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Gatto Grigio posted:Brace yourself for such knee-slapping sketches like “Chevy Chase Falls Down”, “People Say The Word “Cheeseburger Really Fast”, as well as “John Belushi Mocks The Japanese.” my mom brought up the cheeseburger sketch the other day and I said I never understood what was funny about it and she thought for a minute and finally said, "well, he says cheeseburger a lot" and then she shrugged
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TIP posted:my mom brought up the cheeseburger sketch the other day and I said I never understood what was funny about it and she thought for a minute and finally said, "well, he says cheeseburger a lot" and then she shrugged lmao
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Oct 16, 2023 08:28
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Gatto Grigio posted:SNL was never good It was a different time. Being a sweaty gross guy was still a novelty.
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Oct 16, 2023 08:31
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:It was a different time. Being a sweaty gross guy was still a novelty. also it was network tv, before cable. It killed in the Nielsens because there was literally nothing else playing on other channels during its timeslot. It’s easy to come out on top when your only competition is a holding pattern.
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Oct 16, 2023 08:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_NS2H55dxI I like this bit :3
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TIP posted:my mom brought up the cheeseburger sketch the other day and I said I never understood what was funny about it and she thought for a minute and finally said, "well, he says cheeseburger a lot" and then she shrugged Your mom is dumb.
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I don’t think his mom is dumb. It’s just that standards for comedy have changed a lot as future generations became more media-savvy. And like I said before, there was also literally nothing else to watch if you were a young boomer staying up late on a Saturday night
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Oct 16, 2023 09:37
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Even in the glory days, the musical guests were the only good reason to watch SNL. If you wanted funny, you watched SCTV.
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Oct 16, 2023 09:41
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Was SNL ever considered "good" or has it always been the same poo poo it is today?
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Oct 16, 2023 10:18
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The real problem with SNL and a lot of skit shows in general is that they generally have about 90 seconds of good material stretched out into five minute long skits.
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Oct 16, 2023 10:23
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SNL makes me view America as a depressing shithole more than your work culture, car worship, health care system and politics. The world looks at a country with SNL and thinks "thank god that's not me"
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Disco Pope posted:SNL makes me view America as a depressing shithole more than your work culture, car worship, health care system and politics. The world looks at a country with SNL and thinks "thank god that's not me" As an American… yeah, no argument there.
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Disco Pope posted:SNL makes me view America as a depressing shithole more than your work culture, car worship, health care system and politics. The world looks at a country with SNL and thinks "thank god that's not me" obviously you missed the mango episodes
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Oct 16, 2023 11:02
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Today's SNL still hasn't aired here, so someone else will have to tell me if it's better or worse than "Turn On" a show that was cancelled during its first commercial break on its first episode in 1969: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Turn-On_Episode_1.webm Is that a show or an anxiety attack?
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Oct 16, 2023 11:12
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TIP posted:my mom brought up the cheeseburger sketch the other day and I said I never understood what was funny about it and she thought for a minute and finally said, "well, he says cheeseburger a lot" and then she shrugged Olympia Diner is pretty funny. The super limited menu. They only serve Pepsi. They are incredibly rude to customers but have super fast and streamlined service. Its sterotypes but they're not exactly harmful.
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Oct 16, 2023 11:56
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heyyyyyyyyyyyy it’s the dudemeister, makin copies, eyyyyyyyyyyyy
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Today's SNL still hasn't aired here, so someone else will have to tell me if it's better or worse than "Turn On" a show that was cancelled during its first commercial break on its first episode in 1969: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Turn-On_Episode_1.webm Apparently networks were flooded with calls from church lady types who were incredibly offended by the show, and some network executive in Cleveland found it so unpalatable that he immediately pulled the show and went to the test pattern during the first commercial break. He then proceeded to call networks in timezones further west and persuaded them not to air it either. Even today the show is… interesting in an avant-garde way, but I can't see people back then, or even now, sitting down to watch this every week. You needed some very thin skin to find this offensive though.
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lol "SNL was never funny". Some of y'all are spoiled and don't realize it.
