SNL last night

[M2d]

the chris parnell/adam samberg rap chronic-cles of narnia was sweet. anyone have an idea of how/where i can get a copy of it?

[Jack of Arcades]

oh my god how I missed chris parnell rapping.

pass that chronic! (what!?) cles of narnia!

best bet: find somebody with a copy of the whole show.

the whole show was pretty good. gotta love jack black.

I liked when Tina Fey pwned Ashlee Simpson on WU:

"Ashlee Simpson collapsed on stage at a concert in Japan last week, and she was rushed to a hospital. Meanwhile, the show went on without her."

[Klepton]

even though SNL sucks now, this is actually kinda funny.

[gumpzilla]

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even though SNL sucks now, this is actually kinda funny.

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The "SNL sucks now" meme has interested me for some time. Watching reruns of SNL from the early 90's, it pretty much sucked back then, too. It still had the same problems about most skits being based on a gag that couldn't sustain an entire skit, and going on way too long. My suspicion is that most of it has to do with people watching the show when they are 12 and thinking it was awesome back then.

[istewart]

It did not suck in the 90s, wtf.

[diebitter]

We used to see the odd one in the UK, and it sucked. The only comparison was the movies Belushi, Ackroyd etc were in, which were soooo much better than the show seemed to be. I assumed it was the cultural divide.

The only good thing I remember is one or maybe two blues brothers songs they did on it.

[gumpzilla]

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It did not suck in the 90s, wtf.

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Watching entire episodes of old SNL, as opposed to carefully picked lists of good sketches, there was still tons of garbage every week. I also think that people are pretty incapable of assessing the suckiness of things they liked when they were kids. I can think of numerous things that I thought were awesome as a kid that would probably inspire an urge to kill in me were I to watch them fresh now. Exhibit A: Howard the Duck.

[Soul Daddy]

I don't think that anyone is arguing that every sketch they did was uproariously funny. There was surely some garbage. But during certain "golden eras" you could count on a few gems just about every week. And the talent on the show was so good that even the poorly written material was usually entertaining to a degree.

[M2d]

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My suspicion is that most of it has to do with people watching the show when they are 12 and thinking it was awesome back then.

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I fully admit that I am biased in this regard, as I started watching SNL in the Eddie Murphy era, and it was long enough ago that I've conveniently forgotten the crappy sketches.