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I only remember the episode where he got gout. He just looks like Bobby Hill and has that 13 yr old 'edginess'.

That gout episode really resonated with me and one friend. We refer to it semi-annually.

Bobby has a heart of gold

that Kristin Stewart Totinos commercial was really great but idk how long ago that was

last SNL sketch that actually made me laugh, anyway

omg just watched that and it's fantastic

Please for the love of god - if you hate SNL and think they haven't had a funny sketch in years (but also haven't watched in years!), just stay out of this thread! I'm not going to pretend that they are always funny, but I almost always find a couple of good laughs in every episode. And go back to whatever you think are the "golden" years and try to watch a whole episode. I'm guessing the batting average has always been pretty similar (low, but not zero). For a live weekly show, that's good enough for me and my quickskip button.

Man do i ever hate snl. They haven’t had a funny sketch in years!

At least I think that’s the case, i haven’t seen an episode since 89

yes that was the Betty White one. It had one funny sketch with her and Tina Fey, and the rest was "lol Grandma has sex"

I saw ONE Driver sketch, Yerac. Love has its limits.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, September 13, 2019 11:14 AM (three hours ago)

this is a lot more recent than i thought this was going to be. was thinking it would be kevin nealon era or something

i mean it's almost a decade but still

it was in a bar

liked the show best in '75-80, will post things from that era as necessary

u know when it actually mattered

putting in the long hard hours of watching this show totally earns you slagging rights itt

xp. nothing matters

especially not comedy

I watch snl kind of like I check in with the Knicks or follow politics, out of conditioning and masochistically

Pryor and Tomlin mattered in the '70s, jiv

(both hosted)

Trump matters in the 'teens, and he hosted, so by that logic you should be watching now

we were talking comedy, not Lorne whoremastering for the worst politicians

he gets a live stand-up special broadcast p much every week

will take Rich and Lily thx

using as your evidence of importance people who hosted is weak, morbs. must try harder

gilda i'd give you

have you seen the Pryor episode? he dominates it quite thoroughly

On the one hand, the anti SNL hysteria can be pretty overblown, but on the other hand I do think it's become much worse the last two years, since Michael Che and Colin Jost became co-head writers.

the season before this last one was pretty strong from what I remember. this past year was not as strong. I still find weekend update the only reliably worthwhile segment.

I liked leslie jones and I like pete davidson.

these new cast members look instantly forgettable and fireable. show hasn't really had a breakout person since McKinnon came on.

I watch every damn episode for some reason

this past season was about as bad a season as they've had

that one Adam Driver sketch where he was the vengeful ancient oilman talking to a junior high class was great

I still don’t know what Pete Davidson actually does on this show.

keeps snl ("snl star pete davidson") in the tabloids

I think I've seen every season described as the worst season in recent memory

I haven't watched regularly since..uh..well, before Bobby Moynahan joined the cast

This thread started 17 years ago bitching about how snl was bad.

Two minutes into the first episode, there were people saying that the previous minute was better.

"SNL used to be good in [insert your prefeered era] and now it sucks" is like the most boring and predictable thing to say about SNL.

I'm going back to the Simpsons thread

Oh, you mean that Tracey Ullman Show spin off?

obv the show has had ups and lots of downs through its lifetime but it does seem like the Jost-era has been the longest uninterrupted shitty stretch(?)

it has always felt like the casting is the problem--jesus, the people they've passed on.

"SNL used to be good in [insert your prefeered era] and now it sucks" is like the most boring and predictable thing to say about SNL.

― Ramen? No thanks, I prefer them cooked (Ye Mad Puffin), 16. september 2019 15:32 (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Nah, honestly this is the most boring and predictable thing to say about SNL.

lol

confession: I thought SNL was really insufferable during the Tina Fey-as-Sarah Palin years

SNL must not hire Rajat pic.twitter.com/cvHlVl59Bu

— JEREMY (@jeremylevick) September 13, 2019

Herman Woke (cryptosicko) at 11:27 13 Sep 19

I still don’t know what Pete Davidson actually does on this show.


he does a lot of bit stuff where they need a "teenager" or pizza delivery guy or shit like that in a sketch

show hasn't really had a breakout person since McKinnon came on.

Feel like if Heidi Gardner keeps it up, she'll be the next breakout. She's pretty much the only reason I kept watching this past season.

contra the above point that every era of the show has a similar hit/miss ratio, i've gotten to the franken/davis years after lorne's comeback in my rewatch, and i am actually really enjoying it. there's the expected and unfortunate amounts of misogyny and homophobia, but it hasn't become as pseudo-'transgressive' as the mid-to-late-'90s, and it seems way more 'writerly'(?), thinking of stuff like the hartman/lovitz 'permission to speak freely' sketch, or matthew modine portraying 'the liberal' as a hero on the run in the vein of the era's lightly-serialized action shows. even the game show parodies are a bit more conceptual.

the h.w. bush stuff does seem like a shift to how the show will deal with powerful political figures going forward, just exaggerate one or two traits and lean on them in a kind of gentle caricature, but mostly the political stuff is way less toothless than now. or maybe i just really love dennis miller's hair.

The two sketches that I liked a lot from last season, off the top of my head, were Sandler's Romano Tours and the Don Cheadle bar fight.

RE: Gillis - not entirely sure why anyone would want to defend or hang on to a guy who voluntarily opted multiple times to release a bunch of racist jokes and speeches onto the internet for self-promotion? This seems cut and dried to me and it's fucking weird that apparently it's not. This isn't cancel culture, it's just the realpolitik of you can say anything you want but then you have to take responsibility for saying it and, in this case, maybe don't give one of the fifteen most sought after writing/acting gigs on the planet to someone who has engaged in this behavior within the past five year?

was the donald glover oran "juice" jones sketch last season or the year before?

it's also fun to chart the popularity of like hans and franz, from the 10-to-1 sketch on the '87 premiere to the cold open in '88, and imagine the legions of people enamored of this arnold parody, walking around the office threatening to 'pump you up!' and stuff.

Glover was the season before last. And that was such a wonderfully batshit sketch.

xp

He's out:

Shane Gillis is OUT at SNL. Per NBC: pic.twitter.com/NJJpLGABPp

— Andrew Chow (@andrewrchow) September 16, 2019

not american so don't watch SNL but his "apology" was the absolute worst and I hope he loses his next few jobs too

Romano Tours was great

Counting down the time for Shane Gillis to get hired as the new White House Press Secretary.

— Robert Ham (@roberthamwriter) September 16, 2019