OT - Michigan Love on SNL
At the conclusion of SNL tonight, featured (new) cast member Mike O'Brien was sporting a suave old school Michigan cardigan. He's an alum, and seems to be getting more airtime than other members of his new white dude cadre.
January 26th, 2014 at 1:09 AM ^
Right on.
January 26th, 2014 at 1:10 AM ^
January 26th, 2014 at 1:12 AM ^
You Downton Abbey folk still hoping that the invention of the telephone is a fad?
January 26th, 2014 at 1:15 AM ^
January 26th, 2014 at 1:20 AM ^
That's an exaggeration. It got much better about 5 years ago. This last season when the whole cast turned over it took another dip but it's still not as bad as it was in the early 2000s.
January 26th, 2014 at 2:06 AM ^
SNL took a major dip at the turn of the century, got better 2005-2011, and is improving once again. It had it's great moments at times during the late 70s, 80s and 90s.
January 26th, 2014 at 8:54 AM ^
January 26th, 2014 at 1:34 AM ^
Farley was the good days? My (totally unscientific) survey over the years says people stop liking SNL about 10-12 years after they started watching. But each new half-generation seems to like the current version just fine. Maybe SNL isn't really geared to the Downton Abbey crowd.
January 26th, 2014 at 1:40 AM ^
January 26th, 2014 at 8:47 AM ^
January 26th, 2014 at 8:51 AM ^
Do you realize Seth Myers is the head writer on the show, and if he's so terrible why are they giving him is own late night show?
There really is nohting more pathetic and annoying that someone saying "X isn't funny." It's just your opinion man.
January 26th, 2014 at 12:11 PM ^
That's the ticket!
January 26th, 2014 at 7:52 PM ^
January 26th, 2014 at 1:20 AM ^
SNL has been terrible for years but the couple episodes I have watched this year have been very promising. I think this cast has some talent.
January 26th, 2014 at 1:52 AM ^
January 26th, 2014 at 1:08 PM ^
You don't see too many people in the SNL-is-or-isn't-funny-debate waxing nostalgic for the days of Colin Quinn berating the audience for not laughing at him butchering his own Weekend Update jokes. Well played, sir.
January 26th, 2014 at 1:32 PM ^
Quinn ranks up there as one of the worst people to be on the show for more than one season, and he is easily the worst news anchor of all time, by a factor of about 10 billion. An intern holding up cue cards on air would have been funnier, with a smoother delivery.
January 26th, 2014 at 10:19 PM ^
is a (kind-of) close second to him at the news desk for WOAT.
January 26th, 2014 at 2:13 AM ^
Had no idea he was an alumn. Also, Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney are great. Hope they bring some Good Neighbor Stuff to SNL.
January 26th, 2014 at 2:14 AM ^
since Chevy Chase left. Belushi was right, Brian Doyle-Murray's little brother was a major step down.
/s
January 26th, 2014 at 1:10 PM ^
That was Jim Belushi who said that, right?
/s
January 26th, 2014 at 2:32 AM ^
January 26th, 2014 at 8:36 AM ^
spelled skit incorrectly. BTW that mustve been a huge skit that clogged that toilet
January 26th, 2014 at 8:46 AM ^
Note to everyone who says SNL sucks: everybody thinks SNL is funny when they are about 16-19 (and staying up late is cool), and then realize that the show is basically not that funny when they are a bit older.
Everyone has been saying "SNL sucks, but used to be good when..." for the past 25 years (at least, in my recollection).
January 26th, 2014 at 9:05 AM ^
There's also the fact that at least 70% of the skits have always sucked, but when we think back, we tend to forget those and only remember the funny ones.
January 26th, 2014 at 10:22 PM ^
is absolutely true. They replayed the very first SNL a few years back in its entirety, and most of it was AWFUL! But the one or two that make the "best of" reels and get played into our memories are what we imagine it to be.
January 26th, 2014 at 11:18 AM ^
Doesn't it?
January 26th, 2014 at 9:08 AM ^
If you guys think these are the dark days of SNL, you don't remember the Anthony Michael Hall days.
January 26th, 2014 at 9:59 AM ^
I, for one don't.
January 26th, 2014 at 4:43 PM ^
Kid from Sixteen Candles. Not funny.
January 26th, 2014 at 10:30 AM ^
I was more the Dana Carvey fan, but SNL is fine. Maybe because I never was a dedicated watcher, I never saw the dip. Seth is hilarious though. His news segment in SNL is typically my favorite part.
January 26th, 2014 at 10:35 AM ^
Sorry to break it to you guys, but SNL has always been terrible. A few sketches are gems, but they are very few and very far between. Mostly, you are just supposed to laugh at how terrible the writing is and wonder how much heroin it took for a sketch to get written and greenlighted. Hopefully, a cast member will go off script, or break character--and that's the only time it really gets interesting.
So anyone saying that SNL isn't funny anymore--or talking about the golden years--needs to get over themselves and just enjoy mindless television for what it is...mindless television.
January 26th, 2014 at 11:02 AM ^
January 26th, 2014 at 11:14 AM ^
you must be new to this
January 26th, 2014 at 12:07 PM ^
Never worth watching after Weekend Update.
January 26th, 2014 at 12:24 PM ^
Once Norm MacDonald got let go for dropping an F bomb on live TV, what was the point?
Naa but in all seriousness, the guy that said something about how everyone thinks it was best whenever they were 16-19 is pretty spot on. For me, that was the mid/late 90's, and it is definitely the era I remember most fondly. To be fair, I haven't been a regular viewer in close to a decade, but I do catch a skit here and there because my wife DVR's it or someone will post something on facebook. I did watch some of the Louis CK episode this season because obviously.
January 26th, 2014 at 1:08 PM ^
Lorne needs to recruit better talent
January 26th, 2014 at 1:33 PM ^
Entirely unrelated, but on an "in the media" note...Howard Stern a few weeks back was ripping on MSU. He had played some audio of one of their football players (who was speaking as a...not very intelligent person) and was repeatedly commenting on the stupidty of the entire school. Fun times.
January 26th, 2014 at 1:35 PM ^
The truth is, SNL pretty much has AWAYS sucked, even during the golden years. That's how sketch comedy works. Most of it sucks to some degree (or is at least mediocre). However in all of the suckage, you find one or two nuggets of total hilarity that everyone remembers forever, and then that is all that is remembered. And that's why you watch, for those golden moments. It's like thowing darts--most of them miss, but you get a few hits that are just golden.
January 26th, 2014 at 10:19 PM ^