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madtv was funnier before they were cancelled, with the og actors.
Yeah, but wasn't it funny?
Because they can
SNL has been shit for 40 years and it's all because of how they run things behind the scenes. It's chaos.
If they ran it like a proper production they might actually manage to write some funny bits.
I was genuinely shocked to learn that Lorne Michaels still had a hand in it. I think he has an eye for talent but have never heard of him being at all funny. Also the writing staff for SNL could fill a classroom and then you have other people jumping in on that. How many great sketches were ruined because of "ok. Then what if this happened?"
I grew up watching SNL all the way back to Belushi, Radner and 'young Billy Murray ' and I can say that EVERY SINGLE YEAR people say the same thing: oh, it's not as good as such and such last year, last cast, etc.
But people still watch it.
For me? It's like listening to radio back in the day, you had to listen to 10-12 shit songs to hear the hits, but now you only get the hits on the 'oldies' without slogging through the garbage.
I was a fan from the beginning, I saw the very first episode. The cliche ”Its no good anymore," started in the second season, in response to Chevy Chase not returning, and it's been repeated continuously ever since.
It's had its ups and downs (the late 80s, oof), but it has still been basically the same throughout - every episode has good sketches, weak sketches, and hopefully at least one home run.
Lorne has said that everyone thinks that the best era of SNL were their high school years.
Yeah, my psyche took an overload of SNL and Montey Python wayyyyyyyy too early.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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