What happened to Saturday Night Live?
It seems like it's practically irrelevant nowadays, I personally stopped watching it regularly in 2008-2009. I watched the new episode and I'm just astounded and dumbfounded by how bad it's gotten. Even Keenan can't save this shitshow.
What happened to Saturday Night Live?
Eli Bell
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Cooper Campbell
Well Sup Forums? Is she right?
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Daniel Thomas
Standup and sketch comedy are quickly becoming dead mediums at the point. Younger people only think of comedy in terms of memes. Millennials and younger don't care for actual jokes.
Benjamin White
Not really a lot of popular comedy is just skits on YouTube. They just have shit talent at SNL
Alexander Moore
the animal on the left is a prime example on why niggers are not humans.
Isaiah Walker
People have literally been saying this since season 3.
Hunter Allen
>a lot of popular comedy is just skits on YouTube.
[Citation needed]
>shit talent
>SNL
pick 1 and only 1. The core cast from 2015 is still there.
Aiden Peterson
Exceptional talent actually. I think the live format does absolutely everyone; performers, writers, and audience members alike a disservice. If they retooled it to a monthly show that had been rehearsed to the teeth it would be awesome.
Lincoln Reyes
Soooo just like MadTV then?
Cooper Gutierrez
>I think the live format does absolutely everyone; performers, writers, and audience members alike a disservice. If they retooled it to a monthly show that had been rehearsed to the teeth it would be awesome.
I, and many long-term fans would drop the show entirely. The entire point of the show is that it is Saturday Night LIVE. If they did a reboot or a spin-off for scripted material that would be one thing but SNL is the only thing stopping me from going out and drinking on Saturday nights.
Chase Peterson
>watch SNL when Chappelle was hosting
>literally 15 minutes of commercials after every 5 minute sketch
Fucking jews
Evan Russell
>exceptional talent
>show is 95% unfunny these days
Sebastian Howard
Say this from time to time here, you idiots have problems.
Idiots like you seem to see and think about Jews non-stop, beyond most actively practicing Jews I know.
Dog shits in your yard? Bet you think Jews
Stuck in traffic? Let me guess, Juden?
History doesn't support your worldviews? Know the answer.
Before you call my attack Jewish, let me admit I am. Doesn't make me wrong though.
Blake Powell
>show is 95% unfunny these days
Post a source for "95%", I'll wait. (You're wrong btw)
Jordan White
Jump in an oven moshe
Jeremiah Turner
>writing a long-winded response to someone because they said "Jews"
lol?
Nathan Brooks
That's just hateful and uncouth.
Hunter Moore
post a source proving otherwise
>muh burden of proof fallacy
brainlet.
Ryder Fisher
dude the current cast is utter shit. possibly the worst it ever has been. we will never see a return to the GOAT original cast, the godly 80's resurgence casts, the Sandler/Rock/Myers cast or will Ferrell era.
Jonathan Edwards
>post points out how the show has disproportionately more commercials than content
>'waaaaah he said the j-word'
Nolan Cook
>can't provide a source for his erroneous claim
>f-fallacy!
t. IQlet
If you provided actual statistics we could have a discussion but as it stands you have nothing important to say it seems. SNL has been running for decades, you can't just wave your wand and magically declare that it's "95% unfunny". Show proof or shut the fuck up.
Chase Nelson
>anyone unironically thinking SNL is talented
oh to be so fucking blue pilled again...
Easton Harris
>dude the current cast is utter shit.
>DUDE I DONT WATCH THE SHOW LMAO
Who exactly is 'utter shit' objectively speaking?
Sebastian Phillips
not that user, but you're literally an autist if you are taking that percentage claim used to emphasize a point as an actual claim of statistics.
PKYS
Samuel Reyes
There have been some genuinely talented people to go through the show, but if you're talking about it right now then yeah.
Joseph Turner
t. retards that doesn't even watch the show
Watch this and try to tell me its not funny.
youtube.com
You literally can't.
Blake Evans
A lot of the enjoyment of the show comes from seeing which cast members or hosts can wing their way out of a shit situation.
Many of the more memorable skits came from people improvising live, an example being Chris Farley's Motivational Speaker.
Logan Powell
i assure you i'm talking about right now SNL
>tfw you'll never have Belushi samurai chef skits or token black guy Eddie Murphy skits
the problem with SNL is they're so busy trying to sell their politics and ethics that they forget they're supposed to be making you laugh first. Laughter comes at riding the line between taboo/offensive and not
Juan Adams
>>a lot of popular comedy is just skits on YouTube.
>[Citation needed]
Look up the ratings for an episode of SNL, then look up the views of a popular YouTube sketch video. You will see a huge disparity.
Ian Davis
SNL regularly gets tens of millions of views on YouTube, you are literally delusional.
