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Is SNL still even funny? I don’t think I’ve ever laughed at their skits since Bill Hader’s time on the show.
You know you're getting old when you "remember when Saturday Night Live used to be funny."
The secret is it was never really that funny. They have a banger skit every couple years but otherwise it’s mostly misses.
Exactly. A lot of jokes and scenes have no punchline, I am not sure why, but that's how they work.
I think it's moreso about the idea of the situation being funny.
Schweddy Balls is one of my all-time favorite sketches. I don't know if that's unrelated or not.
Even Schweddy Balls drags a bit by the end. Wayne's World sketches tended to meander. Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer is literally one joke that needed Phil Hartman (RIP) to be funny. SNL is what it is. Young comics rushing through ideas under intense pressure, targeting the demographic of people with nothing to do on Sunday morning. Charisma and selective memory have always been keys to its success.
When you have to create 1.5 hours of content in a week 20 times a year, it’s not all going to be gold, but when you go up that many times, you’re eventually going have a hit.
That's not old, that's ancient. SNL was never funny during my lifetime.
I'm not American and I don't get it either.
Most of their skits are just the premise stretched far too long and without any punchline.
I'd rather watch UK panelshows. Brits have figured the funnies somehow.
What you just said has been said by almost every person who has watched the show, except change the name Bill Hader with a different comedian from their era.
Occasionally.
I think it has cycles. Depends on what pop culture content there is to joke about, as well as writers and cast "meshing".
Adam Driver doing the Undercover Boss as Kylo Ren was gold. That was only a few years ago, right? Right? Please?
I prefer him as oil baron Abraham H. Parnassus.
Oh shit! Had to be... surely just a few... 🪦
Sometimes. Did you see the Beavis and Butt-Head skit?
Big Dumb Cups is good.
https://youtu.be/L2tUO2mp99Q?si=YMRzrfMwBFto9cHf
Stopped watching when they had trump in as host, followed eventually with elon and (very temporarily) casting that bigot comic. Desperate creeps platforming wannabe fascists who... Are not even remotely funny or charismatic people.