The SNL Thread.......

#152
#152
TheDeeble said:
Sudeikas is no big loss imo if he leaves.

My problem with SNL hasn't been the actors so much as the writing. It's been mostly garbage for almost 10 years now to me. Too much political stuff. Especially during the Bush terms. It just got old. Same now.
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As the guy who plays one of the candidates in the upcoming election this fall it seems an odd time for him to leave. He'd probably go into next season knowing he would be getting A LOT of screen time.
 
#153
#153
Slydell said:
Sad day for SNL fans was more like 30 years ago.
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Bite your tongue sir!

In the late 80s, the show went through a major overhaul that started the process of landing this awesome cast.

1990 SNL

Cast roster

Repertory Cast Members
Dana Carvey
Phil Hartman
Jan Hooks
Victoria Jackson
Dennis Miller
Mike Myers
Kevin Nealon

Featured Cast Members
A. Whitney Brown (last episode: March 16, 1991)
Chris Farley
Al Franken
Tim Meadows (first episode: February 9, 1991)
Chris Rock
Adam Sandler (first episode: January 12, 1991)
Rob Schneider (first episode: October 27, 1990)
David Spade (first episode: November 10, 1990)
Julia Sweeney (first episode: November 10, 1990)

I know that Schneider isn't funny anymore, the same case can be made for Sandler, but in their SNL days they were hilarious.

Late 80s-Early 90s SNL is just as good, if not better, than the early years of SNL.
 
#154
#154
And I'll agree that between the original cast years and the late 80s early 90s hey day it's been extremely hit or miss.

The early 00s, I wasn't a big fan of SNL at all. Lately I've started watching again.
 
#155
#155
bleedorange0037 said:
It's just a generational thing. Nearly everyone thinks SNL was at it's best during the time that they were in their late teens and into their 20's.
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So true. I will say that there have been periods where the show struggled to regain it's footing after a mass exodus, but it always comes back.

Plus, during the 70s and 80s, there really wasn't anything else remotely like it on TV, so it looked a lot edgier by comparison.
 
#156
#156
GAVol said:
So true. I will say that there have been periods where the show struggled to regain it's footing after a mass exodus, but it always comes back.

Plus, during the 70s and 80s, there really wasn't anything else remotely like it on TV, so it looked a lot edgier by comparison.
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I think since most of the cast is typically in their 20's or early 30's that's why younger people tend to connect with the humor better. Once you get to the point where the majority of the cast is younger than you are, it's like you've basically outgrown the show and won't appreciate the humor nearly as much.
 
#157
#157
I watch SNL maybe twice a year, but Wiig was funny as crap, and I often caught her buzzworthy sketches. Definitely one of the better female cast members, all-time.
 
#159
#159
She's good, but she gets put in some of the most annoying skits. Gilly, forehead baby arm skit, even the one where she plays a Broadway actress on the secret word game show. I recognize that one's annoying, but I still find it funny.
 
#160
#160
I get a kick out of forehead/baby arms.

Secret word sketch isn't anything special to me. Gilly is flat out awful. Whoever approved that sketch needs to be removed.

Anyone else thinks Keenan Thompson sucks?
 
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#161
#161
I really like the "What's up with that?" skit Keenan did, albeit mostly for reasons other than him. Also, the parody of the Tiger Woods post-scandal commercial was comedic gold.
 
#162
#162
Kenan is okay. I hate What's up with that.... it was funny once. Like most SNL skits. I hate 75% of the recurring skits, but 50% of them were funny the first time. Someone else crunch the numbers and issue me a report on the implications of those percentages.
 
#167
#167
Pepe_Silvia said:
Fallon was terrible, IMO.
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I enjoyed him. A lot of people always knocked him because he would break character so often in the sketches, but I always found it kind of funny. It just seemed like he was up there having a good time, even if it wasn't the most professional.
 
#168
#168
bleedorange0037 said:
I enjoyed him. A lot of people always knocked him because he would break character so often in the sketches, but I always found it kind of funny. It just seemed like he was up there having a good time, even if it wasn't the most professional.
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It wasn't his breaking character that I disliked. I just never found him to be very funny.
 
#171
#171
Here's a great digital short featuring the three departing cast members.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGOjJUhgcNk&feature=fvwrel[/YOUTUBE]
 
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#173
#173
SNL, the one show where nobody likes when you are on the show but you are a legend after you leave.
 
#174
#174
Saw the new one on Hulu earlier today...

- Love or hate Seth Macfarlane, he did pretty well. His Ryan Lochte on Weekend Update was pretty funny.

- The show sorely misses Kristen Wiig already. She has really been the only recent cast member who is funny almost every time she was on the screen. I don't see anybody right now who can fill that void.

- I think the one thing the show has always been able to do well is presidential impersonations, but Fred Armisen as Obama was just terrible. He handed it off to Jay Pharoah who still could work on it a bit but is light years better; the smugness is uncanny.

- Best skit of the night was about a puppeteering class with Bill Hader as a disturbed, grizzled veteran of Grenada, whose puppet was also a disturbed, grizzled veteran of Grenada. Hader's not cut out for everything, but there are some bits where he can be side-splitting. This was one.

- Promising sign on the writing: None of the skits seemed to drag on too long, which over the last few years has been far and away the biggest problem with the show. One bit at the end had Macfarlane playing an Amish guy trying to figure out how to advertise a website. It got a few laughs and clocked in at under sixty seconds.
 
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