As the review/essay and its citations argue, a big part of that is because every take has to be filtered through the perspective of an extremely rich, petty, fameo-loving man with multiple servants. Plenty of other humans are able to come up with funnier, deeper takes in a shorter timeframe.
As for non-news-based material, Bob Odenkirk argued in the '80s that writing every sketch in three days while sleep-deprived - then throwing away anything that didn't get approved first time - was a bad way of developing material, and proved it by rewriting and developing rejected sketches into an admired show with a better hitrate in the 1990s. Tim Robinson rarely got material onto SNL at all after being demoted from cast member to writer, but five years after that was able to use his rejected material in the most acclaimed sketch show of the last, oh, five years. For the last three years, John Mulaney's guest-hosted episodes of SNL have been widely noted as the best, and in each of those he has used his position to mount sketches that had been rejected during his five years on the show, five years earlier.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
Norm's monologue summarizes it pretty well. "See, they fired me because they said I wasn't funny. But now, this is the weird part, it's only a year and a half later, and now they ask me to host the show! So how did I go, in a year and a half, to not even being allowed in the building, to being so funny, that I'm now hosting the show? Then it occurred to me: I haven't gotten funnier, the show has gotten really bad! So yeah, I'm funny, compared to...well you know, you'll see later"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
xpost - it's almost as if Lorne's gut reactions to draft skits are uniformly terrible
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
ok folks lets get back on topic
pls stop the future i want to get off this ride pic.twitter.com/AO4XeMCGe1— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) May 8, 2021
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
well another thing is SNL skits last like 6-8 minutes, once the joke is revealed there's little for the characters to do but just yell at each other and start throwing shit. last time I watched a full episode there were a couple where I thought "did this end 2 minutes ago and they're just improvising to fill time?"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
there must be an snl thread
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
there is but fuck Elon Musk, we can discuss anything that sucks in here
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
michael o'donoghue would've told musk what's what!
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
i love elon musk erasure
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
always, don't wanna be with him
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
muskerasure love
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
who is Elon Musk
― Clay, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
I believe he's a wacky one-note Jon Lovitz character who quickly outwore his welcome, like Master Thespian
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
Loads of wasted hate on SNL that would be better used directed at Elon Musk.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 02:15 (two years ago) link
We have plenty of hate to dispense like Pez
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 02:21 (two years ago) link
Elon Musk......you look marvelous
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 02:52 (two years ago) link
*abandons failed autonomous-driving program*
"I HATE when I do that!"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 02:55 (two years ago) link
turns out the autopilot may not have been to blame in the recent crash. instead it seems like a terrifying design flaw that seems related to the fact that ... you can't open the rear doors when the car is one fire because they require power?
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/05/ntsb-finds-no-reason-to-suspect-autopilot-in-fatal-tesla-crash/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 03:25 (two years ago) link
As for why the driver was not found in his seat, one troubling possibility is that the front door was inoperable or obstructed and the driver died while trying to escape from the rear of the Model S. Unlike most cars, Tesla uses IP-based electronic door locks that fail if the car loses power (as it would have in this crash). Although the front door handles will continue to work in an emergency that cuts power to the car, under such conditions the rear doors of a Model S can only be opened using a plastic tab found in the rear footwell.
But it's ok the autopilot works
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link
yes, let's trap those in seats typically reserved for the most vulnerable passengers
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
gets lost in all the hubbub that teslas are poorly made cars
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
like tesla wanted huge dashboard screens but there was nothing that big available in automotive quality so they just used regular screens and now they break at an insane rate, tons of stuff like that thats the result of doing startup culture to a car company
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link
im sure ive said this before but a lot of its been papered over by the fact that teslas have always been expensive toys sold to rich people who own more than one car, but now theyre selling ~$30k cars that people need to drive every day
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 15:55 (two years ago) link
When I think about Tesla engineering I remember Chris Lattner left after just six months:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/20/15844280/tesla-autopilot-software-chris-lattner-ai-quit
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 16:19 (two years ago) link
“Turns out that Tesla isn't a good fit for me after all,” lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
Tesla reporting is a useful reminder that the technology press has no relationship with technologists.
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
yeah its pretty much just straight business or consumer reporting
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
elon is unstable
Tesla & Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/YSswJmVZhP— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 12, 2021
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
hahahahahaha omg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
haha
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link
🧐
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
lol he really is just joker mode and fucking with the world
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
hey good for them but uh I suspect there's a more uh...legal reason for this decision
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
lmao that one tweet wiped out like $10 billion in value
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
haa
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:27 (two years ago) link
maybe it was a big mistake to base an entire financial system on this man's ramblings
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link
maybe not, though!
And that alone is deeply amusing.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1OHVudWEAE7ddZ?format=png&name=4096x4096
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
buy the dip!
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
i think levine is right about what he's up to here
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-28/elon-musk-made-tesla-some-money-on-bitcoin
I think that, if you can reliably do that — if you are Elon Musk and you can make Bitcoin go up by tweeting about it — you almost have an obligation to do it? Perhaps a fiduciary obligation to your shareholders, but at least a sort of aesthetic obligation to comedy. If Bitcoin wants Musk to manipulate it, Musk really ought to manipulate it... Musk is in the nice position of being able to spend billions of dollars buying assets in liquid anonymous markets, and then make those assets go up just by tweeting about them. If you can do that, you should! If you can buy a thing secretly, announce “I own the thing,” reliably cause the thing’s price to go up a lot, and then — if you want — sell the thing secretly, then that’s a great business right there. Talk about clean energy; that’s a perpetual motion machine.
Musk is in the nice position of being able to spend billions of dollars buying assets in liquid anonymous markets, and then make those assets go up just by tweeting about them. If you can do that, you should! If you can buy a thing secretly, announce “I own the thing,” reliably cause the thing’s price to go up a lot, and then — if you want — sell the thing secretly, then that’s a great business right there. Talk about clean energy; that’s a perpetual motion machine.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:36 (two years ago) link
except that he seems to have opted out of the rinse and repeat cycle of it, tho you never know with old elon, also some ppl seems to think there may be be regulator issues at play but idk what those would be
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
theres also this theory
People make the faulty assumption that @elonmusk is not trying to blow up the system and there are too many absolutely fucking insane people and they are not allowing him to do it.— Mindful Capitalist (aka socialist) (@HappiestYogi) May 9, 2021
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
ethereum dudes are in heaven right now
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
Bitcoin Plunge Reveals Possible Vulnerabilities In Crazy Imaginary Internet Money https://t.co/Nrz4jFO0op pic.twitter.com/0oDDbL8VgQ— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 12, 2021
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:59 (two years ago) link
this pains me
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
we really should bring out the guillotines just to shut these guys up
We at https://t.co/VUydpLFzGh will continue to accept BTC/Eth/Doge because we know that replacing Gold as a store of value will help the environment https://t.co/bs7NvnJY8A and https://t.co/ELhbuLOBRV shrinking big bank and coin usage will benefit society and the environment https://t.co/zu08F0STEQ— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) May 12, 2021
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
love when all the crazed rich guys are competing to see who can be the most jokered
― Clay, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link
I think it's good to have a currency system fluctuates based on how good Saturday Night Live is
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link