Ace of Spades HQ

December 04, 2011

Saturday Night Live Joins US In Complete Bankruptcy
— Ace

Sure, I could make the bias case, but it's their right to be biased.

But they don't have the right to be unfunny.

Two sketches, Cain posted at top and Obama beneath that, which are simply not professional-level. Not really even Talented Amateur level.

It's not just that it's not funny. In many cases, I'm not even certain about what they imagined would be funny.

Thanks, sort of, to Ben.

Posted by: Ace at 02:20 PM | Comments (167)
Post contains 86 words, total size 1 kb.

1 SNL, what's the point? Why bother.

Posted by: mpfs at December 04, 2011 02:22 PM (HmZoH)

2 No videos?

Posted by: Arbalest at December 04, 2011 02:23 PM (KXGp1)

3 the videos are in the link

Posted by: willow at December 04, 2011 02:23 PM (h+qn8)

4 I get a "failed to initialize" message at the link.

Posted by: Arbalest at December 04, 2011 02:24 PM (KXGp1)

5 I can't get the videos to play. That's probably best.

Posted by: Ms Choksondik, hoping for a Rick Perry miracle at December 04, 2011 02:24 PM (fYOZx)

6 SNL sucks

Posted by: Yip in Texas at December 04, 2011 02:24 PM (FLFli)

7 So, embedding the videos was too hard? Or we're just not worth the effort?

Posted by: Peaches, Pats fan for life at December 04, 2011 02:26 PM (ICv3z)

8 SNL has been the anti-funny for years. The most pathetic thing about that is that some highly-paid "executive" supposedly "approves" their content as "funny."

Posted by: NC Ref at December 04, 2011 02:27 PM (/izg2)

9 Ms Choksondik , I can't either, just spins..

Posted by: willow at December 04, 2011 02:27 PM (h+qn8)

In news much more interesting than SNL, we've had almost an inch of rain today and it's not supposed to stop until Tuesday.

Yikes.

Posted by: Mama AJ, trying to remember what a cubit is at December 04, 2011 02:27 PM (XdlcF)

11 ... but there is a Star Wars documentary posted after the JEF video ... 2hr 19mins ... but I have a bad feeling about it

Posted by: Arbalest at December 04, 2011 02:27 PM (KXGp1)

12 SNL is still on the air?
Who knew!

Posted by: Pecos, All Perry, all the time at December 04, 2011 02:28 PM (2Gb0y)

13 SNL is still on? Who knew

Posted by: nevergiveup at December 04, 2011 02:28 PM (eCnLg)

14 I have not watched SNL for years and I do not regret it.

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 04, 2011 02:29 PM (i3+c5)

15 I tried to watch the Obama one earlier on another site, and couldn't make it through. The guy doesn't even try to sound or act like him. I haven't watched SNL for years, and this reminded me why.

Posted by: Stinkylegs at December 04, 2011 02:29 PM (Zhe7g)

16 Wow. SNL.

Pretty pop culturally relevant.

Posted by: sifty at December 04, 2011 02:29 PM (WsOiK)

17 SNL is funny in the same way that O'Bumblefuck is brilliant.

Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at December 04, 2011 02:30 PM (yQwq5)

18 You'd rather SNL writers become doctors or try to operate heavy machinery? Think, man! It's a public service to take people this incapable and give them something to do where no one gets killed, only bored.

Posted by: nickless will probably get accidentally banned again soon at December 04, 2011 02:30 PM (MMC8r)

19 Colin Quinn was blasting SNL & NBC on twitter earlier today.

Posted by: Tami at December 04, 2011 02:31 PM (X6akg)

20 From Weekend Update: "This Christmas a number of Senators will participate in a 'Secret Santa' gift exchange that will involve members from both parties. The way it works is, the Democrats will give the Republicans a gift, and that's it."

Posted by: Kate58, Van Nuys Avenger at December 04, 2011 02:31 PM (oLZsm)

21 ZOMG!!!!!!!!! SNL is like SO funny and totally like relevant to MY generation you old H8ers!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Meghan McCain's veiny tits at December 04, 2011 02:33 PM (fYOZx)

22 SNL ceased being funny in the early 1990s and it was no where near as funny as it had been in the 1980s. I can not believe it is still on TV with the decline the quality of the skits.

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston training for the ONT mudwrestling match at December 04, 2011 02:33 PM (ijjAe)

I hadn't watched SNL for quite a few years until I managed to stumble upon it one drunken evening by accident. They had an animated video on it that showed a guy in a giant sling with a horse, some sick assembly required. I could not believe what I was seeing.

I have not watched since, nor will I.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 04, 2011 02:33 PM (d0Tfm)

24 Seriously, there are at least 10 regular commenters on AoSHQ who could write funnier stuff than the "professionals" at SNL without breaking a sweat.

Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at December 04, 2011 02:33 PM (yQwq5)

25 Eh I kinda liked the Herman Cain one.

Yeah the Obama one - there was no stuttering, no teleprompter, and the "humor" is all about how Obama doesn't have as much power as he ought to have (at least according to SNL writers). That one gets a "meh".

Posted by: chemjeff at December 04, 2011 02:34 PM (s7mIC)

26 My mother-in-law thinks SNL is stale and switches over to forty-five year old reruns of Lawrence Welk.

Posted by: nickless will probably get accidentally banned again soon at December 04, 2011 02:35 PM (MMC8r)

27 There are no writers left in Hollywierd.
They were all fired and reality tv took over.

Posted by: Pecos, All Perry, all the time at December 04, 2011 02:36 PM (2Gb0y)

28 Yep. Someone showed me the Obama clip earlier today and other than the DNC talking points I didn't get what it was supposed to be about. I'll even give points for an attempt at humor, if I can discern what they are at least *aiming* for. In this case... I got nuthin'

Posted by: Deety at December 04, 2011 02:38 PM (Pm8ax)

29 Saturday Night Live would be ten times funnier if they'd bring John Belushi and Chris Farley back to the cast.

And yes, I know they're dead.

Posted by: nickless will probably get accidentally banned again soon at December 04, 2011 02:38 PM (MMC8r)

30 Even Chevy Chase is funny compared to the current cast.

Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at December 04, 2011 02:39 PM (yQwq5)

31 Hey, let's all go to a Woody Allen film festival, read some Maureen Dowd, and then watch some Saturday Night Live!

Fuckin New York bubble garbage.

Posted by: sifty at December 04, 2011 02:39 PM (WsOiK)

32 29 Saturday Night Live would be ten times funnier if they'd bring John Belushi and Chris Farley back to the cast.

You're right. Reruns would be better. They would get more viewers too.

Posted by: Pecos, All Perry, all the time at December 04, 2011 02:40 PM (2Gb0y)

33 Hey, trying to write comedy using the Alinsky's Rules for Radicals as the guideline ain't easy!

Posted by: SNL Writer at December 04, 2011 02:41 PM (i3+c5)

34 Their weekend update was even worse. It was nothing but anti GOP shit. It wasn't even funny.

Posted by: Ben at December 04, 2011 02:42 PM (UvdzB)

No Bass-O-Matic? No Samuri Anything? No Coneheads?

They can't even recycle their own skits. Maybe that's why no one watches them anymore: further evidence that the left is running on fumes.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 04, 2011 02:43 PM (d0Tfm)

36 They have a few funny cast members. I like Hader and Samberg(sp?)

Posted by: Ben at December 04, 2011 02:44 PM (UvdzB)

37 SNL is still on?

Posted by: stillers at December 04, 2011 02:45 PM (gVUg0)

38 The writers today are the 20-something and 30-something grandkids of the writers who made all this shit up way back when TV was starting. It's like the Royal Family. In-breeding until all they can do is try to re-create the old days in plastic.

Posted by: sifty at December 04, 2011 02:45 PM (WsOiK)

39 They quit being funny after the original cast all got the big head and left back in the 70s. Haven't been worth a shit since then.

Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2011 02:49 PM (YdQQY)

40 At SNL's best, the sketches would generally be: funny [live from NEW YORK], then a little less funny, a hilarious Weekend Update, some lame running gags [Toonces], some interminable crap likey, some good faux-commercials [Yard-A-Pult], and from 11:30-midnight the risque ROTFL stuff.

That would be 1990-3 or so, with Farley and Sandler and Myers and Carvey. I'd put it down to nostalgia but I hear from a lot of people here and elsewhere that this was SNL's second wind. Plus, it's why Sandler even has a career these days.

Posted by: Zimriel at December 04, 2011 02:50 PM (6GvAC)

41 Maybe it still helps to be stoned when you watch it.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at December 04, 2011 02:52 PM (JKNDp)

42 I really like that Dan Ackroyd.

Posted by: USS Diversity at December 04, 2011 02:52 PM (UKlME)

43 42 Maybe it still helps to be stoned when you watch it.

I was still a teenager in the early 1990s. That was my excuse.

Posted by: Zimriel at December 04, 2011 02:53 PM (6GvAC)

44 I wonder if it's something about living in the New York area that makes Ace think SNL is still relevant?

Posted by: Truman North at December 04, 2011 02:53 PM (I2LwF)

45 Don't watch you tube vids of two wild and crazee guys. It wasn't all that funny then. I am sure our parents were thinking WTH. They didn't use WTF much back then.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at December 04, 2011 02:54 PM (JKNDp)

46 I think the only memorable sketch they have from this entire decade is 'dick in a box'. Funny? Sure. But that's it. I cannot think of anything else they've put out that was funny.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at December 04, 2011 02:54 PM (OxKgp)

47 Maybe it still helps to be stoned when you watch it.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at December 04, 2011 06:52 PM (JKNDp)

Nope.

