SNL makes fun of Sparty

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If any of you saw last night, SNL had a very funny sketch which I believe was something of an insult to MSU. I looked for a Youtube video but this, none are available for last night's one but here is the first installment from October:

 

http://www.mlive.com/tv/index.ssf/2011/12/snl_brings_back_michigan_stat…

 

(Somebody please help me embed, I am not good with HTML stuff)

LSAClassOf2000

December 11th, 2011 at 1:48 PM ^

....if someone could even find the sketch on YouTube or Hulu, never mind that it really isn't funny, in my opinion. NBC tries to keep iron-fist control of what content is or isn't available for unpaid consumption, it seems. This especially seems to be true of classic SNL stuff.

EDIT: BrownJuggernaut comes through below!

 

BostonWolverine

December 11th, 2011 at 1:37 PM ^

SNL is the television equivalent of Weezer.

They were totally awesome in the past, and every once in a great while you see a flash of brilliance, but at the end, the only reason you're still paying attention is in the vain hope that they'll do something that lives up to the standards set by their past.

/deep thoughts

Tater

December 11th, 2011 at 4:32 PM ^

SNL has been like that since the first round of future stars left.  They are never really all that great to watch in realtime, even if they are good for a few laughs, but they are great in retrospect when you are watching people who went on to be stars.  

I don't know if that makes it consistently ahead of its time or just mediocre, but usually they are at their best when a high-profile alum returns and we can all remember how "funny" that person was when they were originally on the show.

The Bugle

December 11th, 2011 at 9:36 PM ^

The thing is, almost no one likes SNL when it is being made.  My favorite seasons by far were the early 90s with stars such as Chris Rock, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Norm Macdonald, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, etc.  At the time almost no one appreciated a lot of the stuff they were doing and consistantly everyone said "SNL sucks" it was better in the olden days.

Whether this is do to the comedy being before its time or just the appeal of seeing stars before they made it big...I'm not entirely sure.  You can see the same thing with people's opinions of Will Farrell on SNL in the early 2000s.  It was appreciated a lot less back in the day.  

johnvand

December 11th, 2011 at 1:55 PM ^

Yes they try and trot her out there every skit they can to try and save the trainwreck like they used to do with Will Ferrell.  Only difference is that Will Ferrell was funny as hell.  Wiig is the least funny person on the entire planet.  Well, second least, I can't imagine Dantonio has ever said anything funny in his life.

DY

December 11th, 2011 at 2:09 PM ^

is a sketch about making fun of MSU, just using the name of a large public university that would have the resources to allow students to produce something like this.

People always complain about SNL being funny in the past and not funny now, but I've been watching consistently since the Carvey-Hartman days and I can say that SNL stil does well what they've always done well: politcal humor, commercial parodies, and Weekend Update. The Digital Shorts are usually pretty good and weird. They just don't have a go-to peformer right now who can do everything and the younger cast members are always trying new things that appeal to them, most of it bombs.

There are probably 14-year olds out there who thought this sketch was hilarious and in 15 years they'll be the ones complainig about how SNL isn't funny anymore. That's just how SNL works.

m1jjb00

December 11th, 2011 at 3:07 PM ^

SNL waxing and waning is a cycle as imutable as the seasons and ides . Scratch a 50 year old and listen to him go on about how great Chevy was, or talk to someone in their low 40s about how bad it was with just Pisicipo after Eddie left.  

Muttley

December 11th, 2011 at 3:39 PM ^

I quit watching in the middle.

I was drawn in by the intrigue of a potential Sparty schadenfreude skit, but was tremendously disappointed to find that it was just an incredibly stupid skit of a college tv show.  Fictitiously attributed to MSU television.