1 I thought it was funny.

2

You know, if Obama would just come out, get on TV, and make some more speeches explaining what it is he wants to do, I think most people would change their minds.

Either that, or if they would just re-name all the things that people are against.  Then people wouldn't know they were against them.

3 It's okay. Let them think that. They can fuck that chicken right till November.

4 Our "intellectual elite" are soooooo smart.  If the economy stays the same, their about to get their "smarts" jammed up their collective "elite" asses in November.

5 The Sheets part made me laugh.

6

Yeah, I guess that Chris Christie is hot too right???

7 I don't even care because Jon Hamm plus Scott Brown accent and cute outfits . . . !!!! ... bunk!

8 Does this mean that Scott Brown is Mango's alter ego?

9 The American people just don't understand the sort of high-minded, 3d, 11 dimensional mind-chess policies we are laying out.  If only we had a messenger that could make them understand they need to do what their superiors tell them to do.

10 Romney's Healthcare plan MAHealth is very close to ObamaCare. And yes Garrand Fan the only educational group that still HEAVILY favors Obama according to Gallup are people with postgrad degrees @ 58% Those smart guys. Obama's approval rating is now 3% less than the percent that voted for him

11 It would've been MUCH edgier (and truthful) if Robert Byrd had fantasized about Scott Brown as a black woman. Kind of like that old racist in 'Monster's Ball'

12 I wish they'd bring back Garrett Morris to star in a Michelle Obama sketch.

13 "so so" is quite generous. Teh Won impression sucks, as well.  On purpose. 

14

SNL hasn't been funny since the original crew left a long time ago. At that time maybe 25% of their jokes were political and they were mostly just pratfalls making fun of Ford falling down.

Now, as of the last time I watched it, 75% was political and ALL left leaning crap. And the biggest sin of all....not funny.

15 No, Garrett Morris wasn't his name . . . wasn't it Michael Dorn?

16 The 'sketch' sucked BigTime; so did the program; so has SNL since about 1999

NONE of those turds is funny ( 'turds' can mean the case as well as the sketches; neither / none of the above is ever funny )

Name a funny SNL sketch since Sandler, et al left the show--except the Chinese government spokesman bit.  Everything else.......sucked; has sucked; will suck

17 I think that the more Dems are treated like jokes, the less support they're going to get for their policies.  So I'll take 'meh' SNL straight to the bank.

18 John Beluchi it ain't

19 15 No, Garrett Morris wasn't his name . . . wasn't it Michael Dorn?

Maybe they should just bring back Tracy Morgan.  He may have to thicken up his 'stache a bit though.

20 "cast", not 'case', if anyone cares or noticed.  The SNL cast has sucked for a decade.

Is there an award for that?

21 Name a funny SNL sketch since Sandler, et al left the show--except the Chinese government spokesman bit.  Everything else.......sucked; has sucked; will suck

Did you see the skit before the election with McCain on QVC?  It was good, but unhelpful for pretty much that reason.

22 Is there an award for that? Posted by: SantaRosaStan at February 01, 2010 02:16 PM (JrRME) Ya get to host the Tonight Show?

23 Did you notice that the Obama guy said he inherited 15% unemployment from Bush.  Clever little joke, too bad noone noticed his outright lie.

24

Scott Brown IS hot and has turned that to his benefit.  Sarah Palin is also hot, but SNL turned that against her (if you are a hot babe, you are of course a dummy.  Imagine if she was also blonde.......)

 

25 But you've noticed that SNL serves as the firing squad for libs who've strayed too far from the pack or who have failed the collective.  So, Coakley has been sacrificed.  They did the same thing to Zell Miller.  It's like SNL gets politcal marching orders or something.

26

SNL really turned on Martha (Marcia) Coakley.  Saying that Dick Cheney would win the mayoral election in Berkeley against her says it all, yikes!

 

 

27

Name a funny SNL sketch since Sandler

Tracy Morgan as Brian Fellow, the animal guy, was always funny.

28

This weeks episode was particularly bitter when you add up the SOTU opening, the Scott Brown skitt, and the Weekend Update joke where Seth Meyers  ripped on the GOP for the Obama  Q&A.

I can tolerate their stuff thanks to DVR. 

29

Why do cranky conservatives always bitch about SNL?  Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it isn't.  For the most part the political stuff is as funny as it's ever been.  I mean, you can't get any funnier that that "do sex to me" sketch earlier this year (in fact, that entire show was comedy gold, especially Al Gore getting pwned on "What Up With That?".)   I thought this Scott Brown sketch was hilarious.  Casting the gorgeous Jon Hamm as Brown was a no-brainer.

 

30 I'm Brian Fellow!

31 It's like SNL gets politcal marching orders or something.

They don't get official marching orders as much as the writers and "talent" they pull from tend to be Kos Kids.

About the only one who tends to sling it at Dems wholeheartedly is Jim Downey, who is the token Republican on staff.  He's the one who did the skit about the bank bailouts who kept name-dropping Soros as the owner of the Dem party and referred to a few top Dem donors as "people who need to be shot" via the on-screen chyrons.

32 Someone still watches SNL?  Amazing.

33

"Imagine if [Sarahcuda] was also blonde.......)"

Bunk.

34 "cast", not 'case', if anyone cares or noticed.  The SNL cast has sucked for a decade.

Is there an award for that?

Nobel Peace Prize.

35 How 'bout the SNL skit where Rubber Jesus bows to the mayor of Tampa... oh, wait I'm sorry.

36 Next thing you'll tell me there are people who still watch the olympics...

37 25 But you've noticed that SNL serves as the firing squad for libs who've strayed too far from the pack or who have failed the collective.  So, Coakley has been sacrificed.  They did the same thing to Zell Miller.  It's like SNL gets politcal marching orders or something.