Posted by: garrett at December 04, 2011 02:54 PM (So+lm)

They quit being funny after the original cast all got the big head and left back in the 70s. Haven't been worth a shit since then.

Agreed. Second City Television was way funnier. I watched the very first episode of SNL they showed right after George Carlin passed away. It wasn't that funny, either.

Maybe the writers need better drugs...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 04, 2011 02:54 PM (d0Tfm)

49 In the 1990s, interestingly, the Weekend Update had Dennis Miller and Norm MacDonald... both more Right than Left. And if Nealon was Left, he was funny enough that it didn't matter so much.

Posted by: Zimriel at December 04, 2011 02:55 PM (6GvAC)

50 We used to do skits at summer camp that were funnier.

Posted by: rdbrewer at December 04, 2011 02:56 PM (IKkTL)

51 Second City Television was way funnier.

This. Loved SCTV.

Posted by: Tami at December 04, 2011 02:56 PM (X6akg)

52 Super Happy Fun Ball

Posted by: Ben at December 04, 2011 02:56 PM (UvdzB)

53 I liked SNL in the 1990s. Anything with Phil Hartman was funny

Posted by: Ben at December 04, 2011 02:58 PM (UvdzB)

54 Survey:

When (roughly) did SNL stop being funny?

My vote and 2 guys at work say 'early-mid nineties' after Miller & MacDonald left.

I'm pushing 64, the other 2 guys are late-30's to mid 40's, so I don't think it's an age thing.

Posted by: jwb7605 at December 04, 2011 02:58 PM (Qxe/p)

55 If TV wasn't run by fucking retards, Ace would be the sole writer for SNL.

Compare that linked shit to "Trump's Boardroom".

Posted by: Waterhouse at December 04, 2011 03:00 PM (xUw3d)

56 The only time Chris Farley made me laugh was when I heard he OD'd on blow.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 04, 2011 03:00 PM (UJYQt)

57 As someone of a certain age I can tell you that when NBC Saturday Night started in the mid 70's it was a do not miss TV event.

On the rare Sat night that I was not working I never missed it. My co-workers and I all talked about it at work on Sunday.

I saw my last SNL around 1983.

Never missed it after that, didnÂ’t know for sure that it was still on.

Hey TV wasn't just geting started in the 70's. Why we even had color, at least in some friends houses.

Mike

Posted by: Mike in CFL at December 04, 2011 03:00 PM (motsG)

58 I like the "Oops I crapped my pants" and the "mom jeans" commercials. Dana Carvey was great. I liked Jon Lovitz too. I really couldn't tell you the last time I sat down and watched it. I think it was when Phil Hartman was still alive.

Posted by: no good deed at December 04, 2011 03:01 PM (mjR67)

59 Tina Fey's Palin was memorable. Unfair and sadistic, but memorable.

I'm trying to find the 2006 sendup of Nagin and Hillary Clinton over Katrina, "I was pandering". The Jesse Jackson bit especially was freakin' hilarious.

Posted by: Zimriel at December 04, 2011 03:01 PM (6GvAC)

60 "Trump's Boardroom".

ARE YOU READY TO ROCK!!!?

Posted by: Blackie Lawless at December 04, 2011 03:01 PM (So+lm)

61 Two words. Senator Al Franken.

Posted by: blaster at December 04, 2011 03:02 PM (Fw2Gg)

62 The only time Chris Farley made me laugh was when I heard he OD'd on blow.

Not even when he was a Chipendale with Swayze -or- when he played Giuliani's hyperactive kid at the press conference??

(I loved both of those skits)

Posted by: laceyunderalls at December 04, 2011 03:02 PM (OxKgp)

63 I'm watching Young Frankenstein on Encore, now that is funny even after all these years.

Posted by: mpfs at December 04, 2011 03:02 PM (HmZoH)

64 The guy that plays Obama and the guy playing the Chinese President who asks him to "do sex to me" was marginally funny. The rest, not so much.

Posted by: navybrat at December 04, 2011 03:03 PM (UM07v)

65 They should pray for a GOP takeover, perhaps they will get halfway funny again.

Ok, snowball's chance in hell.

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at December 04, 2011 03:03 PM (Qxdfp)

66 I do have to admit the Chinese interpreter "Why you do sex to me?!?" is memorable.

Posted by: blaster at December 04, 2011 03:04 PM (Fw2Gg)

Survey:

When (roughly) did SNL stop being funny?

Shortly after Buckwheat left the building, which would roughly coincide with the beginning of the Political Correctness Infestation into our video culture.

