Was SNL ever actually that good or was it just the novelity of a live sketch show which made it catch on and it has been living off of that legacy since 1975?

I never thought it was funny until the mid 80s-early 90s when they had phil hartman, adam sandler, dana carvey, mike myers, and chris farley. I just never connected with whatever the 70s crew were doing, although I did like mister bill and the candygram shark bit was hilarious.

>>212708854 (OP)
it must have been really innovative and edgy at the time but i think the orignal show sucks now, the love the orignal blues borhters movie but the sketches were just meh.

Tina fey weekend update and will Ferrell were when it really caught on.

>>212708854 (OP)
Its marketing. For new comedian wannabees and Hollyslop. Marketing for "movie stars"

>>212708854 (OP)
It's completely cast dependent. The cast sucks now so the show sucks now. But it's had its moments. Ferrell, Fey, Samberg, Hader. The Samberg-Hader-Parnell run was probably the last time the show was relevant, and that was years ago now

>>212708854 (OP)
SNL was always funniest when you were growing up, whenever that was.That's when they had the best cast and the show was at its best. that time is different for all of us, but it's always that time.There are kids who will think that SNL now is the best it's ever been.

>>212709835
Not any more. When's the last time someone from SNL went on to be a movie star? Not just appearing in movies, an actual movie star?

>>212708854 (OP)
I enjoyed the musical compilation from the first five years, those were good.

>>212711501
I grew up in the 90’s and thought the 70’s cast was better.

>>212708854 (OP)
It was never good. It was a cheap way to fill airtime after Johnny Carson stopped doing the Tonight Show on Saturdays in 1975. It always had a low bar for viewership, but it still draws in more viewers and sells more commercials than what NBC would make showing infomercials in that timeslot.

>>212708854 (OP)
season before OP pic was better when they still had based Chevy and not the lame fag he was replaced with (bill “Reddit” Murray)

I remember downloading the entire run off some torrent years back since I wanted to check it out and leave it running in the background and my conclusion was that it was 99% unfunny garbage, even back in the day.

people tend to handpick a few skits or characters that stand out, but most of it is really lame shit.
best thing about it is that it launched careers and certain characters that were "alright" got a proper movie to develop them.

>>212708854 (OP)
When I rewatched my old 70s SNL DVDd my thought was Jane Curtin and Danny Aykroyd were the true talent on 70s SNL. Belushi, Murray and Chevy was overrated. I liked Garrett Morris too, he seemed pretty underappreciated on SNL (it was the 70s, black performers weren’t respected much in those days) but something about his odd way of speaking and delivering lines often made him funnier to me

Norm MacDonald era shaped my sense of humor growing up. Chris Kattan, Cheri O Teri, Molly Shannon and the rest of the Groundlings. Their regular characters were always funny as fuck even if they were psycho drama queens irl. Kinda surprised Will Ferrell ended up being the one who “made it” since I find him kinda annoying actually

>>212711551
There was a good push with sudekis, lonely island guy and Pete but as far as actually star goes plastic was probably Will Ferrell and that's gotta be at least 20 years ago at this point

>>212712379
same, that was the years i started watching as it was new, and at the same time was watching the reruns from the Carvey, Hartman, Sandler, Farley, Spade era on Comedy Central all the time. best two eras

>>212712379
>>212712489
Will had a good career in the post Carrey era of comedy movies where main characters were loud, obnoxious and stupid.

That kind of gave way to a more cynical "judgmental" type of comedians and roles that came afterwards as the post-irony kicked in.
I'd say comedy movies were decisively killed off when Tim&Eric fully came into the spotlight.

Maybe the transitional period was the weedbro comedies, but that kinda played itself out fast.

>>212712379
Ferrell was good but had some pretty annoying characters and his yelling all the time shtick got old, but it was obvious he was their "star cast member" type cast member (similar to what Hartman and Carvey were in the late 80s to early 90s) i always thought Cheri Oteri should've had as big a movie career as he did, she was just as funny than him on the show, to me she was the other show stealer in that cast

>>212712208
i have a retro crush on 70s Jane, the ice queen bitchy demeanor most of her characters had was a turn-on (kate & allie was a good MILFcore sitcom too)

>>212712208
>I liked Garrett Morris
One of his quotes that always stuck with me was from the sketch "Women's Problems":
>I like the women with a big butt. Uh.. you know, something you can hold onto and hit with a car antenna.