Posted by: joeindc44 at February 01, 2010 02:18 PM (QxSug)

The guy who writes their political stuff is a conservative.  Go back and watch that bailout sketch from last year if you think they're liberal  ("George Soros - Owner, Democratic Party").  Or the Nancy Pelosi "Palomino" bit.   They've been killing Barney Frank for over a year - I mean, who else has made comedy out of Barney Frank? 

38

"Someone still watches SNL?"

Well, yeah!  Olbermann isn't on on Saturdays...

39 27

Name a funny SNL sketch since Sandler

Tracy Morgan as Brian Fellow, the animal guy, was always funny.

To each his own:  Those sketches creeped me out, as a 'cranky conservative', and they were essentially the same Bit over and over again.  The 'do sex to me' was the one funny sketch I noted, rockmom. 

Every ( cat and ) dog has his day ( to sneak into health care legislation )

40

"I mean, who else has made comedy out of Barney Frank?"

I believe that Congressman Frank is of the particular flavor of comedy known as "Writes itself."

Other snarky responses include:
Dennis Miller
48% of AoSHQ sockpuppets

41 I miss the Phil Hartman and Chris Farley SNL days.

42
41 Tears

43 Thank S.I.M. I feel better now.

44

See I thought the second sketch was funny and playful. It didn't seem overly political.

The open sketch, on the other hand, clearly was political. They need to get a new guy to play Obama, because the guy they have is terrible

45 The guy who writes their political stuff is a conservative.

ONE of them allegedly is.  I asked the question because I almost never watch any more, and caught the 'China / do sex to me' bit while channel surfing.  In any garbage dump you can find a few bits of Good Stuff but it's not worth going through acres and acres of crud to find it

46

"I miss the Phil Hartman and Chris Farley SNL days."

Hear, hear.

47 I thought it was funny. so what if he's a hunk, a hunk of burnin' love. It is not why he won. it certainly didn't hurt his chances, being easy on the eyes. but he won because he said he was going to derail o's death care bill . a SNL skit can't take that away from him.

48 yeah, really, one of them is allegedly a conservative.  Yet the show is basically a weekly democrat talking point memo. 

49

 "I miss the Phil Hartman and Chris Farley SNL days."

I had forgotten about the sketch until just now.  Wasn't it Phil Hartman who did "Lyle, the Effiminate Heterosexual"?

50 Twying to wite comedy for yew people is wike tewwing jokes tew a dining room tabew!

51

SNL is sporadically funny. Some andy sanberg sketches are good. Their political humor normally isn't that good anymore. Althought their Clinton and Bush 41 sketches used to be pretty good.  Also they had that opening with Obama and the Chinese Premier that was funny a few weeks ago. I don't watch the show anymore but occasionally see clips when hot air posts them

Also that Reagan mastermind sketch was one of the best ever.

52

I thought that the SNL skit on Scott Brown was hilarious.  My take is that is shows the dems as the dimwits they are and Scott Brown as a hot new Senator is playing on their stupidity.

The only time I watch SNL anymore is when a good skit is posted on the internet.  This one was good

53 Wasn't it Phil Hartman who did "Lyle, the Effiminate Heterosexual"?

That was Dana Carvey.

54

 I miss the Phil Hartman and Chris Farley SNL days.

You might remember me from such sketches as the Lunch Lady Song

55 Ace--Think you're totally misinterpreting the SOTU sketch.  I thought it was pretty clear they were making fun of Obama by having him run down Coakley in an over-the-top manner as the excuse for the Mass. loss without him taking any responsibility for the loss.  

56

Speaking of old SNL cast, Victoria Jackson has done a couple of voice-acting bits for direct-to-DVD puppet-show children's movies.

I know, because my kids wound up with one as a gift from a relative.

57

Name a funny SNL sketch since Sandler

The Jeopardy skits with Ferrell and Macdonald are classic.

58

Ace--Think you're totally misinterpreting the SOTU sketch.  I thought it was pretty clear they were making fun of Obama by having him run down Coakley in an over-the-top manner as the excuse for the Mass. loss without him taking any responsibility for the loss.  

 

I don't think the show is that deep and jokes that well thought out. They've had 2 sketches over the entire year that portray obama in a bad light. The first was from the left, which was that skit where Obama says he didn't accomplish anything. The second being the one with the chinese premier. 2 sketches in 1 year isn't very promising for a show that used to have 1-2 Bush sketches a night over the past 8 years.

59

/Fwank sock

60 Two of the best recurring sketches of SNL history; Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer & Mat Foley (living a Van down by the river!) So much awesomeness.

61

57

Victoria Jackson also guest blogs at Big Hollywood from time to time.

62

Dana Carvey as the "Church Lady" - one of my favorites

 

63
>>36 How 'bout the SNL skit where Rubber Jesus bows to the mayor of Tampa... oh, wait I'm sorry....

Why does the President think that the Mayor of Tampa is an Arab leader?

64 If people just voted for the better looking candidate, Henry Waxman would have never gotten elected in the first place.

That man would lose a beauty contest to a bucket of barf.

65

Name a funny SNL sketch since Sandler

Tracy Morgan as Brian Fellow, the animal guy, was always funny.

Posted by: FireHorse at February 01, 2010 02:22 PM (cQyWA)

 

Hello, Dick in a Box?

 

66 The time period of Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, David Spade, Adam Sandler and Chris Farley was a golden period but it still doesn't hold a candle to the early days of Akroyd, Belushi, Radner, Chase, and Bill Murray.

67 61 Two of the best recurring sketches of SNL history; Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer & Mat Foley (living a Van down by the river!)

So much awesomeness.

Posted by: vai2112 at February 01, 2010 02:49 PM (TcILN)

Your memory of these skits frightens and confuses me.

