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SNL - Why is This Still On?

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#1 ·
I just watched last night's show.
It just seems to get worse and worse with every week now.
The only thing that's remotely funny is Weekend Update. The rest is just painful to even watch.

90 minute show
minus 15 minutes Weekend Update
minus 10 minutes music
minus 15 minutes of commercials

That leaves 50 minutes or so of actual content for which they have to write.
They have an entire week to develop the stuff, and it still sucks horribly. It's like they are trying to be as bad as possible.

Compare something like "The Daily Show" wherein the writers crank out 15-20 minutes of actual comedy four days a week, and you have to wonder what the SNL folks are doing all day? :nono2:

If they need a new home for Conan, then give him the SNL slot and let him throw together something worth watching for a change.
 
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#27 ·
Greg Alsobrook said:
The only funny SNLs I've seen in the past few years are the ones with Justin Timberlake hosting.

As far as NBC goes, my wife and I enjoy many shows on that network. The Office, Community, Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, etc. Just hope none of them get canceled prematurely like Studio 60 did. :(
Wife and I were huge fans of both Studio 60 and Life. I wish TNT or USA had picked either one up.
 
#30 ·
Isn't the running joke that the headline "Saturday Night Dead" has been around almost as long as Saturday Night Live? With shows like The Daily Show, I do wish they were political in a less middle of the road fashion. But first and foremost the show is about sketch comedy and every generation seems to think the cast they grew up with was the best, so it's probably hasn't been much better or worse for most of it run than it is now.
 
#31 ·
QuickDrop said:
Isn't the running joke that the headline "Saturday Night Dead" has been around almost as long as Saturday Night Live? With shows like The Daily Show, I do wish they were political in a less middle of the road fashion. But first and foremost the show is about sketch comedy and every generation seems to think the cast they grew up with was the best, so it's probably hasn't been much better or worse for most of it run than it is now.
Yeah after watching it on and off for about 25 years now or so the truth of the matter is I don't think it was ever consistently great. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's terrible but most the time it's just so-so. And this can and often does vary over the course of a single show and always has as far as I can tell. Anyone that tells you that it used to hilarious all the time and now it sucks all the time has a very selective memory! Yeah all those "best of shows" that show the best skits from years past conveniently leave out the 95% of the skits not good enough to make the best of and lead to people not remembering how many average and bad skits there were in years past as well!
 
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