Saturday Night Live is hilarious!

[UrbScotty]

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. used to be

but not these days.

[Whitacre D_WI]

2. I voted "true," BUT...

...only for the love of Tina Fey.

[Fenris]

4. ...y Horatio Sanz.

Mucho hilario!

[apnu]

3. Monty Python re-runs destroy SNL!

[THUNDER HANDS]

5. it was horrible this week

Donald Trump was just about the worst guest I've ever seen.

[Debi]

8. Hold on...

Seeing Trump dancing to "Trump....Trump in" with the chickens, in the polyester suit...THAT was funny.

[2bfree]

14. That was terrible!

I did laugh when Trump danced with the chickens but that was the highlight. You know the host can't act for beans when they only play themselves. I can't stand Trump to begin with but he really sucked on the show.

[Bog Frog]

6. SNL was fantastic with

The Not Ready For Primetime Players

Dan Aykroyd
John Belushi
Chevy Chase
Jane Curtin
Laraine Newman
Garret Morris
Gilda Radner

who am I missing?

All other casts suck in comparison.

[2bfree]

18. Bill Murray

I know he isn't one of the originals but I always think of him with that group. He was great! How I miss those old shows.

[Az]

7. I hate to say it

But I blame Al Franken for the death of SNL. Al may be the bees knees in political commentary. He may be a great visionary in liberal media. But I am sad to say that he is the champion of the One Joke Sketch. SNL under his writing would beat a joke to death until the audience wept (not with laughter). Sorry, if its not funny the first time, repeating it will not make it funnier.

I would be happy to find out it was not Al's head writing that brought the one joke sketch to SNL. But that is my current understanding of it. Please, someone prove me wrong.

[THUNDER HANDS]

17. wasn't Al the writer on the first couple of seasons?

Then got shifted to on-camera later on?

I'm sure he must have done plenty of funny stuff for SNL.

I'd say as a writer, he absolutely blows Tina Fey away.

[Dogmudgeon]

9. And all music has sucked since Buddy Holly died

Yeah, right.

You don't want to be accused of liking something unhip, do you?

--bkl

[Az]

11. Wouldn't mind liking unhip stuff at all

Heck, if I can dig Shojo then I can handle unhip. SNL just isn't funny. Its painful. We actually forced ourselves to watch it when Jackie Chan was on and we felt compelled to write Jackie an apollogy and let him know that not everything in America was as stupid as SNL.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

10. currently at it's all-time worst

the writing is just toilet humore aimed at teens, as is the musical guests. snl used to go more for the 25-35 crowd and was capable of insightful political satire

and fallon and sans busting up laughing in every sketch they're in is getting really, really old

the show's had its peaks and valleys, but even its lowest moments (the randy quaid season, the disasterous 1994-95 season) were better than the hackjob currently gracing nbc's airwaves

[KissMyAsscroft]

12. Wil Ferrel and Cheri Oteri and Molly Shannon were great...

They all left at around the same time and it kind of pulled the rug from under them.

They need to write what they know what is funny and stop trying to act like MadTV because they are afraid that the kids won't get it.

The fact is, if you dumb it down to sell to the kids and you're heart isn't in it it will fail anyway.

That's the problem, trying to sell it to the dumb teenage girls.

[Cursive_Knives512]

19. I think you meant...

Dumb teenage boys and girls. Right? ;)

[terrya]

13. I can't stand Jimmy Fallon.

I refuse to watch SNL as long as he's a regular.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

16. update would be better of w/o him

tina's great, but jimy can hardly read a joke before breaking out in self-congratulatory snickering at his own lines

and his impressions suck. when he does an impression of adam sandler doing a bit, it's not clever, it's a rip-off

basically, fallon is just that annoying guy we all knew in high school who went around doing other people's routines and acting as if they were his own. if i wanted a GQ version of adam sandler, i would have asked for it

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. Had to vote false. Hasn't been in more than a decade.

:(

[rucky]

20. Shit Sandwich

n/t