Thread: Is SNL still socially relevant and/or entertaining?
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Old 01-09-2011, 08:31 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by Sixx View Post
I thought it hasn't been for years?
That's the prevailing sentiment, and it has been since about 1980, when the original era ended. 90% of people who say this haven't actually watched Saturday Night Live since the era where it "stopped being funny" to them.

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Originally Posted by FourFifty View Post
"I could almost find that amusing it if was comical because it's funny, not comical because it's comical."
Oh God you're such a huge douchebag. Enormous. Seriously. Tell me what the fuck this means.

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Originally Posted by FourFifty View Post
...so he was the guest host of a show to promote the fact that he's a guest star on another show...

Jim was mildly funny when he was talking to the girl plant in the audience. But when he went over the top, like in the Black Swan skit.

Weekend update was alright, until they talked about the dead birds... because comedy is a man dressed as a fish.
Jesus. Yes, comedy can be a guy in a fish suit. Nearly anything can be made funny if you come at it from the right direction. Just because you don't find something funny, doesn't mean everyone feels the same. I'm absolutely dying to know what FourFifty considers the height of the comic. And I love how you do the strikethrough on girl there. As if anyone thought it was legit.

Now, away from FourFifty's idiocy and on to...more of his idiocy. Is still relevant? If you mean in terms of influencing pop culture, it is somewhat. Not to the point it used to be, but I would argue it is today moreso than it was back in the mid/late 90s. Digital shorts go viral a decent amount, and being booked as a musical guest/host is still indicative a certain "hipness", much as I hate the term.

Funny? Hell yes. I've said it before, but the cast members in the last few years have been some of the finest in the show's history. Will Forte, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Kristen Wiig, Fred Armisen, Bobby Moynihan, Nasim Pedrad...all great. In terms of political humour, the last year or 2 has been good, not great, but SNL's political humour only really shines in the run up to an election. But everything else has been on average, very good.
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