>>212712567
>when they fired the whole Sandler cast in 1995 but kept Tim Meadows because they couldn't find another black guy
lol! (took them another year or two to find Tracy Morgan as the 2nd black guy to put in the cast because Tim couldn't play every black role - i remember Tracy's first breakout sketch Russell & Tate which he did with Tim being a funny recurring bit, not one of the more remembered skits today for some reason tho

This guy is the pinnacle of not funny
Show is cursed to be perpetual shit as long as he's on it

>>212712963
i remember Tracy Morgan seeming way more "ghetto" when he first got on SNL lol took him a while to adapt to the cracka ass humor of SNL. if it was a few years earlier and it was still on the air he probably woulda been a bit fit on In Living Color

>>212712973
this motherfucker joined SNL when i was watching it in high school and im fucking 40 now, goddamn this faggot been unfunny-ing up SNL for my entire adult life!

>>212713038
He was awesome on Martin.

>>212712973
Kel unironically would've been a better on SNL, even on their old show as kids everyone thought Kel was the funny one, nobody ever thought of Kenan as the reason their show was funny

>>212712692
Ferrell has/had gravitas and energy.
It's really all about that.

That's consequently why SNL sucks now. All the cast seem like weird cunty pretend-doormat people that talk shit behind your back. None of them have big top energy and a booming presence.

>>212713038
honeslt respect him, he knows as soon as he leaves his career is over so he just keeps grinding and collecting the snl cheque

>>212713087
haha i always say Hustle Man was to this day Tracy Morgan's best character, actually Russell & Tate (which i posted above>>212712963 is probably the closest to a Hustle Man type character he did at SNL

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9Q2ryRvrYZ/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEs1GBNTajv/?hl=en
cant find any official YouTube links but these insta links work havent seen this in years but i still laugh remembering the way they'd say "WE GONNA GIT YO MONEY!"

>>212713153
i assume this reply was meant for the Kenan post, but yeah i agree, look at pretty much everyone who leaves SNL now. their careers seem hot and have momentum so they leave, and as soon as they do their careers go dead (Kate McKinnon and Pete Davidson would've been starring movies like Sandler and Farley and Spade if this were the 90s, but instead are doing commercials now)

>>212713135
>Ferrell has/had gravitas and energy
Is this your way of saying he's tall af?

>>212708854 (OP)

It was very irreverent in 1975 and meant to appeal to young people who were up late on Saturday night smoking weed and or drinking in their moms basement. SNL re invented itself with each new cast and writers and cant really be considered one show.


https://youtu.be/xMX-KxrhuKQ

>>212711668
for me its the very early part of season one when
Michael O'Donoghue (Mr. Mike) was considered part of the cast before he went back to being solely head writer and still doing occasional Mr. Mike bits. the way the portrayed him in that Saturday Night movie made him seem like a pretentious ass lol he prolly was he famously said about those Jim Henson Muppets segments when asked to write some of them, he responded "I dont write for felt" kek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHQrpkm7Exw

>>212713261
Oh yeah I replied to wrong post

>>212713495
jane a cute

>>212708854 (OP)
>>212709595
>>212711501
I watched my dad's DVDs of SNL season 1 episodes in aired order. I got a few laughs but a lot of it wasnt funny.... BEE HOSPITAL? ok...

>>212714066
That’s what I’m saying. Laraine and Gilda were cute too, but Jane easily mogs them whenever they’re in sketches together

>>212714384
Honestly always thought Laraine Newman got hotter years after SNL, I had a huge hard-on for LaWanda in Problem Child, don’t judge me!

>>212714424
she had that skinny hippie heroin addict look that was popular in the 70s

>>212714384
Jane > Laraine > Gilda

>>212714973
Gilda was prolly the funniest but aint nobody ever pretending she was attractive

>>212711501
i refuse to believe that any zoomer thinks SNL is based

It has always been hit and miss. Even when the cast was decent, they might have 20-30% funny sketches on a good episode, the rest was always filler. Painfully unfunny filler

>>212708854 (OP)
the whole cast and writers were all on tons of coke and its obvious is you watch it, every sketch seems like something someone came up with high on coke, weed or acid

>>212712973
I can't be mad at him. Nice steady job, only have to really work a couple of days a week, and make more money than you would doing twice the work anywhere else? I'd stay, too.