68 I thought "Old French Whore" was hilarious.

69

SRSLY, Outlaw?

I'll have to check that out.  Is she good?

70 but that wasn't really the problem in Massachusetts, was it?

Except for the fact the polling empirically supports the opposite of your wishful thinking.

Never let the fats stand between your mouth and your cock, ace.

71

I lost count of how many balsa-wood coffee tables Matt Foley took out.

72

Mat Foley (living a Van down by the river!)

I swear that is my son's football coach. Everytime he speaks all I hear is "Ina VAAAn, down ba the river." It's quite distracting.

73 Man, if I wanted to watch SNL, I'd WATCH SNL...

C'mon Ace, just go back to you A-list material--polls, punditry and puddin'.

74

If people just voted for the better looking candidate, Henry Waxman would have never gotten elected in the first place.

No matter how many times I have seen a picture of Waxman, I recoil at his image.  Somehow human, with rodent and reptile mixed in.  Ugh. 

75

Man, if I wanted to watch SNL, I'd WATCH SNL...

Dude just use the scroll wheel.  It totally works.

76 The Dems similarly turned on John Kerry after he lost, IIRC.

77 Why do cranky conservatives always bitch about SNL? Posted by: rockmom

Because snark is the default mode on blogs, in comments in particular. It's easier to hock up a reflexive statement of contempt than actually write something interesting.

78 65 If people just voted for the better looking candidate, Henry Waxman would have never gotten elected in the first place.

That man would lose a beauty contest to a bucket of barf.

Now don't be so mean to my Henry. I think he's kind of cute, and he's nice to his mother.

79

The only time that SNL is funny anymore is when Christopher Walken hosts the show.  The last memorable case was from the Sandler - Farley - Hartman era,  but it doesn't matter how lackluster the show becomes, it is regarded by NBC like the nightly news is....something that cannot be cancelled.

80 Oh great.  It's erg.  Did any trollbusters get the log in info from Ace yet?

81

Am I the only one who thought that overall Mad TV was so much better than  anything SNL ever did during the same time period ?

You mean the show that actually had creativity and originality.  Perish the thought. 

Every skit on Mad TV was superior to the present day SNL.  Like adults versus Junior High.

82

"If people just voted for the better looking candidate, Henry Waxman would have never gotten elected in the first place."

Most of the time, they do...  How do you think I've kept my seat?

83
Posted by: Screw Timmy

...the fuck?

84 Mad TV spoofed Obama all the time, except they portrayed him as a 7-year old white boy named Stewart.

"Look what I could do!"

85 77

Am I the only one who thought that overall Mad TV was so much better than  anything SNL ever did during the same time period ?

Posted by: polynikes at February 01, 2010 02:57 PM (m2CN7)

I agree.  Will Sasso and Aries Spears are f**king hilarious.

86 Comedy is like music or food, you either like it or you don't, and people react differently to all types of all three.

87 Yeah, if I had a comedy show and I had a senator in a skit who used to be a Klansman, I don't think I could come up with anything on that. 

88 I do know what I will probably be alone in though is thinking the SNL skit movie,  Night At the Roxbury , was funny as hell.   One of my guilty movies I can't turn off when I happen to run across it.

Roxbury falls into the category of "so stupid it's hilarious".  It walks a fine line between great and unwatchable.

89
Morons.. Here's a skit I saw live.

People like John Kerry get the votes to stay in office, but they donÂ’t have the support of the people. HereÂ’s proof.

See the traffic in the photograph? ItÂ’s heading north on Route 1 in Saugus. I was sitting in bumper to bumper traffic on the overpass waiting to loop around onto the highway and merge into that traffic at 1pm when I snapped this shot of the heavy volume caused by a Scott Brown event. It was Scott Brown Traffic.

The Scott Brown Bus Tour – a Thanksgiving for the people of Massachusetts. I went to the 1pm event at Kowloon’s, the big Chinese restaurant on Route 1. Heading south on Route 1, you have to get off just beyond the restaurant, then exit, cross back over the highway, and get on the northbound side before exiting into the parking lot.

I had plans with Lauren Birmingham, the Kowloon PR gal, to have her let me in the back door so I could take a look at what was going on, but when I reached her on her cell phone, she said there was no way to move anywhere. Thousands of locals had shown up to say thank you to Scott as he said thank you to them, and to make matters worse, Barbara Walters was there covering Scott, and was probably trying to make him cry for a prime time special.

John Kerry has been in the U.S. Senate for 25 years, and it’s hard to imagine any regular people showing up to see him. Deval Patrick, a first term “hope and change” governor couldn’t fill a fundraiser last summer with Barack Obama as the guest of honor. Ted Kennedy served very prominently for 47 years, and voters couldn’t wait to turn his seat over to Scott.

This event served to highlight what a ripoff it is for these guys to get elected and stay in forever. It is an attack on the notion of self-rule and democratic ideals that they get into a seat and use all their connections, wealth and influence to keep themselves in it forever. They have robbed us of moments like these in which the people are energized by the cause and effect of the democratic process – the joy of self-rule lost to the influence of special interests and the power of privilege.

Elected officials like to complain about voter apathy and wish publicly for a more engaged electorate. Now we know what to tell them in response – you want to see an election with high turnout? Retire, and open up your seat to the process, and you’ll see some energy.

Just ask Scott.

90 SNL stopped being funny a long time ago.

91 I wouldn't look for too much conservatism from the entertainment industry.  Thats why its always a pleasant surprise when they do.

92
Unclefacts,
So did erg.

93 98
Unclefacts,
So did erg.

Posted by: sickinmass at February 01, 2010 03:14 PM (Dxfei)

erg was funny once?

94

Keep whislin by the graveyard donks.