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The child molesting robot sketch the rock was in was pretty good
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Caesar Saladin posted:The real problem with SNL and a lot of skit shows in general is that they generally have about 90 seconds of good material stretched out into five minute long skits. Yeah plus it has to be sanitized & dumbed down because that’s how they get the fast food & car companies to keep buying ads. One plus about the show is it helps talent get funding for genuinely quality shows such as I Think You Should Leave & Documentary Now, that would never work on SNL.
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I think the episode of SNL with Steven Seagal is prob the worst one in existence, but it's so brutally unfunny that it ends up becoming the funniest SNL
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Oct 16, 2023 20:09
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Celebrity Jeopardy was good.
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Caesar Saladin posted:The real problem with SNL and a lot of skit shows in general is that they generally have about 90 seconds of good material stretched out into five minute long skits. A lot of sketch shows also have extremely dated references and celebrity impersonations to (then) current events and pop culture phenomenon that is lost to current audiences when watching them 20 to 30 years later. So you’re left with people who weren’t around back then wondering or just plum forgot who the hell Arsenio Hall is and why his audience is WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOOing loudly. You Are A Werewolf fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Oct 16, 2023 |
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When Lorne croaks y’all think the show goes with him? Who would they get to replace him, Dennis Miller? That’s like Attila the Hun replacing Napoleon at the Battle of Algiers
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Les Os posted:When Lorne croaks y’all think the show goes with him? Who would they get to replace him, Dennis Miller? That’s like Attila the Hun replacing Napoleon at the Battle of Algiers lol I understood this reference, coochi-coo.
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Every new "comedy" is a handful of former snl cast members doing bad improv with a bunch of no names that aren't allowed to be funny.
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Les Os posted:When Lorne croaks y’all think the show goes with him? Who would they get to replace him, Dennis Miller? That’s like Attila the Hun replacing Napoleon at the Battle of Algiers I'm pretty sure Keenan is supposed to take over when Lorne croaks, unless that changed
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the top thread in GBS being about hating SNL is so very GBS trump-tier criticism, good work everyone
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I like will Ferrell and Tina Fey and the parks and rec lady whose name I can't remember right now because I'm still waking up I would watch a lot of early 90's SNL reruns until 3am on comedy Central back in the day and enjoyed them a lot, but today I'm very meh AMY POEHLER that's it!!!
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I've never understood the saccharine ending to this show. The music, the hugging and celebrating each other's existence, the waving to the audience. It just seems so contrived. Also, I am Australian.
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huh posted:I've never understood the saccharine ending to this show. The music, the hugging and celebrating each other's existence, the waving to the audience. It just seems so contrived. Also, I am Australian. Because it's a live show it's mostly just a runtime thing.
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huh posted:I've never understood the saccharine ending to this show. The music, the hugging and celebrating each other's existence, the waving to the audience. It just seems so contrived. Also, I am Australian. That's an actor thing. They do that at stage plays too. And consider the cast has been working together probably pretty hard for a few days at least and I'm sure it feels great when it's over.
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They should instead kowtow and apologize at the end of every show
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at the end of every show they should pick the weakest performer and kick them off the show
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Is it better than 1995 snl at least?
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The_Franz posted:Apparently networks were flooded with calls from church lady types who were incredibly offended by the show, and some network executive in Cleveland found it so unpalatable that he immediately pulled the show and went to the test pattern during the first commercial break. He then proceeded to call networks in timezones further west and persuaded them not to air it either. It's like the ending of Halloween III Season of the Witch in real life.
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I'm too old to stay up for SNL anymore anyway. Nothing beats falling asleep before midnight.
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Roleplaying Dad posted:I'm too old to stay up for SNL anymore anyway. Nothing beats falling asleep before midnight. I'm guessing now you have to watch it on the website in lovely quality with commercials?
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Jelly posted:the top thread in GBS being about hating SNL is so very GBS actually a lot of people here love the show and support its vital role as an incubator for fresh comedic talent and incredible one-of-a kind characters, like mango
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Roleplaying Dad posted:I'm too old to stay up for SNL anymore anyway. Nothing beats falling asleep before midnight. I can't even make 11 these days.
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