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post #16 of 214
3/10/08 at 6:16am
I have not watched SNL in perhaps ten years, but I watched it pretty often in the 80s and some in the 90s. They never had more than half an hour of good material. The opening sketch and then a few others to get to the fake news at the top of the hour---maybe all that would be funny. The rest of the show would be crap, and the actors often looked like they knew it. I guess that a majority of SNL fans turned off the show after the fake news sketch. One hour of crap to half hour of decent material would make SNL 66% not funny even in some of the better periods of its run
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post #17 of 214
3/10/08 at 7:17am
I haven't watched SNL since the original cast in the '70s. A lot of the material depended less on humor than on simply being so bizarre it made you say "WTF??" I don't recall very much of it falling flat, but they didn't try to keep you in the throes of hilarity non-stop. There was a rhythm to it that worked.

No idea what's become of the show now. Television programs have their useful lives, and SNL has probably outlived its.
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post #18 of 214
3/10/08 at 8:52am
I think SNL is dumb. I barely laugh when I view it. I think Mad tv is a lot funnier.
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post #19 of 214
3/10/08 at 9:14am
MAD TV Rules.

I so miss SCTV... John Candy, Martin Short, Eugene Levy...
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post #20 of 214
3/10/08 at 7:37pm
Possibly the best thing to come out of SNL, at least in the last decade or so (kinda NSFW):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...54703871874098
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post #21 of 214
3/10/08 at 7:45pm
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Originally Posted by j View Post
Possibly the best thing to come out of SNL, at least in the last decade or so (kinda NSFW):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...54703871874098

Dick in a box was by far the funniest SNL skit/digital short I've ever seen in my life. I was laughing all the way through the commercials and into the next set of skits after it showed.
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post #22 of 214
3/10/08 at 7:51pm
SNL has always had its ups and downs, but it seems all down for the last several years. If I had it TiVo'ed, I'd just forward through the newscast with Tina Fey. After the first two years, we fully understood your hatred of Dubya, Tina. Be funny, it's what you were supposedly paid for, not an ongoing political rant.

IMO, even some of the classic stuff was more funny in theory that it was in practice. Like unfrozen caveman lawyer, or Cedric the Barber. Some of the funniest shit ever was pure crap but it was just hilarious. The skit with Chris Farley and Patrick Swayze for instance. Stupid as hell but also funny as hell.

IMO, SNL has always been a mixed bag at best. Hollywood would do well to stop endlessly trying to turn an SNL skit into a movie also. The only one that ever had some boxoffice play I can think of is Wayne and Garth. Everything else was pure flop. Flop so crap-tastic that it deserves to be honored in the Crap Hall of Fame, like Night At The Roxberry.
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post #23 of 214
3/10/08 at 8:05pm
Don't forget the Blues Brothers, one of the best comedies ever.
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post #24 of 214
3/10/08 at 8:09pm
I thought the Natalie Portman rap was pretty funny.

When I was in Harvard
I smoked weed every day
I cheated every test
and snorted all the yay
I gotta a def posse
and you gotta buncha dudes
I sit down on your face and take a s**t

And, Justin Timberlake is not funny (to me).
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post #25 of 214
3/11/08 at 1:53am
Tina Fey is NOT funny and should be fired as the show's main writing director. It's all gone downhill since she started running things. Side note: Her show 30 Rock is awful too! Tina Fey for President!!! lol
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post #26 of 214
3/11/08 at 2:21am
You'll be glad to hear Tina Fey is no longer the head writer, and her only connection with the show, this season, was returning as guest host.

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post #27 of 214
3/11/08 at 3:27am
All SNL "eras" had very good and very bad moments, imo. Even Belushi had very bad moments. And its hard to compare what you see these days, and compare it to a say, the Chris Farley Chippendales skit (which is great imo) and generalize that the Chris Farley years were awesome and the present SNL sucks.
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post #28 of 214
3/11/08 at 6:57am
I thought justin's two shows were pretty funny, and Scarlett Johanson had some really funny bits that made me lol when she was on. I'm so glad that Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz are gone-they were the worst ones, imo. Back when they had Cheri Oteri, Molly , and Anna Gastier (sp?)were some of the best yrs. for me. Also the Dan Hartmen yrs and of course Chris Farley, HATED David Spade though.
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post #29 of 214
3/11/08 at 10:04am
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Originally Posted by Action Jackson View Post
Tina Fey is NOT funny and should be fired as the show's main writing director. It's all gone downhill since she started running things.

Side note: Her show 30 Rock is awful too!

Tina Fey for President!!! lol

I just started watching 30 Rock and it is hilarious.

Baldwin is amazing in it.
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post #30 of 214
3/11/08 at 10:36am
I think SNL has pretty much been not-too-funny the entire time since I started watching it, with a few gems (if one's lucky) that liven up the rest of a show that at best is sort of boring.

Highlights to me were:
Dennis Miller's Weekend Update, as well as Tina Fey on weekend update (heck, even Colin Quinn)
The Ambiguously Gay Duo
The X-Presidents
Dana Carvey as GHWB and Darrell Hammond as Bill CLinton (particularly the "Clinton in a toga" Ten Commandments sketch during the Lewinsky scandal)
Celebrity Jeopardy
Anything Walken, especially his musical numbers (he made his Broadway debut opposite Liza Minnelli, pace Connestoga)
The Lady's Man
Middle-Aged Man
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
The Schmitt's Gay beer commercial parody
Happy Fun Ball
The McLaughlin Group
John Goodman as Linda Tripp
Sprockets
The Dark Side with Nat X
Jerry Seinfeld as the Prophet Elijah
Alec Baldwin as Canteen Boy's scoutmaster and on "The Delicious Dish"
Donatella Versace

Granted, I haven't watched it regularly, but that's not all that much in the way of non-suckage for SNL since I began watching it in high school.
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