On a second note, isn't the first wookie getting wider. I wonder what her gross vehicle weight is now?

95 10 .....the only educational group that still HEAVILY favors Obama according to Gallup are people with postgrad degrees @ 58% Those smart guys. Posted by: john at February 01, 2010 02:10 PM (oNpFl)   I am SOOOO glad that, as far as this poll goes, I am a 42%er.

96 MadTV got really good around the 2000 while SNL started slipping in quality. I was never an avid MadTV viewer, but they did some good stuff. Speaking of comedy sketch shows, anybody remember In Living Color?

97 SEE you SOON at the KowLOON

98 100

Keep whislin by the graveyard donks.

On a second note, isn't the first wookie getting wider. I wonder what her gross vehicle weight is now?

Posted by: chicocano at February 01, 2010 03:15 PM (hxPXL)

dunno, but I hear the secret service is getting tired of always having to pull the presidential limo into the weight stations on the highway.

99
our asshole secretary of state, Bill cocklikcer Galvin, is dragging his feet certifying the election of Scott Brown.

Deval Patrick chose Paul Kirk, a longtime Kennedy rump-swab, to fill the dead senator's seat on August 25th.

Kirk was sworn into the Senate on August 26th.

100 anybody remember In Living Color?

Posted by: vai2112 at February 01, 2010 03:17 PM (TcILN)

Yes, especially Jim Carrey as Fire Marshal Bill.

101 12 I wish they'd bring back Garrett Morris to star in a Michelle Obama sketch.
Posted by: Crusty


Garrett Morris is too good looking..

Garrett Morris doesn't have a muscular enough physique.

102 The RNC resolution. 

103
I liked 'In Living Color' vai2112... Jim Carry was just too weird for me though.

104 76 No matter how many times I have seen a picture of Waxman, I recoil at his image.  Somehow human, with rodent and reptile mixed in.  Ugh.


It's the best his alien overlords could do to make him look human..  You thought "V" was science fiction????

105 106 anybody remember In Living Color?

Posted by: vai2112 at February 01, 2010 03:17 PM (TcILN)

 

I liked Ghetto Lassie with the pit bull running through the streets carrying a severed leg in his mouth!

106
>>105 ..our asshole secretary of state, Bill cocklikcer Galvin, is dragging his feet certifying the election of Scott Brown.

Feb 11th is the day Scott will be sworn in.

107 Hello, Dick in a Box?

Okay, I forgot that one. 

There are a few, here and there over the last decade, but that's my ( unimportant ) point:  9+ times out of ten, they ain't funny.  Half the time, they're spinning for Dems; most of the time, they're just Lame

108
...maybe

109
You thought "V" was science fiction????

We know it's real.

110 10 .....the only educational group that still HEAVILY favors Obama according to Gallup are people with postgrad degrees @ 58%

I'm guessing this 58% is made up of lawyers and people in various fields like the fine arts and liberal arts who can't get a job cooking fries at McDonald's unless they have at least a masters in their major field of study.

111 I tried to watch SNL last Sat.  I remember when it was funny. 

Are all the writers now sophomores in HIGH SCHOOL?

The skits were lame and badly done and the content was just PC crap.  Do these people ever get out of NYC? 

Turned it off, watched The Military Channel they had a repeat of something.

112
why 22 days?

better question: why aren't the Republicans outraged? Paul Kirk has no business casting votes in the U.S. Senate.

113

105 ..our asshole secretary of state, Bill cocklikcer Galvin, is dragging his feet certifying the election of Scott Brown.

Feb 11th is the day Scott will be sworn in.

Is that why ahmadinejad is threatening crap for Feb 11?

114 >>109
I liked 'In Living Color' vai2112... Jim Carry was just too weird for me though.

Posted by: sickinmass at February 01, 2010 03:20 PM (Dxfei)

Jim Carrey acts likes he's perpetually on crack - that's what makes it so hard to turn away.

115 They repeated the Peyton Manning commercial where he knocks the kid in the head with the football.  It was pretty damn funny.

It was funny because Manning ad-libbed most of the lines.  The Port-o-let?  Wasn't in the script.

.the only educational group that still HEAVILY favors Obama according to Gallup are people with postgrad degrees @ 58%

"Scientists" with global warming grants, teachers (get extra money for getting a masters degree), and baristas with their master's degree in Lesbian Latina Literature excited about not having to pay back their loans.

116

Is that why ahmadinejad is threatening crap for Feb 11?

Posted by: Ben at February 01, 2010 03:27 PM (wuv1c)

I think he has a haircut scheduled for the 10th

117 The Scott Brown sketch was good, the opening bit was weak, he really thought he could pull out the race, something that was left out. Biden's totally cluelessness, was
remarked on like 'that's Old Joe' again, whereas any possible slip that Palin made
was magnified by Tina's terrible doofus impression of her. The one bit that was kind of cool, was when she played herself, threatening to shut down NBC news, it was
the kind of gut movewe've seen in her speeches and Facebook posts

118
Timmy,
IÂ’d like to see the RNC or someone file an injunction to STOP an unelected civilian from voting as a Senator in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It was my understanding that his position was gone the day after election dayÂ… period. If anything, he should be home playing with the kids and no one should be representing Massachusetts citizens until Brown gets there. This is the equivalent of Obama appointing an unelected czar to fill in for missing Senators and cast votes in direct contrast of what the people of that state wish done.

119 I don't even care because Jon Hamm plus Scott Brown accent and cute outfits . . . !!!!

... bunk!

What she said. 

I saw this on the intertubes yesterday.  It was kinda funny...mostly because I liked seeing Hamm cut up apart from his Don Draper persona.  Armisen didn't seem to have his heart into the Bawney Fwank character, which is just screaming to be made fun of.  I did get a kick out of the flapper bit.

