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SNL Head Writer and Weekend Update anchor Seth Meyers told the LGBT-related magazine The Advocate that he "stands behind everything that happened" on last Saturday's show that has many critics crying foul over its reliance of gay jokes in almost every sketch of the night. Meyers takes the "I have plenty of black friends" defense by pointing out that there are gay writers on the show and that SNL is "on the right side of the issue." He also compared the abundance of gay-related sketches to come out of a week involving a lot of Prop 8-related discussion to this week's show where "we are having the same issue this week with Thanksgiving." The blog Defamer has been the harshest in its criticisms of the episode calling it "a gay minstrel show" and equating a sketch with two closeted mechanics to "a Yes on 8 ad." Meyers said that he generally avoids the blogosphere but that, "People on our 'side' take it far more personally when they feel offended because they feel like it is a betrayal."
Seth Meyers Defends SNL Against Claims of Homoverload
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Seth Meyers can you defend why the show hasn't been funny for years?
#1 LMAO, only Tina Fey made the show funny temporary.
and they cancelled Mad Show which was way funnier than SNL
I'm a homo and wasn't offended. It wasn't any more or less funny than any of the other episodes of SNL in the past few seasons which isn't saying much. Tina Fey as Sarah Palin I will admit was damned funny in all those skits, but the rest of the show is blah.
Woah. These people need to get a life. That show was totally inoffensive. It was silly, and funny.
And I love how everyone says SNL isn't funny anymore not realizing that it only shows how old they are. For the last twenty years generations of sad sacks have been saying that SNL was funnier "before." Like, when they were kids. Should be a clue.
gays are the new asians. that justin timberlake skit was funny
As they say across the pond, SNL is the fag-end of comedy shows.
It was funny, it was topical. Get over it. I am 46, remember when we would stop the party to watch SNL. Not every skit was funny, I LOVE this cast. They are cute and appropriate for the times. Rock on! I want someone to post Will Forte and the Colt's QB dancing on Youtube.
I love the way everyone says the show is not funny anymore, yet they still watch it every week.
Why does it seem that when anyone makes fun of the Right (Bush, Republicans, numerous douchebags) it's OK, but when it's pointed at the Left (Obama, Democrats, minorities) it's offensive?
I firmly believe that all the cast members simply wanted to kiss Paul Rudd... which is understandable. It was a bit much though.
Brooklynbobby: I've noticed the same thing; all sorts of folks saying it hasn't been funny in years, that only fools watch it, and then go on to name all the things they currently hate about this show they supposedly don't watch.
JP Lynch: don't be ridiculous. Have you managed to miss the last 18 years of Clinton and Gore caricatures?
vigil: Not being ridiculous. I consider myself liberal but have been bothered by the whining on both sides. And there is no way you can tell me that the venow spewed by the left hasn't been as nasty as that by the right.
Chris Lee, NBC is very strict about policing Youtube to make sure their clips aren't posted there. There's a pretty good archive of SNL clips on NBC.com, but it's tremendously poorly organized (and not searchable as far as I can tell); maybe you can find what you're looking for there.
@felixthecat--you think SNL isn't funny, but a cynical, predictable internet comment from someone like toby von makes you "LMAO?"
Please, Gothamist comments haven't been funny for years! Not since high school! Not since Will Farrell! Not since the early 1990's! Not since Eddie Murphy! Not since Bill Murray! Not since Chevy Chase left after season 1!
Cutting on SNL is tired and boring.
The only way this show and most of television are ever watchable is with DVR or TIVO. I just fastforward the tired skits. And very immature music selections. Like Beyonce and Lil wanyne. Other than that sometimes it is damn funny. Miss you already Amy Fey and Rachel. Hopefully the new girls will be just as good as Wigg.
JP Lynch; using the word ridiculous was a bit harsh, sorry about that, hadn't had my coffee.
Your point wasn't that the left hasn't spewed venom (which they have; there are a lot of vicious curs on the fringes of both sides, but I'd say the mainstreams forms of those jabs are not comparable-- but that's probably another conversation entirely), your point was that nobody is allowed to make fun of any democratic figure or everyone gets upset, which a quick stroll through the YouTube archives of SNL, The Daily Show, the Onion, or Stephen Colbert will show is completely untrue.
As for minorities, personally, I thought some of it was pretty funny, and some was lame, but I didn't find any of it offensive. However, I'm not gay, so I haven't grown up being viewed as a freak by the majority of the civilized world.