TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[Vidor]

The Not Ready for Prime Time Players consisted of seven people. So yeah, they could thin out the cast.

[ghostrunner]

I haven't watched for years, but I thought for a long time they should cut the show to an hour and one musical number. Maybe two with the right guest. Gives you time for a monologue, musical guest, news and maybe 5-6 sketches. Not sure if that's realistic, but that last half hour often dragged.

The early years are always a little too fondly remembered IMO. Lots of crappy skits if you go back and sit through the whole show.

[Vidor]

I haven't watched for years, but I thought for a long time they should cut the show to an hour and one musical number. Maybe two with the right guest. Gives you time for a monologue, musical guest, news and maybe 5-6 sketches. Not sure if that's realistic, but that last half hour often dragged.

The early years are always a little too fondly remembered IMO. Lots of crappy skits if you go back and sit through the whole show.

The show's always had crappy sketches. I'd say that the 1975-1980 original incarnation is still one of the best, along with Hartman-Carvey-Hooks in the late '80s and early '90s, and the Forte-Sudekis-Hader era that ended just a couple of years ago. They're struggling a bit lately. Weekend Update isn't very good and Leslie Jones is one of the worst sketch performers I've ever seen.

"I will feed your fingertips to the wolverines."

[Jocephus]

Adam McKay: What It's Like to Write for 'SNL'
''I once wrote for 20 hours straight and got dizzy. It was comedy heaven.''
By Adam McKay February 13, 2015

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features ... e-20150213

[Famous Mortimer]

Surprisingly bummed out about the cancellation of "Ground Floor" on TBS. It's a broad-ish multi-camera sitcom but it was funny and I really liked all the central relationships and characters.

Okay, it's also 10% that I'm going to miss Briga Heelan.

[thrill]

Never watched it but Rory Scovel is probably my favorite comedian right now. Not surprised it's funny.

[33anda3rd]

The SNL that's best is the SNL you grew up on. Ask someone in their early 30s, they'll endlessly praise the Will Ferrell/Molly Shannon/Cheri Oteri/Chris Parnell/Chris Kattan years. Ask someone 10 years older and it's the Farley/Sandler/Spade/Rock frat boy fart-joke SNL that was best. Mid-late 40s and it was the Eddie Murphy/Joe Piscopo years. And so on.

[jim]

Completely disagree. I grew up in the Murphy/Piscopo years and it's not even close to my favorite era.

[MrSaigon]

Never watched it but Rory Scovel is probably my favorite comedian right now. Not surprised it's funny.

He's great. I've listened to too many podcasts over the last few years and have become turned off by how bitter and pissy they all are (though I totally get it, they get the [expletive] beat out of them), and it really starts to become clear in their material. Scovell's definitely not one of those guys. Another favorite right now is for me is Kyle Kinane. He's definitely bitter and pissy, but you can feel him trying to work through it--there's something kind of subversive about it.


The bottom line is, though, I probably need to stop exposing myself to how the sausage is made.

[go birds]

The SNL that's best is the SNL you grew up on. Ask someone in their early 30s, they'll endlessly praise the Will Ferrell/Molly Shannon/Cheri Oteri/Chris Parnell/Chris Kattan years. Ask someone 10 years older and it's the Farley/Sandler/Spade/Rock frat boy fart-joke SNL that was best. Mid-late 40s and it was the Eddie Murphy/Joe Piscopo years. And so on.

Early 30's here and the Farley/sandler/meyers/carvey/nealon/Hartman etc were the golden age of snl IMO....the next wave wasn't bad but ferrel propped them all up IMO