120

Yeah, I guess that Chris Christie is hot too right???

HEY!  My added weight just means there's more of me to love, punk.

121

Living Color did some pretty edgy stuff, Men on Film, Homey the Clown and Fire Marshall Bill.

Two snaps up in a circle. 

 

122 Tina Fey is not funny, or pretty, and 30 Rock is boring.

There I said it. I feel so much better.

123 The SOTU sketch could have been better if they'd gone any direction with it.  Instead, it was formless.  The sight of the god-king reading job listings was good, even a shout out to thug no show jobs.  But I think the less on is that the ministers of current truth who dictate the message of the political sketches are currently confused as to what their message should be. 
Will Obama be given the leftwing failure treatment soon too?  Will he be treated like other apostates (e.g., Miller, Coakley, Blagoyavich, Leiberman, etc.)?  Or will we have to suffer through more hero motiffs, a la President the Rock - obama.

124

Jim Carrey acts likes he's perpetually on crack - that's what makes it so hard to turn away.

Posted by: vai2112 at February 01, 2010 03:29 PM (TcILN)

He is probably manic depressive.

125 117 10 .....the only educational group that still HEAVILY favors Obama according to Gallup are people with postgrad degrees @ 58%

I'm guessing this 58% is made up of lawyers and people in various fields like the fine arts and liberal arts who can't get a job cooking fries at McDonald's unless they have at least a masters in their major field of study.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 01, 2010 03:25 PM (jGaqA)

 

AGAIN! I hit the jackpot because I am one of the lawyers who GETS how stupid OBAMA is and is embarrassed at his continually being touted as a Con Lww expert and professor. Judging from his own comments on law, he is clueless and makes those of us who try hard to do well angry to be painted with the same broad brush as him!

126 manic depressive?  Going from Lauren Holly to Jenny McCarthy.  Rough life.

127

"Did somebody say filibuster? 'Cause I'm about to filibust out of these jean shorts."


O.k., I thought that was funny.

128 105 Are you serious about Feb 11?

Also, Kenny Rogers Jackass was one of the funniest skits of Mad TV or any of these shows.

129

O/T  News Flash:

Polish scientists say 3 Neanderthal teeth found Published: 2/1/10, 3:05 PM EDT
By VANESSA GERA

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - A team of Polish scientists said Monday they have discovered three Neanderthal teeth in a cave.

 

...Thousands show up to claim ownership of said teeth.

 

130

/sock off

 

131 The time period of Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, David Spade, Adam Sandler and Chris Farley was a golden period but it still doesn't hold a candle to the early days of Akroyd, Belushi, Radner, Chase, and Bill Murray.

I was in my early/mid teens during those years.  I remember it being the highlight of my week watching Saturday Night (it wasn't "SNL" in those days).  I loved Bill Murray, Curtain, Radner, Newman & Garret.  A while back, I bought the 1st & 2nd seasons because I hadn't seen them in ages.  In re-watching it all these years later, the 1st season was SOOO bad.  Very stupid.  It only started to get better in the 2nd.  I was shocked at how un-funny Belushi was (I thought he was hilarious when I was a kid).  Same goes for Chase.  He always got top dog status back then, but was one of the least funny on that show, imo. 

132 It is amazing how you can tie it all together eventually with a nice neat little bow.  A package of crap.  Remember during the election they said that "women, the soccer moms were the ones voting for Brown and that they were, for the most part independents".  So now SNL has this fascinating little skit which sort of boils these "independent soccer moms" down to a bunch of chippendales viewing losers.  And you can take it further since Sarah Palin is a hockey mom.   So, to recap, all these sex deprived, over tired, self absorbed, soccer moms, hockey moms, baseball moms, football moms, are so brain challenged that they voted for Scott Brown cause he is a sex symbol to the pre menopausal crowd.  Right

133

Va. Senate Bill saying Virginians do not have to buy government mandated health insurance passes !

134

OT, but did anyone read the sidebar item about the guy strapping on a homemade rocket pack in an ill conceived attempt to get a "boost" out of his sledding experience?

Funnier than the Scott Brown sketch.

135 Having been made to watch the DVDs, I can say there are few things in life that are more overrated than the first 5 seasons of SNL with The Original Cast.  They were revolutionary, to be sure, but you could fit all the funny bits from those years onto one two-hour DVD.  And I'm including "Cheeburger Cheeburger" in there...

136 Posted by: The Outlaw in the Heavenly Hall at February 01, 2010 03:47 PM (E0EDC)

Holy crap.

137
>>AGAIN! I hit the jackpot because I am one of the lawyers who GETS how stupid OBAMA is and is embarrassed at his continually being touted as a Con Law expert and professor. Judging from his own comments on law, he is clueless and makes those of us who try hard to do well angry to be painted with the same broad brush as him!..Posted by rightzilla..

I will have to agree to his stupidity.  First, the man not only refused until recently to acknowledge the other party might have any productive ideas, his concept of reaching-out until he was weakened was just to try to buy off a few for political cover if things went bad later. “Progressives” are chagrined because with big Democrat legislative majorities the leftist agenda should have been barrelled through without any need to consider Republicans for anything. Second, he poses as a centrist rhetorically; his lofty well-spokenness in giving prepared remarks has worn thin with more and more people. The recently late Howard Zinn nailed it when he pointed out the dulcet words will be matched to a mediocre Presidency. Being willing and able to repeat saccharine and leaden sludge in a mellifluous baritone after it is written by the speech staff has less and less significance by the day, when thatÂ’s all that is offered, including to people in the center.

Not a ruse; just tokenism and tactical symbolism, and nothing even close to substantive bipartisanship. The promised bipartisanship — lofty and saintly pragmatic nonpartisanship, really — was one of the first of Obama’s many campaign promises to reach an expiration date.

