Saturday Night Live

What was that?

Published on April 11, 2005 By InfoGeek In Current Events

OK, I do not really watch Saturday Night Live too often. I am generally on the computer, but my wife and I watch the opening sketch. It is generally a takeoff on the current events of the day, so when I sat down and saw the Pope Debates, I thought, YES !!! SNL back to cutting edge. This could get good. I thought Cardinal Guido Sarducci would make an appearance. So when they went to “cardinals” I did not recognize, and Rev. Al Sharpton. Sharpton, cool. But the whole scene was basically one old cardinal giving the finger. They could have done Kerry, Bush 43, Clinton, Rumsfeld, Charles and Camilla. Anything but 3 minutes of the finger.

Still bummed.

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Comments

bakerstreet

on Apr 11, 2005

SNL sucks now. I never agreed much with their politics, but in the past they at least made it funny. As I said before on Gid's blog, I think we are in a time like the one just before Eddie Murphy joined the cast.

Now, though, I dunno if the network will tolerate them long enough for the cycle to repeat itself. They may succumb long before a Billy Crystal, Phil Hartman, or Martin Short appears.

Rightwinger

on Apr 12, 2005

Well, they've been on for 30 years, so I think the network might hang with them a while longer. Especially given the uneven nature of the show's history.
Those dead days through the later 80's and early 90's after Eddie's departure were a strain, but obviously the fans were willing to stay with the show just enough at least to guarantee that it would stay on. I think that would hold today. After all, what else is really on that late on a Staurday Night?
And I think Darrell Hammond is the shit. I saw him doing Chris Matthews one night and he told someone to shut up or he'd hit'em "so hard your dog'll be retarded". I thought I'd die.

Dynosoar

on Apr 13, 2005

Flipped through PBS the other night and caught Lorne Michaels getting presented the "Mark Twain Prize" from the Kennedy Center. They roasted him, and many of the old stars participated...SNL will roll on into oblivion just like "Face the Nation", "Nightline", and "60 minutes", old standards that putter away for ever.

If we're lucky they may eventually get entertaining again...

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