Reply #10: Tha t whole amateurishness thing

[joebascemy]

has been around since rthe show came on the air, but now it just seems lika tired style of comedy or maybe just plain bad work. I haven't made a point of watching it in quite a while. I'll tune in to see if there is any good topical stuff on, but there is a great deal I just don't get because I'm not interested or involved in mass culture in quite the same way as I used to be. There is no actual hip when it means that to be current, you have to be Republican. A lot of these shows give me that feeling now, and SNL has been a kind of suck up show politically for a long time. The sharpest lines are aimed at the least powerful, and pull punches when the target is powerful and popular.