138 In re-watching it all these years later, the 1st season was SOOO bad.  Very stupid.  It only started to get better in the 2nd.  I was shocked at how un-funny Belushi was (I thought he was hilarious when I was a kid).  Same goes for Chase. 

You posted that while I was writing the same thing.  You just said it better.

139 Posted by: Bender Bending Rodriguez at February 01, 2010 03:48 PM (1bLKF)

Apart from slapstick, funny like SNL funny, is more interesting, if not funnier in the context of the time.  When you watch it later, in the context of our time, the humor may fall flat but the audience at the time may have been hysterical with laughter.  From what I have been told, they were on on Saturday night because they were a little risque and cutting edge.  Weren't they on with Archie Bunker?  The you can hear the flushing of the toilet throughout the house family.   And that secret agent guy who used to talk into his shoe and was always saved, of course, by the woman agent but never realized it and she allowed him to think he was all that.  Didn't women behave that way with their men, women were just having the women's movement I think but many were still in the "I'm running the show but I let him think he is" mode?

140

SNL is gay, nothing will ever top Monty Python in terms of comedy gold sketches.

One of these days I'd like to see a Monty Python and the Holy Grail remake where the bunny wabbit tears apart stooges from the Obama administration.  That would be the gift that keeps on giving.

 

CHARRRRGE!!!  *bunny tears them apart*  RUN AWAY!!!!! 

141

Well, if they think Scott Brown is 'hot' wait until they have to deal with Marco Rubio and "Gunny Pop".

I think this gets the left more than anything right now.  Along with the obvious female conservative/republican women in the spotlight right now, they can no longer portray the republican party as old fat racist white men.  Anyhow, while extremely funny, it's once again the left minimizing the conservative/republican by sexualizing him/her (saw this, and still do, with Sarah Palin). I mean, they came out with a Palin doll, and now, according to FNC, someone has come out with a Scott Brown dolls ... 3 of them. One as an 'executive', one in jeans and flannel, and the other with fig leaf and six pack to denote his Cosmo Centerfold.

142 Posted by: Drillanwr at February 01, 2010 03:53 PM (GkYyh)

Does Brown have a cut of the doll profits?  Remember when Bo wanted people to pay to post his image and his words?  Did he ever accomplish that little deal, being the very public person that he is?

143

I thought SCTV was loads funnier than anything SNL has ever done.

Mr. Show and The State deserve an honorable mention too.

144 I always thought SCTV was better than SNL. 

145 I think it is safe to say that Mrs. Coakley was a bad canidate, (History of prosocutions and lack of, failure to connect with voters, Vacation in December), but also Scott Brown was a superior canidate, and couple that with some truly awful things over Christmas (Unemployment numbers stagnating, The BVD bomber, and the response) And you had the perfect storm.

146 Yeah, going back and watching the first seasons is kinda painful. We remember them being better cause we enjoyed them so much at the time for being new and different. That said, I have all the ILC dvds, and they hold up much better.

147 I'd just like to mention that Victoria Jackson had large cans.

148
You guys forget about Eddie Murphy?

He saved SNL.

Billy Crystal? Weaksauce.

149 I'd just like to mention that Victoria Jackson had large cans.

Posted by: gus at February 01, 2010 04:02 PM (Vqruj)

Noted, she is also an Anti-Communist.

150
Victoria Jackson is fat now but she's even hotter because she's an outspoken conservative.

151 >> Liberals want to believe that was the only problem here.

That is EXACTLY what I want them to believe as well. If only Barack-Oba-Oba-Oba would take the time out of his busy schedule to 'splain how he is Teh Awesome, all would be so much better.

152

I thought the first season of SNL was probably the best comedy that has ever been on TV. I also have the 1st season on DVD and it beats the shit out of ANYTHINIG on TV now, especially boring british comedy.

153   the only educational group that still HEAVILY favors Obama according to Gallup are people with postgrad degrees @ 58% Those smart guys. Posted by: john at February 01, 2010 02:10 PM (oNpFl)   I am SOOOO glad that, as far as this poll goes, I am a 42%er.   Funny. I have 2 post grad degrees and I think he's an asshole. One is an MBA does that make me a racist?

154 Did I mention Victoria Jackson's cans?   Large.

155

Did then entire 15 or so co bloggers get sick this past week?

 

You guys forget about Eddie Murphy?

He saved SNL.

Black Santa is a classic. Black Santa robs houses.

156

Va. Senate Bill saying Virginians do not have to buy government mandated health insurance passes !

 

YES YES YES

Va legislature comes through yet again. Wish they could take over Washington.

157 Posted by: Picric at February 01, 2010 03:57 PM (oKOn9)

Was Marcia a bad candidate or was she a silent hero doing what she could from the position she found herself in?   Ponder that one.  She was entrenched in MA politics, you can't convince me that this was a stupid woman.  Sure she may have been a spear carrier (noting the cases she obviously screwed up) however, maybe she no longer wanted to carry the spear.  Anyway, for someone who is not stupid, there were just way too many stupid moves made.

158

Dark and lonely on a summer night
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord
The watchdog barkin', do he bite?
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord
I slip in the window
I break his neck
Then his house I start to wreck.
Got no reason, what the heck.
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
"C"-"I"-"L"-"L" my landlord.

159
Mr Robinson's Neighborhood

Gumby...

dammit!

160 Did Wolf Blitzer fact check that skit?

161 Bow Whore. Bwwaaaaaahhhh.

162 I liked the Wellsly Arms/SuBARu skits even though I hate Will Farrell

163 I just read on another site that FOX is reporting that Brown will be seated in the Senate on Thurs. Feb. 4th.  (Although, I don't see it on their website.)