>>212712208
Jane recently said she went back and watched the show from when she was on it cuz she never actually watched it before and said something like she couldnt believe how unfunny it was lol

>>212715008
Jane was the funniest and hottest and it's not even close.

>>212715308
and then theres based Chevy who bashes modern SNL anytime anyone asks him what he thinks about the show today

>Chase called modern 'Saturday Night Live': "Worst Fucking Humor in the World Enjoyed by a Generation of Shitheads"

>Chase is a key piece of SNL’s history, whether establishing “Weekend Update” or pioneering the path from Studio 8H to Hollywood stardom. When asked what he thinks of the current show, he doesn’t hold back, delivering a foul-mouthed appraisal that’s as unforgiving as his critics. “First of all, between you and me and a lamppost, jeez, I don’t want to put down Lorne or the cast, but I’ll just say, maybe off the record, I’m amazed that Lorne has gone so low. I had to watch a little of it, and I just couldn’t fucking believe it.”

>He is reminded that SNL is immensely popular, with millions of viewers.

>That means a whole generation of shitheads laughs at the worst fucking humor in the world,” he says. “You know what I mean? How could you dare give that generation worse shit than they already have in their lives? It just drives me nuts.”

>But what about Will Ferrell doing George W. Bush? “Just not funny. Makes $25 million a picture. My shriveled nutsack is funnier than Will Ferrell.”

>>212715357
>He is reminded that SNL is immensely popular, with millions of viewers.
Outlandish claims require unimpeachable sources

>>212715329
based and agree, she was underrated on Weekend Update, her debates with Aykroyd were classic "Jane, you fucking bitch!"

>>212715008
>aint nobody ever pretending she was attractive

The way people from back then talk about her, all the guys were in love with her. I get it, though. She seems like the kind of person who doesn't seem like much, but then you hang out with her for some time and realize she's the most fun girl you've ever met.

>>212715443
she was attractive in a weird looking jewish woman kinda way lel (Jenny Slate is probably a more modern example of that, who oddly enough was actually on SNL for a season but nobody remembers because she got fired for swearing on the air or something and it got instantly memoryholed)

>>212715357
lol i remember that faggot pete davidson responding the chevys SNL bashing with a "fuck you, youre racist" lame reply

>SNL star Pete Davidson is speaking out in response to Chevy Chase’s diss on the current cast earlier this week.

>“He’s a f—ing douchebag,” Davidson said on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM show Monday. “F— Chevy Chase. I hate that dude. He’s just a genuinely bad, racist person and I don’t like him. F— him. He’s a putz. I don’t like him.”

>”What has he done since ’83? Like, nothing,” the comedian continued. “He had a really big career and then it stopped because everybody realized he’s a jerkoff… He should know more than anybody. It’s just like disrespectful to Lorne, too, a guy who gave you a career. No matter how big you get, you can’t forget like, what that guy did for you.”

>>212708854 (OP)
>Was SNL ever actually that good
No
People remember the 2-3 good skits every season and ignore the mountain of shit they put out

>>212713261
Pete Davidson just feels like a Hollywood plant, and I don’t get the appeal

>>212715524
Yeah, she works as the modern example. Nothing says being funny and cool can work better than looks than seeing who she's hooked up with.

>>212709835
>For new comedian wannabees
They didn't hire comedians (or pure comedians), they usually used Second City like a farm team, which is a theater based sketch comedy and improv company.
And aside from Murray and Murphy, and to a lesser extent Ackroyd, its not like they had a huge streak of people who broke out into film.
Keep going down the list and you have Chevy Chase who was in a handful of movies (that range from GOAT to fucking trash, fletch is 11/10) and then was a hasbin until community, and just like before his personality got him written off.

>>212715308
I can never meet a person named Jane without having to exert all of my will power to not say
>Jane, you ignorant slut!

>>212713134
French guy in the bath in all that always made me laugh.
Kel just seemed like an annoying clown for the most part.

>>212712963
>but kept Tim Meadows because they couldn't find another black guy
I think he's just easy to work with and can deliver whatever goofy shit they give him as deadpan as possible.
Meadows always just seemed like one of the guys grinding it out.