However, it was already headed downhill.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 04, 2011 03:04 PM (d0Tfm)

68 65 we were posting at the same time. It makes for a good web vid. Maybe something for "Funny or Die" but taking up real network time? Nah.

Posted by: blaster at December 04, 2011 03:05 PM (Fw2Gg)

69 58 As someone of a certain age I can tell you that when NBC Saturday Night started in the mid 70's it was a do not miss TV event.

On the rare Sat night that I was not working I never missed it. My co-workers and I all talked about it at work on Sunday.

I saw my last SNL around 1983.

Never missed it after that, didnÂ’t know for sure that it was still on.

Hey TV wasn't just geting started in the 70's. Why we even had color, at least in some friends houses.

Mike

Posted by: Mike in CFL at December 04, 2011 07:00 PM (motsG)

I think a good comparison of this in action today is "The Simpsons." It used to be must see can't miss. Now? I'm getting close to a decade without watching it.

Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2011 03:05 PM (GULKT)

70 I thought SNL was pretty funny, but then I always saw the shorter "best of" reruns later. I thought the Bush-Gore skits in 2000 were pretty good.

The intro monologues sucked, and I don't care who it was, except maybe John Goodman. He was funny. I like when he imitated Robert Deniro as a gangster, and said I heard THINGS...now that's some funny shit.

Posted by: jeanne! with two N's and an E at December 04, 2011 03:05 PM (uVO+D)

71 I quit watching around 1993.

Also I notice that before 1993, SNL quotes were everywhere I went - Sandler's Cajun Man, Toonces (still cited here), Happy Fun Ball of course. Then they just... stopped. Norm MacDonald got mentioned here and there but mostly just for saying something controversial that the news picked up on.

Posted by: Zimriel at December 04, 2011 03:05 PM (6GvAC)

72 Not even when he was a Chipendale with Swayze -or- when he played Giuliani's hyperactive kid at the press conference??

(I loved both of those skits)

Posted by: laceyunderalls at December 04, 2011 07:02 PM (OxKgp)

Nope. Maybe it's me; humor is subjective and I've got my guilty pleasures (Judy Tenuta and John Pinette for example). He was just an unfunny fat turd to me.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 04, 2011 03:06 PM (UJYQt)

73 64 I'm watching Young Frankenstein on Encore, now that is funny even after all these years.

Hell, the "MCMLXXIV" at the end of Young Frankenstein is funnier than SNL.

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at December 04, 2011 03:06 PM (Qxdfp)

74 Oh, John Goodman as Linda Tripp was pretty dang funny. I had forgotten about that.

Posted by: no good deed at December 04, 2011 03:07 PM (mjR67)

75 Schmitts Gay

Posted by: Delta Smelt at December 04, 2011 03:08 PM (dV45O)

76 IT'S ALIVE!!

Put the candle back!

Igor bring in the bags. Alright, you take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban.

Genius. Pure Mel Fucking Brooks genius.

Posted by: mpfs at December 04, 2011 03:08 PM (HmZoH)

77 LOL delta. But that was Farley / Sandler, so before the great Epoch Of Suck in which there's maybe a good sketch every year.

Posted by: Zimriel at December 04, 2011 03:09 PM (6GvAC)

78 Mrs928 is my SNL filter. If she calls me in to see something "funny", I'll go, reluctantly. She made me watch the Buscemi pedo skit, which was smile-worthy, sorta.

It's a has-been show.

Posted by: toby928© at December 04, 2011 03:09 PM (GTbGH)

79 Of course, Mel Brooks ain't funny any more, either.

Posted by: nickless will probably get accidentally banned again soon at December 04, 2011 03:09 PM (MMC8r)

The whole concept of SNL has lost its usefulness.

With DVR and Hulu, who will stay up late on purpose to watch a near-midnight show?

Liberal politics? Sorry, Jon Stewart does it better.

Musical guests? Does anybody care?

All it has left is celebrity guests put into awkward skits and the "live" gimmick.

With the large cast and large group of writers, how can they afford to keep it going?

Posted by: AmishDude at December 04, 2011 03:10 PM (73tyQ)

81 so true nickless.

Posted by: mpfs at December 04, 2011 03:10 PM (HmZoH)

82 The Cain skit was funny. The voice inflection was very good. Cain IS an Amos & Andy character.

Posted by: Caren at December 04, 2011 03:11 PM (7nU6+)

83 Dallas just iced their own kicker

Posted by: USS Diversity at December 04, 2011 03:12 PM (UKlME)

84 Mel Brooks would be flayed in front of Grauman's if he tried to make a movie like "Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles or History of the World Part I" these days.

Posted by: no good deed at December 04, 2011 03:12 PM (mjR67)

Of course, Mel Brooks ain't funny any more, either.

