Everyone I know refuses to watch it because it’s “lame”. I agree that it has its lame parts, but on the whole, I think it’s friggin’ hilarious. Am I alone? Are they actually doing the show just for my benefit? Do they know this?
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Hey i like SNL. Who can resist laughing at Mr Peepers come on man.
“Hey Marge did you know they have the Internet on computers now?”
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I for one love SNL, and I know a lot of people who do. I don’t see why anybody would find it “lame.” It’s great. And if it’s “lame,” that’s only because the people have like a week to learn an entire script with like an hour of acting per person, and like 2 minutes to get their costumes on. I’d say they do a damn good job, and as a great (well, maybe.) man once said, “If you could do better, then we’d leave it up to you.”
And, like, I, like, like the likes of liking like. Ugh. I need to learn how to proofread.
I end up watching it about half the time, but I think that it’s at best “O.K.”. I think the quality of the skits would be vastly improved if they would shorten them by about 40%. They tend to start out funny, and then go on… and on… and on… and on… and on… and on… and on… and on… and on… and on… and on…
And for more MPSIMS, my favorite skit now is “The Lady’s Man”. My least favorite is that NPR thing that doesn’t even have the decency to start off funny. Then it goes on… and on… and on… and on… and on… and on… and on… and on… and on… and on…
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I would have totally forgotten it was one in an hour, if it weren’t for this thread.
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The NPR thing is usually not-funny, but one of the funniest skits I’ve seen in a long time was an NPR bit with Alec Baldwin as George Schweddy, who made chocolate balls for Christmas…
“I just love your balls. Can I lick them?”
“Yes, I have to agree. I love to hold your Schweddy balls.”
I much prefer MAD TV although when it ends I’ll go to SNL and see the news part.
SNL… blech. It’s interesting in a freeway accident sort of way. About on par with Tom Green.
It has it’s up moments and it’s down moments. Many years ago, I loved it. Then I stopped watching it, but when I started again, I though it was too lame for words. Then I strted watching it again about a year and a half ago. It’s pretty damn funny. Sometimes.
I love SNL…even though I am sick of pop stars taking over the music portion (although I have to admit, although this is embarrassing, that I was so impressed by *NSYNC that I went out and bought their album! Sheesh, too old for that!)
I LOOOOVE the Ladies Man. The funniest ever was the Viagra skit, when he looks at Delta Burke’s picture and says, “Uuuumm yeaaaah, that’s niiiiiiiice.”
Another classic is when Mary Catherine Gallagher finds true love with Jeff Goldblum and they do a skit from “Last Dance” by Donna Summer.
One more: Whitney Housten, Penny Marshall, and Rosie O’Donnell doing a Mary Catherine skit and cracking up midway through. I nearly peed I laughed do hard! =)
I think it takes a special kind of twisted humor to appreciate SNL these days!
Seems I’m always having to come forward to defend this great American institution.
Saturday Night Live is funny. A skit may fall flat here and there but all in all it is great. The current cast is very sharp especially Cheri Oteri, Tim Meadows, Horatio Sanz, Tracey Morgan. Colin Quinn is a brilliant newscaster (I’m finally over losing Norm). The best offering lately: “Uncle Jemima’s Malt Liquor”.
Why anyone would think Mad TV etc. is funnier/better escapes me. I think that simply reveals a deficit in character.
My sister was in the same comedy troupe (Acme Improv) as most of the cast of Mad TV. So I refuse to watch it in protest. Of what, I do not know. ::shrug::
I saw the NPR Y2K sketch and loved it. “It’s four o’clock, which would when Noah Adam’s and All Things Considered would be on, but unfortunately Noah starved to death six months ago. Not so great news for him, all things considered.” Maybe it’s because I listen to NPR a lot, but it amused me.
And the cheerleading sketch with David Duchovney was a hoot.
But I DO wish the guest stars would learn their lines ahead of time. It’s so obvious when they’re desperately looking from one telepromter to the other.
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