>>212711501
Not the case for milenials with cable. We got to watch all the old shit and compare it to the new stuff. High school for me had a good cast in the late Clinton era with shannon/Oteri/Norm/Ferrell. I still thought the 91 nealon/Hartman/Lovitz cast was better

>>212715184
I like to think Lorne’s briefcase there is filled with all the drugs for the writers and cast

>>212716519
That wouldn't be enough to get Belushi a buzz.

>>212708854 (OP)
>Was SNL ever actually that good
No

There were like 3 channels in 1977 and most shit was reruns.

>>212716859
ABC, CBS, NBC were the 3 main channels competing for everybodies attention. Then you would have 1 to 2 local stations that would run reruns, old movies, and local news shows. Finally, you had 1 local PBS station, maybe 2 if you had a good antenna.

SNL was good because it was comedic entertainment, and while they had about a 20-30% success rate for sketches, it was the charisma each member had and how they played off of each other that was the most entertaining. SNL gave people an opportunity to see other entertainers perform in a new light with the guest stars they brought in, and they gave people an opportunity to see a lot of bands that wouldn't get opportunities in the mainstream. It was a fun show in an age with no internet, cable TV, and when most shit closed around 11pm.

>>212716859
You had the 3 big networks, PBS, local UHF channels, and public access.
Babyfigs will never know how awesome medium-market public access television was.
I lived outside of Dayton, OH through the 90's and I remember late at night there was some fat autistic retard hunched in a folding chair in the middle of a blank set who would come on wearing an admiral ackbar mask with some long mumbling schizo nonsense that was mostly unintelligible coming through a full face rubber mask and a shitty hand held mic.

>>212715184
It seems weird to think there was a time lorne and the SNL cast were the same age. It seems like Lorne should always be 50-60 years older than the cast members lol

>>212717999
>Cheri and Molly
I loved them, probably the last funny women on the show. (Some will say Tina Fey or Amy Poehler, but meh! Overrated!)

I stilliss Gilda Radner

>>212717999
Is this past season his final year? Thought I heard he was going to retire he’s like 90 years old

>>212718133
Who’s gonna replace him? Whoever it is will probably make the show even worse than it is right now (I don’t even think he runs it much these days, he’s more of a figurehead at this point

>>212718183
Current version isn’t that bad if you avoid all the unfunny Bowen Yang sketches. Colin Jost and Michael Che on Weekend Update is probably the best it’s been since Norm hosted it, even if they have been doing it crazy long now, hey if it ain’t broke why not keep them they’re the best part of the show these days

>>212708854 (OP)
SNL was never good, never in their shitshow history make me laugh once

>>212718064
Tina Fey is a great writer, but she kind of plays every character as a ditzy midwestern school teacher.
Poehler has a lot of great stuff from UCB that gives her credentials.
I was done with SNL during the generation with Oteri.

>>212711668
I started watching from the beginning, not knowing he would leave so soon. He really made that show

>>212718294
Yeah I’ve alwyas been of the opinions Amy on the ucb tv show was the best Amy Poehler. Seems like her humor got way to normiecore and cutesy once she got on SNL wasn’t as much a fan of that version of amy

>>212718316
Yeah I was surprised that Chevy quit after only one season (well actually he was there for the first couple of episodes of season two before he quit) for someone there for such a short time he’s always mentioned as such an iconic cast member. I guess cuz he created weekend updates and was the first host of it and basically the first breakout star of the show

>>212712888
She started the next update with dirty talk, but I can’t find it
https://youtu.be/r29-JkdKDec?si=Zu7xw6mXF5yO7N93

>>212714973
Laraine’s face is pure porn, but Jane is the best girl overall

>>212718386
Chevy came back to host a lot in the 70s but you could always feel a lot of the animosity between him and the other cast, they all felt like he betrayed the show by quitting to become a big star. Belushi especially was known to think Chevy was a dick and started telling bill Murray (bill being the guy that replaced him, Causing Chevy to say he’s a no talent or whatever) that Chevy was talking smack about him so he would beat Chevy up lol there’s some famous story about them getting into a fist fight backstage right before Chevy was going on the the first time he came up to host, they claim you can tell he looks rattled when he came out to do the monologue since he was just getting punched in the face by Murray minutes earlier

>>212718386
>quit after only one season
He didn't get along with anyone, there's a famous exchange between him and bill murray where he called him a "medium talent" and chase lost his shit and they had to be physically separated.

