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I'm giving away my age but I'm probably one of the few here who saw the very first episode of SNL as it was presented live in October of 1975. I was just a 13 year old boy and I learned of the show in a newspaper article that I read the previous August while flying from Atlanta to Boston. Ironically, as I was reading the article, my plane was flying right over Manhattan and I could see the (then) RCA building below me in Rockefeller Center, where the show would be aired.

I made a mental note to check out the show and it became a must watch for many, many years. Even during the horrible shows of the early 1980s (when Lorne Michaels was off the show), I stuck with it and was rewarded by what I feel was the true glory days of the mid 80s to mid 90s. So many comic geniuses put in some time on SNL during that era. Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Jon Lovitz, David Spade, Norm MacDonald, Dennis Miller, Victoria Jackson and Mike Myers to name just a few. (And many of those people were conservatives in real life as well).

Even when Trump got into the presidential race, I continued to watch. That early 2016 show when Trump actually hosted was hilarious. But as soon as it became obvious that Trump was going to be the nominee, the show got cruel and mean-spirited about all things Trump. It just wasn't funny anymore.

For over 40 years, that show was a mainstay in my life but it's dead to me now.

I am 62 and I also remember when SNL first came on. It was
edge comedy and satire. It was funny!

I watched for many years until the writing and the actors were
just stale and it just not funny anymore.

Then the show became so partisan and liberal slanted I quit watching years ago.

The show became so cruel and unfunny of late that it is unwatchable.

Alec Baldwin’s mean spirited portrayal of Trump is just too much and Baldwin is such a immature child.

I remember my bro and I were in a hotel room when we discovered it and we too were too young to watch it but watch we did, couldn’t believe something like that was on tv.

I watch with my kids sometimes now and there are still moments, but the anti Trump is so strong that it caricatures itself. It’s really sad. They are wrong about him. He is not slick. But he is trying to improve the country even for rich entertainment Lefties. Because he is trying to help THEIR AUDIENCE.

And Baldwin, as funny as he can be in other ventures, plays a HORRIBLY ONE NOTE Trump. It’s so bad. And Darrell Hammond nailed his Trump for decades. It’s a travesty that Hammond isn’t playing Trump. All you get out of Baldwin is hatred, no impression is even done.