Saturday Night Live...pathetic

[skipsfcr]

Is it just a generational thing or do most of you fing SNL highly UNFUNNY and basically pathetic? The musical guests suck ass too imo.

[M3M3]

it stopped being funny sometime in the late 80's......

i miss the "bass-o-matic"!

[RIMSPOKE]

I LOVED IT WHEN I WAS YOUNG .

I TUNED IN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO .

I COULDN'T BELIEVE HOW BAD IT HAS BECOME .

AT LEAST WITH MAD TV THEY FIGURED OUT WHEN IT WAS TIME TO QUIT .

[Otis]

i miss the "bass-o-matic"!

The only thing that might possibly top Bass-o-Matic, was Samurai Deli.

http://www.livevideo.com/video/C1CCA30E64884815B7783DB6110AAB73/snl-samurai-deli.aspx

In fact, Samurai Futaba is sponsored by BMW.

[yert315]

They are catering to the people and culture of today. I find the show rather funny. Then again I'm from a younger generation than most of you guys. Im sure in another 20 years (if it's still on) I will find it quite dull.

[KFunk]

I'm 29, and somewhat up on what the kids are into.... and the show is lame. I really enjoyed it back in the 80s and 90s, with Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Kevin Nealon, David Spade, and so on... Nowadays, it's just depressing when I turn it on and I see them struggle with a weak joke. the 'What's up with That?' thing is just painfully dumb. It's like they're going for subtle introspective humor all the time, but you can't do that with a late-night comedy show in front of a live audience with rapidly changing weird skits. It's supposed to be action-filled entertainment, not The Office (which is great at what it does).

About the only thing decent on SNL lately has been the SNL Digital Short Music videos and such from Lonely Planet. They're hilarious well-produced clips, but they're not a live stage show like the original SNL.

Sandler, Spade, Schneider, and most of the other former SNL folks have been making really lame comedies on their own for quite some time by repeating the same damn jokes and style they used on SNL before, so that really takes away from how funny it was when it was originally on SNL. At the time, it was cutting edge humor. I'm sure the same can be said for the old crew with Eddie Murphy and Dana Carvey and Steve Martin, but I'm too young to remember their shows very well. IF we looked at them now, it would look too dated to be as humorous as it once was...

Anyways, I concur that the current SNL mostly sucks, other than the digital shorts.

[robspeed]

the freakshow that is Sarah Palin saved it for me, for a while anyway. Tina Fey's satiric mocking was hilarious and Amy Poehler's rap sendup still kills me. Poor stupid Sarah didn't seem to understand the joke was on her. I cant find a clip on youtube without Fox news idiots introducing it but hopefully you know what im talking about...

I hope to GOD that Palin runs in 012, and Fey returns to SNL for the ensuing laffs.

[Otis]

Sandler

Canteen Boy. Disturbing, wrong, funny ... classic.

Can't beat the greaty Christopher Walken, however - Cow Bell.

http://www.funnyhub.com/videos/pages/snl-more-cowbell.html

[TonyHavana]

I've worked with Tom Schiller several times in the last few years.

He was a writer and featured performer with SNL for 11 years

He is one of the funniest and nicest people I have ever met.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Schiller