Was SNL always this bad or has it gotten worse over time?

Was SNL always this bad or has it gotten worse over time?

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the "fuck drumpf" phenomenon has inspired every show touching the subject to sink to new lows.

Its more or less always been atrocious

I remember staying up late to watch it when guys like Phil Hartman, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Mike Myers, Norm McDonald, David Spade which is considered kind of like one of two 'good eras' of SNL and even back then if there were 8 skits in the show, 7 would be fucking horrible with one that was funny.

SNL hasn't had a single funny skit in like 15 years though so maybe its the worst its ever been

kek that was hilarious

trumpfags so fucking sour

SNL is like the Radioshack of TV

No one knows how Radioshack stays open, no one knows how SNL stays on the air

Oldfag here, SNL hasn't been good since the mid 90s

The best part is that Trump will lose and it will reinforce this behaviour

They're not even making fun of Trump fans though it was just like this wet blanket of a joke that they understand each other.

Current SNL is always considered worse than the previous years.

Then in five years everyone will go, "Wow SNL sucks, it was better five years ago."

snl been bad since amy poeler and tina got on air

I didn't actually watch it

Just like they're saying "wow Simpsons was better 5 years ago" right?

It's not been good it nearly 2 decades.

There was only a ten year period where SNL was consistently good. It's been garbo for most of its existence.

I can't wait for Tom Hanks to be exposed as a pedophile so they can cancel ToyStory 4
meme magic is real

>ten year period where SNL was consistently good.

Thats being generous.

Even in its 'good years' the ratio of funny skits to really bad skits was still extremely horrible. Its just that they havent made anything funny in over a decade that makes that era seem 'good'

Other than the ending that was actually pretty funny.

SNL has always been heavily dependent on a few actors and writers to come up with a good sketch or two every week amid the rest of its mediocrity. Unfortunately for the show, there hasn't been a standout writer or actor in some time.

Awww, poor babby, did dey hurt your feefees by making fun of daddy Trump?

came in here to post pretty much this

Wah why are the mean liberals mocking me

If only I had some kind of safe space where they'd leave me alone

The entire skit was about white liberals laughing at poor people. They were probably laughing hardest at the fact that black people and Trump supporters have much more in common than they do but black people still vote for Hillary.

RadioShack filed for bankruptcy in 2014

There's only a handful left

>Lorne Michaels (((Lipowitz)))

Why are you surprised?

Typical redditor that just comes to shitpost and never contributes anything.

>in other news, Wiki leaks has released thousands of documents from the Clinton campaign.
>here to talk about sexting and dating as a powerful black woman, our very own Leslie Jones!

Sketch comedy is very hit or miss. When it works it's pure gold though.

Their big problem is not enough original characters. It's all celebrity impressions and current events.

They used to make fun of Bob Dole/Bill Clinton and even Hillary in 2008.

But not Obama, and now that most media is firmly controlled by the state backed establishment they can only repeat the narrative that Trump hates blacks/women etc.

The only two people who actually have a clue what this shit was about.

There was nothing to make fun of Obama about. He was young, charismatic and he didn't have a string of failures connected to his name.

Bush on the other hand was easy to build up as a laughable oaf and make a lot of jokes about.

Even Obama's failings have been essentially boiled to him being a complying tool for the bankers and that stuff isn't really funny.

That didn't even really mock anyone. If anything, it mocked black culture more than the stupid rednecks.

This. The joke was, for NY snobs, Trump people "are niggers". It was fucking strange.

Come on in 2008 they literally had nothing to go on until Palin entered the scene. Those episodes before she turned up were complete dead shit.

MDE has a 100% awesome rate

i unironically laughed at them poining out that niggers and hicks are basically the same people

There are a few very good sketches with the new SNL
youtube.com/watch?v=2XOwNpZ9XDM

Something being better than it currently is doesn't mean it was good, just not as bad as it was. If SNL keeps getting worse then in 5 years you can say "it was better 5 years ago", it'll just mean it wasn't as shit as it's gotten dispite being shit already.

wrong one.
Original was way better:
youtube.com/watch?v=0xZ52mG1yIo

there's nothing funny or sinister about almost pretty much anybody, but media always make some shit up when they need to, no matter how much they have to distort reality

Theres still 1,743 Radioshacks open in the US

>liberal delusion

The jokes are just lame. Sorry, friendo. That's life.

