I knew SNL was lame, but

holy crap, its unwatchable! I DVR'd it so I could watch the Sara Palin bit, and it was all in all terrible! We fast forwarded through 95 percent of it! The commercial in between were more funny!

Im not talking about Palins little bit on the show, she was almost kinda funny. Im just pissed. I think the last funny thing the show did was the Debbie Downer bit when Lindsay Lohan was on the show.

Joey

I tend to agree. Most of the good cast is gone. The Palin stuf fis pretty OK, but that can't last forever.

SNL is like an album. Hopefully there is one or two songs that are good. They haven't been that great since the Will Farrell era.

I dunno, I thought the Mark Wahlberg skit was pretty good.

I liked Weekend Update when Colin Quinn was on the show. Sure, he was terrible at getting the lines to come out, but I think that's why he was funny.

I think at around season 25 we saw the best of the best on that show.

Nahhh, the original cast of John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman, Steve Martin and Garret Morris was the best.

Most of SNL has always sucked. They have the occasional flash of brilliance. As years pass, we forget the suck and remember the brilliance. The original cast did have some funny, but come on - Bee's and Coneheads? Really?

lately when i watch SNL, it seems as if my high school drama club got their own cable access show. i remember staying up late on saturdays when i was a kid to watch probably the next best cast of adam sandler, chris farley, kevin nealon, etc.

mike meyers, chris farley, david spade, dana carvey, norm mcdonald, etc. That was prolly one of the best cast for SNL. I loved watching those re-runs on Comedy Central. The Will Farrel cast was pretty awesome too. Lately it's just been a bunch of suck.

ProDarwin wrote: I dunno, I thought the Mark Wahlberg skit was pretty good.

Yeah, it was, and the bit with one of the Baldwins and Palin was funny, too, but the guy proposing to his wife? And the chick with the loud jacket? Terrible!

Joey

DirtyBird222 wrote: mike meyers, chris farley, david spade, dana carvey, norm mcdonald, etc. That was prolly one of the best cast for SNL. I loved watching those re-runs on Comedy Central. The Will Farrel cast was pretty awesome too. Lately it's just been a bunch of suck.

I think that was the cast that they "bought", isn't it? They went out and got already successful comedians to bring up the ratings, which worked, but also kind of goes against the shows original premise (not ready for prime time)

In fairness, it is live theatre. I've been to many of the shows and even the sucky ones on tv are fun to watch in the studio. A couple of super talents (including writers) and the show will be better again.

I don't get it, either. The performers are all stiff and appear to be staring at cue cards 98% of the time. The lines are delivered as mechanically as possible and the skits aren't funny. I need to back to the days of Chevy Chase and Dan Akryd to make sure it wasn't always this bad.

Seemed like half the last show was MacGruber, which has never been funny. Although the ping-pong ball did bring a chuckle.

Maybe I'm just an old fart, but the newer bunch just don't seem as funny as the earlier group. And I am gonna say (type) it out loud: Will Farrell stinks 99% of the time and the other 1% he's borrowed someone elses' material.

Jensenman wrote: Maybe I'm just an old fart, but the newer bunch just don't seem as funny as the earlier group. And I am gonna say (type) it out loud: Will Farrell stinks 99% of the time and the other 1% he's borrowed someone elses' material.

THANK YOU.

And Kid Rock sucks while were are talking about it.

Joey

Jensenman wrote: Maybe I'm just an old fart, but the newer bunch just don't seem as funny as the earlier group. And I am gonna say (type) it out loud: Will Farrell stinks 99% of the time and the other 1% he's borrowed someone elses' material.

I agree on all four points I kid, I kid!

Kid Rock sucks so bad it's not even funny. It's like he sat around and thought to himself "I can't wait for Warren Zevon to die so I can do terrible things to his song"

Tim Baxter wrote: Kid Rock sucks so bad it's not even funny. It's like he sat around and thought to himself "I can't wait for Warren Zevon to die so I can do terrible things to his song"

For some reason, that berkeleying song always gets played on Sunday nights when I go blues dancing. Whenever it does, half the people there groan and shake their fists.

When I got the chance to DJ last week, I busted out the original Warren Zevon song. First people groaned, then they paused, and finally started laughing, cheering, and dancing when they realized it was the real thing.

I berkeleying hate 99% of covers. The recent cover of "Folsom Prison Blues" is also irritating.

ncjay wrote: I don't get it, either. The performers are all stiff and appear to be staring at cue cards 98% of the time. The lines are delivered as mechanically as possible and the skits aren't funny. I need to back to the days of Chevy Chase and Dan Akryd to make sure it wasn't always this bad.

yea nowadays it seems like that. I love Curb Your enthusiasm because, the show has a main story line but most of the lines are improv, which is awesome and makes the show so great.

SNL peaked early and at a very specific point:

"Jane, you ignorant slut!"

Followed closely by Samurai Delicatessen and Super Bass-o-matic.

It has been downhill ever since.

Uh hem, that was the Super Bass O Matic 76

I thought 'Samurai Tailor' was pretty good, along with the Skylab crash 'Weekend Update' where Belushi wound up smashing a model of Skylab into a globe while Jane Curtin looks on.

Jensenman wrote: Nahhh, the original cast of John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman, Steve Martin and Garret Morris was the best.

bludroptop wrote: SNL peaked early and at a very specific point: "Jane, you ignorant slut!" Followed closely by Samurai Delicatessen and Super Bass-o-matic. It has been downhill ever since.

QFT.

The Wahlberg talks to animals bit was brilliant and apparently Wahlberg doesn't get it and has been making fun of the show for it.

"So you're a dog, huh? I like that."

Also, any discussion of SNL's great moments must include the Timberlake Junk in a Box song and Christopher Walken's Colonel Angus sketch.