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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI must be getting old.
I, for the life of me, can NOT find SNL funny anymore. Even the Weekend Update is losing it for me. The bands are, for the most part, eh.
I guess I just ain't up with what the youngsters find funny now.
olddots
(10,237 posts)and it seems like they make 5 shows a year and repeat them every other week .I think the talent is good but the producer should have been put out to pasture 30 years ago but he is too big and rich to fail so the show sucks because he owns it.
we are just wise (okay we are old and wise )
MiddleFingerMom
(25,163 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)hopemountain
(3,919 posts)very stupid...but funny. my daughter and can't stop laughing the next day about some of the lines, eye rolls, facial expressions, names of the freeways, exits and streets, & roads. but then, we know people who live that scene - which makes it hilarious.
it will be interesting to see the transition with some of my favs leaving: armisen, meyers, etc.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Yes... I think the show will be even worse without those veterans. But I guess new ones will take their places, just like previous turnovers.
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)i can't understand them either - i just get the names of the fwys, streets, and "burrito" every now and then.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)hopemountain
(3,919 posts)in cali who are that shallow and speak the same way :snort: it's either from the heat & fumes rising up from the freeway asphalt or brain damage from toxic bleaching and tanning agents.
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)But I will date myself. The Not Ready for Prime Time Players were IT. Full stop.
Glorfindel
(9,734 posts)Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)Flashmann
(2,140 posts)I'm older...
Last time I found SNL funny,Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman were regular cast members.
mucifer
(23,565 posts)I was watching those clips online. I don't like watching the show.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)csziggy
(34,137 posts)I quit watching before any of those people came on the show.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)LOL...The time since Phil Hartman was on SNL is not my age. I was 24-25 when it first aired...
csziggy
(34,137 posts)I quit watching about the time the original cast left. Some of them I had enjoyed when they were on Second City...
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Maybe...I'm a 1953 model.
Yeah,SCTV was the best!!!...I watched SNL IF I was home,because nothing better was on the other TWO channels. But yeah,before Carvey and company left I'd had my fill.The times I've caught 2-3 minutes here or there,in the years since,were 2-3 minutes wasted...Every time.
It's probably still funny and hip if you're high school-college age.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)I never watched much of the Carvey period, in fact, looking at the history of the show, I quit watching regularly about the time Lorne Michaels left (1980).
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)That ended a great run of female performers.
backwoodsbob
(6,001 posts)I don't even bother to record it anymore
If I'm up and nothing better is on I watch but...mmmeeehhh
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)They might have one skit a week that's worth it, if they're lucky.
Moondog
(4,833 posts)loli phabay
(5,580 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Your not missing much as of late.
Comes on NBC.
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)I'm not sure why they got cautious but they seem to have swapped timely satire for creating ongoing, often unsuccessful characters for the players, as if they're throwing them at the wall in the hope of finding some that stick.
I like some of the musical acts as well, but often not.
So maybe I'm half old.
Paulie
(8,462 posts)And Samuri Deli. Or Swill. Or Bass-o-matic.
Edit: Or Colon Blow.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)But considering I was just a kid then, my sense of humor wasn't exactly the most discriminating...
Aristus
(66,462 posts)I haven't watched the show on a regular basis in decades.
And I don't miss it...
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)I'm 35 going on 100. And for a while now the show itself sucked. But I always got a smile out of the Weekend update. That it till recently. Since the start of this season, it is blah.