now they ARE established performers. I know what you mean though. I quit watching SNL with the Paris Hilton hostess edition. I took that as their official announcement they had scraped the bottom of the barrel. I haven’t tuned in since.
>>>4) Where the show used to be politicaly neutral in that it would diss everyone, every skit is run through the NBC political agenda filter. The latest diss hillary, love obama skits are a prime example. The show is like a mockery of itself and painful to watch.
Last week’s show with Tina Fey was the pinprick that deflated Obama’s balloon. They slammed the press for their “we love Obama” coverage and shamed them into asking actual questions instead of softballs. And Obama didn’t handle the questions well. If Obama loses I put a lot of the blame/credit on SNL. This week it’s Hillary on the bullseye so they can deny favoritism.
You guys are kidding right?
This skit (and last week's) is funny but tantamount to a Hillary ad/endorsement. It raises 10 times more doubts about Obama than Hillary's actual 3pm ad.
Tina Effing Fey has single handedly revised the monster's chances.
Does that then mean you are a masochist?
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