SNL 50
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I checked last night's 50 years music centered show a couple of times during commercial breaks of the U.S.-Canada hockey game but ended up watching very little. There's been some genuinely funny people that started at SNL -- Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, John Belushi, Phil Hartman, David Spade, Chris Farley, Norm McDonald off the top of my head -- but overall the show was a centerpiece of the leftist domination of the culture over that long period of time.
The few times I tuned in after say the turn of the century, the content seemed to be very gay, and unfunny. I enjoyed SNL some when I was young, but just like with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and most of the rest of the current crop of "comedians," who are now bitter anti-Trump propagandists, I moved on and haven't regretted it for a moment.
The few times I tuned in after say the turn of the century, the content seemed to be very gay, and unfunny. I enjoyed SNL some when I was young, but just like with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and most of the rest of the current crop of "comedians," who are now bitter anti-Trump propagandists, I moved on and haven't regretted it for a moment.
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Many of the funnier acts of the 80's and 90's would be politically incorrect now. I don't know why this cartoon wasn't pulled and scrubbed. This is a spoof of Batman and Robin...
Norm Macdonald was very politically incorrect during his several years as host of SNL's Weekend Update. YouTube has a lot of compilation videos of his riffs against a variety of targets like O. J. Simpson and Hillary Clinton, which could be pretty savage and also funny as hell. He was fired after the '97 season, which seemed to be about the time SNL became totally PC, and usually unfunny.
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Always thought Aykroyd had the most talent...
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Back in the day SNL had some good bits, but in recent years I would try to watch it now and then and wonder why with all that "talent" couldn't they come up with more funny material. It was awkward, especially with the audience not finding much to laugh about. At least it seemed that way to me. I did get a kick out of Akroyd and Steve Martin's to wild and crazy guys. "Slap my hand, black soul man."
The show just ran out of steam, with many more misses than hits.
But for whatever reason the show must go on.
The show just ran out of steam, with many more misses than hits.
But for whatever reason the show must go on.
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I stopped watching the show in the late 90's to early 2000's it was for a bunch of reasons but if the show was compelling enough I could have taped it on my VHS machine and I never bothered to.
I think the show doesn't get the top flight talent that it could got from it's inception to about that era as cable television expanded and created more opportunities and then app stations and now even if a young comedian has talent he or she can have a self published channel on social media like this fella did and have a social media moment...
PS The show also "only pays" rookie money for network television so somebody like a Bond could make more money if they market themselves on social media and hustle clubs and self publish videos.
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