The season opener of Saturday Night Live marked the 40th season of the show and it looked every bit as tired and lifeless as 40 years at something would indicate. It was so dreadful with jokes that weren't, skits that were pointless, inept performers that couldn't quite get things right. Pratt did as well under the conditions as one could expect and Cecily Strong did a good bit as The Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With at a Party and a bit about Marvel spin off movies was strong...but that was IT! The show was inexplicably DOA. Period.
MadTV was actually really funny for a few years. They had the best Sopranos skit ever and its still one of my all time favority skits. SNL had a few good ones back in the mid 2000s with the Bush debates and the skits they did on CSPAN with stuff like the auto bailouts which were hilarious but yeah....outside of those and the Jeopardy skits I can't think of any in recent years that I enjoyed. The blind governor of New Jersey (forgot his name) they got some flack for it but it was funny.
SNL has not been funny since the writers and main cast got off drugs. Witness Chevy Chase since he cleaned up. Not Funny ! Maybe it is up to us, to do our part, and send DRUGS to SNL staff. Remember to address those mystery cigarettes and white powders to SNL c/o NBC 30 Rockefeller Plaza N.Y., N.Y. Moi Lorne Michaels has gotten soft. r > g No
I saw the marvel clip on You Tube or someplace and that was kind of funny, but I missed the show. Too sleepy to stay up.
Haven't watched since I was in HS, and even then I was getting turned off. Farrell was great but Fallon just (and still does) annoy the ever loving (*)(*)(*)(*) out of me.
SNL should have been put to rest some time ago. IMO of course. I've occasionally tuned it in over the last few years and found it to be amateurish, overly crass and overly obvious. It served a purpose at one time...it misses the mark too often now.
Yeah, later SNL and later MadTV alike haven't really done it for me, but both were likewise entertaining early on with a good, solid cast and writing. It would be nice to see a new show with genuinely funny people come along, though these days it's more likely to happen online, say on YouTube, than on a TV network.....
I haven't watched since the first 5 years. It was absolute classic back then, with the Claudine Longet Invitational being the most classic of the classics. Due to an immediate cease and desist, the Claudine Longet Invitational was disappeared, but the transcript is still out there: http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75rski.phtml There are just too many good lines from the first 5 years. "Jane, you ignorant slut," is priceless.
Fallon is where I stopped watching. Aside from the Cowbell sketch, the guy was a poison to the show. He couldn't do a single sketch without laughing and breaking character. His songs were worse than Sandler's worst attempts at songs. His acting was atrocious in everything but a background character. And now the guy is running the Tonight Show. What a joke.
The first generation was great, but the show was at its peak, in my opinion, when Chris Farley, David Spade, Adam Sandler, Norm McDonald, Jon Lovitz, and Phil Hartman were all on the show.
I know eh? A lot of the stuff on his show is cool, ( the roots especially) but I can't stand him at all. Glad to know I'm not alone I think they were neck and neck. I miss Phil Hartman
SNL goes through phases; some years they have great writers; other years not so great writers; just like some years they have great comedians and other years they don't. They've got staying power and will bounce back down the road. I didn't see the new season show, but am curious how the replacement announcer for the late Don Pardo did.