Theres just as much stuff to make fun of Obama or Clinton as there is any Repub politician

They're okay. You're just triggered. See you Nov. 8

The biggest, funniest joke today is how almost all celebrities, comedians and media are talentless democrat whores

This. A few skits here and there were pretty funny but if you go to Netflix and watch an entire episode from the "good years" you'll laugh at like 2 skits and realize the rest was shit.

thanks for correcting the trumpcord!

Sure thing, buddy. I'll be posting in the Trump victory thread. What will you be doing? Crying?

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Did they try to warn us?

>I'll be posting in the Trump victory thread.
What's that, your local autism awareness club?

>We learn this from Jim Downey, the longtime “Saturday Night Live” specialist in political japery.

>If I had to describe Obama as a comedy project, I would say, "Degree of difficulty, 10 point 10." It's like being a rock climber looking up at a thousand-foot-high face of solid obsidian, polished and oiled. There's not a single thing to grab onto - certainly not a flaw or hook that you can caricature.

>Obama was doing a cameo in the cold open. Lorne told me he would show my sketch to Obama. "If Obama thinks it's OK, they won't be able to argue it." I thought it was a brilliant idea, except why would Obama ever give this thing his blessing? What if word got out? "Hey, everybody, that guy over there said it was cool. The one running for president of the country." But I loved Lorne for caring this much and being willing to go that far to get this thing on TV. Obama said, "It's funny, but no, I don't think so."

>The last couple seasons of the show were the only two in the show's history where we were totally like every other comedy show: basically, an arm of the Hollywood Democratic establishment. Jon Stewart was more nuanced. We just stopped doing anything which could even be misinterpreted as a criticism of Obama.

>liberal """humor"""

are you one of the SNL writers?

>I'll be posting in the Trump victory thread

Trump has more real estate in The Salton Sea than he does The White House senpai, it's time to give up

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>both dumbass black people and dumbass white people are paranoid about da gubmit

kek

There has been PLENTY to make fun of Obama about,

But surprise, the liberal writers for SNL are too afraid to heckle the sacred cow of liberalism, for fear of social and career suicide.

Like how long do you think a conservative comedy writer who has great skit ideas for lampooning Obama and his lobbyist connections would last at NBC/Comcast?

I'm guessing 5 minutes after his pitch he would be fired.

i wanted trump to win because at least he looked like a decent entertainer, a la obama.

now, i'm convinced president hillary will make me laugh way more.

Hmm, I wonder if that /leftypol/ autist is in this thread?

Sigh....

it's probably obamaleaf

every board should have flags in election season

Nobody says that. If anything The Simpsons is better now than it has been in 10 years

Why are you stalking me?

>citing subjective data from cherrypicked rallies
>while ignoring the actual polls showing Clinton likely wining by a landslide
Clinton is statistically tied with Trump right now in UTAH and TEXAS, two of the reddest states out there.

And your rebuttal will be:
-LOW ENERGY, SAD! (or some of other shitpost, like CTR shill)
-Those are MSM polls, they're liars trying to rig the system! (there's no proof of this, btw)
-Just you wait and see! On election day, I'll be drinking your liberal tears! (I'm not liberal, just sane and able to face reality. Also, that's what you fuckers said in 2012 with Romney, remember?)

>I'M NOT THE MAD ONE YOU ARE

lmao get raped leftypol

an actual CTR shill lol

We have your facebook too.

WTF TOM HANKS IS OPENLY A TRUMP SUPPORTER?

why does he want to kill his career at this point?

No, it only got bad when it disagreed with your specific political ideology.

>i wanted trump to win because at least he looked like a decent entertainer, a la obama.

>now, i'm convinced president hillary will make me laugh way more.
Yeah, when I will put bullet in your sorry-head in World War 3, americuck.

All of this shit gets of my nerves because it distracts from the matter at hand.

For instance, Jon Stewart regularly visited the fucking White House during times of crisis so that Obama could personally help him formulate political spin for the Daily Show audience.

It's not illegal at all. Isn't it kind of fucking disgusting anyway?

politico.com/agenda/story/2015/07/jon-stewarts-secret-white-house-visits-000178

>Well, buried inside an AP story about how late-night comedians are targeting Republicans with their humor (go figure!) is a quote about how these joke writers might handle the next president (emphasis mine):

>While Trump is clearly “the gift that keeps on giving” for comedians and Bernie Sanders opens himself up to material, Loftus said Hillary Clinton is kind of a dull subject for jokes. Meanwhile, Noah found the Republican primary contenders, particularly Ted Cruz and Chris Christie, a font of material.