>>212718521
>wes anderson had such a hard time dealing with Gene Hackman on the royal tennenbaums that Bill Murray heard about it and would show up on set or in shoots just to stand there and intimidate hackman and keep him in line

Those paid for heavy hitter Short & such years... yeah

>>212718566
Lol that story is hilarious and Chevy shot back something about Murray’s face looking like something Neil Armstrong landed on (Murray always had that weird hole face skin lol what’s that from a ne scarring or some shit?)

People who claim it was never funny have a lot of skits to explain

https://youtu.be/Tt-tG6ufH90

>>212718644
>According to Chevy, John Belushi had spent a lot of time poisoning the cast against him — in particular Bill Murray, who was more or less his replacement on the show. Bill apparently confronted Chevy about something (possibly the "Weekend Update" situation), the two traded barbs (Murray told Chase to go home and fuck his wife; Chase told Murray his face looked like something Neil Armstrong had landed on), and the confrontation turned physical. Chase's account of the fight in Live from New York is hilarious, both for being so self-serving and for his insistence that he — an upper-middle- class fourteenth-generation New Yorker — had "grown up on the edge of East Harlem" and "been in a lot of fistfights." "It wasn't as if I was simply some guy who had never seen the other side of the tracks," Chase, who went to Dalton and the Stockbridge school, said. "I had."

>Chase was back to host again in 1985 and seemed to piss off literally everyone. He made fun of Robert Downey Jr.'s father ("Didn't your father used to be a successful director? Whatever happened to him? Boy, he sure died, you know, he sure went to hell.") and was relentlessly hateful to Terry Sweeney, suggesting that SNL's first openly gay cast member star in a sketch where they weighed him every week to see if he had AIDS. "So then he ended up having to apologize and actually coming to my office," Sweeney says. "He was really furious that he had to apologize to me."

The Chevy stories over the years from backstage at SNL are often funnier than anything on the actual show

>>212718744
>fred armisen
>bill hader
i feel the light in my soul dimming from the thumbnail

>>212711551
early 00s when they still made big comedy movies that weren't direct to streaming.

>>212711501
True

>>212718783
kek I'd never heard about the second paragraph, I don't even know how I would react to someone saying that kind of shit at work.

>>212718783
>>212719011
Those excerpts from that old History of SNL book with interviews from all past cast and crew is hilarious for the Chevy stuff, this shit is hilarious to picture him just going around backstage pissing off every person in his path

>Terry Sweeney (first openly gay SNL cast member): Chevy hosted the second show, and we were all so excited because, to us, Chevy was like a god. This was someone returning who'd been one of the original people and was this legendary figure. And we were just excited to work with him. And when he got there, he was a monster. I mean, he insulted everybody. He said to Robert Downey, Jr., "Didn't your father used to be a successful director? Whatever happened to him? Boy, he sure died, you know, he sure went to hell." Downey turned ashen. And then Chevy turned to me and he said, "Oh, you're the gay guy, right?" And he goes, "I've got an idea for a sketch for you. How about we say you have AIDS and we weigh you every week?" It was out of place. So then he ended up having to apologize and actually coming to my office. He was really furious that he had to apologize. He was just beside himself. And it was just awful. He acted horribly to me. He acted horribly to everyone. When he got on the elevator at the end of the night – you know, we all go to the party afterwards – and everybody saw him coming, we did. We wouldn't be on the elevator with him. We were all hiding. We were plastered against the wall going, "Oh, he's getting on the elevator, he's almost gone. Oh, he's gone." No one wanted to be near him. I don't know what he was on or what was happening to him mentally, but he was just crazy.

>Jon Lovitz: When Chevy Chase was hosting, there was a meeting with writers and staff. So Chevy looks at Terry Sweeney and goes, "You're gay, right?" Terry goes, "Yes, what would you like me to do for you?" Chevy goes, "Well, you can start by licking my balls."

>>212715581
i mostly agree with what he said but fuck that corpse looking creep lol, I will never understand how his career is this successful.