Heretic! I'm not even Druish and I find him hilarious, in that same timeless way that the Three Stooges is still hilarious.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 04, 2011 03:13 PM (d0Tfm)

I think a good comparison of this in action today is "The Simpsons." It used to be must see can't miss. Now? I'm getting close to a decade without watching it.

Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2011 07:05 PM (GULKT)

Haven't watched it in years. The humor became clumsy, lackadaisical and severely outdated.

They tried to be topical but the dumbass writers were either too high, drunk or both to make it on time.

Posted by: ErikW at December 04, 2011 03:13 PM (W46/0)

87 Buzzion, I am a Simpsons purist. Season 1-11 are good, after that I stopped watching

Posted by: Ben at December 04, 2011 03:13 PM (UvdzB)

88 Now only its name is funny, ironically and completely unintentionally.

Posted by: ontherocks at December 04, 2011 03:14 PM (HBqDo)

89 85
They would never let him make these films today. Remember when we had a snse of humor? When we could laugh at ourselves. Not so much anymore. Doesn't help we have a humorless piece of crap in the WH either.

Posted by: mpfs at December 04, 2011 03:14 PM (HmZoH)

90 Best sketch was when Belushi did the Samarie whatever.

Best musical guest was the first when they did the surprise Simon & Garfunkle reunion. Next best was Leon Redbone.

Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2011 03:14 PM (YdQQY)

91 85

Now he just turns them into Broadway musicals.

Posted by: nickless will probably get accidentally banned again soon at December 04, 2011 03:14 PM (MMC8r)

92 The Simpsons is still on???
Wow! Just wow

Posted by: Pecos, All Perry, all the time at December 04, 2011 03:15 PM (2Gb0y)

93 Of course, Mel Brooks ain't funny any more, either.

Dude is 85 years old.
KOA (Denver) interviewed him last year -- he's considering a remake of "the 2000 year old man", because he now has enough experience.

Posted by: jwb7605 at December 04, 2011 03:15 PM (Qxe/p)

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 04, 2011 07:13 PM (d0Tfm)

Time to dust off SpaceBalls.

Posted by: ErikW at December 04, 2011 03:15 PM (W46/0)

95 SNL still produces some good stuff and always has. On today's team Kristen Wiig is funny. Jimmy Fallon of a few years back, while generally unfunny, was great as Barry Effing Gibbs. Will Ferrel ruled the 90s. Their greatest problem today is their unwillingness to take on the One. It reveals a lack of honesty and courage, two traits that have to be there for comedy to work.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 04, 2011 03:15 PM (deaac)

Heretic! I'm not even Druish and I find him hilarious, in that same timeless way that the Three Stooges is still hilarious.

His old stuff is funny. His more recent stuff is just painful.

Posted by: nickless will probably get accidentally banned again soon at December 04, 2011 03:15 PM (MMC8r)

97 Vic,
I loved Leon Redbone. I discovered him from watching SNL.

Posted by: mpfs at December 04, 2011 03:16 PM (HmZoH)

98 Remember the Thomas skits?

I remember those being funny. At least the one with Kennedy and Strom Thurmond giving Thomas advice on seducing women.

Strom: I find that fantasy role playing, that takes a women to another place and time, make their inhibitions fall away.

Kennedy: Have you tried quaaludes?

Posted by: toby928© at December 04, 2011 03:16 PM (GTbGH)

99 Saturday Night Live?

Don't you mean Night of the Living Saturday?

Posted by: Robin Munn at December 04, 2011 03:17 PM (qPRBy)

100 I saw Meat Loaf and Prince for the first time on SNL. I thought that both were hilarious skits.

Posted by: toby928© at December 04, 2011 03:17 PM (GTbGH)

101 Cheese burger, cheese burger. No Coke. Pepsi. Cig ashes dropping in the food. I loved that skit.

Posted by: Ronster at December 04, 2011 03:18 PM (/c/ec)

102 Okay, I did lol @ the Buscemi sketch. Poor guy.

Posted by: Zimriel at December 04, 2011 03:18 PM (6GvAC)

103 93 The Simpsons is still on???
Wow! Just wow

I think this is its last season. And thank God, because it has been limping along for so long that anybody just seeing now can be forgiven if they don't realize how great it was in times of yore.

There should be a 4-6 season limit to every TV show.

Now that I'm thinking about it, the last "Simpsons" anything I saw was the Simpsons movie.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 04, 2011 03:19 PM (UR5vq)

104 In the 1990s, interestingly, the Weekend Update had Dennis Miller and Norm MacDonald... both more Right than Left.

I was shocked to find out that Colin Quinn's one of us too, considering that most of his Weekend Update material was in the "That Bush sure is an idiot (applause)" vein.