>Got that? Hillary Clinton is a “dull subject for jokes”! Private servers, deleted emails, a passion for power, putting up with Bill’s womanizing, $250,000 per paid speech, nearly losing to a self-avowed socialist, frequent lies, her awkward laugh, her terrible speech delivery, wiping her server “with a cloth,” her decades in politics…none of these things is interesting for comedy writers, apparently!

There's one thing college aged hipsters have over you

A future :v)

The "Alt-Right" does not exist. Nice meme.

Spot on. There's always that one memorable skit. The rest of the show is second hand embarrassment that gets pity applause and laughs by the audience.

the reason why comedy isn't funny anymore is because they are overwhelmingly liberals on liberal owned media, and liberalism has become the status quo, so they just make shit up about the other political ideals, things that are highly contrived so they don't have the necessary foundation to actually become funny as the comedy progresses

people laughing at this don't actually find it funny, its just programming

laughtrack liberal stuff

>college hipsters
>not homeless debt slaves with useless degrees

Every time.

Buddy, I do this for
F R E E
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And what I do isn't shill the hill. I try to stump the trump. Big difference, faggot.

I don't care about this show at all but I'm following this election a lot as a non-american and all of your news stations keep playing it as if it's some sort of biting satire.

Do your news stations have a deal with the makers of SNL or something? Even Fox News shows this. Why?

He is Orthodox Christian, ofc he is pro Trump and Russia.

maybe its getting worse then

>conservative """""comebacks"""""
I'm surprised you even know what the thread is about, Sup Forums.

Can't wait until this election is over holy fuck

Is this Kinó?

wtf I've seen this exact same comment in other boards, are you the same person or CTR has a list of comments which are completely not normal in Sup Forums

But seriously , how new are you?

plz CTR, lurk more, and stop embarrasing yourself

>its another lets make fun of trump sketch

Is this the new normie meme?

I'm going to assume even when Hillary is president the media is just going to shit on Trump continuously for the next four years like they did on Bush for the entire Obama administration

Even though Trump was never fucking President of anything everything that goes wrong will still be his fault somehow

But thankfully by the time 2020 rolls around we'll have Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz to be personally responsible for the new wars in Libya and Syria, the new recession, China achieving Pacific hegemony, Iran's successful nuclear test, etc.

what the fuck quadsguy

>If I speak like them, then I win!
Typical liberals """comeback""".

During the Bush Administration the White House routinely leaked talking points to friendly media outlets.

Did you forget that the march to invade Iraq was cheered on by pretty much all of mainstream media? Maybe, I'm assuming you were like 7 in 2002.

It has nothing to do with liberals and conservatives.

Government will do what it can to make itself appear favorable, like any institution.

>>not homeless debt slaves with useless degrees

That's programmers. It's insanely easy to get a job with a college degree that's not highly competitive

Do you have a retirement plan?

NEVER POST THIS AGAIN

also checked

nice quads

Can't wait for 4 whole years of laughs. Thanks, president Clinton II

Utter waste of quads.

Why is it always a shitpost? Why can it never be a constructive and positive Batemanposter?

>CTR is this desperate

I remember the Bush administration. I remember when "political comedy" was shitting on those in power, not white knighting those in power.

We're eight fucking years in and since nobody has ever really satirized Obama yet, it's safe to say no one ever will. And since Hillary's next, we'll be well past a decade since anyone on television made fun of the President of the United States.

Pathetic.

Hillary is like this bitch from futurama

what is the most popular explanation for this on Sup Forums?

The whole thing was cringy but the last joke was good to be sincere.

I don't even know why this show exists and Americans watch it.
Watched a few episodes when I was in the states a couple years back. Watched a few now. Nothing changed. It is still the worst comedy show ever made.
It is just not funny, it was never funny.
The sketches are all not funny.
The actors are not funny.
The acting is beyond bad, the comedic timing is nonexistent.
I don't get how people could launch successful careers from this platform (Kimmel, lesbian from the new ghostbusters, Leslie jones etc.)

Please amerifriends explain this phenomenon.
Are you all retarded when it comes to good comedy?

abandoning eugenics was a mistake