# SNL Purge! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-purge/369982 "2006-08-24T02:15:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-purge/369982/61 "2006-08-26T07:28:13Z")
[QUOTE=parrot recipes] Will do, zone. Lets reminisce (sp?). Farley was so good (in a van) as was Murphy. Worst cast member? Tough to choose between Denny Dillon and Robin Duke. Who was the youngest ever? Murphy? oldest? [/QUOTE] Youngest was Anthony Michael Hall. I want to say Hartman was the oldest. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-purge/369982/62 "2006-08-26T15:47:57Z")
[QUOTE=parrot recipes] I totally don’t remember that one. [/QUOTE] [From the 1988 season](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88bnudebeach.phtml). It got a write-up in the next issue of _Time_ (or maybe _Newsweek_) in which the writer described the sketch as “lame” but noted the larger point of the loosening of restrictions after NBC dumped their Standards Department. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-purge/369982/63 "2006-08-26T18:33:25Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] [From the 1988 season](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88bnudebeach.phtml). It got a write-up in the next issue of _Time_ (or maybe _Newsweek_) in which the writer described the sketch as “lame” but noted the larger point of the loosening of restrictions after NBC dumped their Standards Department. [/QUOTE] I totally don’t remember that one either, but the transcript had me chuckling. Wonder if maybe they cut it in reruns for some reason? Speaking of cutting, they should have thrown a circumcision bit in there, would have killed: _Hey, way to circumcise Jack!_ Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week folks. Please tip your waitress. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-purge/369982/64 "2006-08-26T18:37:54Z")
[QUOTE=parrot recipes] Worst cast member? Tough to choose between Denny Dillon and Robin Duke. [/QUOTE] I’d have to nominate [Charles Rocket](http://imdb.com/name/nm0734236/) for saddest. OD’ing is one thing, cancer another, but failed ambition is something else altogether. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-purge/369982/65 "2006-08-26T23:32:26Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] I totally don’t remember that one either, but the transcript had me chuckling. Wonder if maybe they cut it in reruns for some reason? Speaking of cutting, they should have thrown a circumcision bit in there, would have killed: _Hey, way to circumcise Jack!_ Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week folks. Please tip your waitress. [/QUOTE] Along those lines, I was half-expecting one of the guys to be suffering from some sort of injury to his member like being stung by a jellyfish. After all, penis + injury = comedy gold.\* Anyway, what seemed interesting to be about this “controversy” was that people only got upset about it after the show had been rerun. The first time it aired, nobody in the media seemed to notice. \*Unless you’re the guy who gets hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-purge/369982/66 "2006-08-27T01:11:56Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] Youngest was Anthony Michael Hall. I want to say Hartman was the oldest. [/QUOTE] Phil Hartman was 45 when he left SNL, but [Darrell Hammond](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0358669/) is 50 now. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-purge/369982/67 "2006-08-28T22:11:01Z")
Gah! Horatio Sanz [claims](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/08/28/horatio-sanz-im-staying_e_28138.html) he’ll be around for another season. Stay if you must, fat man, but stay away from that Update Desk! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-purge/369982/68 "2006-08-29T01:55:16Z")
I’m really gonna miss Weekend Update with Tina and Amy. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-purge/369982/69 "2006-08-29T05:06:03Z")
[QUOTE=Loopydude] I won’t miss any of them. I can’t even watch SNL anymore, it’s so pathetically unfunny. They either need a complete purge, or just cancel the damn thing and get it over with. It’s gotta happen someday. Maybe now’s the time. Free up the spot for something more entertaining, like infomercials. [/QUOTE] Yes! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-purge/369982.md?page=3)