Posted by: meekrob at December 04, 2011 03:19 PM (/0HuL)

105 Lisa Loopner, the Coneheads. Icons.

Posted by: mpfs at December 04, 2011 03:20 PM (HmZoH)

106

His old stuff is funny. His more recent stuff is just painful.

He's done recent stuff?

_{Damned button is stuck again. PIXY!!}

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 04, 2011 03:20 PM (d0Tfm)

107 Up next, Gene Hackman as the blind guy in YF.

You're a big mute, aren't you?

Posted by: mpfs at December 04, 2011 03:21 PM (HmZoH)

108 60 Tina Fey's Palin was memorable. Unfair and sadistic, but memorable Sounds like the time I doinked Tina's squeakhole.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 04, 2011 03:23 PM (niZvt)

109 Effin' Cowboys. 16-13 Birds. Final.

Posted by: toby928© at December 04, 2011 03:23 PM (GTbGH)

110 99 Remember the Thomas skits?

Kennedy: "That sometimes works..."

Posted by: Zimriel at December 04, 2011 03:23 PM (6GvAC)

111 I'm back. What'd I miss?

Posted by: Y-not, wearing a Carhartt jacket covered in peanut butter and doe piss at December 04, 2011 03:23 PM (5H6zj)

112 109 Sounds like the time I doinked Tina's squeakhole.

If it didn't happen in the ONT, it didn't happen

Posted by: Zimriel at December 04, 2011 03:24 PM (6GvAC)

113 Lily Tomlin: "Information supervisor ..."

My wife loved that skit.
She had that job in the late '60s.

Posted by: jwb7605 at December 04, 2011 03:24 PM (Qxe/p)

114 I loved Leon Redbone. I discovered him from watching SNL.

I first heard Leon Redbone on KFAT out of Gilroy, CA. That was a crazy station back in the early to mid 70s.

Posted by: Vic at December 04, 2011 03:24 PM (YdQQY)

115

I'm back. What'd I miss?

Recipes.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 04, 2011 03:25 PM (d0Tfm)

116 Mike Rowe's quibs during "Dirty Jobs" provides more reliable entertainment than a dozen hip, kos-kid kast members.

Posted by: derit at December 04, 2011 03:25 PM (FQlFL)

117 Not only unfunny, but they are working too hard to push the latest Democrat meme - "the President has no power, it is all Congress."

Of course when Pelosi ran the House and Bush was in the White House, everything bad was still Bush's fault...

Obama could end the current depression in six months if we wanted to. But he doesn't.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 04, 2011 03:26 PM (3aXbg)

118 FSNL

Posted by: Nickie Goomba at December 04, 2011 03:28 PM (jeLTI)

119 96 It reveals a lack of honesty and courage, two traits that have to be there for comedy to work.

Let me tell you about honesty and courage . . .

Posted by: Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff at December 04, 2011 03:28 PM (6GvAC)

120 er 19-13 Birds.

Posted by: toby928© at December 04, 2011 03:28 PM (GTbGH)

121 The Producers (196

(Academy Award, best original screenplay)
The Twelve Chairs (1970) (also actor)
Blazing Saddles (1974) (also actor)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Silent Movie (1976) (also actor)
High Anxiety (1977) (also actor/producer)
History of the World, Part I (1981) (also actor/producer)
Spaceballs (1987) (also actor/producer)
Life Stinks (1991) (also actor/producer)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) (also actor/producer)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) (also actor/producer)

So through the 70s, Brooks was hot. In the 80s, he began to dwindle. In the 90s, very tepid, even shitty.

Now, he reworks successes and minor successes from his past. The Producers went gay, Young Frankenstein's been a musical, even shit like SpaceBalls: The Animated Series.

And you know what? A LOT of those Your Show of Shows people are still around.

Posted by: nickless will probably get accidentally banned again soon at December 04, 2011 03:28 PM (MMC8r)

122 Norm and Dennis were the very best!

Posted by: Nickie Goomba at December 04, 2011 03:29 PM (jeLTI)

123 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at December 04, 2011 03:30 PM (7WJOC)

124

Obama could end the current depression in six months if we wanted to. But he doesn't. today, by resigning.

FIFY.

But, OTOH, we'd have Ol' Slow Joe in charge. That at least would be a change from willfull destruction to plain, run-of-the-mill incompetence, stupidity, ego and hubris, which would be a vast improvement...

I think.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 04, 2011 03:33 PM (d0Tfm)

125 SNL had a huge impact on culture back in the day. Everybody talked about it. Occasionally people talk about it now, but I never see it.

Posted by: USS Diversity at December 04, 2011 03:34 PM (UKlME)

126 American Thinker has a good article that outlines the underhanded nature of the democratic media.

Posted by: sTevo at December 04, 2011 03:35 PM (Ft5d7)

127 My date slapped me for explicitly enjoying her quibs.

Posted by: derit at December 04, 2011 03:38 PM (FQlFL)

128 Damn it. GB is not going to beat the spread.

Posted by: toby928© at December 04, 2011 03:38 PM (GTbGH)

129

When did SNL cease to be relevant?

