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With just two new episodes so far this season, the NY Post wonders if Saturday Night Live is really dead. It's a good, if evergreen question. Horatio Sanz is certainly no Tina Fey during Weekend Update, though Gothamist has been impressed he's been able to hold it together this long. With Maya Rudoph's pregnancy, it seems like most sketches with a female character involve Amy Poehler (who rules, but maybe she needs a break). There are always dark periods of SNL (the years after the original cast left and before Eddie Murphy arrived; after Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, and David Spade left), but it's still TiVo worthy, if not stay-at-home on a Saturday night. There's always a chance there's a watercooler moment in a broadcast, and that's what keeps people watching. Gothamist hopes there will be a sketch with this week's host, Catherine Zeta-Jones, that either involves overeating or being married to a jowly old man.
What do you think of this season so far? The best moment so far was the Kanye West appearance. The NY Post also notes Juvie Hall's Saturday Night Rewritten on Sunday nights, where they perform sketches based on the previous night's show. Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller's book, Live From New York, is a great history of the casts through 2002. Whatevs has reviews of each broadcast and here are a few transcripts of shows.
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Tina Fey is okay, but she's become more self-aware as each episode goes on. Laughing at your own jokes is okay once in a while, but it's just a smidge too much.
Sketchwise, the new season suffers from the same problem that's plagued past seasons. The concepts for sketches are spot-on and you can almost feel the potential magic. But then half-way through the sketch, it just ends up going nowhere and then dying in a very "Let's wrap this up..." way.
It's as if riffing and riding on the energy of first drafts has replaced truly developing the sketches and having an editorial voice. It's been yawn-worthy for the past year and a half and they need something to make the place more solid again.
Not that I really watch it much, but Saturday Night Live is so bad lately they could stand to bring back Anthony Michael Hall and Terry Sweeney.
I wouldn't kick Amy Poehler out of bed.
Is anyone else as annoyed as me with the lack of talent on the guys side of the cast? This is a major issue as only Amy and Rachel are on the womens side of things and there is only so much they can do. They practically carry the show already, how about getting them some help, i.e. funny male cast members?
Outside of Darell Hammond and Chris Parnell (who are only good at impersonating Chris Matthews and the like), the guys creativity level is so bad it causes me dry heaves.
Fred Armisen = The WORST, uncreative, unfunny cast member since Tracy Morgan.
Seth Meyers = Average on his best nights.
Will Forte = Someone please bring back Will Ferrell to do Bush, this guy stinks!
And the rest of the XY no-names = Make a funny and I might actually remember your names.
Horatio Sanz = Even when you do stuff at the usually hilarious U.C.B., you still cant make anyone laugh. Farley and Belushi are turning in their graves at your lack of fat-guy funnies.
Speaking of U.C.B., it is sad when guys like Sherrod Small, Paul Scheer, and Aziz Ansari are busting their asses making great comedy and SNL continues to hire hacks from Second City LA and Chicago.
Its time for a change SNL---and it starts with you Lorne. Do everyone a favor and step aside!
Bring back Charles Rocket
Well for me personally, the show was certainly way down hill after will ferrel left. Frankly for me the prime time of the show was the 90s. That is the classic era I think, but thats just me. I also have a horrible feeling about the last 5 years of the simpsons, my fav. show of all time. Its sad, but again someone must think it is still funny, they keep putting it on. But I think both shows are sad shells of what they once were.
I would, certainly for the simpsons (SNL is supposed to never stop Id assume), have thought about ending things a long time ago. Seinfeld did the right thing when they ended the show. You dont fade out, you end a show on your own when you are still on top.
Seriously.. could Horatio BE any less funny? He actually sucks the humor out of any cast member NEAR Him. Whose idea was it not only to have him fill in for Tina Fey, but to KEEP DOING IT REGARDLESS OF HOW MUCH HE SUCKS? Ick.. almost enough to make me stop watching.. thank God for DVR.
SNL is like a cheap $5.00 night at UCB, with an hour and a half of inside joke aimed only at small theatre improv types.
"It's like the saying goes, 'If you try to make a horse by committee, you end up with a camel.'"
EXCEPT CAMELS ARE FUNNY.
The only one who thinks Horatio Sanz is funny is himself. His constant snickering at his poorly read jokes (lord knows he never actually memorizes his lines) makes me want to stick a pine cone down his di*khole.
The first couple episodes of any season in the past 10 years have been pretty terrible.
That being said, I think Horatio's awesome. And I lie one of the new guys, his impressions are really well crafted.
And if this season turns out half as funny as a night at UCB, I'd be thrilled.
You're allowed to say dickhole on Gothamist.
I've heard from friends in NYC who are affiliated with SNL that Amy Poehler likes to drink to excess on the weekends and is just CRAZY about anal love, once taking on 2 different back door men in one late evening. Think of that this Saturday night, y'all.
I've heard from friends in NYC who are affiliated with SNL that Amy Poehler likes to drink to excess on the weekends and is just CRAZY about anal love, once taking on 2 different back door men in one late evening. Think of that this Saturday night, y'all.
SNL has it's ups and downs all the time. Why is it always the "hip" thing to bash it? Horatio is awesome and that post about Amy is obviously written by a retarded child. Oh and SNL Rewritten is everything that is wrong with comedy. It's much easier to rewrite someone else's sketch. Write your own god damn material.
Ricky Bobby (aka retarded child): Amy Poehler is a HILARIOUS woman, and is married to an attractive, hilarious man (Will Arnett). Even if she DID cheat (which she didn't), there is no way you or your friend would have found out about it. People don't advertise a double assfuck.