164 The Billy Crystal year was one of the best as well.. There was Martin Short, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer.

Billy Crystal's impersonations of Sammy Davis Jr and Ricardo Montalban (and were the Church Lady sketches part of that year) were hilarious.

I also agree with the Eddie Murphy years..

It's been all downhill since.  I never understood what anyone saw in Adam Sandler and that bunch.. just not funny.

165 163 Did I mention Victoria Jackson's cans?   Large.

Married a cop and had kids:  Apparently uninfected from years of working with libtards and betas.

  Normality is the New Hotness;  Scott Brown is the new George Clooney

166 Joe Montana had a sketch once as the "honest man" his closing line was "I'm going upstairs to masterbate"

167
Not so Funny

168 174 163 Did I mention Victoria Jackson's cans?   Large.

Married a cop and had kids:  Apparently uninfected from years of working with libtards and betas.

I'm sure she's fun at parties, too.  She once got up in the middle of an SNL cast meeting and called Jan Hooks a whore and Nora Dunn "the Devil", IIRC.

169 1984 - The last time SNL was funny.

170 who is Victoria jackson.   don't you mean kate jackson?

171 Leftists never admit the message was rejected; it's only the messenger.

That's why (historically) when they are in power they have this nasty little tendency to bump off a million or ten human beings that happen to disagree with them.

172
Tami ..
Just heard on radio.. Scott's date has been moved from Feb. 11 to this Thursday.

173 Scott Brown hot? I've got you hot right here, racists. And I'm smart enough to vote on important issues, like hotness.

174

Kristen Wiig is way too attractive to play Nancy Pelosi. 

 

 

175 Posted by: Obama Girl at February 01, 2010 04:35 PM (gbCNS)

Die in a fire you god-damned easily-seduced syphilitic whore.

176 Just heard on radio.. Scott's date has been moved from Feb. 11 to this Thursday.

Posted by: sickinmass at February 01, 2010 04:29 PM (Dxfei)

SIM, would Feb. 11th been outside of the law in Mass.?

177

Victoria Jackson was hawtness to young, impressionable, pubescent reason until that one commercial-spoof of a product designed to remove extraneous fingers.

Even the commercial-spoof for Adobe! (The car made out of clay!) couldn't mindbleach the mental image of her with seven fingers...

178 Wow.  Talk about an old sockpuppet...

179
I believe so Tami. The Dems are up to something and I think you know.

Is tomorrow the 'don't ask, don't tell' vote? Ummmm.
Obama and the Democrats in Congress are to blame. They were given power 14 months ago on Nov 4th, 2008 when they told us to vote for the Hope of Change. What we got instead was the Hoax of Chains. The chains of lost freedom, unemployment, reduced security and an increased national debt greater than the gross domestic product of the world.
Hate. them.

180 I'm sure something big will be voted on in the dead of the night on Feb. 3rd.

181 Jane, you ignorant slut!

Best comedy sketch shows -
Tracey Ullman (Tracey herselves, and the origin of the Simpsons)
Mad TV (Miss Swan, Stewart, Persian Tow Truck Driver)
In Living Color (the gay movie critics, Jim F'n Carrey)

182

The State!  Barry & Lavon's Passion Pudding Palace.

This was on the tip of my tongue during all of the recent "dipping" festivities, but I couldn't remember where it was from, so I never bothered to mention it.

 

Z, was it intentional that you left out Kids in the Hall?

Lopez!

...

Lopez!

...

...

Lopez!

183 I actually thought it was funny too.  Dingy Harry was the only one immune to Scott Brown's charms.  Maybe it had to do with Brown saying something like, "I'm sorry Harry, but it's going to take a Searchlight to see your mangerines...."

184 The "Sergio" skit was much better, and by better i mean it made me chuckle.

185 Most people like whatever they liked when they were 25 for the rest of their lives.  This explains "classic" rock, old hippies, and why 50-somethings insist that the first cast of SNL was better than the Farley-Hartman-Carvey-Myers-Sandler cast.  Of course, I was in my twenties during the Farley years, so I can't be trusted.

186 I've watched SNL from pretty much the beginning, and it's always been uneven.  There is usually at least one really funny skit per show.  Sometimes more.  The music is almost always lame [Neil Young {shouldn't he be Neil Incrediblyold by now?} is especially lame].

Funniest thing in several years, the Colonel Angus skit, written by Tina Fey and performed by Christopher Walken.

187 Oh, SCTV was hilarious at times, Monty Python was usually pretty darned funny, In Living Color made me laugh til tears came a couple of times, and so on.  Skit comedy is hard, hard, hard.

188 141 It is amazing how you can tie it all together eventually with a nice neat little bow.  A package of crap.  Remember during the election they said that "women, the soccer moms were the ones voting for Brown and that they were, for the most part independents".  So now SNL has this fascinating little skit which sort of boils these "independent soccer moms" down to a bunch of chippendales viewing losers.  And you can take it further since Sarah Palin is a hockey mom.   So, to recap, all these sex deprived, over tired, self absorbed, soccer moms, hockey moms, baseball moms, football moms, are so brain challenged that they voted for Scott Brown cause he is a sex symbol to the pre menopausal crowd.  Right

Posted by: curious at February 01, 2010 03:44 PM (p302b)

Oh for chrissakes.  Get over yourself.  It's a freaking comedy show.  The host this week is one of the hottest men on the planet.  Scott Brown is hot.  Should SNL have portrayed Brown hosting a Harvard policy seminar?  Would that have been funny?

Some of you folks really need a thicker skin, and a sense of humor.

