Saturday Night Live

SNL is better than ever. After a bit of a slump in the early 2000's, 20 years later and it couldn't be funnier. Anyone that says any different just says so because they make fun of the president. They have made fun of every president during the entire 45 years of its existence. So people who don't like the show now will like it again when the opposition regains office. Always good for a laugh

I watched the very first episode of SNL when it aired in 1975. I laughed till my sides ached and never missed a show. We had no VCRs then so we watched it live, and I never missed a show. Every single one of the original cast were funny in their own way. Eventually they all went on to other projects.

John Belushi was a comedic genius and he was in some of the funniest skits of all time with Danny Aykroyd. Gilda Radner was also hysterically funny.

The funniest, most memorable skits of all time were in the first 20 years.

Many of cast n the 80s were very funny and so were the cast in the 90s.. After that I stopped watching and I stopped watching about 20 years ago since it wasn't funny to me anymore.

Anyone still watching for only the last 10 years may not be old enough to remember the original cast Occasionally i turn it on for a few minutes and I don't even crack a smile.

They had some great guest hosts like Steve Martin, Buck Henry, Chris Walken, Alec Baldwin, Tom Hanks, and Eddie Murphy to name a few. They all added to the show's quality.

The show became political, and sometimes offensive at times eventually. Poking at politicians is fine, but IMO they sometimes went too far.

Now, they ought to pack it in because it stinks.

Saturday night live have been around for a good while now. The fact that the show have fostered many of the greatest comedians and writers should be recognized and celebrated. But due to the amount of episodes the show is very uneven. It spawned some of the best and most quotable comedy sketches but the bad ones outnumber them by a wide margin. The average grade is around 4/10 but you can't grade it without taking the contribution to comedy into account that raises the grade. But the show is not worth seeing every week. It's better to just see the good sketches on their YouTube page.

I like to describe this show like a on and off relationship because one year this show is funny and the next it sucks and it's like that year after year. Still it always manages to make you laugh and it has been the breakthrough show for some of the greatest comedians of all-time.

The first five years of S.N.L. will always be the "golden era" of this show. Belushi, Akroyd, Chase, Curtain, Newman, Morris, Radner and Radner will always represent an era when some of the best comedic talent of the 1970's were all on one show and as a springboard for greatness. However, once the original cast was gone the show went in decline for me. Even though talents like Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscapo, Mike Meyers, Dana Carvey, Martin Short and Billy Crystal became big stars as a result of being on the show, the magic that the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players will never be duplicated. They made Saturday nights worth staying at home.