Saturday Night Live 40Th Anniversary

I'm not watching it.

Doesn't matter that I haven't had t.v. in years.

 

I watched some of it. Some of it was hilarious but most of it was just ok or not funny at all. That's pretty much how I've always viewed SNL. It struck me as mostly just a bunch of celebrities patting each other on the back. What else would it be though?

 

some of them aged well...others not so much

 

I watch almost no network tv these days.

My impression is that SNL went to shit a long time ago, just not funny.

 

I gave my TV to the Salvation Army ages ago. But no matter. I'd sooner go to the dentist and have a tooth pulled, instead of suffering Saturday Night Live's 40th Anniversary gladly. I loved the show during the early 1970s when Laraine Newman, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris and Chevy Chase were on the cutting edge of comedy big time.

But after Belushi and Radner passed away, the show was no longer any fun (or even funny) to watch. I gave up after that. The only time I'd watch the show was when there was a really cool musical guest I wanted to listen to/watch. As far as cutting edge comedy, there wasn't much to be had. The show should have been cancelled 30 years ago (IMO).

 

Steven Seagal and Charles Bronson were on Grit all day. Ive not changed the channel since the Brady Bunch was over at noon.

 

it was a great show....a reunion ....well done....except Kanye....him I can do without

 

I don't think the show was intended to offer anything to people who aren't (or never have been) SNL fans.

I loved seeing performers from different generations interact in the live skits; combinations that nobody thought we would ever see together. I had seen a lot of the old classic clips before.

A couple weeks ago, VH1 Classic rolled an hour and a half clips show from the first five years. I really loved that, because I had heard so much about the original cast, especially John Belushi, and had seen very little of his work other than the Blues Brothers movies. My parents didn't let me stay up that late in 1975.

I'm not throwing any stones at later season casts, because the list reads like a "who's who" in comedy today. Some of the top comedy names in the future are probably young cast members that hardly anybody knows yet. Kate McKinnon immediately comes to mind.

He sounded like he had a cold.

 

Even though a lot of my favorite comedians were on there, they left in the early 90's and went to hell. Now I can't stand to watch any of it 'if' I'm around a TV to watch.
Over the years, IMO it has become as funny as cancer! No talent ass clowns!

 

Its sacrilegious to watch SNL on any other day but Saturday Night!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k80nW6AOhTs

 

Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake were fucking liars when they said, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" Will they go to hell for this?

Sometimes I record the show and watch it on Sunday. When they re-hash a skit that they've done ten thousand times, I like being able to skip over it.

Ever since Amy Poehler and Jimmy Fallon arrived, I think the average, overall quality of the cast has been the best it's been since the early years. Darrell Hammond was still there at the time. That's when I got hooked. Nobody thought anybody could fill Amy's shoes when she left, but Kristen Wiig did it, and nobody thought anybody could take Kristen's place, but Kate is doing it now. SNL has become such an institution that all the best young talents want to be there.

When I first moved away from home and was able to set my own schedule, there was no reason to watch SNL because it was going through its worst slump ever, after the death of Belushi. Lorne Michaels' return saved it from death, but I still didn't become a loyal viewer. I've never been a big fan of Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Martin Short, or David Spade. So many of their skits were just stupid. Couldn't sit through Wayne's World.

One weird thing about the show is the way it sometimes gets great talent but can't figure out how to use it. Nobody can find a classic SNL skit by Chris Rock or Julia Louis-Dreyfus, because they don't exist. They must be paying the writers better now.

And what's up with Eddie Murphy not doing a skit last night? It was the first time in 32 years he had been back in that studio, and he did nothing but ramble and smile!

 

He's had some great moments on the series "Community" in recent years, but I can see why they're ready to get rid of him. He's losing it. I doubt if he could have handled doing Weekend Update again. I wanted to hear him say one more time, "I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not."

To be fair, she's retired from the entertainment world. She probably didn't expect to ever be on TV again.