Nicholas Anderson
It's been bad as long as I can remember. I'm 34. I have no idea why people like it. But then, I never found any of the Will Ferrell movies funny,
Kayden Parker
The cast sucks. That's fucking it. None of them are funny, at all. There is no Bill Hader, no Andy Sanberg, no Will Ferrell, no Eddie Murphy.
SNL has had, for long stretches, transcendent comedic talent. Right now, it has a cast less funny that my fucking friends shooting the shit.
Dylan King
Yeah and so do a lot of YouTube channel skits. Your "citation needed" implied that you didn't believe there was a lot of popular comedy on YouTube. You are literally retarded.
Justin Stewart
This was predictable as fuck and actually incredibly average and typical of what their comedy is now.
>Normal person (typically the host)
>Two ridiculous people;
>uncomfortable situation for the normal person
>personal space gets invaded awkwardly (classic kristen wigg joke that began with her deformed arms character)
>ALWAYS ALWAYS ends with the "normal person" doing a 180 and going along with the ridiculousness as a "TWIST"
painfully unfunny user. genuinely. I'm sorry but i legit tried to enjoy it, but as soon as i predicted where it was going it just collapsed.
Henry Sanders
ya I agree some scetches are just not funny but it seems like they always have down times. Maybe all their good riders left and they need time to recuperate.
Sebastian Morgan
When I was younger I always wanted to grow up and be on this show.
Now that I'm doing my own sketch comedy (before you ask, yes it is shit) I couldn't think of anything worse than being on the show right now.
Luis Torres
Lorne Michael should bury SNL in a grave along with his own body
Oliver Jones
Had a couple funny moments, but most of it was miss. Nowhere near as good as anything from old SNL.
Joseph Gray
very painfully unimpressed and it felt like my soul shrank watching this.
maybe if the show wasn't so busy trying to bust up patriarchy and whiteness and empowering gays and black people it could actually attempt some edge and have a skit that suggests that black people see racism in fucking everything while a white guy is doing literally nothing. Legitimately, literally, nothing remotely racist. Or how about a skit where gays are demanding respect while at the same time being blatantly disgustingly overly sexual and fetishistic.
That would achieve a surprise out of me and with surprise comes a laugh. but nah. SNL can't achieve either.
Lincoln Davis
Those YouTubers pale in comparison to SNL whcih is why I needed a citation in the first place, because it's simply not true. I"m sorry that you are literally wrong about everything all the time but you don't have to name-call like a child, sweetie.
Grayson Mitchell
its nothing more than pandering to the reddit tier "le drumpf" crowd.
I voted for Rand, and think the whole election was a WWF spectacle for the rubes, but the shitty flat, applause sign jokes are like watching bad high school talent show skits
Isaiah Flores
best ratings in 20+ years
thank Trump, it will be fun to laugh at him for a while
and go back to not caring about snl after he is no longer
Jeremiah White
>wrong all the time
you are literally the only wrong person in this entire thread right now.
t. mike user
Camden Miller
hahaha
oh wait. you're serious.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
William Smith
>a non rebuttal
aaaaaaaand scene.
Ian Peterson
>cast sucks
>writing sucks
>shoe is written from out of touch NY liberal POV
>nobody watches TV anymore
>there are no celebrities worth tuning in to see them host
>can't push any boundaries and do anything slightly offensive
>no bands to tune in for
>you could literally be doing anything else
hmm I wonder
Nathaniel Ross
Honestly the quality of SNL has never been really good, it's just a show that has stayed super up to date with the young folk, and that demographic constantly changes so you are left behind, it won't be the last time it happens
Jose Barnes
mad TV was always better
Noah Sanchez
>Jewish, let me admit I am
GET OUT
Thomas Taylor
The scene you shared has a SINGLE LAYER of comedy. There is no depth. There is no commentary about a silently understood and unspoken truth about society or relations in the workplace in general going on.
it's """"funny"""" because it's /seemingly/ an uncomfortable situation for the guy to be hit on by two ladies he hasn't even met, which is such a basically constructed and 1 dimensional joke that it is painful.
But then the joke pops itself by the guy revealing that he isn't entirely all that uncomfortable, and choosing the skinny chick, who he had just admitted to barely even knowing. It's a joke that kills itself. Learn some taste you pleb.
Carson Carter
>American "comedy"
Are Americans good at anything besides killing people?
Cameron Nguyen
Its to liberal and not edgy anymore...they used to make fun of people because it was funny now they just do it to be cool
Kayden Allen
user you fucking retard, all he is trying to say is that the show is mostly unfunny.
How the fuck can someone be that fucking dense?
Ryder Martinez
Seth Myers and Tina Fey happend. Seth wanted to play Jon Stewart-light, introducing what Norm MacDonald called "agenda comedy".
Fey found popularity by pimping out Disney Starlets.