About the same that everyone stopped using catch phrases from the show in day to day conversation.

The current writers belong in a van down by the river.

Posted by: Thresherman at December 04, 2011 03:41 PM (tHhkP)

130 I think we all get that and I think we all know that we aren't so much the minority but the people who understand what's really going on and the ones who must stop evil, which is what liberalism and progressivism is.

Posted by: ErikW at December 04, 2011 03:41 PM (W46/0)

131 Thank you, Mason Crosby.

Man, I'm down 13 to Kickin Ur Ass (Niedermeyer's head) and she's got SD main back and I have two Saints going... which should have been ok, except Drew kind of ignored my guys last week.

Posted by: Y-not, wearing a Carhartt jacket covered in peanut butter and doe piss at December 04, 2011 03:45 PM (5H6zj)

132 SNL never recovered from firing Michael O'Donoghue as head writer.

Posted by: toby928© at December 04, 2011 03:46 PM (GTbGH)

133 Everybody says SNL hasn't been funny since so and so left but that's not really true. From the original cast up to now almost every sketch besides one or two per episode, wasn't funny. Thing is just about every show had one decent sketch. Now maybe you get one decent sketch every five or so episodes. But in general the show sucked from the word go.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 04, 2011 03:46 PM (GZitp)

134 Belushi as Joe Cocker. Laughed my ass off.

Posted by: texette at December 04, 2011 03:48 PM (zt3lR)

135 134 Everybody says SNL hasn't been funny since so and so left but that's not really true. From the original cast up to now almost every sketch besides one or two per episode, wasn't funny.
-------
The current incarnation of SNL insists upon itself.

Even though what you say about the original is true (lots of duds surrounding a few gems), they started out as an authentic-seeming group. You could see the origins of the show.

Now it's a bunch of progressive corporate suits sitting around deciding on how to formulate the cast to appeal to whatever it is they think we rubes like.

Posted by: Y-not, wearing a Carhartt jacket covered in peanut butter and doe piss at December 04, 2011 03:53 PM (5H6zj)

136 114 Ernestine was a Laugh In skit wasn't it? One ringy dingy.

Posted by: no good deed at December 04, 2011 03:53 PM (mjR67)

137

He started waving at me like I did something wrong!

He flipped me the bird, and then he was gone!

Some beach...

Some where...

Posted by: ErikW at December 04, 2011 04:07 PM (W46/0)

138 MadTV nearly always had several very funny bits per show. Wonder why SNL can't manage this.

Posted by: JPS at December 04, 2011 04:07 PM (wS6Sf)

139 OT/ but the best thing that I've read about the inherent problems with Leftist/Statist central planning in quite a while.
PJ media link

Posted by: ontherocks at December 04, 2011 04:10 PM (HBqDo)

140 SNL has sucked since...season 4. Okay? Get over SNL already. Watch an advertisement instead.

Posted by: Corona at December 04, 2011 04:16 PM (fh2Y7)

141 SNL is for ages 15 to 22. It's crap. It's the comics section of the New York Times.

Posted by: eman at December 04, 2011 04:18 PM (tOywJ)

142 @18
Excellent point.

Posted by: Corona at December 04, 2011 04:18 PM (fh2Y7)

143

First time ever heard of or saw B-52s was on SNL. Rock Lobster, anyone? Still a big fan.

Vic? Can you tell me what Diddy Wah Diddy Wah means?

Posted by: Tommy Gunnarson at December 04, 2011 04:18 PM (ybA9f)

144 The reruns I saw of the original cast episodes were jam-packed with funny. But then I found out that 90-minute shows were cut down by 30 minutes. Pare away the worst 33% of anything and what remains verges of brilliant.

Apparently Season 6 was so horrible that none of it was ever syndicated.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at December 04, 2011 04:35 PM (a5ljo)

145 verges on, not verges of

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at December 04, 2011 04:36 PM (a5ljo)

146 I watched the Farley and Gingrich video for the first time the other day. That was good.

Posted by: David Kramer at December 04, 2011 04:36 PM (OkW7e)

147 You made a few good points there. I did a search on the matter and found a good number of people will agree with your blog.

Posted by: Soft Target ePub at December 04, 2011 04:44 PM (9r3lP)

148 The Obama skit was just awful but I laughed at the Cain bit.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 04, 2011 04:50 PM (piMMO)

149 I started to laugh at the Cain bit and then got turned off when it hit that HURR DURR HE TEH STOOPID meme.

I am biased; or else this wouldn't be one of my blog-stops. Since I'm biased, I can laugh at stupid-jokes aimed at the Right for only so long. And I'm not into watching a black comic acting stupid for laughs. Yeah, I know, I went there.

