The Reason Why I Keep Watching SNL

[Tx4obama]

I keep watching SNL hoping that it gets good again like it was back in the 1970s and during the 2008 election.
I am very disappointed that they haven't done a Jindal or Rush skit in the past two weekends and they still haven't found a good Michelle Obama impersonator. Without Tina Fey, Amy Poler, and political skits (Obama, Palin, Paterson, McCain, Clinton, Bush, etc.) - SNL is just not worth watching - but I am afraid if I don't watch I will miss something good and will regret it. I'll tune in for a few more weeks and if SNL keeps going downhill then it will be time to just catch the clips online on Sundays.

Anyone else feel this way?

[Siyahamba]

1. I agree

Online clips have taken away the reason to hang in there and watch it live in the hope that there will be a diamond sketch in the rough. Nowadays, if there's something good, odds are you'll hear about it Sunday and can watch the clip at your leisure.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. I do not think it will ever regain the hilarity of the original cast, or

the Eddie Murphy, Billy Crystal era.
There have been some great cast members since then, and some great moments. But there is no consistency, and very little really biting satire. Guess they are part of NBC.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. No-- I have a life.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Have you ever considered a career in the diplomatic corps?

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Lately, the show has become more about Lorne Michaels than anyone or anything else.

It used to be about the performers, then about the writers.

Now, it's just seems to be a vanity project for Michaels.

They need new blood if they have any hope of shaping things up over there.

Oh, and they need to get back into making the skits more for the "stage" than for YouTube.

SNL was always better when all the action happened live, without all the editing and "short films."

[BlooInBloo]

6. They are good and bad in waves... The ackroyd/murphy/belusi/etc. crowd was obviously the best....

but they've had other good wave-crests, as well as other bad wave troughs.

With Fey and Ferrell gone, it's probably safe to say that they're in a trough at the moment.

[IDemo]

7. I have tuned in occasionally, but only for a few minutes

That's about all I can take. The Palin/Hillary skits were great, but beyond that the show should have been yanked years ago.

[TahitiNut]

8. I agree ... but I rarely watch for the same reasons. Tonight was just crap. Lame.

:shrug:

[hibbing]

10. it blows

Hi,
Yeah, I still tune in depending on the host and the music and what is taking place in the news. I lasted about 10 minutes tonight before flipping. I am afraid it is gone for the ages now, but you never know.

Peace

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

9. I thought tonight was kind of funny. They have a few good castmembers on there..

when they leave its over for snl.

[BobTheSubgenius]

11. I can't imagine it recapturing the outrageousness of the 70's.

Very little like that had ever been seen before, and they created a style and mystique as they went. I watch it mainly because there's little else on in the time slot, it's nice to have something on whilst I putz around on the Net and Weekend Update is often pretty good.

[Lint Head]

12. For some of the talent they have on the show the writing sucks.

The majority of the skits are uninspired and lame. The Loren Michaels formula that formers SNL players talk about has run it's course. They are afraid to piss powerful people off. The court jester is a tradition that is dead on SNL.
:dem:

[dysfunctional press]

13. if they ever do have something 'really good' on ever again- it will be ALL over you tube, pronto...

you really won't miss a thing.

[Confusious]

14. I haven't watch SNL since the middle 90's

probably before Darrel Hammond started. It just started to suck, and sucked more as time went along. It came up a little with Tina Fey ( HOT! HOT! HOT! ) but it sank back down. If I miss something, someone will post it on U-tube, but even the things people have posted over the past months haven't been very good.

Save yourself some time, get a bikini wax or something, it'll be less painful then watching SNL.

p.s. I think Lorne Micheals went repug, so I REALLY hold out no Hope. Have you ever seen a Republican comedian??
1/2 hour news hour anyone?

[question everything]

15. I pretty much stopped watching SNL after the 70s

and just picked it up again this season, starting with Tina Fey "bitch" commentary, after which that black dude who tried to counter her the following week was just that - a weak pathetic imitation. Apparently he was there tonight and I turned it off after he went on and on about... don't know.

I agree with you: was hoping for some bites about Limpdick and the exorcist Jindal and Steele.

Even their "weekend news" are lame. Poor Seth Meyer - apparently the head writer - always reads the lines and then waiting for the laughter that, more often than not, appears more polite than cheerful.

I have no idea what the McGruber is all about, or that woman character who cannot stand still for one minute. Perhaps this means that in the 70s this show and I clicked better.. and it is for the younger crowd. Though their Halloween show was really for adults.

Thus, I will continue to ignore SNL until 2012.

[Onceuponalife]

16. 3 reasons to keep watching

Kristen Wiig
Will Forte
Bill Hader

[Bombtrack]

17. SNL will continue to be leaps and bounds better than it was througout Tina Feys entire reign

That is her reign as HEAD WRITER, not her return appearances as Palin, which she was fantastic at. But the years she presided over, by coincidence or not, were the worst in my lifetime. It's gotten way better since and she fits way better with something like 30 Rock.

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

18. I feel just the opposite.