>>212708854 (OP)
Fact of the matter is you simply can't experience SNL now as if you were there at the time because US culture includes it so you've always known the bits even if you never saw the show. At the time you just didn't say "Jane, you ignorant slut" anywhere let alone on TV even if it was late night. "Drool cups" and "Save the liver!" were also hilariously funny in the context of the time. I know there's lots more but those are the ones that come immediately to mind. Like Blazing Saddles, they're not funny now because we're comparatively jaded and there's no going back to that more innocent time.

>>212719157
>During an appearance on Howard Stern's Sirius XM "Howard 100" radio show Wednesday, actor Joel McHale told the shock jock about his frequent clashes with his former "Community" co-star Chevy Chase. McHale also said Chase would use the "n-word" while filming the series.

>"You shouldn't be throwing [the 'n-word'] around on set," McHale said when asked by Stern about Chase's alleged use of the racial slur, "When he said [the 'n-word'], I was like, 'We are now at Def-Con 1."

>McHale also alleges that Chase said he had special permission from late comedian Richard Pryor to use the "n-word."

THEY OUGHTA CALL HIM CHEVY BASED

>>212718744
Taylor Swift was in one of these and it’s really cringe, she can’t act to save her life

For me, it's Emily Prager, a cast member in 1981, who never was in a credited skit due to the writers' strike ending the season right after she became a member of the cast.

Name me a bigger star you've ever had than Martin "my Irish Canadian Diamond" Short?

>>212719157
>Well, you can start by licking my balls

kek

There is something hilarious about a guy who just spits in the face of convention and usual niceties. I mean sure it must have been hell for the people going through it but if I were some regular crew guy in the background I would have looked forward to having Chevy on for sure. I had a boss who was the same way only without the funny back in high school, it was always a trip seeing people react to him on a first interaction.

>>212712900
Lol

>>212713484
honestly that's probably it, I'm the exact same height as Ferrell and people often respect my opinion and give me space to speak even though my contributions are often mediocre or lazy.

>>212719296
Too bad she wasn’t in any skits she was cute, she appeared in a few bit parts in Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video and also co-wrote the movie with him. She appeared on letterman several times in the mid 80s cuz I guess she later became known more as an author and wrote a bunch of books. She gives me vibes like she coulda been a good Jane Curtin type cast member, kinda has that similarly stern proper woman speaking voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txd-lTXiOic

>>212715329
Yes

>>212719424
The height chads of any cast usually become the alpha male of every cast (Chevy or Bill in the 70s. Charles Rocket in season 6, randy Quaid in that weird year of SNL, Kevin Nealon in the late 80s, Will Ferrell in the mid to late 90s, I guess Jason sudeikis in the 2000s. Oddly SNL nowadays seems to be all under 6 foot manlets no wonder the cast seems so fem now there’s no real men on there no more

>>212719489
Her appearances on Letterman were fun just to see how Dave reacted. He usually likes to shit on people with titles, especially intellectuals, but when she's on, he's clearly somewhat awed by her and maybe even a bit intimidated. Think he knew if he tried to get too witty, she'd out do him on his own show.

Ariana grandest song, my best friends house is catchy af.

>>212719296
In that dogshit rolling stone ranking of all credited SNL cast members they put norm behind people who were only with the show for like a single season, or even a couple of episodes.

>>212719553
>Charles Rocket
what an awesome name

Honestly it's unfair but height is a definite advantage, I'm currently living in Hong Kong and it's like I have a +2 to charisma just by being tall and white, it's retarded. Any taller and I think you start scaring people instead though.

>>212719724
Charles Rocket was too based for SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CFIMaZVPIk

oddly enough they cast him as the villain in rhe It's Pat movie 15 or so years after he was fired off SNL lol so he'll always have that SNL connection as well

that guy had one gnarly suicide, lol always sounds more like a murder (found in a field with his throat slit?!?) dunno how they came to the suicide conclusion!

>>212719811
crazy they'd fire him for that, though i guess in 1981 tv executives were much more uptight about swearing on live tv

>>212719706
Norm's views on life were wildly incompatible with those of Rolling Stone so they punished him for it in their rankings.