Posted by: Zimriel at December 04, 2011 04:59 PM (6GvAC)

150 I just cant stop reading this. Its so cool, so full of information that I just didnt know. Im glad to see that people are actually writing about this issue in such a smart way, showing us all different sides to it. Youre a great blogger. Please keep it up. I cant wait to read whats next.

Posted by: The Leopard iBooks at December 04, 2011 05:10 PM (W3O+n)

151 Ladies, when will you see the truth?

Posted by: We are So Fkd up at December 04, 2011 05:11 PM (2kVjW)

152

Obama jokes almost tell themselves. It must be painful to avoid them.

Posted by: kansas at December 04, 2011 05:17 PM (nNgbi)

153 You really make it seem so uderstandable with your presentation but I find this topic before really hard to understand. It seems too complicated and very broad for me.

Posted by: The Mayor of Castro Street AudioBook at December 04, 2011 05:21 PM (SuGj/)

154 When (roughly) did SNL stop being funny? Thanksgiving weekend, 1978, when I thought the announcement of the Jonestown Massacre was a particularly unfunny Weekend News Update.

Posted by: Fox2! at December 04, 2011 05:25 PM (RJOgX)

155 Can you tell me what Diddy Wah Diddy Wah means? I'm hers! She's mine! Wedding Bells are gonna chime!

Posted by: Fox2! at December 04, 2011 05:27 PM (RJOgX)

156 Wow this is soo helpful I have been trying to figure this out on my own for a long time now. Hopefully making this change will help encourage discussion on my blog.

Posted by: Beyond Religion ePub at December 04, 2011 05:30 PM (znnxR)

157 126 SNL had a huge impact on culture back in the day. Everybody talked about it. Occasionally people talk about it now, but I never see it.

Posted by: USS Diversity at December 04, 2011 07:34 PM (UKlME)

Well here's the thing, with SNL if someone is telling you about a "hilarious" skit that they did, more likely than not you're going to be going "oh people were making the same joke about that online Monday"

Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2011 05:44 PM (GULKT)

158 "PM (znnxR)"

No, no farm of mine...

Posted by: We are So Fkd up at December 04, 2011 05:48 PM (2kVjW)

159 Expect to hear this a few days after the BCS Title game "Lowest rated Championship game in past decade"

Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2011 05:49 PM (GULKT)

160 SNL hasn't been funny since about when Belushi died. Actually just a bit before that.

Only the first and some of the second years were really any good.

They've been coasting on cheap shots, Republican bias and what I call the whoo whoo mentality of the terminally intoxicated. (If your wrecked enough, you'll laugh at anything.)

Once it turned into a liberal bias cheap shots at conservatives, I never watched it again.

Plus you can count on one hand the real pros; the ones who made a career elsewhere. The rest were glad no one discovered they sucked too soon.

Posted by: Vote for me I'll set you Free! at December 04, 2011 06:06 PM (xqpQL)

161 We're funny like epub. Which means we're just annoying and unintentionally funny once every blue moon.

Posted by: SNL at December 04, 2011 06:13 PM (VxqUc)

162 I think it's been said before but Fred Armatige (or whatever his last name is) isn't even bothering to do Obama's voice.

He use to. He had SCOAMF's cadence down pretty good but now, it's like he's sorry but he has to do the role.

What gets frustrated is he can put so much more into the performance to make it that much better and he doesn't.

Posted by: Dave C at December 04, 2011 06:44 PM (pFbyw)

163 I donÂ’t usually add my comments, but I will in this case. Nice work. I look forward to reading more.

Posted by: Catching Jordan ePub at December 04, 2011 07:00 PM (QS8SI)

164 Yeah we're basically back to mid-80's SNL...the days when Eddie Murphy was the only funny thing on it.

Posted by: Sgt. York at December 04, 2011 09:45 PM (H3Kr3)

165 Hi! When I originally commented I clicked the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox now every time a comment is added I get four emails with similar comment. Is there in any manner you are able to remove me from that service? Thanks!

Posted by: Womens Moncler Jackets at December 04, 2011 09:54 PM (aGQGL)

166 Blue Oyster Cult sketch. More Cowbell! Unfortunately, few and far between

Posted by: Greek Fire at December 05, 2011 04:15 AM (HRZtz)

167 plz. "Not really even Talented Amateur level." has described SNL since 1974.

Posted by: Running Hobo at December 05, 2011 08:55 AM (l1oyw)

Hide Comments | Add Comment | Refresh | Top

Comments are disabled. Post is locked.

144kb generated in CPU 0.0948, elapsed 0.2481 seconds.
64 queries taking 0.2104 seconds, 295 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.