189 Well, they got the memo.  Scott Brown didn't win because of his politics, he won because he's... sexy!  gasp

It seems like liberals have some kind of image issues.  Not surprising, seeing as the last guy they tried to pass off as a looker was John "Silky Pony" Edwards.  Also know as "that slimy two-Americas guy."

Brown's starting to get the same treatment as Palin.  Except Palin got it worse, seeing as she could be attacked from more angles.  Ironically, she was attacked for being more of a real feminist than those damn commies at NOW (who really hate women).  Still, when you can't attack someone's views, you go after appearance and try to minimize the importance their impact on the voters.  It's just like high school all over again.  Or Alinsky's rules.  Whichever floats your boat.

Oh, and SNL hasn't been funny since the actors stopped being able to complete a skit without cracking up like immature little boys.  Yes, I still hold that against Mango boy whats-his-face.  I have refused to watch that show since that episode aired.

190 Don't like Kritin Wiggy.   Stopped watching the show as have many of my friends since often there is waaaay too much Kristin.  She plays the same character over and over just changes costumes.  Before we stopped watching we used to call her a "one trick pony".   They have two new girls and they barely use them as she dominates.

Rockmom, when I see something truly funny, I'll let you know.  Thus far this year SNL has been pitiful.   Thank God we live in a free country and I'm still entitled to my opinion. 

191 198 Most people like whatever they liked when they were 25 for the rest of their lives.  This explains "classic" rock, old hippies, and why 50-somethings insist that the first cast of SNL was better than the Farley-Hartman-Carvey-Myers-Sandler cast.  Of course, I was in my twenties during the Farley years, so I can't be trusted.

Posted by: Bender Bending Rodriguez at February 01, 2010 05:49 PM (1bLKF)

True enough.  But I'm 52 and I thought the dick-in-a-box thing was the funniest thing I've seen in ages.  I watch SNL most weeks if I can stay awake.  I thought Amy Poehler was way funnier than any of the women that were on SNL back in "my day."  I thought Lady Gaga was amazing on the show, as was Rihanna.  SNL is the only place I get to see these performers live.  The "I'm On A Boat" song was so good it was nominated for a Grammy!  People who say the show isn't hip or funny at all anymore are simply showing their age.  I watched the episode that opened with the "do sex to me" sketch with my 60-year-old brother and 56-year-old sister and we all laughed our asses off through the entire show.  But my 16-year-old also thought it was hilarious.

192

We only have to wait (3) more years. Once Obama loses in 2012, SNL will be forced to be funny again.

The past 10 years has been all about helping the Democrats regain power(mainly due to the relationship between NBC and the Democratic Party), and right now it is all about Protecting President Affirmative Action. Once he loses in 2012 economics will force them to ditch their poltical slave masters, and Immelt will most likely be a gonner!

Place your bets!

193 Maybe they don't care to appeal to people in their twenties and thirties anymore

194
You Rock, Mom!

195 Posted by: Jimi at February 01, 2010 06:17 PM (fqxV7)

That about sums it up, NBC Universal including GE capital and MSNBC and CNBC are part of the mix.

196 BTW, a lot of folks are on a "buy American" and "buy local" and buy "whole foods" kick.  Maybe they should add a "don't buy everyone on SNL who became brutally partisan on  what is supposed to be a "comedy show" and attacked Sarah Palin.   A lot of Americans do not forget.  Tina Fey said the line "I can see Russia from my window" not Sarah Palin yet most  Americans ,  thanks to the interference of these "entertainers" think Sarah Palin said it.  Honestly, if people were fair they would realize that Sarah was trying to say that Alaska is so close to Russia that Alaska is thinking about the proximity every day and so anticipating and planning were not knew to Sarah Palin.  But the country would rather believe a bunch of "entertainers" than the VP candidate.  It's very sad actually.

197 Posted by: curious at February 01, 2010 06:25 PM (p302b)

Just read my post....happy hour has a distinct effect on me....meant "new" not "knew"

198 192
Best comedy sketch shows -
Tracey Ullman (Tracey herselves, and the origin of the Simpsons)
Mad TV (Miss Swan, Stewart, Persian Tow Truck Driver)
In Living Color (the gay movie critics, Jim F'n Carrey)   How young are you guys? Didn't anyone else grow up with the virginous show Carol Burnette show? The Scarlet O'Hara sketch will never get old.

199 Part 1
Part 2

200 Had never seen that sketch.  It is very funny "miss starlit"  "rat butler" very funny.  They had complicated skits then, and the timing was amazingly good.  Was this live or on tape?

201

Not live, but part 2 is the best. The scene about a third of the way through where Scaret is at the head of the stairs with her new dress... comedy gold. I was no more than 10 or so, but I had taste, I tell you.

202

17 I think that the more Dems are treated like jokes, the less support they're going to get for their policies.  So I'll take 'meh' SNL straight to the bank.

Agreeed, thought that was where I stopped reading, but who ever reads 214 posts? 

Do I care never being read?  Nahhhhhhhhhhhh  As long as they can smell the gasoline ...

 

203 Late to teh partay.  If Scott Brown wants to doom himself, just keep on doing that SNL shit.  Because, if there's One Thing the voting public wants, it's another funny guy.

204 Carol Burnette and Lucille Ball are still the FUNNIEST shows evah made, I don't care who you are!

205 I'd like to introduce something to the floor,your panties. lol I think I'll use that on at my next AA business meeting. ha ha ha

206 I would rather stab myself in the heart than sit through a Lucy show.

207 rockmom is a cunt.

208 and not everyone has a juvenile sense of humor, rockcunt.  some of us like our humor with intelligence.

209

If one has no interest in his work or study ,how can he do well ? I learned this from one of my classmate .He is from the countryside .His parents are farmers .

210 whole and term life , mississippi health , cheap train fares,

211 laptop batteries laptop batteries