>>212708854 (OP)
>Was SNL ever actually that good
watch it for yourself. my opinion is its unwatchable garbage. eddie murphy is as unfunny as it gets. adam sandler is a literal retard. sketch comedy shows had been around since the beginning of tv.
>>212715581
>that faggot pete davidson responding the chevys SNL bashing with a "fuck you, youre racist"
whenever you have no valid argument against someone just call them a racist

>>212719706
that Rolling Stone thing had a clear agenda (notice they put all the cast members with outspoken rightwing views almost dead last, this was a hachet job! its hard to remember now, but before he died, Norm had a lot of people who didnt like him, a lot of those phonies always change their tune after someone times and then pretend they always loved them

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/saturday-night-live-all-145-cast-members-ranked-146340/

>>212719868
The director of the show thought it was going to end all live performance tv. It was a huge deal. You could say nigger a dozen times in a sketch and that was fine, but one fuck freaked everyone out so much that they thought everyone was getting fired. Funny how it's pretty much reversed now with fuck and nigger.

>>212719937
Andy Richter went the opposite direction, waiting for Norm to die before speaking poorly of him.

>>212719937
>putting Robert Downey Jr dead last
LMAO, he was pretty terrible in that terrible season, but honestly Anthony Michael Hall was the worst one that year, he was like 17 years old (only time SNL had a literal kid in the cast) so ill cut him some slack but he was amateurish as hell on SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iWQxt8uRyM
this was a good taste of how they were that year on SNL lol i guess they hired them thinking they'd appeal to the younger viewers

>>212708854 (OP)
Yeah it was funny AF. My time was the late eighties and nineties, but it was awesome, right from the beginning, although the mid-nineties kinda sucked - That's when MadTV jumped in and stole their thunder for a few years. I think the show finally died around 2011 or 2012.

>>212720057
that was such a odd pairing of people, was like a weird experiment of hiring mostly non-comedians in the cast, like Downey Jr, Joan Cusack and Randy Quaid who had done some comedic acting roles but def werent comedians. think they fired pretty much everyone after that except for Lovitz and Dennis Miller

>>212719961
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEBBwJdjhQ
i still dont know how the hell they got away with this haha are chevy and will ferrell the only white men who ever got away with dropping hard R n bombs on SNL?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX_izJkmdSY
haha damn Ferrell really put some OOMPF! into those n words

>>212719296
>>212719489
her and Laurie Metcalf were made new featured players for the last episode of season 6, only it wasnt meant to be the final episode but a writers strike ended the season early and then they didnt get re-hired the next year. Prager appeared in nothing and Laurie Metcalf only appeared in one sketch, doing something as a reporter asking people if they'd take a bullet for the president or something like that, i think it was a quick segment on weekend update i saw it a long time ago. looking at this pic I guess they also hired Tim Kazurinsky (sweetchuck from police academy!) and Robin Duke & Tony Rosato (both some of the lower tier forgettable cast members on SCTV) that same episode also as new people only they actually returned the next season

>>212709640
You're a fucking moron.

>>212720393
Laurie Metcalf woulda made a good regular cast member in that time period (this was like when Mary Gross and Julia Louis Dreyfus were cast members) seems insane not to have kept her

>>212719553
>height chads of any cast usually become the alpha male of every cast
It wasn't the height, but their performance and writing ability that determined who had the run of the show.
Jon Belushi, Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscapo, Martin Short, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, all mogged the shit out of the taller guys on stage because they were funnier, and none of them were very tall, and some were pure manlets.

>>212716859
That's weird as fuck seeing a single station being shown on multiple channels.
Kinda makes sense if they have repeaters in different areas, so one channel is clearer than the other.

During the few times that i didn't have cable growing up, i was never able to watch ABC on antenna, because wherever they broadcasted from was way out in the boonies. Every other station gave out a clear signal.

... and being able to actually search for their antenna location, its right next to the ocean. wat
Every other station's is inland, right in the middle of a dozen cities.

>>212721115
I got dropped off at my grandparents farm every summer, and they didn't have paved roads out there until after 2000.
We had the big dial on the top of the set that turned the antenna on the roof until it was pointing in the right direction, but there was a lag between when you tried to stop the thing, and when it stopped.
Sometimes you had to tune into the AM radio station if you wanted clear sound.

>>212721494
I could only watch ABC and CBS during a storm.

>>212721115
>That's weird as fuck seeing a single station being shown on multiple channels.
Some of that could have been repeaters but in general, it was because TV Guide would cover a large enough geographic area with each edition that people in different parts of that edition's area would get signals from different markets. In you lived in the western part of the Detroit market, you might get stations from Lansing as well (or better) than for from Detroit. If you live downriver, you might get some stations from Toledo. Everyone in the greater metro area got the same edition of TV Guide, so it needed to cover everyone's possible channels.

