September 21, 200818 yr I've been watching SNL since it first aired over 30 years ago, and these past 2 seasons are as bad as it gets. Ugh..... Never thought I'd say this but I sure miss Tim Kazurinski
September 21, 200818 yr I've been watching SNL since it first aired over 30 years ago, and these past 2 seasons are as bad as it gets. Ugh..... Never thought I'd say this but I sure miss Tim Kazurinski "My name is Niederman ... I'm an oral surgeon." I haven't bothered with watching SNL regularly since I turned 16. I figure nowadays the replay shows can trim the fat for me so I only see the decent skits.
September 21, 200818 yr Author Somebody watch the last 30 minutes for me and let me know if it got any better ok? It's bedtime.
September 21, 200818 yr It's funny cause SNL has gone through this before, there was a downslide after the original cast left and then you had that late 80's cast come in, Victoria Jackson, Dennis Miller, John Lovitz and it was good for a few years. Then those people left and you had the early years of Sandler, Spade and Farley, it was hit or miss at times before becoming halfway decent. Then those guys left and it went through another slide before we got Parnell, Fallon, Ferrell, etc. They are obviously in another cycle of "crapness" :lol: We shall see if they can come out of it, I haven't watched it in a long time. ***Yes, I'm aware I left out a bunch of cast members that were probably far better than the ones I mentioned, I was just thinking off the top of my head the actors that came out around that time. :thumb:
September 21, 200818 yr SNL has been awful for a few years IMO. Not as bad as it was tonight. I looked at my wife and asked "is this stuff supposed to be funny?"
September 21, 200818 yr Well the first problem is that they apparently think Franco can either play someone who is high, or amnesiac and thus seeming high. But yeah, it's like they don't even recognize that this stuff isn't funny. You would think that someone would see the sketch during rehearsal and realize how totally unfunny it is.
September 21, 200818 yr Not as bad as it was tonight. I looked at my wife and asked "is this stuff supposed to be funny?" It's been really bad for a while. I have not laughed during an SNL skit since Will Ferrell left.
September 21, 200818 yr SNL has been horrid for YEARS. Anytime you have Horatio Sanz on a show, its going to be bad. MadTV is a much better product than SNL.
September 21, 200818 yr I haven't bothered watching SNL since the Farley, Sandler days, I've tuned in a few times since then but it wasn't worth my time. I listen to Howard Stern daily, and he had Chevy Chase on this week, a very good interview. Chevy said that the cast of SNL have a totally different philosphy these days. When he was on the cast, he would right his own stuff, but if he thought it would suit another cast member better, he would give them the scirpt. He said today's cast is much more cut throat, just like all of society, it's a "me" thing.
September 21, 200818 yr Well the first problem is that they apparently think Franco can either play someone who is high, or amnesiac and thus seeming high. But yeah, it's like they don't even recognize that this stuff isn't funny. You would think that someone would see the sketch during rehearsal and realize how totally unfunny it is. They probably do, it's just that the writing's so weak they don't have anything better to work with. Sort of a "If you think this is bad, you should see the stuff we left out!" situation.
September 21, 200818 yr What's amazing is that period of crapiness in between Murphy/Crystal and the Carvey/Lovitz/Hartman years featured a cast of Damon Wayans, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Anthony Micheal Hall, Joan Cusack, and Jim Belushi and it still wasn't funny.
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