Meanwhile, Samberg, Hader, and Moynihan left leaving behind middle aged Ghostbuster "actresses".
The show is propped up by Baldwin's clown act of Trump and fat ghostbuster Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer.
Mason Foster
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Ethan Cruz
It was always so gross and awkward when she would hit on him. Was the joke that an animal was flirting with a normie and she couldn't see how ridiculous it was? The audience thought it was funny, maybe SNL is too edgy for me.
Caleb Myers
How new are you? be honest.
Landon Wright
>posting redditlettermedia
>being mad because they make fun of "god emperor drumpf"
>being mad because women are in the sketch
Lol?
Angel Thompson
SNL is not targeted towards you. Since at least the 90s it has been marketed for teenagers
Elijah Jenkins
Only cucks and boomers watch it now
Liberals can't into humor, just like they can't into memes
Oliver Reed
Why is Sup Forums being raided by t_d? Why are you bringing up politics in a SNL thread??
Aiden Wilson
You mean unfunny women and forced laugher tracks aren't working anymore? I think Ghostbusters partially contributed to people waking up to this.
Brandon Wood
the first 5 results when searching SNL on youtube are baldwin as trump skits.
Xavier Long
Kill yourself shill rat
Charles Ortiz
SNL has always been topical, that's not politically motivated They did the same thing about Obama,
You first t_drone
Tyler Diaz
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Parker Lewis
Why are politics being brought up in a thread about an overly political show?
Benjamin Cox
no, they sucked Obama off constantly, and acted as if he was god himself.
Evan Edwards
(citation needed)
Austin Mitchell
If anything it's more relevant than ever. It's last year had the highest ratings it's ever had. Usually there is at least something to like about each episode. They have always had horrible missteps every year when it comes to hosts ( Felicity jones) but each episode usually has something funny. Usually the skits suck but the prerecorded stuff is usually good ( fisher prices well for sensitive boys) was my favorite thing from last year.
Chase Bennett
Owen Cooper
The show has always been topical and political, but they have never been this invested in the past. You've been watching for less than 8 years if you think it's always been like this. There was no crying piano for Bush.
Aaron Bennett
Improvising live gets you banned from SNL.
Example: Adrian Brody.
Jace Sanders
>There was no crying piano for Bush.
They were celebrating the fact that Obama was leaving the office and Trump was being elected.
James Garcia
>all these statements with no measurables attached
>soon
>soon
>soon
kek
Ryder Nelson
stop trying
Grayson Edwards
Snl in every era has been hit a miss, plus it always seems to have rhythm and groove that you have to ease back into, you'll never be able to watch an episode, after a hiatus of viewing it, and say "o yeah I missed this" afew episodes in and you'll realize why it's still on the air
even old episodes with prime cast mates will seem alien, snl is literally an acquired taste, like coffee
if not, then turn it off and watch old mad tv or in living color or even sctv, they were always superior anyway
Jaxon Smith
>History doesn't support your worldviews
Oh but it does
Adrian Turner
Please return to your homeland.
Elijah Moore
What the fuck are you talking about. Improv/sketch comedy is very popular with millennials.
Isaiah Ortiz
this is copypasta
saw it yesterday
Nathaniel Walker
sketch comedy was always the lowest form of comedy
Jayden Thomas
jim downey left
he's the writer lorne trusted the most, and he was willing to go after both sides
Noah Diaz
Sod off, newfag.
Thomas Richardson
"Dat Carlton iz racist! Sheeeeeeeet." Throws barrel
Christopher Carter
The cast today is shit. The only good performer in it is Kate.
Easton Ramirez
ive never watched it live, if you're lucky you get one good skit an episode and it gets posted on youtube
Ryan Phillips
Nice try, Drumpftard.
SNL has never been more relevant.
Grayson Brown
What does Donkey Kong have against Carlton?
Gabriel Watson
Everyone says that about the generation after they stopped watching it. I'm sure there were plenty of people that thought the Adam Sandler/Norm Macdonald/Chris Farley era was shit.
Liam Stewart
The cast and writers are shit and have been for well over a decade.
Mason Campbell
More like season 2.
William Miller
B-boy Bret Bennet used to be a Youtuber before joining the cast
Jeremiah Watson
The Lonely Island guys were posting their stuff online pre-Youtube.
Owen Russell
your trips found the 5%
congratulations!
Christopher Perez
The internet killed comedy, as it can be funnier, more insightful, and more offensive than any corporate product.
Xavier Foster
As someone who grew up with Sandler, Hartman, Nealon, Spade, Farley and I left shortly after Ferrel left. It's been shit for ages.
Anthony Richardson
Please... thiis was 10x better than SNL and 100x better than Mad
Wyatt Morales
the ratings actually support it now, edgo
Brandon Price
Another show better than anything recent SNL did.