I tried to watch it. I couldn't. It was just too painful. Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman and Gilda Radner... THAT was SNL. Everything else since has been NOT funny to me. (Really, wasn't Belushi doing Samauri Night Fever the best thing ever? Srsly.) Landshark.... L, J
Yeah, it hasn't been close. Jan Hooks can be funny, but the cast never jelled like the original one. Richard Pryor and John Belushi doing the Samurai bit was great too.
About the only thing I know from Saturday Night Live is the 'More Cowbell' sketch, which I've always loved.
I don't know if you ever saw Studio 60. That was set around the making of an SNL kind of show and while I loved it (it was written by Aaron Sorkin, and I love The West Wing, so) the actual 'sketches' are the most crushingly unfunny things imaginable. I hope the real Saturday Night Live isn't that bad XD
Yeah, in my opinion, SNL was all over by 1980. There have been a few bright spots since -- Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks -- but by and large, it's been just a pale version of the 1975-80 glory days. Of course, maybe it's more of a generational thing, and the humor of the '90s and '00 and '10s is just too young and hip for me. True, the show wasn't 100% funny even at the best of times, but that's what I like about the live format and the use of a repertory company. Some things will work, and some won't, and you've just got to keep trying them out.
The Bass-o-Matic sketch still makes me laugh. It's probably not as funny to people who weren't raised on commercials for the Popeil Pocket Fisherman and the Veg-o-Matic and the Ronco Bottle-and-Jar Cutter, but Aykroyd had the patter down perfectly. (40 years changes us all, but I didn't even recognize Aykroyd at first.)
Chevy Chase, by all accounts, is a first-class asshole, so I'm not sorry he left, but he was funny. Gilda I found personally endearing
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Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman and Gilda Radner...
THAT was SNL.
Everything else since has been NOT funny to me.
(Really, wasn't Belushi doing Samauri Night Fever the best thing ever? Srsly.)
Landshark....
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I don't know if you ever saw Studio 60. That was set around the making of an SNL kind of show and while I loved it (it was written by Aaron Sorkin, and I love The West Wing, so) the actual 'sketches' are the most crushingly unfunny things imaginable. I hope the real Saturday Night Live isn't that bad XD
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The Bass-o-Matic sketch still makes me laugh. It's probably not as funny to people who weren't raised on commercials for the Popeil Pocket Fisherman and the Veg-o-Matic and the Ronco Bottle-and-Jar Cutter, but Aykroyd had the patter down perfectly. (40 years changes us all, but I didn't even recognize Aykroyd at first.)
Chevy Chase, by all accounts, is a first-class asshole, so I'm not sorry he left, but he was funny. Gilda I found personally endearing ( ... )
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