>>212720393
Emily was also a contributor to the National Lampoon like O'Donoghue, and started out as part of the Radio Hour with Belushi, Chevy, Gilda, and Bill Murray

>>212708854 (OP)
https://vimeo.com/14375224

anyone remember this retarded "How Much Ya Bench?" skit? this lives in my head rent free 20 years later since i last saw it on comedy central or wherever. this was peak farley sandler retardation lol i like the detail of them all having little tiny legs but for Spade they just use his real legs cuz hes such a manlet they dont need to give him fake tiny legs

>>212722066
i think i read she was also Tom Davis' girlfriend at the time, apparently she had a few bit parts in a few 70s pre-taped sketches, so technically she did appear on SNL a couple times in the 70s, just not in the one episode she was actually credited for in 1981

https://vimeo.com/26982271
you can see her as the dark haired woman at the bar to the left of Gilda in this commercial parody for example

>>212720606
Eddie and Mike are the only funny people you listed and Mike wasn’t all that great on SNL (what was with those weird sketches where he sat naked in the bathtub and kept saying don’t look at my bum)

>>212722385
https://www.tiktok.com/@sassollou/video/7181626929018129710?lang=en
https://www.tiktok.com/@huggyattack/video/7363131101780430123
for me its the skits where Adam Sandler would play Bill Cosby and the joke was that he just spoke gibberish

>>212722616
i like how Tim Meadows starts cracking up during both of these, he didnt usually break on SNL, that Sandler cosby impression must've amused him lol

>>212708854 (OP)
You can watch the old eps on various streamers including Prime. From what I've seen, it was always subversive, politically biased, but funnier.

>>212711551
Im so surprised they didnt shill Cecily Strong...stronger. Shes (was?) a total babe

>>212719811
The reaction from the cast is kind of funny

>>212724422
Gilbert (with the Jewfro on the right) the only one who looks unphased probably cuz he hated it there and wanted a reason for them to cancel the show

>>212708854 (OP)
1984 to 1985 cast where they brought in some bigger names like Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Christopher Guest, Rich Hall and Harry Scheaer to spings things up when Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo left

Did anyone see that new movie about the 90 minutes before SNL first aired?

>>212724863
Forgot pic good cast even the not famous cast of people already there like Mary Gross and JLD (this was way before Seinfeld so she wasn’t considered part of the “famous ringer cast” at the time even if it’d seem that way watching to today) and Gary Kroger were all good too

>>212724934
Harry was apparently an insufferable prick at SNL I think he quit halfway thru the season

>>212722385
Charlie Sheen calling Emilio and threatening him with a beating was funny. It was an okay sketch.

>>212724883
Nope. Nobody watched that film.

>>212708854 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBbgQqVycLU
all time best SNL host, hands down

>>212715308
>she couldnt believe how unfunny it was
did she watch it like the audience back in the 70s watched it, drunk and/or high?

>>212713489
>It was very irreverent in 1975
this, apparently nobody on here has ever seen Laugh-In or any of the other popular Hee Haw-tier comedy shows that preceded SNL

>>212724934
Mary Gross fun fact is the younger sister of Michael Gross of Family Ties and Tremors

>>212709376
>I just never connected with whatever the 70s crew were doing
Me neither. It had a few sketches that were good but most is best left forgotten. The show never hit full stride until 1990 or so

>>212713495
>Michael O'Donoghue (Mr. Mike)
Literal fedora wearing edgelord

>>212727314
1986 is when it technically started to get good when the cast with with Hartman, Lovitz, Carvey, Hooks came along, then just got better when the Farley Sandler bad boys cast added to them in 1990

>>212727455
>Nora Dunn
Never thought that biuppity bitch was funny, also quitting over Diceman hosting was gay because she found his comedy offensive. Cast was def better by 1990 once she quit and was replaced by Julia “It’s Pat” Sweeney

>>212727412
I could never take him seriously with that hideous combover

>>212727504
Sweeney Sisters with Jan was the only memorable thing she did

>>212727455
She might be a rightwing nut but Victoria Jackson was so hot when she was on SNL

>>212726903