Posted on 05/13/2018 4:27:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
No you couldn't.
I would answer “yes” to that question when the first string Not Ready for Prime Time Players was leaving in 1979 or so.
“I thought when it was on, Fridays was better than SNL.”
Laughed so hard, I actually fell out of my chair and onto the floor.
I personally stopped watching it a long time ago. It used to be so funny! Remember the "ads" they did like "Try-Openin" and "Schmitts Gay beer"?
Kramer and his Army men......
Frankly I wish they would just pull the plug on N(othing)B(ut)C(rap) and the rest of the networks as well...
The last time I laughed watching SNL it was during an Eddie Murphy skit.
Craig Kilborn’s “The Daily Show” was funny as hell !
When Jon Stewart took over, it took a dive that never recovered.
Now this new cretin just .. simply.. isn’t... funny. He brought in Samantha Bee who just looks at the camera and says “TRUMP IS A NAZI!” and people applaud for no reason.
And I recall that even John Oliver did many, many funny anti-left pieces on TDS and I had high hopes for his show too - But one must understand something very, very important.
The media moguls made it _edict_ that every bit of programming must be anti-right-wing. It must be. So now even good comics are being told that they must tow the line or else they are fired.
I'd take either of those over SNL and a ton of other garbage on TV.
It’s definitely not what it used to be.
Where’s Emily Litella when you need her?
If you’re talking about the special guest starts and their monologue, I would agree. If there is a short up front before that, those have over the years been some of their most cutting edge offerings.
I haven’t watched a skit in ten years.
The show was brilliant in 70s/80s.
I wasn’t aware that Alec “Child Abuser” Baldwin was from Amityville. As if that town hasn’t suffered enough.
I wonder if Baldwin and Ronald Defeo were friends? It wouldn’t surprise me.
My uncles loved SNL. They all stopped watching it, it’s unwatchable.
Even libs MUST be sick of the non-stop Trump attacks, there is more in the world to make fun of!
Alec Baldwin was consistently a great host on SNL, prior to this tiresome Trump schtick.
I don’t know at what point I stopped watching regularly. I think around 1999 going by rechecking the cast list. They had three decent stretches with good performers, the 1975-80 era with the original gang. The mid ‘80s or so (Eddie Murphy, etc.), and into the early/mid ‘90s (Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, etc.). When the latter group started to leave in the mid to late ‘90s, the replacements just didn’t measure up and I couldn’t tell one from another.
I could probably count on one hand how many times I watched after 2000. It seemed to get more hyper-politicized as it went along (not that it was never left-leaning, but it just got vicious and slanderous). When Tina Scarfeyce did Sarah Palin, that was the last straw for me, especially when people were falsely accusing Palin of what Scarfeyce said in her character assassination bits. We need not even mention Baldwin’s similar assassination of President Trump.
bump
I was also in high school when SNL started, and I was a yuge fan. I kind of lost track when they fired the original cast, but picked it up again in the ‘90s during the Eddie Murphy era.
Every once in a while SNL still has a funny moment, but their biggest problem is the size of the cast. The opening credits take 10 minutes.
SNL has always been left leaning, but still was able to poke some fun at the left once in a while. The skits with Obama and the Chinese Premier, and the skit about George Soros owning the Democratic Party come to mind.
But SNL has always been brutal against the right. From constantly making fun of Nixon, writing letters to congress to repeal the 22nd Amendment, to Ford constantly falling and hurting himself, to Reagan being senile, and Tina Fey’s brutal renditions of Sarah Palin.
So either enjoy the funny moments and grow a thick skin (or FF through the unfunny bits as I do) or don’t watch at all.
Either way, it is my prediction that SNL won’t die until Lorne Michaels does.
SNL has been coasting for a loooong time - they stopped being funny and now there’s just the faded memories of when they were hilarious...
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